KRIEG / WAR
K R I E G E auf dieser schönen Erde ! K R I E G !!
Barmherziger Gott des Friedens,
sprachlos und ohnmächtig kommen wir zu Dir.
Wir beobachten das brutale Geschäft des Krieges,
steigende Aggressionen und Bedrohungen.
Erfolglos scheinen alle Vermittlungen zu sein,
die Angst vor Vernichtung und Leid geht um.
In dieser Situation bitten wir Dich
um neuen Geist für Frieden und Versöhnung,
um Einsicht und Bekehrung der Herzen.
Mit Deiner Hilfe wird es nicht zu spät sein,
Entscheidungen zu ermöglichen,
die Zerstörung und Elend verhindern.
Im Namen all jener, die unmittelbar
betroffen, bedroht und involviert sind,
ersehnen wir das Wunder des Friedens –
für die Ukraine, Russland und ganz Europa.
Du Gott des Lebens, des Trostes und der Liebe,
wir vertrauen auf Deine Güte und Vorsehung.
Amen.
Gebet v. Bischof H. Glettler, 23. Feb.2022 zum Kriegsbeginn durch Putin.
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K r i e g
Du grauenvollste Tat
des Menschen, du Untat
Auf beiden Seiten, raubst
dem Vater seinen Sohn, glaubst
das Vaterland zu verteidigen.
Du tötest den Müttern die Söhne,
ermordest den Frauen den Gatten,
entreißt den Kindern die Väter.
Trennst für immer die Liebenden,
die sich erst gefunden hatten.
Nimmst Freunden ihre Freunde,
zertrampelst in Minuten, was
Jahrhunderte geschaffen
und aufgebaut, das
Generationen hüteten.
Zerteilst das Glück der Einzelnen, um
ihren Körper zu zerstückeln. Lässt Veteranen überleben, und
Verstümmelte zurück an Leib und Seele,
auf dass sie dich verfluchen.
Hinterlässt Trümmer nur und Haufen,
Krüppel, die in bitterer Armut vegetieren, und
entstehst doch immer wieder neu,
als gäbst du ein Versprechen.
Dabei bist du - das schlimmste der Verbrechen.
Erhard Blanck
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Friedensschmiede
Hell lodert auf das Feuer des Gerichts,
leckt gierig an den Plänen der Gewalt.
Voll Scham verhüllt der Kriegsheld sein Gesicht,
das Prahlen der Bedrücker ist verhallt.
Es prasselt auf das Holz von Axt und Speer,
verwandelt seine Kraft zu heißer Glut.
Den Flammen fallen Schwerter zum Verzehr,
die Opfer der Geschichte fassen Mut.
In heißer Glut gerinnt der harte Stahl,
der Hammer schlägt den Takt zu neuem Lied.
Die Völker stimmen ein in großer Zahl,
weil Gottes Frieden durch die Länder zieht.
Klaus Einspieler
_________Zwei Männer werden auf dem Feld arbeiten; der eine wird angenommen, und der andere bleibt zurück.
Zwei Frauen werden Getreide mahlen; die eine wird angenommen, die andere bleibt zurück. Matthaeus 24:40-41
Dann werden sie ihre Schwerter zu Pflugscharen Umschmieden und ihre Lanzen zu Winzermessern.
Mi 4.3
Sie erheben nicht mehr das Schwert, Nation gegen Nation, und sie erlernen nicht mehr den Krieg.
Jes 2,4
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Die Weltversammlung der Christen betete 1990 in Seoul dies:
„Ich glaube an Gott, der die Liebe ist und der die Erde allen Menschen geschenkt hat. Ich glaube nicht an das Recht des Stärkeren, an die Stärke der Waffen, an die Macht der Unterdrückung. Ich glaube an Jesus Christus, der gekommen ist, uns zu heilen, und der uns aus tödlichen Abhängigkeiten befreit. Ich glaube nicht, dass Kriege unvermeidlich sind, dass Frieden unerreichbar ist. Ich glaube an die Gemeinschaft der Heiligen, die Kirche, die berufen ist, im Dienst aller Menschen zu stehen. Ich glaube nicht, dass Leiden umsonst sein muss, dass Gott die Zerstörung der Erde gewollt hat. Ich glaube, dass Gott für die Erde eine Ordnung will, die auf Gerechtigkeit und Liebe gründet, und dass alle Männer und Frauen gleichberechtigte Menschen sind. Ich glaube an Gottes Verheißung eines neuen Himmels und einer neuen Erde, wo Gerechtigkeit und Frieden sich küssen. Ich glaube an die Liebe mit offenen Händen, an den Frieden auf Erden. Amen.“
Lies auch den Bestseller: „Frieden ist NOCH IMMER möglich“ vom Umweldjournalist Franz Alt.
Noch herrscht das völlig absurd gewordene Handlungsgeflecht von zinsbelastetem Geld, welches im Licht des sich immer mehr reduzierenden Konkurrenzdenkens einem allgemeinen >WIR< Platz macht.
