Saturday, June 7, 2008

Torture: Faith Communities in Resistance

Filed under: Critical Voices | Religion | Torture — by Bob Zuber @ 5:57 am

Writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tim Townsend tells about local religious leaders trying to rescue their country’s place in the world: “Torture is a moral issue,” Linda Gustitus, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture’s president, said in a conference call with reporters Thursday. “It’s obligatory for people of faith to speak out against torture. Silence condones it.”

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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debt and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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