Message #3094

[JJ]

Two things:

Though personally I'm a pacifist in tendency, I do think that there is something about war that is so deep in human culture and habit and even need, that it's not as simple a matter as to say that war is wrong: it's more complex than that.  There is always a human need to connect at times of high emotion whether they be wanted or unwanted, good or bad; and war provides an intense forum for this, probably more often than times of celebration unfortunately. 


And the other thing is that pastors are there to mop up the emotional and spiritual damage to the soldiers, just like medics do with injuries, not so much to stop the war.