'Should we support our president?', we wonder. I think we should. 'Should we support our men and women in the military?' By all means. But then it's asked...'what about the ethics of invading Iraq?' should we? The fact is, I don't know that any one of us has enough accurate information to make that decision in a spirit that can be all together confident of its rightness. So what do we do? We pray for our leaders, we support our leaders, but admittedly some measure of hestitation always accompanies our conclusions given the fact that political leaders have misled us in the past. Given the fact that the sources of information through which things come to us are often shaped and clouded by those who give it to us. And so the questions linger, 'Is this the right thing to do? Is this the right time to do it?' Given the limitations of our knowledge, and our awareness of the inherent weakness of all human beings, regardless of political party, we always feel, beloved, a measure of ambiguity regarding such matters, don't we? Given our limitations then, a lack of ambiguity does not reflect intelligence. A lack of ambiguity reflects arrogance.
-A. G. Azurdia, from sermon 'Lethal judgment pt.1'
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Good quote.
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