Fast Food (2015): Twenty-Seventh Helping
It was inevitable that a people [Anabaptists/Mennonite], who took the Scriptures as seriously as these people did, would come to believe in the doctrine of nonresistance. They made no attempt…
It was inevitable that a people [Anabaptists/Mennonite], who took the Scriptures as seriously as these people did, would come to believe in the doctrine of nonresistance. They made no attempt…
Both are made of the same stuff, right? The wealth of one is justified by the wealth of the other, right? The violence of one is validated by the violence…
“War is the creation of individuals, not of nations.” -Sir Patrick Hasting,1948 Wars: Rich people decide to initiate them and profit from them. Poor and middle class people…
Military service consists in killing our neighbor, and preparing for that. God has forbidden us to kill, in His Law as in the Gospel. And His commandment, illuminated and confirmed…
This is the original front cover of Mark Twain’s book, King Leopold’s Soliloquy. The cover is a caricature of the supposed vision Constantine had of a cross with the words, By this sign…
“Military involvement can find no place in the teaching of Jesus. War is a complete and pitiless break with Jesus’ teaching. The time-honored acceptance by Christians of military cruelty is one…
Fast Food (2015): Twenty-First Helping SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD (Mt 9:36; Mk 6:34) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INYeZyJbyI “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD…
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory. …
The Kingdom of God in Matthew offers a vision of a community of discipleship characterized by a “higher righteousness”—a community free of anger, lust, falsehood, and violence. The transcendence of…
“Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done.” –The Commandant of Auschwitz speaking in Thomas Merton’s…