{"id":7802,"date":"2023-08-11T08:45:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:22:31","slug":"a-meditation-on-pacifism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7802","title":{"rendered":"A Meditation on Pacifism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robert Lawrence Smith in his &#8220;A Quaker Book of Wisdom&#8221; notes that he fought in WW II but thinks, nevertheless, that pacifism is a good thing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uh . . . What part?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of sitting by and letting Nazis murder Jews did not, thankfully, sit well with him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmm.&nbsp; Any other such atrocities worth fighting over?&nbsp; How about the current abortion holocaust?&nbsp; Those innocents in the womb are less guilty than ex-utero, sinful Jews (or Gentiles, of course)!&nbsp; How about defending those little ones?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wake up, Quakers!&nbsp; Do justice <em>with or without<\/em> arms.&nbsp; Do what is <em>necessary<\/em> to secure justice and defend the innocent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pacifism is good!\u00a0 Unless a war comes around.\u00a0\u00a0 Avoid war when you can.\u00a0 \u00a0Fight when necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead on, brothers.  Bring an end to the holocaust.  Outlaw child-murder in every state.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Aug., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lawrence Smith in his &#8220;A Quaker Book of Wisdom&#8221; notes that he fought in WW II but thinks, nevertheless, that pacifism is a good thing.&nbsp; Uh . . . What part?&nbsp; The idea of sitting by and letting Nazis murder Jews did not, thankfully, sit well with him.&nbsp; Hmm.&nbsp; Any other such atrocities worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,9,12,57,54,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802\/revisions\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}