“Why Do We Fight Wars” argues that violence is seen as an effective strategy by those who seek unearned gain. Condemning war without offering an alternative response to ‘bully’ nations, only reinforces its appeal. Our fear of war reflects on the Wests moral decline, a decline that started when we failed to demand justice from Germany after the Second World War. Evil has the form of individuals who are spiritual infants, dependent on the mature, and productive part of society. The parallel between the parasitic behaviour of the individual criminal and the role of the state in fermenting war, is real. War is nothing more than a crime committed by nations and stems from the same reason that the individual commits crimes. All war is a result of domestic and foreign parasitism. All crime is the result of individual parasitism. Only a united Christian church can address the root causes of crime and war because only the church can combat the evil of parasitic greed. Ecumenicalism is the most important goal of the Christian. If we are not fighting to build the church through an ecumenical process, we are empowering those who see parasitism as the solution to what they want.
