Peace role for the Church advocated
PA Wellington The Church should encourage the super Powers “by wise practical advice” to draw back from the brink of nuclear war, according to the former Chief Ombudsman, Sir Guy Powles. One of the most important devices in the campaign against nuclear war was prayer, he told an audience at Wellington Cathedral. Sir Guy’s lecture was part of a Lenten series on nuclear issues. He said that people “must never acquiesce in the belief
that nuclear war, or any other war, is a means of defeating evil.” The principle of deterrence had “a very great deal to answer for,” he said. It stimulated military research and development and the war industry to even greater efforts, and tended to petrify structured hostility to the point of no return. “There is no end to this mutually stimulated paranoia — which blinds all concerned — no end but war,” he said.
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