FAST FOOD: TWENTIETH HELPING (2016)
The deceptive and destructive core of the Christian just war doctrine can be stated very simply. It is the claim that wars, or at least some wars, and all the…
FAST FOOD: NINETEENTH HELPING (2016)
Forgiveness, complete and total forgiveness of the sinner by God regardless of the heinousness of the sin, forgiveness dependent upon nothing other than a person’s desire to be forgiven, is…
FAST FOOD: EIGHTEENTH HELPING (2016)
Jesus does not seek to defend the interests of the poor and the oppressed in Palestine by organizing armed resistance against the Romans or against the privileged Jewish collaborators with…
FAST FOOD: SEVENTEENTH HELPING (2016)
A major loophole that Christian Just Warists have manufactured to try to theologically legitimate their obstinate refusal to obey Jesus’ teaching in the Gospels of Nonviolent Love of friends and…
FAST FOOD: SIXTEENTH HELPING (2016)
“Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his Mother, ‘Behold this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will…
FAST FOOD: FIFTEENTH HELPING (2016)
Some moments, in retrospect, decided everything. When the two most towering minds and influential thinkers in the history of Western Christianity, Augustine and Aquinas, neither of whom knew Greek, the…
FAST FOOD: FOURTEENTH HELPING (2016)
With regard to violence the New Testament bears a powerful witness that is both univocal and pervasive for it is integrally related to the heart of the kerygma and to…
FAST FOOD: THIRTEENTH HELPING (2016)
Since Jesus cannot be detached from His teachings and still be the Jesus of the Gospels, can the teachings of Jesus be detached from Jesus and still be His teachings?…
FAST FOOD: TWELFTH HELPING (2016)
“As a mundane proverb “Turn the other cheek” is simply bad advice. Such action makes sense only if the God and Father of Jesus Christ actually is the ultimate judge…