This week has seen a number of significant and tragic anniversaries:
100 years ago on Monday, Britain
declared war on Germany Hiroshima and Nagasaki
It is now generally accepted that World War One was a
senseless waste of human life. But many folk would argue that World War Two was
justified, on the grounds that Hitler had to be stopped. However, like most
wars, this too soon got out of hand, and both sides bombed civilians indiscriminately,
culminating in the unprecedented horrors of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
There may not have been a World War since 1945, but there has never been World Peace. And of course horror is being piled upon horror in Gaza Middle East is also unquiet,
to say the very least. Not to mention Africa ,
and other parts of the world. As a human race, we seem to have learned nothing
about living together in peace.
I believe that it is the responsibility of the living to
make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead. Faith groups and others the world
over are attempting to influence their government and fellow citizens to work
towards a more peaceful happier world, in which war would no longer be
necessary. We just all need to work together, and to keep at it, until
humankind finally realises that peace is so much better than war, for everyone.
There are so many ordinary people getting together, the world over, to work for
peace and reconciliation. Let us hope that their voices are heard.
Most wars are allegedly fought to bring peace - a most
ingenious paradox! We should remember the dead, but also pledge ourselves to
make our world a better place - to end all wars, to relieve world debt, to feed
the hungry, to find a cure for AIDS, to stop destroying our environment. It is
still a beautiful planet, or it could be, if we could only learn to live
together in peace.
Amen, Amen.
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