Karl Barth was also instrumental in drafting and supporting the Barmen
Declaration denouncing the Nazi State.
He lost his professorship as a result and was deported to his home of
Switzerland.
However, Barth wrote letters to England and Scotland about the evils of the
Nazis and was theologically outlining
his support that they go to war. Therefore he was, in the thirties, one with
Winston Churchill, in preparing the
allies to go to war.
I completely disagree with the Rev. Vince vis a vis the Taliban. Bin Laden
by all reports has been inextricably one with them. The U.N. was originally
conceived as a world body that would crack down on rogue fascist states like
the Taliban...with force.
I respected most of the other posts, Rev. Vince and I appreciate your duties
as a man of the cloth and related pacifism. But with this last one, I have to
beg to disagree. If Colin Powell can make this an U.N. backed effort, taking
out the Taliban, with its attendent subjugation of the Afghanistan people
is a proactive and liberating event.
Visit Holland, and talk to the elderly dutch about their liberation. There
are times when prayers have also to be backed up with governmental and
statesmanlike justice, or it is an abdication of the rights of man.
shane
