{"id":341602,"date":"2012-12-31T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/war-is-wide-scale-murder-3\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:08:16","slug":"war-is-wide-scale-murder-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/war-is-wide-scale-murder-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWar is wide-scale murder\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/03\/20030304a.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-76630\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;border: 0px none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/03\/20030304a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>\u201cWar is wide-scale murder\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as the plague spreads the plague, and hunger can lead to starvation, so does war serve to kill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want peace, prepare for it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly crazy people, or the incurable wish for death, and war is death\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe no head of State has ever admitted he was waging war for motives of plunder; everyone held that it was being fought for the most noble of reasons, for altruistic and idealistic purposes, of course. And \u2013 just to show how childish hatred can get \u2013 greed is a characteristic of the enemy while a friend shows idealism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnemies are to be loved: if only the politics of charity were to take root, we would discover that it coincides with the most enlightened rationality and, in the economic and social sense, it would prove to be a real bargain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Christians to be worthy of being called \u2018children of God\u2019 they have to work for peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must organize peace as others have organized war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work of building peace starts from you and from me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Igino Giordani, <em>L&#8217;inutilit\u00e0 della guerra<\/em>, published by\u00a0 Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Roma 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts from Igino Giordani\u2019s book, \u2019The Futility of War\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}