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Date Posted: 07:32:21 02/24/03 Mon
Author: James
Subject: Re: Bush policy rejected by his own church
In reply to: Bobby 's message, "Re: Bush policy rejected by his own church" on 06:50:08 02/24/03 Mon

I was thinking about that when I wrote the piece yesterday. I knew that with some people you need to spell things out. I didn't mean to imply that the methodist church inparticular was againsts WWII it was a generalization that even though the leaders of some religions were opposed to WWII it didnt make the war wrong. The pope for instance??


>Sorry James, but the Methodist Church was not against
>WWII.
>
>>The church was against WWII also, were they right
>>then? All that should matter is that there are
>>millions of people that live a life without the
>>freedoms that you have and that they deserve freedom
>>every bit as muich as you do. Nobody raised a finger
>>when Clinton was bombing Iraq (missing a lot of
>>targets and killing innocents by the way) or when he
>>bombed the crap out of serbia/kosovo killing more
>>civilians than the war we were there to stop. I
>>submit that the current opposition to war is an
>>opposition of the President, not to war.
>>
>>
>>
>>>"Bush's own Methodist church has launched a scathing
>>>attack on his preparations for war against Iraq,
>>>saying they are 'without any justification according
>>>to the teachings of Christ'. Jim Winkler, head of
>>>social policy for United Methodists, added that all
>>>attempts at a 'dialogue' between the President and
>his
>>>own church over the war had fallen on deaf ears at
>the
>>>White House...Winkler is general secretary of the
>>>Board of Church and Society for the United Methodist
>>>church, which counts the President and the
>>>Vice-President, Dick Cheney, among its members. The
>>>church represents eight to nine million regular
>>>churchgoers and is the third biggest in America. The
>>>Methodist Church, he says, is not pacifist, but
>>>'rejects war as a usual means of national policy'.
>>>Methodist scriptural doctrine, he added, specifies
>>>'war as a last resort, primarily a defensive thing.
>>>And so far as I know, Saddam Hussein has not
>mobilized
>>>military forces along the borders of the United
>>>States, nor along his own border to invade a
>>>neighboring country, nor have any of these countries
>>>pleaded for our assistance, not does he have weapons
>>>of mass destruction targeted at the United
>States'..."
>>>http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/10.22E.bush.pastor.ht
>m

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