Comments for Obama, the Church, and the Bomb at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 05:10:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/obama-the-church-and-the-bomb.html#comment-3036 How is it that the author and other commentators can single out Iran, North Korea and others on the verge of nuclear supremacy and not condemn the United States, which was the first country to invent the A-bomb and the only one to use it -- causing the deaths of nearly 200,000 innocent civilians? The slaughters in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere continue under Obama. How is it that Obama can urge the Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks while he prosecutes war? Jesus wept. - Joseph Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:09:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/obama-the-church-and-the-bomb.html#comment-3033 Pres. Obama, habinger of the New World Order! Guide for all nations! UNITAS!! Michael O'Brien's apocalyptic novel 'Father Elijah' is becoming more prescient with each passing day. Is there no limit to this man's arrogance? Is there nothing that is beyond his powers of influence? Is there no reaching for foreign or domestic power is beyond the pale? How many times will we hear of our President taking the stage in a way that "no President has ever done before." Beware the megalomaniac. - Adam Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:14:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/obama-the-church-and-the-bomb.html#comment-3024 Derek, You might be confusing the concept of nuclear weapson with that of thermonuclear. The term nuclear weapon is just a more precise name for an atomic weapon, the explosion of which result from energy released by the splitting of the nuclei of uranium or plutonium atoms. Thermonuclear weapons, such as hydrogen bombs, involve the fusion of atoms caused by the energy of a primary nucelar reaction, which releases the energy needed for fusion. In any cse, I agree with Fr. Tim! - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:07:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/obama-the-church-and-the-bomb.html#comment-3018 We must support peace founded on pure anti-super naturalism and materialism as a basis? A peace which is put forth through a pro-Marxist United Nations? A UN council that neither acknowledges or cares to acknowledge Christ? I think I am going to be sick... Maybe we all need to read "The Faces of Janus" by James Gregor. - Fr Tim Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:21:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/obama-the-church-and-the-bomb.html#comment-3021 "He alluded to the unique moral responsibility of the United States in this regard, as the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons." Actually we have never used a nuclear weapon. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomic weapons. Nuclear reactions are 1000 times more energetic than atomic and allow for much smaller warheads. - Derek Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:20:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/obama-the-church-and-the-bomb.html#comment-3020 I agree it is a noble attempt for our president to chair the UN Security Council in an effort to implement a nuclear free world. No one could disagree with this high priority of the Catholic Church. However, I cannot be optimistic that anything fruitful will be accomplished. It seems to me that for most of its existence the UN has been an impotent organization bank rolled by American taxpayers. It has hardly been a friendly organization to the US. We must try, but our security comes first. - Willie Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:55:23 +0100