Nuclear weapons are a direct denial of the Christian concept of peace and reconciliation, which are social and economic as well as physical and spiritual.
The costs involved in the maintenance and replacement of Trident could be used to address pressing environmental concerns, the causes of terrorism, poverty and debt and enable humanity and dignity to be the right of all, and would go a long way towards helping Make Poverty History.
Presumably only Britain's deterrent is "anti-God," as North Korea, Iran, Russia and Red China are not mentioned.
The bishops in question are:
The Rt Rev Peter Price, Bishop of Bath and Wells; the Rt Rev Colin Bennetts, Bishop of Coventry; the Rt Rev Michael Hill, Bishop of Bristol; the Rt Rev John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln; the Rt Rev Timothy Stevens, Bishop of Leicester; the Rt Rev Jack Nicholls, Bishop of Sheffield, and the Rt Rev Dr David James, Bishop of Bradford.
Ephemeral Isle is taking up a collection to send the above clergymen, whose education is clearly sketchy, some helpful primers on national defence, foreign aid, environmetal studies, cost/benefit analysis, capitalisation and theology-- especially theology.
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