Category: Blog – Fast Food 2012

 Unwanted truth makes for unwanted people. The Nonviolent Jesus of the Gospels proclaiming His Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies is an unwanted person in His own…

For forty-five years I have been saying that Christian Just War Theory (CJWT) owes nothing to anything Jesus ever said or did. Jesus was Nonviolent and taught a Way of…

Beginning with Constantine, Christianity triumphed on the level of the state and soon began to cloak with authority persecutions similar to those in which the early Christians were victims. Christianity…

(Continuation of Fast Food Helping Thirty-Six) Consider a person intentionally withholding from another person with whom he or she is going to engage in consensual sex the fact that he…

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in the United States’ legal system. But in Catholic moral theology, a law that is unknown is not binding. This makes total sense…

Neither the Church nor the Christian has any need for war in order to accomplish all that Jesus created them for and chose them to do in this life. Indeed,…

If an adult places, a candy bar that a little four year old has been nurtured to like and a toy that the four year old has been nurtured to…

Christian de Cherge, OCSO Abbot, Our Lady of Mount Atlas Trappist Monastery Tibhirine, Algeria [The following letter was written by Christian between December 1, 1993 and January 1, 1994. It…

“Go you therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to…

Joseph Hofer was a Christian who lived in the Christian-pacifist Hutterite Community in Alexandria, South Dakota. Christ’s teachings were for him the Command of God, which called forth obedience. Hence,…