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Barth, the Terrorist Incitor |
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Written by will samson
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
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 I always knew Karl Barth was a little radical. But should Barth be banned from prison libraries because he might incite violence or encourage the recruitment of terrorists?
According to an article in this morning's NY Times, this is precisely what our tax dollars are being spent on - the systematic purging of all religious books but those that meet the approval of anonymous reviewers for each of the major faiths. Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the cut. Robert Schuller did not. This is a bizarre event, one for which the term "Orwellian" is not a stretch. It seems ample evidence of the fact that fear is a dangerous motivator, and not one we can control once we have allowed it to control us. When we permit our government to follow extreme anti-Christian tactics in one area, such as torture in Abu Ghraib, it should not surprise us that we have unleashed forces that will come back to haunt the Church. This now includes the removal of training material to strengthen the faith and knowledge of Christian converts in prison who want to turn their life around. So, I will close with some words from the apparently non-terrorist-recruiting German Lutheran pastor who, quite ironically, attempted to incite the overthrow of his own government: "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Original content at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Willzhead/~3/154533179/barth-the-terro.html.
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