Solange noch keine Bereitschaft besteht, die Not der Hungernden, Kriegsbedrohten und die Auswüchse von Prunksucht bei gleichzeitiger Armut wahrzunehmen und zu lindern, helfen wohl auch keine technischen Neuerungen, mehr Bildung oder Vorsorgeprogramme weiter! Nur mit Gottes Hilfe gelingt uns der langsame Aufstieg zur selbstlosen und womöglich allumfassenden Liebe!
Und doch: Das schon im Diesseits anhebende Reich Gottes ergibt für jeden das Seine: Manche, die wie mit einem Mühlstein am Hals in den Fluten versinken - und andere, die wie mit einem Rettungsring aus persönlichem Glauben, Hilfsbereitschaft, Lebensbejahung und Vertrauen Auftrieb erfahren und so dem allgemeinen Untergang entgehen.
M.Th. Wien, 02.2023
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Bei Gefahr in Verzug schlage dein Kreuz und überlasse deine Seele vertrauensvoll dem Herrn - er weiß um unsere Gebrechlichkeit und Schwäche aus dem Fleisch ... daher Beten wir täglich auch um den inneren und äußeren Frieden
M.Th.
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Trefflich drückt Naomi Klein unsere praktische wie spirituelle Globallage in ihrem Buch „Warum nur ein GreenNewDeal unseren Planeten retten kann“ aus:
„ … Hinter der Bühne, auf der einige Regierungen den Klimawandel leugnen und andere behaupten, etwas dagegen zu tun, während sie ihre Grenzen befestigen, um sich vor den Klimafolgen zu schützen, steht eine Frage, der wir uns stellen müssen. Was für Menschen wollen wir sein in der harten Zukunft, die bereits begonnen hat? Wollen wir teilen, was übrig ist, und füreinander sorgen? Oder wollen wir stattdessen die verbliebenen Reste horten, für »uns selbst« sorgen und alle anderen aussperren?
In einer Zeit der steigenden Meeresspiegel, Xenophobie und des zunehmenden Faschismus sind dies krasse Entscheidungen. Es gibt noch andere Optionen außer extremer Klimabarberei, bedenkt man aber, wie weit es schon gekommen ist, hat es keinen Sinn zu behaupten, diese Alternativen seien leicht zu realisieren. Es ist weit mehr vonnöten als eine CO2-Steuer oder einer Neuauflage des Emissionshandels. Wir müssen einen Krieg führen gegen CO2-Verschmutzung und Armut, gegen Rassismus und Kolonialismus und gegen die Verzweiflung.
Wenn wir eine Zukunft ablehnen, die durch brutale Ausgrenzung von Armen und Unschuldigen gekennzeichnet ist, dann müssen wir die Stärke aufbringen, es mit den Mächtigen aufzunehmen, denen die Verantwortung für die Klimakrise zufällt. Die Vorstellung, gegen den Fossilsektor vorzugehen, kann einschüchternd wirken: Den Konzernen stehen unbegrenzte Mittel zur Verfügung, um Politiker mittels intensiver Lobbyarbeit zur Verabschiedung drakonischer Gesetze gegen Aktivisten zu veranlassen. … Und doch ist dieser Sektor sehr wohl durch verschiedene Aktionsformen angreifbar.
In den vergangenen fünf Jahren bestand eine zentrale Strategie der Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung darin, aufzuzeigen, dass diese Unternehmen amoralisch agieren und ihre Gewinne unrechtmäßig erworben haben, weil ihr Geschäftsmodell im Kern darin besteht, die menschliche Zivilisation zu destabilisieren. Dank dieser Strategie haben Hunderte Institutionen beschlossen, im Zuge des »Divestment« Aktien dieser Unternehmen in ihrem Depot abzustoßen. Unlängst hat die Sunraise-Bewegung ihren Schwerpunkt darauf gelegt, von gewählten Politikern die Versicherung zu verlangen, dass sie keine Spenden von Fossilkonzernen annehmen werden, wozu sich über die Hälfte der demokratischen Kandidaten sofort bereit erklärten. Wenn die regierenden Parteien auf Spenden von Klimazerstörern und Gespräche mit Fossil-Lobbyisten verzichten würden, könnte der politische Einfluss der Branche dramatisch schrumpfen. Und wenn die Medien, angesichts von öffentlichem Druck und entsprechenden Vorschriften, keine Werbung von Fossilkonzernen mehr bringen würden, so wie es bei der Tabakwerbung der Fall war, dann würde der unverhältnismäßige Einfluss der Branche weiter schwinden.
Sobald die Debatte nicht mehr durch Falschinformationen verzerrt und einen klare Trennlinie zwischen Erdölindustrie und Staat gezogen wird, wäre der Weg zu wirksamen Vorschriften, die diesem Schurkensektor rasch beikommen würde, klar vorgezeichnet.“
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Here in English:
W A R ON THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH
Merciful God of peace,We come to you speechless and powerless.
We observe the brutal business of war, increasing aggression and threats.
All mediations seem to be unsuccessful, the fear of destruction and suffering is rampant.
