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Instead of rewriting the history of Vietnam (McKibben's favorite subject), Louis chose to praise the rise of the Green Party in West Germany. If one is anti-NATO, anti-American, somewhat pro-Soviet, and a neutralist who hearkens back to the disorder of Weimar, then I suppose one could support the Greens. They are a loosely organized agglomeration of environmentalist and so-called peace parties who envision a firmly neutralist Europe (along the lines of Finland perhaps?), but their main accomplishment, should they get the 5 percent of the vote needed to become represented in parliament, would...
...William McKibben, in his editorial. "Homage to Pilgrimage," seriously distorts the message presented in the Bible. It is in fact difficult to say that there is any message in the Bible, since it is the accretion of over 1000 years' worth of tales, poems, history, and tracts, with little regard for internal consistency, and more often than not, more contradictions than a dedicated editor would care to try to correct. For McKibben to claim that "Old Testament and New, the Bible can be a profoundly radical document," seems to say much about his ability at selective reading, and little that...
Isarah, whose pious exhortation to the Jews to "Learn to do good, search for justice, help the oppressed..." prefaced McKibben's piece, also promised his listener that in return for such good behavior, Israel would be set above other nations, and that the others, "with their faces to the ground they how down to you, and lick the dust of your feet." God's justice is not what we might nowadays call universal...
Many times in his parables, Jesus speaks of servants, slaves, debtors, tenants, and the poor, but he rarely actually criticized these relationships (some of which I suspect McKibben finds explorative) as being unjust, for Jesus, they are a fact of life to be used in his engaging stories...
...article "Reminder, not Revelation" (March 20) William E. McKibben observes that "when the crackdown began in Warsaw, it was the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee that threw together a protest meeting, not the Conservative Club." I should like to make two comments. First, the Conservative Club held a rally in December of 1980, protesting the Soviets' occupation of Afghanistan and calling attention to their intervention, in Poland. Only when that intervention had become so obvious that the left could no longer ignore it did DSOC hold its rally. Second, the coalition of leftists that staged the rally of which Mr. McKibben...