RELIGIOUS OPPOSITION TO THE WAR IN WALES

The opposition to the war in Wales on religious grounds was initially muted and cowed by the shock of the onset of war, and the rapidity with which the treasured traditional nineteenth-century ideals of pacifism were jettisoned. This opposition to the war on religious grounds was conducted primarily by millenarian sects, whose fundamental beliefs prohibited their members from swearing allegiance to a temporal power represented by military conscription, for instance, and also by those individuals within the Nonconformist denominations who held the fundamental belief that killing was an absolute sin. These individuals were organised mainly through the No-Conscription Fellowship (NCF),