David Knight led our thoughts this Remembrance Sunday. After reminding us of some of the horrifying statistics of war dead, he read poems by Wilfred Owen and Rudyard Kipling, and then opened up the question of whether war is indeed inevitable or necessary.
We are called to be peacemakers. To that end, some of us believe that sometimes war is the only way to prevent the spread of evil, whilst others believe that nonviolent resistance is both morally preferable and even sometimes more effective.
What do you think ?
As I said in the discussion I believe that we can all make a a start by refusing to demonise the "other" - whoever they may be and whatever they may have done.
ReplyDeleteThinking this week about the Samaritans in Jesus' time and the way in which he refuses to go along with the way his contemporaries demonised them made me wonder who the Samaritans might be in our society. Any suggestions ?