Comments on: Muhammad Ali, Vietnam And Conscience

By: James Lichmann

James Lichmann — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:10:29 +0000

It is hypocritical for a boxer to oppose war? Boxing is a sport. It does not involve killing anyone. If it is hypocritical for a professional prize fighter to oppose war then it must be hypocritical for football and hockey players too.

Ali has been a tremendous role model and has reached out to help so many people.

By: Glen Alan Graham

Glen Alan Graham — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:24:43 +0000

In my most recent comment, which was actually to an original posting you posted later than this one, I commended you for your fine writing of a humorous genre. This post re Ali & Vietnam, etc., is definitely of a serious nature. And yet, the writing here is just as fine as that humorous one! You help me to understand Clay a.k.a. Ali a little better.

However, I still have issues with his objection to serving in the military during the Vietnam War. One is that he was a boxer, for gosh sakes! He was making money from a violent, brutal “sport” — and to turn around and object to fighting in any war is quite hypocritical of the boxer. Plus he had converted from the Catholic faith of his childhood — a faith with a just war doctrine which he might have used for support against fighting in ‘Nam — to the faith created by Mohammed, with its Jihad. And so, the then-new convert to a religion that whole-heartedly endorses holy warfare, seemed to be doubly hypocritcal, back then. But now I can understand him a little better thanks to this post.

By: Tracey Hudson

Tracey Hudson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:20:50 +0000

The last line is one of such wisdsom, beauty and pure poetry – brilliant my sweet friend!! The thought behind this blog, I understand well and why…..it should always be our right to stand up for what we believe but never at the detriment of others that end up spreading hate or hurt. Instead I wish we all could accept the differences in one another, agree to disagree and love as Christ commanded.

By: Corinne Withers

Corinne Withers — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:28:52 +0000

I found this site accidently doing a google search about muhammad ali for a summer school paper my grandson is writing. I’ve read several of the stories you have written here and every one of them seems to have a good moral or something uplifting about it. I am also assuming that the people who write this site are a couple who have been together a long time. That is uplifting too in this day and age when it seems like nobody can make their relationships last. My comment is just that I have enjoyed reading the stories here and I will be telling my friends about this site.