Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.