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Apr. 22, 2008
A Call to Break the Silence, to Stand for Peace and to Work for Social and Economic Justice
by Rev. Nelson Johnson and the Pulpit Forum of Greensboro and Vicinity
INTRODUCTION:
We come both as religious leaders and citizens of this nation to express our opposition to the culture of war with all its implications, now pervasive in our nation. We are persuaded that violence and war are not the solution to our current differences with Iraq, Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, other nations and/or peoples. In fact, war with its call to uncritical patriotism tends to prevent us from coming to terms with the true underlying causes of the...