![]() ![]() We remember this fundamental belief every time we are confronted by “casualties” of war. ![]() ![]() There is, simply, no selective pro life advocacy when it comes to the sacredness of life else we become modern days hypocrites (Pharisees and “ munafiqun”). In recent memory, the popes have always stood against war, capital punishment, nuclear weapons, hunger & poverty, euthanasia and abortion. ![]() The traditional moral theology of “just cause” and “just war” with their corresponding “fine balancing” over the so called proportionality between the evil done and good achieved has long been abandoned by a more scripture-base moral theology. We lose our integrity and we have compromised our belief in the sacredness of life. The moment we remain silent over that EVIL that people, liberation movements and governments perpetrate in the name of “collateral damage”, we become contradictions to any pro life advocacy. This language and culture violate the fundamental belief in the sacredness of life in whatever form or shape regardless of culture, belief and ethnicity. Human lives are NOT simple numbers in the equation. “Collateral damage” when used to described human casualties can never be justified. Tragically, people have begun using the label thereby unconsciously or consciously they have become partners in the cover up of these great human tragedies. “Collateral damage” is the euphemistically invented label to “sanitize” the cruelties of war. When the smoke of “battle” fades away, civilians, inevitably, become victims. ![]()
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