20,000 dollars a second is spent on war<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThere is a reason we talk about \u201cPeace on Earth\u201d so much around Christmas. There is a reason why we talk about Jesus as the \u201cPrince of Peace\u201d. He consistently taught that we can disarm violence without mirroring it, and that we can rid the world of evil without becoming the evil we abhor. So let us recommit ourselves to Peace this Christmas season and new year \u2014 in honor of Jesus, and in honor of the holy innocents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Shane Claiborne: So let\u2019s imagine. What would Jesus say to our nation, where these are things are true: \u00a010,000 people die from gun-related homicides each year, that\u2019s one Sandy Hook massacre a day, every day there are nearly 90 guns for every 100 people there are over 51,000 licensed gunshops (and 30,000 supermarkets) guns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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