The Gift We Can Offer Others Is

No Principle Is Worth The Sacrifice Of A Single Human Being.

Every Nation-state Tends Towards The Imperial - That Is The Point. Through Banks, Armies, Secret Police, Propaganda, Courts And Jails, Treaties, Taxes, Laws And Orders, Myths Of Civil Obedience, Assumptions Of Civic Virtue At The Top.

But How Shall We Educate Men To Goodness, To A Sense Of One Another, To A Love Of Truth? And More Urgently, How Shall We Do This In A Bad Time?

We Have One Of Our Priests In Prison Right Now For His Antiwar Actions, And Three Of Us In The Community Are Forbidden To Visit Him Because We're All Convicted Felons.

The Arms Race Is Worse Than It Ever Was, The Dumping Of Creation Down A Military Rat Hole Is Worse Than It Ever Was, The Wars Across The Earth Are Worse Than They Ever Were.