TO LOVE AND TO ARM

Abstract

"Death is the only thing certainty in our future. But it is not fatal, just a destination", says Frei Betto in this article, in which the violence and the arms race which have threatened the planet are denounced as well as the hard rap style, the Schwarzennegger-Terminators, the electronic games which make death into a game and even the sports which simulate the bloody fights of the Roman gladiators. "Since 1988 —asserts the Brazilian liberation theologist— wars killed two million young men under 18 years old, leaving 5 million handicapped and 1 million orphans."