Religion: Is Bombing Bad for the Bomber?

The question which secretly disturbs many a Christian mind was again openly voiced last week. The Bishop of Chichester, Dr. George K. A. Bell, speaking in Britain's House of Lords, deplored the bombing of German cities. "I am not for getting the Luftwaffe's tremendous bombing of Belgrade, Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, Portsmouth, Coventry, Canterbury and other places of military, industrial and cultural importance. But Hitler is a barbarian. There is no decent person on the Allied side who thinks we should make him our pattern or attempt to beat competitors at that...

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