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media and their functioning according to the “hype” and “readability”. The commerce of arms
sustains wars and conflicts and the commerce of drugs destroys the youth. Faith in the rationalism
of the “social contract” has collapsed long ago; only the logic of the antagonism of interests seems
to prevail.
Symptoms of such a magnitude are never products of a mere moral decline; they are clear proofs
of the end of a cultural “paradigm”. The “paradigm” of Modernity was grounded on the
egocentrism of “human rights”. A communion-centered version, based on the protection of the
human existential truth and authenticity might bear the arrival of a new cultural “paradigm”.
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Poziv na mir (Orthodox Peace Fellowship u Severnoj Americi)
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
As Orthodox Christians, we seek the conversion of enemies to friends in Christ. Saddam Hussein
is an enemy of the United States and of the people of Iraq, but we declare that there are better
ways to respond to terrorism than to respond in kind.
We do not argue against attacking Iraq because of any admiration for Saddam Hussein. He came
to office by intrigue and murder, and remains in power by the same means; he is his own country’s
worst enemy. The Iraqi people deserve to be rid of him.
The United States is ready to overthrow him by any means, including an attack which would kill
thousands of civilians and maim many more, justifying such an attack on the possibility that
Hussein’s regime is producing weapons of mass destruction and preparing to use them against
America and Israel and their allies.
Because we seek the reconciliation of enemies, a conversion which grows from striving to be
faithful to the Gospel, the Orthodox Church has never regarded any war as just or good, and
fighting an elusive enemy by means which cause the death of innocent people can be regarded
only as murder. Individual murderers are treated by psychiatrists and priests and isolated from
society. But who heals the national psyche, the wounded soul of a nation, when it is untroubled by
the slaughter of non-combatant civilians?