Stanley Hauerwas om en kristen syn på krig

Stanley Hauerwas skriver idag otroligt bra, hans argumentation kan tillämpas rakt av på resonemanget Henrik Engholms för på sin blogg där han i en serie poster argumenterar för pacifismens orimlighet. 

Ett smakprov:

"Bobbitt's presumption that there is no alternative to war reflects a humane and profound understanding of our common lot. He is no lover of war. He is not a cynic or a nihilist. He does not believe when all is said and done that we must live as if the bottom line is to kill or be killed.

Bobbitt simply accepts the world as he found it, that is, a world in which war, like birth and death, is simply a fact of life. He sees his task, a moral task, to help us understand the possibilities as well as the limits of such a world.

The only problem with Bobbitt's defence of what he takes to be the real world of war is that there is another world that is more real than a world determined by war. The real world is the world that has been redeemed by Christ."

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