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LIVING OUR TRUTHS IN LOVE

The Rev. Robert Eddy Posted on April 15, 2014 by Bob EddyApril 21, 2025

The Unitarian Universalist Association’s General Assembly three years ago adopted “by more than two thirds votes of the delegates voting” a statement on war and peace. I compare this statement – with which I agree – with a statement made by the assembly of Unitarian Churches in 1917, supporting “the war to end all wars” and denouncing ministers who refused to concur. The last Unitarian to serve as President of the United states, chaired that meeting. I also explore briefly Civil Resistance as an alternative to war.

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Posted in 1-SERMONS | Tagged "civil resistance", "JUst War" War, "War to End All Wars", 1-SERMONS, liberal religion, pacifism, passivism, Quakers

WHY I AM STILL A PACIFIST

The Rev. Robert Eddy Posted on November 20, 2013 by Bob EddyApril 21, 2025

I’ve been reading a very disturbing book, HITLER’S FURIES by Wendy Lower, which documents the hideous story of the NAZI Killing fields. What is most disturbing is how ordinary people became enlisted in the huge bureaucracy required to murder millions of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and physically “inferior” persons. “Surely” they say, “war was justified to prevent such hideous violations of human rights. How can one be a pacifist under these circumstances?” This sermon, developed as a response to some people’s claim that President Obama was a Pacifist after he received the Nobel Peace Prize. I explain here why he was not.

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Posted in 1-SERMONS | Tagged Obama, pacifism, uu sermons, War

PATRIOTISM: THE LAST RESORT OF SCOUNDRELS ?

The Rev. Robert Eddy Posted on November 15, 2013 by Bob EddyApril 21, 2025

The patriotic holidays always trigger ambiguous emotions in this Pacifist’s heart. I do love this country, and celebrate her virtues – but I am not blind to her flaws. This twenty year old exploration of “patriotism” is still expresses what I believe.

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Posted in 1-SERMONS, 2-EDDY'S EDDIES | Tagged humanism, humanism war, pacifism, partiotism, War

War is NOT in our genes.

The Rev. Robert Eddy Posted on April 10, 2010 by Bob EddyApril 21, 2025

If not morality, perhaps prudence will convince us that, as Quakers teach, “War is not the answer.”

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Posted in 2-EDDY'S EDDIES | Tagged Iraq, pacifism, Quakers, War

Rev. Robert Eddy, M.Div.

Robert EddyRev. Robert Eddy, M.Div. is minister emeritus of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola. He lives in Pensacola, Florida with his wife Gerry.

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