----- Original Message ----- From: <HealantHenry at aol.com> To: <elwhit at earthlink.net>; <stopwarendhate at yahoogroups.com>; <sncc at honors.olemiss.edu> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:27 AM Subject: [SNCC] Re: The Current Arithmatic
> Let's stop this religious war talk right now, quick and (unfortunately not
> easy):
> Jesus said "Love your enemies. Even the wicked love their friends, the
> faithful will love their enemies as well as their friends."
>
> He also said: "If one hits you on one cheek, turn to him the other."
>
> These are the fundamentals of the Christian faith...before the politicos
and
> the business people and others seeking power (such as the church
builders).
> There is no argument to this. There is no "just war" doctrine for the
> religious to conjure up. It is simple to understand.
>
> This nation of Xians, however, are, if the polls are correct, arm chair,
> gloating, vengeance taking and insulated in ignorance from even the
context
> of the "war," whether it have to do with oil, international corporate
power,
> or the ebbing of democracy here and everywhere.
>
> Here is the symbol of our Christian nation, on the biggest day of
worshipping
> Mammon:
> The SUV with the big American flag parked day-after-tomorrow in the church
> parking lot. Transfixed and hysterical, we gaze upon the spectacle of this
> planetary war on terrorism as if it were TV entertainment, a video
game...not
> the hell of war, killing far more people who never dreamed of hurting
America
> or Americans than those who consider themselves our enemies.
>
> And the psychological damage of our soldier citizens has not even been
raised
> to consciousness. But when soldiers come home from war they still have
the
> horrors of war in them and they are damaged and need help.
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