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FROM OUR READERS
From Geoff Chapman (Director, Creation Resources Trust)
Just a line to thank you for your article on the war against Iraq in the latest issue of Christian Voice. I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiments. For the first time ever, I took part in anti‑war protests this year, and I am not your typical “peacenik”, although supporters of the war like to insult us by calling us everything from communists to supporters of Saddam Hussein! I never imagined I would have so much in common with the Labour left!
Now that the war is in progress, of course, my prayers are with our forces, and especially the families of those who have lost their lives. But I also care about the Iraqi victims and their families. I sense that in some parts of the media, the lives of Iraqis are valued less than the lives of Britons and Americans. I am deeply concerned about the way this war is being portrayed as some “cops and robbers” game, the “goodies vs. the baddies”. In fact it is human beings maiming and killing each other!
The “Christian Voice” certainly needs to be heard on this issue, and we must not be intimidated by those who would accuse us of being unpatriotic.
Best wishes and God bless you.
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From Sue Malin
Watching the televised battle between Iraqi soldiers and US Marines in Umm Qasr, it struck me how de-humanised and numbed I had become. Exposure to “war films” helps us to forget that these are real men who could lose their lives at any moment. I also realised how easy we have it in the West. The men of Umm Qasr were ready to take on the might of the US armed forces for what they believed in, and were prepared to die for their beliefs. How many of us as Christians are ready to die for what we believe in, to be counted on the side of Jesus Christ and Him crucified? We’re threatened with the removal of hot cross buns from schools for fear of offending others, with lessons on homosexuality instead, and with the removal of Easter as a public holiday. If the “powers that be” try to outlaw the Christian church, will we just sit back in our armchairs, or be willing to face imprisonment? Perhaps we are simply too comfortable, and the adherents of the false religion of Islam put to shame those who profess to be Christians.