Hi Mr. Laser. I think this is a good way to spell out a conflict we all live with, especially if we are Christian. To clarify your point that the concepts of the family man and the Christian man are not the same concept, you could stick in Luke 9:60-62, since Jesus' reply to the disciple who wants to say good-bye to his family is so intense. (Also -- and this is a totally dispassionate way to talk about an atrocity -- I think the child soldier problem is more commonly identified with the wars in Congo, Sierra Leone, and Liberia than the present war in Darfur. The previous war in southern Sudan also had child soldiers. I think I may have met one, he's a banquet houseman at a Hyatt I organized. Really quiet guy. I never asked him about it of course....Anyway, I'm not an expert on the current Darfur conflict. Mr. McDougall? would know what the prevalence of child soldiers is there.)

-- AmandaBell - 09 Mar 2010