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Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam, Not for a Torturer

Published
by
Michael Nielsen
on July 26, 2008
in Current Events, Morality, Mormon, Mormons, Pacifism, Politics and peace
. 16 Comments

That was the title I suggested to my wife for her talk in sacrament meeting tomorrow. After reading that a graduate of BYU’s law school approved of the “torture memo”, it seems to me that we could benefit from being reminded that Jesus said to turn the other cheek.

What do you think? Should we change the words to the Primary song from “Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam” to “Jesus Loves Waterboarding”? I don’t remember… was it in the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus approved of physical pain as long as it wasn’t “equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.”

Sigh. What a world we live in.

Seeds of Peace (or my prayer for the DAMU, myself and all of us)

Published
by
admin
on November 6, 2007
in Faith, compassion, humility and peace
. 1 Comment

“In the depths of our consciousness, we have both the seeds of compassion and the seeds of violence. We become aware that our mind is like a garden that contains all kinds of seeds: seeds of understanding, seeds of forgiveness, seeds of mindfulness, and also seeds of ignorance, fear and hatred. We realize that, at any given moment, we can behave with either violence or compassion, depending on the strength of these seeds within us. Continue reading ‘Seeds of Peace (or my prayer for the DAMU, myself and all of us)’