President Obama, The Sermon on the Mount and the War in Afghanistan

During and after the 2008 campaign, President Obama repeatedly identified himself as a Christian for whom the Sermon on the Mount figured prominently in his faith. The Sermon on the Mount, as he has acknowledged, is a radical text of nonviolence, self-sacrifice, and enemy love.

Since taking office, President Obama has massively escalated the war in Afghanistan, resulting in increasing civilian deaths and massive human suffering on the part of Afghans and Americans sent to fight his war.

This video is offered not as an attack on the President's personal faith. Instead, it's intended to be an illustration of the way in which many Christians, including President Obama, seem willing to set aside the ethical content of the Sermon on the Mount when it conflicts with national goals.

Mr. President, for Christ's sake, end this war.

This video uses clips from Rethink Afghanistan (http://rethinkafghanistan.com), The Passion of the Christ, Gandhi, and various bits of footage from around the Internet. The music featured in the final montage is "Agnus Dei" by Psalters (http://www.psalters.org).

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[jordan7787]

We all deserve hell for the wicked we have done!

[mattmann2468]

obama is going to hell so i decree

[kingstuks]

John 7:1: “Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.” John 7:13: “No one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.” John 9:22: “His parents said these things because they feared the Jews.” John 19:38: “Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus.” John 20:19: “The doors were shut ... for fear of the Jews.”

[kingstuks]

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.”

[superdubman999]

@kingstuks Yes. New testament does not need the old. Get it out the bible. Love love love love, love thy neighbor as theyself, this is one of Gods great commandment, God is love

[superdubman999]

His sayings on judaism are right......but that sermon on the mount is what we need

[eltoritodeorito]

btw jesus christ was black etiopian hebrew

[eltoritodeorito]

obama is a mother f***er who need to die killed coz he aint a president its a devil working for the global elite satan worshippers killing the innocent for oil & heroine

[lakerdave]

Revelation 19:18

Nations End

If you support the Nations of this earth and its Military hordes when The Christ

arrives you will be in a bad position.

The Bailouts by Bush and Obama violated Christian principles.

To take from one and give to another or keep for oneself is called Thievery.

Who will you support? The righteous Christ who always displayed love

or the vast array of evil governments who will perish like dust blown off scales.

Your choice to make as an individual person.

[lakerdave]

Revelation 19:18