Blessing the Bombs
It’s Monday and after a certain amount of sleeplessness (due to the cry of a certain baby in my house) I drudge through my emails only to come across this article from James. Is this supposed to cheer me up? Well, strangely I find it inspiring to hear a story of redemption and it takes my mind off my imediate circumstance and helps me drift away into a wider world.
This is the story of a priest who was chaplan to the aircrew that dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
George Zabelka: Blessing the Bombs
In Just War ethics, Jesus Christ, who is supposed to be all in the Christian life, is irrelevant. He might as well never have existed. In Just War ethics, no appeal is made to him or his teaching, because no appeal can be made to him or his teaching, for neither he nor his teaching gives standards for Christians to follow in order to determine what level of slaughter is acceptable.
Posted: August 8th, 2005 under Social Justice, Moralising.
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