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most voiced disappointment that his  [Obama’s] administration’s fiscal year 2011 defense budget–even when adjusted for inflation–surpasses any Pentagon budget since World War II………

Nuclear swords to God’s plowshares – On Faith at washingtonpost.com, 9 July 2010, “………radical Christian pacifists want to dismantle bombs, not detonate them. More than 180 peace activists convened last weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Plowshares movement, an anti-nuclear weapons movement spearheaded by religious pacifists.

By clanging on the wings of fighter planes and the nosecones of nuclear weapons, Plowshares activists hoped to literally enact Isaiah’s prophecy: “They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war.”In the 1980s, a small group of tenacious pacifists emerged from the Vietnam antiwar movement to pioneer the Plowshares movement by drawing on a long tradition of socially engaged Catholicism……..
The 30th anniversary celebration of the Plowshares movement came on the heels of President Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review, which was released in April of this year. While some activists commended Obama for limiting first-use of nuclear weapons by the United States and publically stating his commitment to a nuclear-free world, most voiced disappointment that his administration’s fiscal year 2011 defense budget–even when adjusted for inflation–surpasses any Pentagon budget since World War II………

Guest Voices: Nuclear swords to God’s plowshares – On Faith at washingtonpost.com

July 10, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Religion and ethics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons