“If Christians give their consent and support to preparedness to wage war with atomic bombs and other weapons of annihilation and devastation, they will thereby repudiate the way of Jesus.”

—  Kirby Page

Now is the Time to Prevent a Third World War (1950)

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American clergyman 1890–1957

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