Apologetics
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
PALM SUNDAY ECUMENICAL SERVICE FEDERATION SQUARE. 13TH APRIL 2003. I think Jesus may have had a lot of trouble getting on in our time and culture. In the gospels, almost everything he says and does stands against the dominant values that drive our expectations of life, the policies that govern us and the decisions we […]
Iraq Not Grateful
By John Simpson April 21 2003 Returning to Baghdad for the first time since 1991, I saw the smoke before I saw the city. Half a dozen government ministries and warehouses were being ransacked. It was payback time for 40 brutal years of Baathist rule. Everything seemed so familiar. I’d seen Saddam Hussein’s statues pulled […]
Assisi Decalogue For Peace
1. We commit ourselves to proclaiming our firm conviction that violence and terrorism are incompatible with the authentic Spirit of religion, and, as we condemn every recourse to violence and war in the name of God or religion, we commit ourselves to doing everything possible to eliminate the root causes of terrorism. 2. We commit […]
International Situation April 2003
Some years ago, when the Syrian vice was closing on Lebanon, a Lebanese Christian leader held a press conference in which he delivered an unforgettable line: ‘The Western world should either support us, or change its name.’ The West did neither, falling into sin. Now there is an opportunity for redemption. http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue03 -04-12&id=2984 but Nor […]
Army Priests
Army priests a model for their peers in civvies By Chris McGillion (SMHerald) April 15 2003 War is hell, observed the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman, and so who better to guide troops through such terrifying terrain than military chaplains? American forces involved with the war in Iraq have been accompanied by hundreds […]
Intellectuals And War
Christian Intellectuals, Embedded and Otherwise By Eugene McCarrahe http://ekklesiaproject.org/war_blog/Mccarrahe1.html, accessed April 10, 2003. Writing in opposition to American entry into the First World War, Randolph Bourne reminded his fellow dissenters of the impending vituperation. “In an age of faith,” he mused, “skepticism is the most intolerable of insults.” As we witness, in the invasion of […]
Pilger On Iraq
They have blown off the limbs of women and the scalps of children. Their victims overwhelm the morgues and flood into hospitals that lack even aspirin. John Pilger on a piratical war that brought terrorism and death to Iraq. : John Pilger :10 Apr 2003 A BBC television producer, moments before he was wounded by […]
Iraq And Nuclear Weapons
Coalition faked it, says UN By Louis Charbonneau VIENNA A few hours and a simple internet search was all it took for UN inspectors to realize documents backing US and British claims that Iraq had revived its nuclear program were crude fakes, a UN official said. Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, a senior […]
Iraq: Bomb Before You Buy
What is being planned in Iraq is not reconstruction but robbery Naomi Klein Monday April 14, 2003 The Guardian On April 6, deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz spelled it out: there will be no role for the UN in setting up an interim government in Iraq. The US-run regime will last at least six months, […]
Iraq: The Morality Of This War
(From a Netfriend): There has been much discussion in this list about John Howard and the Iraq Invasion. I agree the invasion was unjustified on moral grounds, but what is a moral invasion anyway? There were no weapons of mass destruction (as if anyone ever really believed there were). The Iraqi people did not greet […]
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