Dear
Patrick,
Thanks
for writing this article.
In
the end, we all place foundational faith in someone or something.
Then,
we tend to become what we perceive.
Torture?
Preventive
war?
The
Golden Calf?
ESPN?
Epicureanism?
Sex?
Drugs?
Rock
and Roll?
Armageddon?
God
is love?
Pax
vobiscum
Alan
PS
I encourage you to circulate Benedict’s proposal that modern warfare is
intrinsically evil and never justifiable. True, we can indulge our passion for
perpetual war, but we can no longer pretend it’s “Just.” What used to be “Just
War” is just war... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1388183/posts
(This
correspondence is posted at http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/dear-patrick-thanks-for-writing-this.html)
From: pmtoneill@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:01 AM
Subject: Fwd: Letter to editor (final draft)
Hi All -- I
was recruited for the Plowshare
action (see below) by
Sr. Rice back in the spring. I am friends with all three. My letter to
Knoxville, TN paper about
it may be in
this week. I have been published on their op-ed page two
other times. See Knoxnews web site to read more about them -- all three remain
in jail. Peace, Patrick
Editor:
Sister
Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael R. Walli, also
known as the Transform Now Plowshares, are modern-day prophets. In a nuclear
world gone mad, the three Catholic activists -- all of whom have spent time in
jail and prison for their anti-war work -- risked their lives last week to
expose the folly of nuclearism. At Oak Ridge, admiration abounds toward weapons
of mass destruction; weapons that could end life as we know it on planet Earth
are revered and viewed with pride.
This is
evidence of how far humans -- made in the image and likeness of a loving God
(Prince of Peace) -- have fallen from Grace. No longer does the world put its
faith in a Divine Higher Power, but rather a nuclear higher power. A threat to
incinerate millions of innocents is now deemed acceptable "national defense."
Jesus weeps.
In the weeks
and months ahead, much will be made of the lax security that allowed unarmed
anti-war activists -- carrying blood, bread and roses -- to roam the Oak Ridge
facility unnoticed for two hours. This can be easily explained -- It was the
Holy Spirit that safely led the trio to their intended target. A few hammer
blows of transformation were struck, the damage symbolic, the activists ready to
do hard time. But what will we learn from these prophets? I already know. Like
all prophets, these three will be scorned, ridiculed and rejected. Their simple
message: "Ours is a God of Love" will be scoffed at by a culture that puts its
faith in weapons of war, refusing to heed the warnings of the Blessed
Peacemakers. To the three, I simply say, Thank You and Godspeed.
Patrick
O'Neill Garner, NC 919 779
912
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