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CORRESPONDENCE World Ilel~f~u Cambridge, Mass. To the Editors: Herbert McCabe's excellent review of The Myth o! God Incarnate [.Mar. 3] was un~ort.unately marred by his statement tha~...
...HENRY D. ELLIS Commonweal: 225...
...Bm u~less ~'e consider India, Tibet, China, J~pan, Thailand and Vietnam one "people" and one "culture," Buddhism deserves to be called a "world religion...
...In today's world, total unilateral disarmament-lacking as we still do, an effective international policing and peace-keeping force--is neither realistic nor possible...
...FRANCIS X. CLooNEY, S.J, A ~ t Illoat Wallace, Idaho To the Editors: In "News & Views" for January 20, 1978, John Deedy, under the rubric "Exporting Repression," summarizes Michael T. Klare's "another hard look" at United States involvement in supplying "arms and equipment to those foreign dictatorships which are aligned politically with the United States...
...Every other religion . . . has shown itself incapable of breaking free from...
...The economics of employment-un(Continued on page 223) Commonweal: 195 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 195) employment constitute a basic ingredient of any meaningful work for peace...
...Readers are grateful for the factual reporting...
...workers need jobs...
...This is an important part of the educative message that ought to accompany every appeal for peace, and be understood in the background of every protest against police brutality and in favor of human , rights...
...Our blanket generalizations about the other religions certainly don't foster the wider eeumenism...
...But this nation has the resourcefulness and the leadership to make a significant beginning toward decreasing the armament 'bloat.' The urgency for such a course will have to originate with the rank-andfile of the citizenry...
...Therefore it is heartening indeed to read that the Machinists Union (A.F.L.-C.LO...
...a partic~alar culture or even a particular people...
...REV...
...had the courage and the good sense to elect a president who stands squarely "for conversion of defense industry to constructive things like solar energy and mass transit" (see America, issue of December 31, 1977, page 478, John C. Cort...
...Nothing much will be accomplished until enough voters gather political clout seriously to influence the institutions of government in this regard...
...To some extent this is true of Hinduism...
...3] was un~ort.unately marred by his statement tha~ 'Where is no signitica~t world religion except Christianity...
...However, the thrust in such writing for more sanity toward peace in the world, is invariably blunted through failure to stress the employment factor...
...Significant alternative job opportunities must be proportioned to necessary changes in the agro-indnstrial picture...
...It is frustrating to read so much periodical peace literature which ignores this hard fact...
...Armament industries need workers...
...Until we are educated at the grassroot level to the basic need for massive research in implementation of aiterna~ive job opportunities, appeals for peace will remain largely platitudinous...
...Islam does not do too 'badly e~ther, reaching from the Atlantic, North Africa and the Arab world to P~k~stan, India, Indonesia and the Philippines...
Vol. 105 • March 1978 • No. 7
