It is not only rabbis who have a difficult relationship with ethics and politics. To take just one example, directly after the carpet bombing of Dresden in World War Two, the Bishop of Chichester, George Bell, spoke out vociferously against killing of German civilians in a speech, in the House of Lords. In opposing Dresden, Bell argued that the Government and the King had a moral responsibility to Heavenly authority, which they were ignoring in allowing the indiscriminate mass killing of civilians. He was roundly condemned for his intervention by other Lords including the Archbishop of York and members of...
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