The archbishop also criticised the use of violence as a political solution. He said it could too easily be “a quick discharge of frustration. It serves you. It does not serve the situation. Wherever people turn to violence what they do is temporarily release themselves from some sort of problem, but they help no one else. A lot of the pressure around the invasion of Iraq was ‘we’ve got to do something, then we’ll feel better.’ That’s very dangerous”.
Something about the way he puts this makes a lot of sense to me. I also feel that it’s so obviously not something that is consistent with God’s character given the selfish nature of it.
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