Today I remember all those who have met senseless and violent ends at the hands of those who signed up for honour and esteem in the eyes of their countrymen.
Today I remember all those who have been murdered for the crime of being born on the wrong side of arbitrarily drawn lines on maps.
Today I remember that […]
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I am a card-carrying fantasy nerd. Nerds such as I were highly anxious when we heard that Peter Jackson was adapting J.R.R. Tolkien’s sacrosanct Lord of the Rings trilogy into movie form. The high praise given to Jackson’s adaptation from nerdy sources was largely due to relief that he hadn’t botched it like we’d feared.
I am […]
USAmerican conservatives, generally speaking, hate taxes. They reserve a special hatred for any notion of “spreading the wealth around” with said taxes, as evidenced by the laughable tea party protests organized by Fox “News.” These are the same types of people who, during George W. Bush’s terms as president, called dissent against the so-called “War […]
Mark Van Steenwyk has an interesting post up at Jesus Manifesto called The 25 Lessons of Nonviolence. I don’t agree with all of them (and Mark doesn’t necessarily either), but they are thought-provoking nonetheless.
A few of my favourites:
Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them.
The state imagines it is impotent without a military because it cannot conceive […]
Why is it that the types of Christians most comfortable with thinking of themselves as different than the world are most inclined towards unquestioning consumerism and war-mongering?
Note: I have no research to back this up, only impressions, perceived patterns and, no doubt, prejudice.
Although I am convicted of the truth of nonviolent and pacifistic approaches to everything, suppose for a moment, that we’ll grant that there are enemies out there that must be defeated by force. This enables us to look at the logic of violence from this angle: what if we did, indeed, defeat all of our […]
