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Interviewing pacifist Reverend William Sloane Coffin.
Interviewing pacifist Reverend William Sloane Coffin.
Father George Zabelka said he was both hopeful and discouraged about people taking a stand on nuclear weapons. Zabelka said the Army brain-washed them into believing it was better to bomb cities and kill people in order to achieve peace. A way to stop all wars, Zabelka believed all the religions in the world should declare that war and killing were sins.
A theologian and civil rights activist, Schomer refused ministerial exemption from the draft during World War II and, instead chose to register as a conscientious objector.