http://lewrockwell.com/kohls/kohls12.1.html
Duty to Warn
The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: Another Example of Christians Killing Christians in the Name of Christ
by Gary G. Kohls
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So, at 11:02 am, August 9, 1945, in the middle of morning mass, the Christians of Nagasaki were boiled, evaporated and carbonized in a scorching, radioactive fireball that was several times hotter than the sun. The vibrant center of Japanese Christianity was wiped out. It had become Ground Zero.
And what the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 250 years of persecution, American Christians had done in 9 seconds. 8,500 of Nagasaki’s worshipping community of 12,000 perished that day. None of those who died were combatants.
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Perhaps the next military atrocities like Nagasaki, Fallujah and My Lai can be prevented if a substantial number of Christian churches courageously and publicly start to resist the militaristic policies of their nations by actively refusing their government’s call for the bodies and souls of their sons and daughters.
If the churches start to exercise their sacred duty to warn their parishioners about the soul-destroying nature of war, it may not be too late to save our dying, war-torn, morally and financially bankrupt planet.
Heeding the lessons of Nagasaki is a good way to start.
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Hard to read this or see the picture.
And, the various churches, who supposedly revere the Prince of Peace, seem to be out sync with the meme.
How does one reconcile this militarism, empire, and killing?
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I still have the ‘luggable’….I have grown accustomed to it. Plus it makes for bigger biceps, in lifting it up! :-)
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You want the paper back? Or 2$ on the free kindle for ipad. Not worth the effort? :-)
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I am going to have to finish your book, “Church 10-19-62” !!!
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If the USA had lost, you can bet those two and Dresden would have been “war crimes”. There seems to be some dispute about the “saved lives” calculation. And, we know that the propaganda was dialed up to max. It’s an action that fails the “just war” criteria. (You remember it from my novel Church?)
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The strict conditions, for legitimate use of military force, require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:
* the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
* all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
* there must be serious prospects of success;
* the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.
These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the “just war” doctrine. The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.
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— character “Brother Kevin” on the criteria for just war in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 326
Certainly points #2 and #4 cast the morality of the Truman decision in a very bad light.
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It’s always hard to rationalize any war….”war is hell” is not a worn out phrase. It was an appropriate appraisal back then and is now. As far as the innocents that were killed by the bomb, including Christians, there are always civilian casualties in war, that is one of the parts that make it ‘hell’. But in the case of Truman’s decision, it probably saved more lives than it took…tough decision but in looking back it was probably the right one, it ended the hell. As far as the Christians, if they really were believers than they are in heaven, much better than us here and now.
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