Seems that Martin feels the same way many of us do; and why not? Martin is from the Quaker tradition, a Church that is probably THE most consistently against violence and war as any other.

Four More Years (Let’s Roll Up Our Sleeves) (Nonviolence.org)

Did Americans officially approve the country’s past two wars yesterday? It’s hard to conclude otherwise. Despite the lies of mass destruction and despite the willful misleading of the American people that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved in the 9/11 attacks and possessed weapons of mass destruction, something over 50% of Americans thought the Bush/Cheney Presidency was worth keeping for another four years.

Martin sounds the same kind of call to dialogue, reflection, and inevitably, if these are pursued, along with an openness to the Spirit, repentance and activism, and a new movement to speak the truth to power.

Maybe those of us whose pacifism is informed by religious understandings can cross the intellectual divide some more and talk about how our faith gives us a simple, morally unambiguous way to argue against war. The country needs strong pacifist voices now more than ever. Let’s get talking.

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