Garry Wills rightly inveighs against ‘a holy war’ against Muslims
(Peace, the Pope’s biggest mission, March 10). Any and all war is
unholy: New Zealand’s response to Iraq’s appeal for help against ISIS must be by
way of humanitarian aid. Training troops is simply making war at one remove.
As Wills suggests, Pope Francis may well ‘unite believers in the One God’.
Francis will certainly be aware that the root cause for the rise of Islam in the
West and especially its appeal to the young is that Muslims take God seriously.
Nominally Christian Baby Boomers have in practice forgotten God and consequently
Gen Z and its offspring are looking elsewhere for the Supreme Being they instinctively know exists.
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so does the human spirit.
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