Peacemaking
Philocrates comments on the proposed study/action issue before this year's UUA General Assembly:Should the Unitarian Universalist Association reject the use of any and all kinds of violence and war to resolve disputes between peoples and nations and adopt a principle of seeking just peace through nonviolent means?His comments are worth reading; he refers to this as "an unusual and divisive proposal". This issue brings to the forefront my whole feeling on the concept of "peace".
My congregatation voted unanimously in favor of the UU study/action issue.
That's because I forgot to vote.
Unitarian Universalists (and lots of others) get a lot of self-satisfaction from the idea that we're "for peace" (whatever that means, exactly). Well, ain't we special. Imagine that! We're for peace! Not like all those other people.
But we're not happy just being in favor of peace. We have to spend our time telling other people that we're for peace, and we have to spend more time studying about how to be for peace. Like any of this has any effect on anything other than the fact that our arms are getting stretched from patting ourselves on the back so much.
Want to do something useful? Buy a sandwich for someone who's hungry. Spend a day helping to build a house for a homeless family at Habitat for Humanity. That will accomplish a lot more than all the posturing and peace demonstrating you could do in years.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 8:09 AM
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