{"id":792,"date":"2022-08-03T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:48:20","slug":"no-to-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"No to nukes. Period. Nuclear disarmament &#8211; the only way forward."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Hiroshima bombing anniversary is August 6th &#8211; 77 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is running out of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a great column. Small excerpts below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/2014\/08\/06\/the-anniversary-of-hiroshima-john-paul-ii-and-fulton-sheen-on-the-bomb-and-conversion\/\">The Anniversary of Hiroshima: John Paul II and Fulton Sheen on the Bomb and Conversion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"143\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e155e26d200b-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12439\" title=\"Hiroshima survivors\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. John Paul II made the <a href=\"http:\/\/atomicbombmuseum.org\/6_5.shtml\">following remarks<\/a> during his visit to Hiroshima on February 25, 1981:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two cities will forever have their names linked together, two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the only cities in the world that have had the ill fortune to be a reminder that man is capable of destruction beyond belief. Their names will forever stand out as the names of the only cities in our time that have been singled out as a warning to future generations that war can destroy human efforts to build a world of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Paul continued: \u201cTo remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going further, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/john_paul_ii\/speeches\/1999\/september\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_spe_19990911_japanese-ambassador_en.html\">he stated to Japan\u2019s ambassador<\/a> to the Holy See on September 11, 1999: \u201cThe cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a message to all our contemporaries, inviting all the earth\u2019s peoples to learn the lessons of history and to work for peace with ever greater determination. Indeed, they remind our contemporaries of all the crimes committed during the Second World War against civilian populations, crimes and acts of true genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ven. Fulton Sheen cuts right to the heart of these effects&#8230; pinpoints the moral turning point of country to \u201c8:15 in the morning, the 6th of August, 1945,\u201d when, he says, the world changed. The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>blotted out boundaries. There was no longer a boundary between the military and the civilian, between the helper and the helped, between the wounded and the nurse and the doctor, and the living and the dead. For even the living who escaped the bomb were already half dead. So we broke down boundaries and limits and from that time on the world has said we want no one limiting me. \u2026 You want no restraint, no boundaries. I have to do what I want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheen makes the connection between the bomb and the moral chaos, which would follow in America, especially in the sexual revolution, when we initiated a culture of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hiroshima bombing anniversary is August 6th &#8211; 77 years ago. The world is running out of time. This is a great column. Small excerpts below. The Anniversary of Hiroshima: John Paul II and Fulton Sheen on the Bomb and Conversion St. John Paul II made the following remarks during his visit to Hiroshima on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12440,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/12440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}