The first one is a review in a Christianity Today/Leadership blog about Rob Bell's new book. Here is what the bogger said:
Here is a better take on the Christian Response to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It appeared in the Gaurdian in 2006. The author is a Quaker Chaplain.
No surprise then, that the incineration of Hiroshima raised no American Christian protest. It might, after all, have ended a terrible war, for hardly anyone then knew that Japan had already made moves to surrender. But Nagasaki three days later? This time there was no excuse. The relentless logic of war was enough reason to kill another hundred thousand.
Also, here is a sojourners magazine article from 1985 that deals with the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“At the end of World War II, America dropped two nuclear bombs that killed tens of thousands of innocent people. And we didn’t have to. The Japanese were already defeated.”
Again, this view is not without basis, but the decision of President Truman to drop the bombs has been hotly debated for over 60 years. Bell and Golden make it sound like the verdict is in and the issue is settled. Even the attached endnote sheds no additional light on the complexity of the issue which, I thought, is what an endnote was for.
Here is a better take on the Christian Response to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It appeared in the Gaurdian in 2006. The author is a Quaker Chaplain.
No surprise then, that the incineration of Hiroshima raised no American Christian protest. It might, after all, have ended a terrible war, for hardly anyone then knew that Japan had already made moves to surrender. But Nagasaki three days later? This time there was no excuse. The relentless logic of war was enough reason to kill another hundred thousand.
Also, here is a sojourners magazine article from 1985 that deals with the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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this is a big topic to cover. but I say, to present the counter point to pacifism, we play the old star trek episode where Kirk and the boys go back to pre-WW2 earth and, predictably, Kirk falls in love with the most beautiful woman on the episode.
But this time, she is a famous pacifist and Kirk has to save her from being hit by a car, only to be told by Spock, look dude, we have to go back in time and let her die, because if she lives, then she will delay the allies' entry into WW2, and the Nazi's will have a stronger stranglehold and the space federation will never exist.
So, they do - go back in time and let her get hit by that car. Thank God!
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