Methodists ban Rambo
NZPA Washington Methodist Church leaders in the Washing-ton-Baltimore area have urged their congregations to make Sunday school classrooms “war toy-free zones.”
A resolution by the church says that the “Rambo mentality” has “contributed to the lust of physical brutality, the dehumanisation of human life . . . and promotes the glorification of violence over Christian values.” It is the third anti-war
measure taken in three months by Methodists, America’s second-largest Protestant denomination. Last month the Church’s bishops nationwide adopted a pastoral letter condemning nuclear war, including nuclear deterrence as a strategy for national security.
Earlier the committee revising the denomination’s hymn book voted to drop the old favourite, “Onward Christian Soldiers,” because its war imagery was out of step with church policy.
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