The Idolatry of Nuclearism

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39. Just trying to keep the thread on topic.

But if you want other people's opinion on Plowshares, the polite thing to do would be to offer your own in-depth thoughts about them first, instead of just repeating what other people have said.

As a militant atheist, I most certainly support what these militant Christians are doing 100%. As that old Charlie King song goes, for swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.

(I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned that before more than once, so the regulars here won't find that particularly surprising.)

You?

The Hammer Has to Fall

Charlie King

My name is Daniel Berrigan, chaplan at a hospice for the dying.
I have seen the face of death. It is for life, I bring this hammer down.

My name is Molly Rush. I have six children, they deserve a future.
I strike this blow today for the children all the world around.

I hear the prophets' cry of hope ring through the prison wall.
We've waited thirty centuries to see that hammer fall.
If we think we've got thirty more, we cannot see at all.
For swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.

My name is Elmer Maas. Were this a peaceful world, I'd sit and play piano.
But lacking Nero's concience, I could not watch that fire devour the land.

My name is John Schuchardt. I am no stranger to the prison that awaits us.
But where genocide is legal, I stand an outlaw with a hammer in my hand.

I hear the prophets' cry of hope ring through the prison wall.
We've waited thirty centuries to see that hammer fall.
If we think we've got thirty more, we cannot see at all.
For swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.

Dean Hammer is my name. Mica and Isahia my tradition.
Oh, I tried to be their scholar, but could not escape their logic in the end.

My name is Philip Berrigan. In world war II I flew the bombing missions.
Now with every blow I strike today, I say the bombs will never fall again.

I hear the prophets' cry of hope ring through the prison wall.
We've waited thirty centuries to see that hammer fall.
If we think we've got thirty more, we cannot see at all.
For swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.

Carl Cabott is my name. I have lived and worked among the third world peoples.
I've seen corporations flourish, while the poor were left to fight for every breath.

My name is Anne Montgomery. My life spent in community with women.
I bring their healing power to this factory of of carnage and of death.

I hear the prophets' cry of hope ring through the prison wall.
We've waited thirty centuries to see that hammer fall.
If we think we've got thirty more, we cannot see at all.
For swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.

The hammer has to fall...