The Nonviolent Sermon on the Mount
from John Dear's Peace Podcast Hosted by Podcasts by Peace Activist, Author and Lecturer Fr. John Dear
This is not the Sermon on the Mount that you might be used to! John Dear takes us on a new path to understand what Jesus was saying to the world with the Sermon on the Mount. He spoke of loving our enemies, do unto others as you would have done to yourself, and passing through the narrow gate. John reminds us that Gandhi read the Sermon on the Mount every day of his life and felt it was the blueprint for a successful life. John speaks of active nonviolent resistance to the evil we are experiencing today. He comments that the church's Just War Theory does not fit to what the Sermon was teaching. He talks of noncooperation and systemic injustice. War is about money, John says and he reminds us that God is nonviolent.
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