Here is a timely beautiful essay by a Nobel Peace Laureate (no, NOT Obama ad-Dajjal):
For the first three hundred years after Christ, the early Christian communities lived in total commitment to Jesus’s non-violence. Sadly, for the next 1700 years, Christian mainline churches have not believed, taught or lived Jesus’s simple message: love your enemies, do not kill.
During the last 1700 years, Christians have moved so far away from the Christic life of non-violence that we find ourselves in the terrible dilemma of condemning one kind of homicide and violence while paying for, actively participating in or supporting homicidal violence and war on a magnitude far greater than that which we condemn in others.
There is indeed a longstanding defeat in our theology. To help us out of this dilemma, we need to hear the full gospel message from our Christian leaders.
We need to reject the ‘just war’ theology and develop a theology in keeping with Jesus’ non-violence.
Some Christians believe that the ‘just war’ theory can be applied and that they can use violence – that is, ‘armed struggle/armed resistance’ – or can be adopted by governments to justify ongoing war.
It is precisely because of this ‘bad’ theology that we need, from our spiritual or religious leaders, a clear message and an unambiguous proclamation that violence is not the way of Jesus, violence is not the way of Christianity, and that armaments, nuclear weapons, militarism and war must be abolished and replaced with a more human and moral way of solving our problems without killing each other.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/non-violence-and-the-lost-message-of-jesus/5420988
Amen.
And we also need to reject Obama ad-Dajjal's theory that "war is peace".
And we better hurry, for according to Nobel Laureate in Literature Günter Grass, the Third World War has already begun:
http://derstandard.at/2000009619992/Guenter-Grass-Der-dritte-Weltkrieg-hat-begonnen
[You may have to translate from the original German to read this report.]
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