{"id":143,"date":"2011-09-09T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2013-02-06T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:35:02","slug":"feeding-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/feeding-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Carla Mae Streeter, OP, PEP Board Member<\/p>\n<p>The recent documentary, \u201cPray the Devil Back to Hell,\u201d from the Community Cinema series presents the story of how the Christian and Muslim women of Liberia ended the fighting in that country between rebels and Charles Taylor. The film commented on how nations continue to feed the beast of war. In his visit to the United Nations Paul VI was utterly clear about war: \u201cNo more!.\u201d As people of intelligence we need to ask more questions. Are we to continue to offer the human sacrifice of our sons and daughters to this violence? Are we to feed the weapons of war while our families struggle to put bread on the table and to find work to make an honest living? Is war making an empire builder out of our nation? Is that what we are called to do among the nations of the world? Religious faith can comfort the afflicted. It can also afflict the comfortable. I want to feed the children\u2026not the beast. this film is apart of the &#8220;Women and Girls Lead&#8221; series beginning on October 11 on PBS (9) at 10 pm. &#8220;Pray the Devil Back to Hell&#8221; will show on October 18 at 10 pm. For more information visit the website: http:\/\/praythedevilbacktohell.com.<\/p>\n<p>Carla Mae Streeter, OP<br \/>\nAquinas Institute of Theology<br \/>\n23 South Spring Avenue<br \/>\nSt. Louis, MO 63108-3323<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Carla Mae Streeter, OP, PEP Board Member The recent documentary, \u201cPray the Devil Back to Hell,\u201d from the Community Cinema series presents the story of how the Christian and Muslim women of Liberia ended the fighting in that country between rebels and Charles Taylor. The film commented on how nations continue to feed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}