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Feb. 18th, 2005 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hel_anaIf you haven't already followed the link from SingingWolf's journal and read this excellent article, go read it now.
A taste:
Pharisee Nation
by John Dear
Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Baptist college in Pennsylvania. After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I took the stage and got right to the point. “Now let me get this straight,” I said. “Jesus says, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,’ which means he does not say, ‘Blessed are the warmakers,’ which means, the warmakers are not blessed, which means warmakers are cursed, which means, if you want to follow the nonviolent Jesus you have to work for peace, which means, we all have to resist this horrific, evil war on the people of Iraq.”
With that, the place exploded, and 500 students stormed out. The rest of them then started chanting, “Bush! Bush! Bush!”
So much for my speech. Not to mention the Beatitudes
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John Dear is a Jesuit priest and the author/editor of 20 books including most recently, “The Questions of Jesus” and “Living Peace” both published by Doubleday. He lives in New Mexico where he is working on a campaign to disarm Los Alamos. For info, see: www.johndear.org
A taste:
Pharisee Nation
by John Dear
Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Baptist college in Pennsylvania. After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I took the stage and got right to the point. “Now let me get this straight,” I said. “Jesus says, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,’ which means he does not say, ‘Blessed are the warmakers,’ which means, the warmakers are not blessed, which means warmakers are cursed, which means, if you want to follow the nonviolent Jesus you have to work for peace, which means, we all have to resist this horrific, evil war on the people of Iraq.”
With that, the place exploded, and 500 students stormed out. The rest of them then started chanting, “Bush! Bush! Bush!”
So much for my speech. Not to mention the Beatitudes
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John Dear is a Jesuit priest and the author/editor of 20 books including most recently, “The Questions of Jesus” and “Living Peace” both published by Doubleday. He lives in New Mexico where he is working on a campaign to disarm Los Alamos. For info, see: www.johndear.org
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Date: 2005-02-18 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-02-18 02:46 pm (UTC)I have a wild urge to print out his article and mail it anonymously to several people.
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Date: 2005-02-18 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-19 01:57 am (UTC)I fear that people who declare themselves Christians are the very people that Jesus wouldn't have anything to do with. If you truly are, chances are you don't need to declare it all the time.
I am saddened. Thanks for the John Dear link. I'll check it out.
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Date: 2005-02-21 03:54 pm (UTC)Because I don't like to talk about it, but when I don't declare myself publically, it means that those guys become the public face of the faith.
And I really don't want them representing me.
So I'm coming to grips with the fact that, since all good men have to do is to say nothing, I'm going to have to be open about my faith and beliefs.