FAST FOOD AD 2021: First Helping
Our Lamb has conquered; Him let us follow.
My intention with these FAST FOOD Helpings is not to offer an inspiring quote for the day. It is to offer some thoughts that if pondered, analyzed, discussed and/or prayed about will open one’s mind and heart, consciousness and conscience to the truth that the Jesus of the Gospels is nonviolent and teaches a Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies as the Will and Way of God, first to those He has chosen to be His disciples and then, through them to all humanity. These FAST FOOD Helpings are meant to encourage, empower and convince each reader to see the radicality of the evil in which humanity is enmeshed and the need for the radical solution presented by the Nonviolent Jesus in the Gospels. They are meant as a call to each reader to do something more to proclaim to his and her fellow Christians and to the world what God Incarnate taught regarding violence, enmity. and love.
Individually or collectively, I hope this year’s FAST FOOD Helpings will be of some help to you and others
-ECM
FAST FOOD AD 2021: Second Helping
Our Lamb has conquered; Him let us follow.
When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of thuggery practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force final victory. Multitudes of innocent persons will have suffered. The little children of the two countries will be the main victims. Lands will be made desolate. Social progress will be arrested. The poor will be swamped with taxes for an entire generation. The mutilated men will drag out a broken life to the end of their days. A large part of the “facts” used to arouse patriotism and to stir the fervor and the fierceness of the spirit of violence within people will be discovered to have been lies and unmitigated propaganda.
Rufus Jones, (1863-1948), Quaker, received Nobel Prize as co-founder of the American Friends Service Committee
Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely, when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If his lips are moving, he’s lying.
Phil Berrigan, (1923-2002), Nonviolent Peace Activist
Our witness and will for peace, for love at any cost, even our own lives, has never been more necessary. Those who tell us that the questions of nonviolence and conscientious objection are no longer relevant are wrong. Just now, these questions are more relevant than ever. But answering them requires courage and perseverance in love.
-Eberhard Arnold, (1883-1935) Co-founder of the Bruderhof Community
Christianity and nonviolence are inseparable.
-Stanley Hauerwas, Prof of Theological Ethics and former Dean of the School of Theology, Duke University
