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Monday, February 03, 2003
Jeanne D'Arc is brilliant
She really is. But you already knew that.
In the 1950s, a pacifist group launched a campaign to feed starving people in China. They sent bags of rice to the White House, with taglines from the Bible: "If thine enemy hunger, feed him." It doesn't sound like the kind of thing that could change anyone's opinion. It sounds pretty silly and dreamy. But a decade later they learned that when President Eisenhower was considering the use of nuclear weapons in the conflict with China over Quemoy and Matsu, he repeatedly asked an aide how many bags of rice had come in. Tens of thousands, he was told. Eisenhower said that as long as Americans were that concerned with feeding the Chinese, he couldn't consider bombing them.
Could it work again?
My cynical side is telling me George Bush's Christianity is a sham, and this won't make a bit of difference. But I love the idea anyway. It's Sunday. Get out your Bible and set cynicism aside. Pem, at Deep Language draws attention to a grassroots movement started by the Boulder Mennonite Church to revive that nearly fifty year old campaign, and protest war with Iraq in a simple but striking way:
Put a half cup of uncooked rice in a plastic ziploc bag (with all the air squeezed out). Add a note saying,
"If your enemies are hungry, feed them. -- Romans 12:20.
Please send this rice to the people of Iraq; do not attack them."
This is soooo much better than my idea to send little airline bottles of vodka to White House for Jenna & the other one's 21st birthday.
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