Pastoral Letter for Memorial Day
Bill Sinkford, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, has written a Pastoral Letter for Memorial Day.As the death toll in Iraq continues to climb, many of us, as people of faith, are struggling to find a way to respond.As a religious community, Unitarian Universalists do not say that war is never justified: we are not a “peace church.” But most of us view war as an absolute last resort, to be embarked upon only when all other avenues have failed, or when we have been attacked. Most of us do not believe this war met those tests. Many of us have written our legislators, some of us have stood vigil for peace, a few of us have protested. Almost all of us fear that this occupation will damage our credibility as a freedom-loving nation; almost all of us fear that we are, with our own hands, helping to birth the next generation of terrorists who will threaten our safety. ...
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 12:52 PM
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