Virtue, not extremism, is the golden way

By Father Brendan Lee
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:29am, first published March 19 2019 - 7:00pm
HUMANITY: We should stand with New Zealanders and Muslims in this time of misery. Picture: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
HUMANITY: We should stand with New Zealanders and Muslims in this time of misery. Picture: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

It was the English literary critic and moralist Samuel Johnson who said "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". I think that Johnson's words apply well to the unexplainable and indefensible massacre that took place at two mosques in Christchurch last Friday.

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