7/7/10

I am copying some of the words from WAWA to show how exciting I find this woman Eileen. This is the only Christianity I have ever been able to accept. I remember Guylene and I having a long conversation regarding Jesus and non-violence and the commandment to not kill-we were about 8 and 9 then. Now after all these years I am stumbling into faith renewed because absolutely everything else has led to closed roads. Strangely I have never been deeply attracted to Buddhism-I have investigated due to Alan Watts and celebrities such as Leonard Cohen and even the loving Buddhist master from vietnam thicht Nan ? and my dear friend Julie (who was not even in my conversation for years until a few days ago)oh! and David, beautiful.loving David but still I converted to Roman Catholicism and then now am arriving on the WAWA shores with the death of Father Bill and the retirement of Father George and the take over of Rome by the Opus Dei crowd. So here goes:


June 2010: Why it is that "Everyone but Christians understands that Jesus was nonviolent?'-Gandhi
June 29, 2010: Why it is that "Everyone but Christians understands that Jesus was nonviolent."-Gandhi



INTRODUCTION on Youtube:


What's Wrong with American Christians?
"The struggle is in the mind. We must bury our own monsters and stop condemning people. We are all Christ and Hitler. We want Christ to win. We're trying to make Christ's message contemporary. What would he have done if he had advertisements, records, films, TV and newspapers! Christ made miracles to tell his message. Well, the miracle today is communications, so let's use it."-John Lennon



"How can you kill people, when it is written in God’s commandment: ‘Thou shall not murder’?"– Leo Tolstoy







It takes a deep faith in Jesus to speak the truth about Jesus, and only one with the deepest of faith will dare to speak the truth that Jesus spoke.





For over forty years, Reverend Emmanuel Charles McCarthy has been working, writing, speaking and trying to educate the flock that to follow Jesus requires one to accept His Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies.





In his book A Cry to the Churches and Their Leaders to Stop Running from the Nonviolent Jesus and His Nonviolent Way Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, begins by asking:



What is Gospel Nonviolence All About?



“Fear Not!” The God of Jesus, the God who is Jesus is not going to hurt you—no way, nowhere, no how. The God who is Jesus is love (Greek: agapé), unconditional, everlasting, irrevocable love.



If Jesus knows what He is talking about, then God is a God of Nonviolent Love. God is Nonviolent Love because Jesus—who teaches that He is one with the Father (jn 10:30) and that to see Him is to see the Father (jn 14:9)—is Nonviolent Love made flesh.



No longer is there a need to fight and kill to try to do the impossible—to preserve the intrinsically impermanent in order to have security and peace. Peace and security, eternal survival and everlasting love are given to us because we, all of us without a single exception, are the immortal and infinitely cherished sons and daughters of a Parent who is immortal Life and Love Itself.



As St. Edith Stein expresses it a few years before her death at Auschwitz:



I know myself held, and in this I have peace and security—not the self-assured security of a man who stands in his own strength on firm ground, but the sweet and blissful security of the child which is carried by a strong arm. [1]



Edith Stein was born into an observant Jewish family on the Jewish High Holy Day of Yom Kippur, October 12, 1892. At the age of thirteen, she underwent a crisis of faith and no longer believed in God and decided to devote her life to the pursuit of the truth. When she was 31, she converted to Christianity and for the next ten years spent her days teaching, lecturing, writing and translating. In 1933 she became a cloistered Carmelite nun.



Edith was a celebrated philosopher, a leading supporter of the early twentieth century's phenomenological school of thought, which explored human awareness and perception. She was arrested by the Nazi’s on August 2, 1942, transported to Auschwitz where she perished in a gas chamber on August 9, 1942. She was canonized a saint on October 11, 1998 because of the miracle cure of Teresia Benedicta McCarthy, the daughter of Rev. McCarthy.