There are no winners in war because, as Jesus warned, ‘What does it profit a person to gain the whole world if it means losing their own soul?’
When the same collective willingness to sacrifice and suffer for the sake of others is offered on the path of non-violent resistance to evil, mountains have been moved. Photograph: Surasak SuwanmakeWars rage throughout the world, and the war in Israel/Palestine hurtles onwards – although the death toll doesn’t even make the headlines any more.
I was painfully struck by a war memorial some years ago in St Conan’s Kirk on the banks of Loch Awe in Scotland. It is to a young soldier called Ian Alastair Campbell who died in the Boer war in 1899 – “mortally wounded while giving water to a wounded foe”. I can hardly bear the spotlight this casts on the wretched absurdity of war. It was the task of Ian to kill his enemy.
Yet evil is real, and needs to be resisted. On the cross, Jesus showed us another way. He defeated the evil forces unleashed upon him by sacrificing himself for the love of the world, by giving up his life for his friends and his enemies.
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