Service Was Not to Show War Support
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Your article “Prayers of Joy, Thanks” contains a very serious error in interpretation. The Sunday night service at Woodland Hills Community Church-Temple Shir Chadash was not designed to give thanks for or support the war in the Persian Gulf.
Certainly, prayers of thanks were given that the war had evidently come to an end. The main thrust of the evening was, however, the same as it has been every Sunday evening since the Muslim, Jewish and Christian members of the Religious Community Against the War in the Persian Gulf began worshiping together in early January.
The continued message has been and will continue to be that violence is not the proper way to resolve the problems of the Persian Gulf, that the rationale for war instead of negotiation has never been clear and that the method of conducting the war unnecessarily sacrificed thousands of human beings.
No one can argue that the war was not a major technical success. The war itself, however, was not a Just War or a Moral War.
ELLSWORTH and MARY LARSON
Encino
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