The World Council of Churches has reaffirmed the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, in marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing in 1945 of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
“Sixty-five years on, nuclear bombs still threaten humanity and deny a lasting peace,” WCC general secretary the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit said in advance of the Aug. 6 anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the closing days of the Second World War.
August 6 was also my uncle’s birthday. He was an Army Air Force pilot about to set off on his first mission, having graduated from West Point on D-Day. After the second bomb was dropped, his mission was canceled, as were those of a million or so men in uniform on our side, untold numbers on the other. I’m very grateful for the outcome.
The WCC is awfully lucky we had it and they didn’t or they wouldn’t be here.
Well maybe, but do they want the world armed to the teeth with more easily used conventional weapons? The Dresden and Tokyo firebomb raids were better? Maybe they forget that the 20’s and 30’s saw massive disarmament and pacifist activities.
“”Sixty-five years on, nuclear bombs still threaten humanity and deny a lasting peace,” WCC general secretary the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit said….”
Wait a minute!
In the above quote I read “nuclear bombs,” “lasting peace,” “WCC [World Council of Churches],” and “Rev. Olav Fykse.”
As a Christian pastor, shouldn’t Rev. Fykse been talking about how Salvation through Faith in Jesus Christ will transform mortal souls and thus bring the world closer to “lasting peace?”
Perhaps the pre nuclear rape of Nanking was more peaceful!
370,000 Died in the rape of Nanking- I don’t recall the memorial service held there or may I missed it…