Like a fool, I interjected in a discussion on military chaplaincy on the Faith and Theology blog last Thursday.
I meant to raise my eyebrow at one correspondent's wholesale argument against chaplaincy --- illegitimate as a Christian ministry even if war itself were justifiable, we were told --- which seemed to cry out for contradiction. I told myself that I was thus engaging in a brief police action, in a good cause.
But now I find myself in the middle of a war-by-proxy, with Pacifism and Just War theory sponsoring the two sides. And I have no exit strategy.
There must be a moral in here somewhere.
2 comments:
Hi Bruce -- another reader told me jokingly that I had "started a war" by linking to a non-pacifist post!
;-)
Yeah. There's some moral risk in making jokes about this sort of thing, but at least it helps to see the ridiculous side of one's own predicament. (I'd be a less comfortable taking the piss out of someone else's.)
New graphic for you! You're now unusually busy, and two espresso shots are needed where one used to suffice?
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