Posted by Annette I am interested Kevin in you spelling out the practical message of the gospel as a means of finding an alternative solution to the war that occurred. Annette. --Previous Message--
on June 20, 2003, 11:46 pm, in reply to "Weapons of Mass Destruction? - We really meant something else!!"
I agree with much of what you say Kevin. However, one can't understate the significance of ridding a regieme as was in place in Iraq. It is a double edge sword - violence begets violence, but is there now some hope for the people of Iraq for a better future? Certainly the war that was/is creates many complex questions and our need for anwers never ends.
: How about this mob - Now the Yanks, in the
: absence of any evidence of weapons of mass
: destruction, claim that their removal was
: really not the main reason for going to
: war a month or two back! Can you believe
: this - it's all we heard for ages as they
: tried to convince us that they had to
: invade in order to get rid of these
: weapons - and our own little government
: fell in behind this line.
: Admittedly, one of the world's most brutal
: and long-running regimes has been removed
: (though no one seems to know where its
: main players are now) - and no one would
: argue that that is a bad thing thaqt
: Saddam and his murderous gang have gone.
: Perhaps Iraq has some chance of a peaceful
: future - though that is uncertain.
: What we would argue however is that the
: violence that the Coalition used is not
: the way to peace - as a speaker I heard
: the other week noted, we are still
: fighting war with war and violence with
: violence and we haven't learnt a thing it
: seems.
: The gospel calls us to a different process
: than the biff and bash approach that the
: Coalition took - following this war, here
: in Australia we are hearing more rumours
: of terror and violence than ever - mostly
: from our own Government.
: The idea that peace can be won by killing
: people is absurd - but we as a human
: family can't seem to find any other way to
: attempt to create peace. In the end, what
: we create is fragile and open to attack
: itself, because it has been born of
: violence.
: In using violence ourselves, we simply
: collude in the terror perpetrated by
: giving the mad terrorist gangs more
: excuses to attack us.
: There has to be another way forward - and the
: gospel offers some pretty practical and
: not often-tried suggestions!
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