Sunday Sunday Sunday

It was a beautiful day. For a song about beautiful days download New Man (Beautiful Day) by Matthew Kahler.

Went to church yesterday and there was a grand total of 6 folks in Sunday school but that was good because it made for a great discussion. We talked about a quote by Karl Barth that goes something like Christians should live their live with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. We discussed this in the context of the potential war. Evne though there were only 6 people in class there were 6 different opinions about the situation which were cool to hear. To further aid the discussion Thomas brought up Dietrich Bonhoeffer's doctrine that one should act in response to a situation when non-action would lead to a worse outcome even though acting is a sin itself. Where I stand on the issue is still up in the air given the many possible motivations for a war presented by the president. I think if the human rights violations are occuring as many people say then we should help do something about it but when it gets to the cusp of action and non-action I don't know how to determine this. Hopefully our leaders will be able to make this determination through their beliefs and their political knowledge. Furthermore, we should definitely seek further alliance with the UN though we may have to go out on our own to rectify the situations in Iraq and North Korea.

In closing I'll leave you with one final thought that kind of blows my mind. Since I live near Dobbins Air Reserve Base there occassionally military jets fly over my apartment. This morning I was thinking that it sure is nice to know that the jets are not dropping bombs as they fly overhead, I cannot imagine what it would feel like to be somewhere they are actually dropping bombs.