Thursday, February 23, 2017

Pacifism: Testament Of Youth.

I have just watched the 2014 film, Testament of Youth about the Great War experiences of later pacifist Vera Brittain: a superb piece of cinematography. (Today she is also remembered as mother of Shirley Williams.)
I was familiar with her life having watched a documentary some time ago - but this film was exquisite. James Kent excelled as Director.
You had to really feel for this woman for her appalling personal losses combined with the horrors that she saw nursing just behind the front lines.
The problem is that using all her appalling experiences and thus concluding that nobody should ever go to war again is a very basic non sequiturAll you have to do is to look at the depredations of the Japanese in Manchuria during the 1930s and the pacifist argument is shown to be utter nonsense. Further examples abound.

Christian women are standing firm in the face of persecution.

How Christian women are standing firm in the face of persecution. Anita Laryea    12 March 2024. The Tears of Gold exhibition by Hannah Rose...