"According to Gilson, Duns Scotus says of God that He is free "to set up any moral code He pleases so long as it deals with rules of human conduct whose relations to His own essance are not necessary ones." This is against those who assume that all moral relationships with God are necessary ones, excluding sponteneity; that to serve God is not to ( Read more... )

Thomas Merton:
Ghandhi said, "To refuse military service when the time has come for it to be necessary, is to act after the time to combat the evil has run out." Compulsory military service is only a symptom of a deeper eveil. All who support thew state in its organizing for war or in policies that imply the willingness to organize for war, and ( Read more... )