Violence must not be wanton. Rules for war have been undertaken as if there is some morality in it. For the Christian, war is primarily a moral problem, and every moral problem is ultimately theological, not political. Although war has unjustly been one of the ways in which men have attempted to correct what they perceive as injustices, at the present time it may be that war has become too expensive and too dangerous as a means of moving the world toward a more just order. We know all too well that war will not stop until the Prince of Peace finally takes over.
Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate.
Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others. They would rather wage war than take steps to prevent it. War is elevated to such heroic proportions here that the greatest idols in television and movies are the ones that can kill the most people with the greatest explosions and the least amount of effort. Even with all the obvious clues pointing to a sick society, there are those so dumb as to wonder why young people today are becoming so violent.