What is the CAW position regarding war and conscientious objection?
The CAW categorically supports the right of all who honor Mother Earth to non-violently oppose war in any and all forms. War is deacide, for it is destructive of the Goddess embodied in all living beings. War results from various human communities having forgotten their collective origin in the sacred Earth, and managing to demonize each other. War is the basic tool by which the patriarchal takeover and suppression of the Goddess was originally achieved, and subsequently maintained. We also support the right to choose the path of the Sacred Warrior, to embody an anceint archetype who serves to protect the oppressed, the weak, the innocent, and holy places. Sacred Warrors revere life, even the lives of their adversaries, preferring non-violence to fighting. Martin Luther King and Gandhi were Sacred Warriors. They did not demonize their opponents, but sought to tranform them by awakening the sacred within them. We are all fragments of Gaia; to kill each other is to kill Her. Even our ene
