Consider: If moral decency compels reason to reject
the impulse of a tyrant to strike an unjustified conflict
what greater compulsion attends to the authority of a
great religious leader in recognizing the need to condemn
without equivocation the command of a political leader
leading to destruction, pillage, rape and mass murder?
At the most solemn and enduring memorial to peace
and goodwill struck down by malevolent powers fearing
its message -- but rising anew, yet another Shepherd
has chosen politics over religion's obligation to invoke
the thunder and lightening of its message of brotherly love.
Preferring instead to speak soothingly of trust in one's
neighbour, of the need to forgive and relent at the very time
that neighbour assaults another and the victim's humanity
is humbled and defiled with the aggressor unrepentant and
forcing ongoing war, yet spared the indignity of censure.
Following in the malodorous footsteps of a predecessor
whose stench of cowering before the genocidal violence
of an aggressor, who much preferred silence to censure as
six million perished. Does the most venerable Christian
conscience of the world so love its fascist murderers?
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