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What he did believe in was the right, or the duty rather, of self-defense and the defense of others.
Chesterton was also a vigorous enemy of militarism. Both ideas, he argued, were really a single idea – that the strong must not be resisted. The militarist, he said, uses this idea aggressively as a conqueror, as a bully. The pacifist uses the idea passively by acquiescing to the conqueror and permitting himself and others around him to be bullied…
"The horror of war," Chesterton wrote, "is the sentiment of a Christian and even of a saint." But in refusing to strike any blow, pacifists announce their readiness to surrender the higher ideals of "liberty, self-government, justice, and religion."
This site is hereby declared a Dorothy Day-free zone.
Want to ladle soup to the poor? More power to you!
Bishop Gumbleton and the other signatories of a letter urging American soldiers to refuse orders to fight acknowledge as much.
They're traitors.
They should be locked up for a good long stretch, as should the Catholic Worker activists who smear military recruiting offices with their own blood.
Lending aid and comfort to brutes and tyrants from Cuba to Baghdad in the name of "peace" is bad enough, but working to disrupt and undermine the military in wartime goes beyond naivety.
These people are not moral exemplars. They are moral idiots. This space yields them not one inch of high ground.
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