Chris Broussard

And if your brother becomes poor , and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God ; that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest , nor give him your food for profit . I am the Lord your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan , and to be your God. ( Leviticus 25:35-38)

I get letters. Boy, do I get letters. My favorites lately are from self-described Christians who assail my recent columns on peace, informing me of my naiveté and explaining in a frankly un-Christian-like way that Jesus’ teachings on peace can be ignored because, while great in theory, they are impractical. I find this incredibly ironic. The Christian faith is, in and of itself, impractical, but that does not exclude us from living it out. Let’s examine the practicalities of Christianity. We believe in and worship a God we cannot see, touch, taste, smell or hear (audibly). We believe that an unmarried teenage virgin was selected to give birth to the son of this invisible and infinite being. We know nothing of His life between the ages of 12 and 30 years old, yet we accept that Jesus Christ never committed a sin, because the Bible, a book filled with inconsistencies and contradictions, says so. We believe that Jesus was killed and then rose from the dead, visited and dined with

Military recruitors are free to solicit your kids, but not pacifists . A Tennessee high school has forbidden Veterans for Peace to return to its school, saying that the group's materials (mostly of a Quaker persuasion) are anti-American and anti-military. Welcome to the machine that is the United States of Capitalism and Empire.