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PG. 44 THE RURAL VOICE/DECEMBER 1982
ONE MAN'S OPINION
Fighting for peace
By Adrian Vos.
Remembrance Day is behind us and Christmas, the festival of
peace, is just around the corner. We hear it from stores and street
corners and we try to express our goodwill through gift giving to
those we love and respect.
This time of year Christianity is at its
best. After all,the theme of the Christian
religion is love. Love to God and from
God; love to our neighbors on this global
village.
We celebrate the occasion that Christ
came to us to bring that love and peace,
and we are merry. Sometimes we spoil it
by drinking too much, but by -and -large it
is a happy time.
However, when we think back to what
we have accomplished in nearly 2,000
years, we have to admit to a dismal performance. In the name of
the messenger of peace,we began by killing Saracens through
crusades; and Jews because other Jews had killed Christ. And
through the ages we have continued killing (and hating) in the
name of love. Many times the churches were so self-righteous that
any difference in interpretation of the Bible, their textbook, was
punishable by death.
There was the Inquisition; there was Calvin's Geneva; there
was Cromwell; there were the witch hunts.
In addition there were and are persecutions by ostracizing and
harrassment, such as the Jehovah Witnesses in Quebec during Du
Plessis' regime and by the Amish today in Pennsylvania.
The Christian love tenet that only those without sin be allowed
to throw the first stone has turned into a cruel caricature.
For eight or more years Irish Christians have been murdering
other Irish Christians, aided and abetted by Canadian and
American Christians.
For many years Christian Lebanese have been murdering
Muslim Lebanese and vice versa.
Ever since they conquered the Cape Colony, Afrikaan settlers
have enslaved black natives for reasons they found in some
grotesque interpretation of the Bible.
However, to blame Christianity for all those excesses is like
blaming marriage for wife beating or sex for child abuse. If there
were no marriage there wouldn't be wives and without sex there
wouldn't be children.
Those people who call themselves Christians, be it Catholic or
Protestant in Ireland or in Lebanon, and then commit atrocities
are committing a double offence. They try to put the blame for
their misdeeds on Christ because they claim to belong to His
church. This is character assasination at its worst.
When I see the leaders of the IRA, I see the zealots the fanatics
condemned by Jesus during his sojourn among us.
When I see today's peace marchers against the Cruise Missile
etc, I see people who prefer to be dominated by Russia over death
by Russia.
When I see the arguments of those who believe in peace
through strength, I see people who would rather die than be
Russian ruled.
When I look at them both 1 see people who want peace. Let us
not fall into the old trap of fighting each other out of love for
peace. This is the time of year that we are reminded of the
message of God's "goodwill to men". Let us as individuals show
it. Let us try to follow the real teaching of the "Man of Peace".
Let us try to understand our neighbors wherever in the world they
may be. Let us try to act like real Christians are supposed to. Let
us start with ourselves.