"Today the world is on the brink of ruin because the Church refuses to be the Church, because we Christians have been deceiving ourselves and the non-Christian world about the truth of Christ. There is no way to follow Christ, to love as Christ loved, and simultaneously to kill other people. It is a lie to say that the spirit that moves the trigger of a flamethrower is the Holy Spirit. It is a lie to say that learning to kill is learning to be Christ-like. It is a lie to say that learning to drive a bayonet into the heart of another is motivated from having put on the mind of Christ. Militarized Christianity is a lie. It is radically out of conformity with the teaching, life, and spirit of Jesus."
- Father George Zabelka
This man, Father Zabelka, was the man that prayed a blessing over the men who dropped the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over the next twenty years he began to think that this may have been a mistake and went against the Gospel of Jesus. This quote was taken from a speech he gave on the 40th anniversary of the bombings.
Just food for thought. How can we wage war and still claim to follow the teachings of Christ?
How is that loving your enemy?
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