tell me ... how does it feel?
how does it feel to support war?
even as a child watching the vietnam war on the macneil/lehrer hour with my dad, it was wrong. i didn't know the issues. i didn't know the why's. i didn't understand. but i knew it felt wrong. my dad once told me ... 'if there was another way. but there is not. we have to go to war.' well, my dad was wrong.
there is another way.
jesus taught that way.
so, the next time you are watching something on the television news, or reading a newspaper article, or talking with your cousin because her husband was just killed in iraq ... and you say 'i wish there was another way' ... you know its wrong too. you may not know what to do different or how it can be different, but you know it is wrong. well, have faith, there is another way.
jesus taught the other way.
we don't need to kill. we don't need to be violent. that we need to be these things that we are not ... that is a lie.
'i give you not a spirit of fear, but one of love and of sound mind ...' so, if you are afraid, which is why you think we need to be at war ... god did not give you that spirit, someone else did. if you cannot use your mind to find another way out, get with other people who can help you use your sound mind to figure alternatives to war and killing.
and if your pastor at your church with 10,000 people in their seats are telling you that war is godly, remember, that jesus said the path is narrow and few will travel it.
the bigger your church, the wider the path. i'm a narrow path girl, are you?
we can do it, i know we can.
peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
even as a child watching the vietnam war on the macneil/lehrer hour with my dad, it was wrong. i didn't know the issues. i didn't know the why's. i didn't understand. but i knew it felt wrong. my dad once told me ... 'if there was another way. but there is not. we have to go to war.' well, my dad was wrong.
there is another way.
jesus taught that way.
so, the next time you are watching something on the television news, or reading a newspaper article, or talking with your cousin because her husband was just killed in iraq ... and you say 'i wish there was another way' ... you know its wrong too. you may not know what to do different or how it can be different, but you know it is wrong. well, have faith, there is another way.
jesus taught the other way.
we don't need to kill. we don't need to be violent. that we need to be these things that we are not ... that is a lie.
'i give you not a spirit of fear, but one of love and of sound mind ...' so, if you are afraid, which is why you think we need to be at war ... god did not give you that spirit, someone else did. if you cannot use your mind to find another way out, get with other people who can help you use your sound mind to figure alternatives to war and killing.
and if your pastor at your church with 10,000 people in their seats are telling you that war is godly, remember, that jesus said the path is narrow and few will travel it.
the bigger your church, the wider the path. i'm a narrow path girl, are you?
we can do it, i know we can.
peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
posted by elaine x at 12:23 AM
3 Comments:
I don't understand why fellow believers could support war. All of the Christian justifications of war are based on stuff from the middle ages when the church was trying to justify why it wanted to conquer places. All the justifications went back to Aristotle - not the Bible.
I lived through Vietnam too. I thought it was right at first, then my eyes were opened to the suffering it caused and I stopped supporting it.
My family didn't go to church the Sunday before the morons invaded Iraq. I saw it as another Vietnam developing. We went to Sydney (Australia) to march with 500,000 other people against the war. There were so many people travelling to the city that day that the trains couldn't carry them all. Everyone cheered when they saw the trains so full because they knew so many others felt as they did.
Our government went to war alongside America anyway. Our church leaders were opposed to the war. Church leaders have no authority to support a war.
thank you ... you give me hope.
peace & harmony,
elaine
'there is NO excuse for domestic (or international) violence'
(spotted on the back of an LAPD car ... i interlineated it!)
'there is NO excuse for domestic (or international) violence' Amen.
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