As I said in my previous post on this topic, nonviolent and violentist Christians often mistreat the Hebrew scriptures. Violentist Christians assert that violence in the “Old” Testament tradition negates the possibility of nonviolence as a faithful interpretation of scripture. Nonviolent Christians concede the underlying assumption–that the only faithful interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘defense contractors’
The False Choice between the Old and the New, Part II
Posted: January 5, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Ahmadinejad, Arthur Waskow, Blackwater, Boeing, Christian nonviolence, Christianity, defense contractors, Jesus, Lockheed Martin, nonviolence, shomer shalom
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Defense Contractors: “What Economic Troubles?”
Posted: September 26, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: defense contractors, defense spending, Jesus, nonviolence
Wow, so…my bank failed yesterday! Ouch! It won’t actually (I think/hope/hear) affect my finances in any concrete way, but the shockwaves from the economic meltdown are starting to rattle my windows, at least. What a mess. Here’s a succinct description of the cause of the crisis: Instead, we’re getting a Wall Street bailout not of [...]
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Posted: August 18, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, defense contractors, defense spending, Georgia, Navy, nonviolence, Pentagon, Russia
Everyone knows that war in general and the Iraq war specifically has meant big money for defense contractors, but a new congressional report puts it in stark relief: …[T]he scale of the use of contractors in Iraq is unprecedented in US history, according to a new congressional report that may be the most thorough official account [...]
