Jesus For President - Shane and Chris"Within the circumstances of war, prayer becomes a word as befuddled in meaning as liberate or order or victory or peace. These prayers are usually understood to be Christian prayers. But Christian prayers are to made to or in the name of Jesus, who loved, prayed for, and forgave his enemies, and who instructed his followers to do likewise. A Christian supplicant, therefore, who has resolved to kill those whom he is enjoined to love, to bless, to do good to, to pray for, and to forgive as he hopes to be forgiven is not to be conceivably in a situation in which he can be at peace with himself.
...The Jesus way shows us that we need not battle violence with power and force, but with humility and revolutionary subordination. Violence eventually kills itself. Sometimes all the peacemakers need to do is battle violence with revolutionary patience and steadfast hope, for the universe bends toward justice and the entire Christian story demonstrates the triumph of love.
...Immediately following the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, President George Bush proclaimed, 'Our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.'... This goal is not new. The ostensibly good intention to rid the world of evil, ironically, is associated with some of the most evil and tragic events in history. Even Osama bin Laden's stated goal, more or less, was to try to rid the world of evil. Three thousand people were killed in the tragedies of 9/11 in the hope of destroying evil...Ridding the world of evil by violent means only creates and sustains evil. This is the point of Jesus' politics."
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