The Idolatry of Nuclearism

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53. It's outrageous, isn't it? Not only do they have bizarre and disgusting religious ideas -- such as

"You shall love your neighbor as you love yourself" -- but (worse still!) they oppose nuclear weapons! And then, to top it all off, instead of keeping their perverse views to themselves, they actually preach shamelessly in public that people should not worship gods made of metal! No wonder (as Tacitus reported) the Romans regarded them as haters of mankind

Just to show how depraved these folk really are, and how their ideas seduce others, here are some recent news stories:

... Sister Megan Rice, an 85-year-old nun, and her colleagues, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed will receive the "Nuclear Free Future Award" from the activist groups Beyond Nuclear and Green Cross International ... They are being give the "Resistance" award for the July 2012 intrusion, where they cut fences, painted slogans, and tossed human blood on a building at Y-12. A press release called it an "act of non-violent civil disobedience against the immorality of nuclear weapons" ...
Y-12 protesters to be honored for "civil disobedience"
WBIR Staff, WBIR
4:57 p.m. EDT August 3, 2015

... The trio of Transform Now Plowshares activists, known internationally for their break-in three years ago at the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex, arrived Friday evening at the Church of the Savior in Knoxville for their first public appearance together since their release from prison in May. Greg Boertje-Obed, Sister Megan Rice and Michael Walli entered the complex in July 2012, spray-painted messages on the storage facility for bomb-grade uranium and splashed human blood before they were caught ... They served 14 months in prison before the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed their sabotage conviction and approved an "emergency motion" for their release. The trio will be resentenced on Sept. 15 but are not expected to return to prison because they've served more time than would be recommended for other charges ...
Y-12 protestors reunite for remembrance event
MJ Slaby
10:50 PM, Aug 7, 2015

... I waited until 1980, when my mother and I marched from the United Nations to Central Park for the abolition of nuclear weapons. My awareness grew through the peace communities and civil resistance at the government's nuclear test site in the Nevada desert where 1,000 weapons of mass destruction were detonated. There, on sacred land ceded by treaty to the Western Shoshone people, I reflected upon their stories and wisdom, and about pollution of water, air and soil by radioactive fallout. The world continues to feel the effects in physical and psychic disease from the fallout of these weapons ...
Time for silence, speaking
By Sister Megan Rice
Published 6:56 pm, Friday, August 7, 2015

... in a wave, the 120 protesters crossed Scarboro Road and hung origami peace cranes on the black security fence ... Greg Boertje-Obed, Sister Megan Rice and Michael Walli .. marched alongside the other protesters ...
Peace activists mark Hiroshima bombing anniversary at Y-12
MJ Slaby
8:23 PM, Aug 8, 2015