{"id":4908,"date":"2009-12-22T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2009-12-21T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T22:30:31","slug":"obama-war-and-a-prize-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/obama-war-and-a-prize-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Jesus, War &#038; Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barack-Obama64.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barack-Obama64.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Barack-Obama64\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4909\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Our Scriptures tell us that if you see your enemy hungry, go buy that person lunch, or if he&#8217;s thirsty, get him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don&#8217;t let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good. &#8211;  Romans 12:20-21<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been chewing on this idea of Obama winning the Nobel Prize for Peace since it was announced. It&#8217;s been interesting to read all the varied comments.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when many conservatives were up in arms that he won it and then turned around and applauded his speech and his justification of war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusmanifesto.com\/2009\/12\/what-if-obama-the-nobel-and-the-lordship-of-jesus\/\">The Jesus Manifesto<\/a> shares many of the thoughts that have been swirling around my head and I&#8217;ve yet to be able to put to paper &#8211; or keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>So I encourage you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusmanifesto.com\/2009\/12\/what-if-obama-the-nobel-and-the-lordship-of-jesus\/\">read his post<\/a> and watch this video from Cornel West:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cornel West Sounds Off on Obama&#039;s Nobel Peace Prize\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QaM94mieeLg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And consider this, did Jesus come to offer up a high-fetched dream that could never be lived up to? Or did he come as baby in a manger and the Prince of Peace to show us that living a life of love and non-violence could be achieved &#8212; and can be lived out &#8212; even in the face of the Empire?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Scriptures tell us that if you see your enemy hungry, go buy that person lunch, or if he&#8217;s thirsty, get him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don&#8217;t let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good. &#8211; Romans 12:20-21 I&#8217;ve been chewing on this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/obama-war-and-a-prize-for-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama, Jesus, War &#038; Peace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[1929,2834,286,1011,2833,542,784],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","tag-cornel-west","tag-example","tag-jesus","tag-life","tag-nobel-prize","tag-obama","tag-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1ha","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}