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Tag: nuclear war

A Christian Response to the Prospect of Nuclear War

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018 ~ Alfred ~ Leave a comment

Here is an essay that Thomas Merton published in Commonweal  in 1962: Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility.  It’s a message we need to hear again and again.

“Bind Him Down from Mischief by the Chains of the Constitution”

August 20, 2017August 20, 2017 ~ Alfred ~ Leave a comment

Stephen Kinzer’s essay in this morning’s Boston Globe states the obvious (which goes unnoticed): “Giving one individual the power to set off nuclear war would have been abhorrent to the framers of our Constitution.” Such concentration of power is the definition of tyranny.

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