From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!presby!burdvax!cng
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: you can keep your common guilt
Article-I.D.: burdvax.705
Posted: Wed May  4 14:19:27 1983
Received: Wed May 11 08:32:47 1983


What peace has Daniel Berrigan made recently?

And while were on the subject of priests, it seems the US catholic bishops
have finally gone on record as being for a bilateral halt to nuclear
weapons development and deployment.  Fortunately, for all intelligent
catholics, the resolution is not binding on the conscience of individuals.

It seems they feel that any use of nuclear weapons would be morally
offensive and that there is nothing in this world worth keeping that
would justify the use of them.  Even if our Constitution
identifies life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as being things to
cherish and defend, the bishops have adopted the old "better red than
dead" idea.

I wonder how they would feel if the US had developed the atomic bomb in
1942 and could have averted much of Hitler's insanity?

					Tom Albrecht