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What To Do About Nukes

You may not be as powerless as you think.

Agnieszka Tennant | posted 8/13/2007 08:58AM

"Wars are stupid and can therefore only be caused by people who are more stupid than those who recognize the stupidity of war."

As my professor read those words during a recent religion and political order ...

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PW	Posted: August 15, 2007 5:30 PM

It's great to hear a mainstream Christian outcry about warhead buildup around the world. It is important that we realize that we are more powerful when we show others how to show mercy than when we show others how we can create distruction. Of all the things that people remember and love about the words of God it is not the wrath, but rather the comfort. So to is it with America. We are most loved when we are most merciful. Yet we are inclined, as most humans are to fighting, sometimes for causes that need more plowshares than swords. I speak not as a person who knows everything. I am a sinner myself. But I am trying to change. I am asking for others to help America try to change as well.

Jim Frisbie

Posted: August 14, 2007 11:34 AM


Sixth years ago the first and only hostile use of nukes happened. As the ones who did it we have a moral obligation to lead the world in nuclear disarmament...begining with our own. However, we are in the process of replacing our aging nukes with a new generation of "More effective" warheads. When will we ever learn....

Patrick Gann

Posted: August 13, 2007 11:05 PM

Easily, the most controversial article I've yet read from Ms. Tennant. At least, that's what the comments so far suggest. It's awful how much the ignorance abounds from the average reader. I was particularly fond of this one: "I wonder if Agnieszka Tennant has ever read the Bible." Sweetheart, Agnieszka Tennant has probably read the Bible, and studied it, and learned more about it, than me and you combined. The verses you cite are irrelevant, unless you subscribe to the (sensationalized, probably false) "Left Behind" theology/eschatology. Yes, getting to know a drug trafficker would probably be dangerous, but missionaries are known to do the darndest things. All in all, Ms. Tennant, I'm not sure the rest of us are ready to hear someone say "it was a smart move for 3rd-world countries to make nukes." That's probably because we don't get it...I've always been a proponent for nuclear disarmament, but maybe all nations need to GET nukes before we all simultaneously disarm? Hmm...

A Hermit

Posted: August 13, 2007 10:41 PM

Poor nations investing in nuclear weapons is not indicative of a 'rational' thought process; nuclear weapons are expensive to create and maintain, producing them creates highly toxic wastes, and money spent on them is taken away from educating and caring for the population as a whole. The New Testament solution to evil, is to love your enemies and do good to them. Possessing weapons of mass destruction, threatening to kill large numbers of God's children is hardly 'Christian'.

Not Powerless with Jesus

Posted: August 13, 2007 10:17 PM

I wonder if Agnieszka Tennant has ever read the Bible. Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. The anti-christ must come before Jesus returns - 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Try reading Revelation or Isaiah or Ezekiel. I don't know about getting to know drug traffickers just for kicks, drug traffickers are usually pretty dangerous to be around. You have got to be kidding :P The answer to this dilemna and many others is found in Matthew 28:18-20. If you want to wake up then read something educational about nukes and war - go to "http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1938.cfm"

Not going to war was stupid

Posted: August 13, 2007 4:45 PM

2 Samuel 11 "David and Bathsheba 1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"" These are the things kings do when they are not off to war. These are things people do!

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