Quote of the Day (Week, Year, Decade)
September 7, 2011
“We have acclimated ourselves to protracted warfare as a national way of life. Meanwhile a majority of Americans remain insulated from the real costs, sacrifices and moral hazards of waging war, a luxury the children of Iraq and Afghanistan do not have. Can our hope be a Christian hope if it does not include them? Precisely whose dead will compel us to remember and to cry out for an end to violence, for a renewed foreign policy that lays the ground for a just, sustainable peace?”
Christopher Pramuk, from the article “A Dream of Life,” in the current America. Read it HERE.
Hat tip: The Daily Dish
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What is sad is that this violence as a way of life is so affirmed as a necessity by so many Christians.
A thing may be “necessary” for the collective. But nothing–whether good or evil–is ever necessary for the individual moral agent. Every human act–unless coerced–is based on a choice.