April 21, 2012 | Statements: On Conscience
CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS (Reform) The Central Conference of American Rabbis reaffirms its conviction that conscientious objection to military service is in accordance with the highest interpretation of Judaism and therefore petitions the Government of the...
April 21, 2012 | Statements: On Conscience
Jehovah's Witnesses are an international association of Christians who have been confronted with the issue of compulsory military service in many lands. They desire to follow Jesus' command to "pay back Caesar's things to Caesar, but God's things...
April 21, 2012 | Statements: On Conscience
From the Vedas comes the phrase mahamsyat sarva bhutani which means "never commit violence to anyone." As Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita— O Partha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, unborn, eternal, and immutable, kill...
April 21, 2012 | Statements: On Conscience
The abhorrence of war and its accompanying tragedies is wholly supported by the spiritual and moral tenets of the Orthodox Church. Notwithstanding this, Orthodoxy has often, over its long history, found itself at the very crossroads of national and international...
April 21, 2012 | Statements: On Conscience
We feel bound explicitly to avow our unshaken persuasion that all war is utterly incompatible with plain precepts of our divine Lord and Law-giver, and the whole spirit of His Gospel, and that no plea of necessity or policy, however urgent or peculiar, can avail to...
