Evening star., 1948-08-24
Resistance to Slavemasters


Blind shepherds are leading their Christian
focks to the Communist wolves. Like trusting
children, they believe pious intentions will stay
the cold-blooded murder in the atheist minds
Of the Poltburo.
My reference is to the Sunday of national
mourning set aside by certain Protestant pas
tors to dramatize the protest OF Christian
conscience against peacetime conscription
They would secure peace by delaying mobiiza-
ton OF manpower until the cold war became
undeniabe aggression punishable as q crime
against humanity. They learn nothing from
the attempted and almost successful genocide
Of the Jews. Somehow they believe Christian
mob will receive more mercy from the plunder-
ing robots of the atheist savemasters
fair statement of the thesis of these pro-
testing Protestant pastors would be in this
wise: Sabotage Of peacetime conscription by
civil disobedience is an option of conscience.
BUT in time of war they generally agree secular
sovereignty has strong moral grounds to regard
such nonco-operation as treason.
Few Of these dissenting pastors would con-
done such treason when or II our sovereignty
faced the deadly peril Of ruthless aggression.
Their conscience grants the difference between
mobilizing to wage aggressive war and the
mandatory mobilization of the guiltless to
defend their own survival. If our Nation pur-
poses to wage aggressive war against the
peaceful, that would be 4 crime against hui
manity. Civil disobedence by total nonco-
operation with such a fiendish conspiracy
would be moral compulsion. A true Chris
tian should prefer death and martyrdom to
willing participation in aggressive war against
the innocent and the peaceful.
Mankind almost una nanmously agrees that
war is stupid and futile. Jesus the Prince Of
Peace taught the Fatherhood OF God and the
brotherhood OF man. But there Is no teach
ing of Jesus which commands us supifely to
submit to the slavery OF the atheist conspira-
tors of the Politburo. To the contrary, Christ
warned us of Armageddon. If the showdown
between good and evil is about to try the souls
Of the elect. should we help Antchrist by
weakness? Surely, it is weakness to tell our
youth that iron discipline and equal sacrifice
for all is unnecessary until vandals begin
their murder and pillage.
Alternative to Conscripticn Horrible,
We who are soldiers and the fathers OF
soldiers ask dissidents TO Judge the wisdom or
the unwsdom OF peacetime conscription as .
choice Of evils. In 50 judging, understand the
ruthless realities Of wrong choice. The
horror OF it is beyond description.
As Christians we believe evil first must be
resisted as temptation, and temptation to
commit evil always precedes the transgression
This Is Just as true of the brutal atheists Of
the Poltburo as any other human agency with
free wills.
The soul-trying problem Of our leadership
is to make predatory aggression less Of
temptation to the slavemasters Of the Krem-
lin As they weigh the odds between peace
and aggression, we want them to think Of the
gihbets OF Nurnberg. We know they. fear
DEATH As atheists they believe the end n all
here. Behold their worried. untrusting ugi-
lance In the heavily guarded fortress the
KremIin. They dare not even minsle with
their own people. lest nemesis overtake them.
II they see us unprepsred divided and ir-
resolute, we encourage them in the belief that
evil Ii fnvincible. With atheists there are no
spiritual issues Of truth, morality or Justice
You are dealing with the ccwardiy AND cum
ming minds Of criminal psychopaths. Let our
undivided might and our inyincible purpose
warn them OF the hangmans moose. They
only weigh brute ruthlessness and power In
making 1 choice between aggression and
peace. Let not the church Of Christ encourage
the aggression Of Antichrist by counseling our
youth 10 wait until Ia feels the knout Of the
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