In his Good Friday message, Ruhrbishop Franz-Josef Overbeck from Christians demanded peace with the simultaneous war. The Essen bishop, who also military bishop of the Bundeswehr is, in his message, went into the terms “work of war” and “war capacity”. “Both terms are terrifying,” he said in his previously common text. They relentlessly showed how threatening the current location was. But there is no use to refuse realities and ignore the threat situation, said Overbeck.
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) had used the term “war -related” when I urge more speed in modernizing the Bundeswehr. Overbeck said that from a Christian perspective, he was problematic because vigilance was a virtue that expresses a positive relationship to a certain matter. But it is like this: «We don’t strive for war and don’t want it either. The opposite is the case. As Christians, we want to be peaceful. »
Therefore, it is better to talk about “welfare”. This means that he is able to wage a war without wanting to lead it. Rather, everything must be done to prevent it. It is important to build up social acceptance that “peacekeeping” and “fitness for war” did not constitute a contradiction, said Overbeck. “We have to be suitable for war – to stay peaceful.”
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