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This passiveness--indeed indifference--lies at the heart of "indirect responsibility" and is tragically reminiscent of another age. When the Nazis first began to persecute Jews in Germany, the police and other authorities did nothing. Civilians watched the beginnings of terror, uncaring. All of these groups had the same attitude...
The Morses were uprooted yet again in December 1965, this time by soldiers of Socialist Dictator Ne Win. The night the order came, 600 Lisu packed the thatch-roofed church to hear the family patriarch, then 67, read from Matthew 10: 23: "When they persecute you in one town, flee...
Many friends (gay and straight who share the substance of my belief have chided me for stating it publicly, arguing that none could possibly mistake the advantage of heterosexuality. To speak as I' did, they say, is simply to give comfort to those who are homophobic. The possibility that they...
The overt political themes of the Bible--what the Latin American theologians term God's "option for the oppressed"--is but one dimension of the radical message inherent in the Gospels, however. Even more, it is the disturbing, moving words of the Sermon on the Mount. "But I say to...
The issue of birth control is instructive here. Its practice is also forbidden by a literal interpretation of the Bible, yet we do not persecute those who use it. In fact, many users are the same ones who condemn homosexuality as ungodly. This selective piety is the basest hypocrisy.