James Carroll has been writing in Common Dreams many of the pieces of the ongoing argument against war, against the Bush Brigade, against the madness that is being spread by the imperial follies of a superpower. Evil unleashed in combination with “Biblical zeal”; a Bible that has been hijacked in much more destructive ways than the First Century Pharisees who used Scripture (their appropriation of it) to encourage the crucifixion. This is a universal problem of authoritarian religion which replaces the Vision of the Peacebale Kingdom with the “Kingdoms of this World”. The prophets foresaw a time when “the Kingoms of this world become the Kingom of our God” (a Kingdom which, too often and almost overwhelmingly so, is twisted beyond recognition of its original vision by a people whipped into a nationalistic frenzy out of fear rather than faith)
The only way to live humanly – still – is in resistance to war. The prevention of war, in the nuclear age, must be a central purpose of every person’s life. Scientists, physicians, lawyers, bishops, mothers, students, writers – where are you? We must remember what we learned already, but forgot; what the leaders of India and Pakistan are showing us again: If we human beings leave this problem to governments, we are doomed.