"Total war ought indeed to be
difficult for the Christian conscience to confront, but the current Christian
way out makes it easy; war is defended morally and Christians fall easily
into line--as they are led to justify it--in each nation in terms of Christian
faith itself. Men of religious congregations do evil. Ministers of god
make them feel good about doing it. Rather than guide them in the moral
cultivation of their consciences, ministers, with moral nimbleness, blunt
that conscience, covering it up with peace of mind" (The
Causes of World War III, 1958, p. 152).