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Hiroshima’s Enola Gay carried 12 men, hope and the world’s deadliest weapon washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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In the 75 years since Hiroshima, nuclear testing killed untold thousands washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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“Here, in an incandescent burst of lightning and fire so many, so many dreams and hopes disappeared, leaving behind only shadows and silence...From the abyss of silence we continue even today to hear the cries of those who are no longer.”—Pope Francis at Hiroshima 11/24/2019
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Dorothy Day on the dropping of the atomic bomb: “Mr Truman was jubilant. True man; what a strange name, come to think of it. We refer to Jesus Christ as true God and true Man. Truman is a true man of his time in that he was jubilant. He was not a son of a God, brother...
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2/ of Christ, brother of the Japanese, jubilating as he did. He went from table to table on the cruiser which was bringing him home from the Big 3 conference, telling the great news; “jubilant” the newspapers said. Jubulate Deo. We have killed 318,000 Japanese. That is, ...
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3/ we hope we have killed them...The effect is hoped for, not known. It is to be hoped they are vaporized, our Japanese brothers, scattered, men, women, and babies, to the four winds, over the seven seas....President Truman was jubilant. ...
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4/ This new great force will be used for good, the scientists assured us. And then they wiped out a city of 318,000. This was good. The President was jubilant. ..God is still in the picture...we have to remember it. We are held in God’s hands, all of us, and President Truman too
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5/ and these scientists who have created death, but will use it for good. He, God, holds our life and our happiness, our sanity and our health: our lives are in his hands. He is our Creator. Creator...
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6/ Everyone says “I wonder what the Pope thinks of it?”...But our Lord has himself pronounced judgment on the atomic bomb. When James and John wished to call down fire from heaven on their enemies, Jesus said, “You know not of what Spirit you are. The Son of Man came not to
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75 years ago, on the night before August 6, 1945 the people of Hiroshima slept, not yet knowing it was possible to burn a city with a single bomb. Now we know. But as Baldwin wrote, “People find it very difficult to act on what they know.”
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The story of an American child in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb dropped washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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The master was an avid reader of dime novels depicting life in the American “Wild West.” He marveled at the Lawlessness in Dodge and wondered why the president didn’t deploy a division of Cossacks or just burn the city down as was done to defend Moscow. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
There is TREMENDOUS Lawlessness in America’s Liberal Cities. Would be so easy to stop but they have a clouded vision of what should be done. They are indoctrinated with a philosophy which will never work, a philosophy which would destroy America. Portland would be the norm!
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Cannot speak highly enough of the Turkish series Yunus Emre on Netflix—about the 13th cen Sufi mystic and poet. The most profound depiction of the spiritual life and what Pope Francis calls a “journey faith” (vs a laboratory faith of black and white rules and syllogistic proofs).
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