In this situation we ask you for a new spirit for peace and reconciliation,
for insight and conversion of hearts.
With your help it won't be too late, to enable decisions which prevent destruction and misery.
In the name of all those who directly are affected, threatened and involved, we long for the miracle of peace - for Ukraine, Russia and all of Europe.
You God of life, comfort and love, we trust in your goodness and providence. Amen.
Prayer by Bishop H. Glettler, February 23, 2022
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War
You most horrible act of man,
you misdeed On both sides, rob the father his son,
believe to defend the fatherland.
You kill mothers' sons, you murder women's husbands,
snatch the fathers from the children.
Separate lovers forever, who had just found each other.
You take away from friends their friends,
trample in minutes, what Created over the centuries
and built, that Generations guarded.
Divide the happiness of the individual
in order to to dismember her body.
Lets veterans survive, and mutilated back in body and soul,
lest they curse you.
Leaves only rubble and heaps,
Cripples vegetating in abject poverty,
and you always emerge new, like you're making a promise.
You are the worst of crimes.
Erhard Blanck
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David and Goliath
The Philistines gathered their armies together for battle and came together to Socho in Judah and camped between Socho and Azekah at Ephesdamim. But Saul and the men of Israel came together and camped in the pit and prepared themselves to fight against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the other side, and the Israelites on a mountain on this side, with a valley between them. Then out of the camp of the Philistines came a giant named Goliath of Gath, six cubits and a hand's breadth high; and he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and a coat of armor of scales, and the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass, and he had breastplates of brass upon his thighs, and a shield of brass upon his shoulders.
And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the iron of his spear was six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him. And he stood and called to the host of Israel, and said to them, Why did you go out to prepare yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine and you Saul's servants? Choose one of you to come down to me.
If he is able to fight against me and strike me, then we will be your servants; But if I have power against him and smite him, then you shall be our servants to serve us. And the Philistine said, I have defied the host of Israel this day: Give me one, and let us fight together. When Saul and all Israel heard this saying of the Philistine, they were astonished and afraid...
Then David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep to the keeper, and carried and went, as Jesse had commanded him, and came to the chariot. And the army went out and prepared themselves, and they shouted in battle... Behold, a giant named Goliath, the Philistine of Gath, came up from the Philistine army and spoke, and David heard it. But every man in Israel, when he saw the man, fled from him, and was sore afraid.... Then David said to the men who stood with him, What will they do to him who strikes this Philistine? and turns away the shame of Israel? For who is the Philistine, this uncircumcised man, who defies the army of the living God? ........
But Saul said to David, You cannot go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a boy, but this man has been a man of war from his youth ............
And David said, The LORD who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from this Philistine... and he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the stream and did put them in the shepherd's bag that he had and in the sack and took the sling in his hand and went to the Philistine ...........
Now when the Philistine saw and looked upon David, he despised him; for he was a boy, brownish and beautiful. And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog that you come to me with sticks? And he cursed David by his God, and said to David, Come unto me, and I will give thy flesh to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the field. But David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a shield; But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the hosts of Israel, whom you have insulted... Now when the Philistine arose and came near to David, David hastened and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
And David put his hand in his pocket, and took a stone from it, and hurled it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead, and the stone pierced his forehead, and he fell to the ground on his face. So David overcame the Philistine with the sling and with the stone and struck him and killed him. And since David had no sword in his hand, he ran and went to the Philistine, and taking his sword, drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. But when the Philistines saw that their strongest man was dead, they fled. 1 Samuel - Chapter 17
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Two men will work in the field; one is accepted and the other is left behind. Two women will grind grain; one is accepted, the other is left behind.
Matthew 24:40-41
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Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Wed 4.3
They no longer raise the sword, nation against nation, and they no longer learn war.
Isaiah 2:4
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Life & Love are serious, and they smile "wearily" at our every joke.Life & Love know our hearts - we don't know their pain at our erring ways, their patient waiting for our slow maturing - which then, without favour*, embraces life full of love.Death and its hate seem to counsel, but they seriously want our denial.
But so is GOD: His LOVE keeps this world together
His LOVE keeps this world going
His LOVE keeps this world under protection
His LOVE keeps your life going too,
so LOVE you too, as His beloved.
Love & life are serious; they urge - you can & you shall end-dispose ...
* you err and deceive yourself, seducing yourself ...
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We are currently threatened by more trouble than climate change 20 active wars globally!
But wars are also one of the consequences of a general distance from God.
The World Assembly of Christians prayed this in Seoul in 1990: "I believe in God, who is love and who has given the earth to all people. I do not believe in the right of the strongest, in the strength of arms, in the power of oppression. I believe in Jesus Christ, who came to heal us and who frees us from deadly addictions. I do not believe that wars are inevitable, that peace is unattainable. I believe in the communion of saints, the Church, which is called to be at the service of all people. I do not believe that suffering must be in vain, that God has willed the destruction of the earth. I believe that God wants an order for the earth that is based on justice and love, and that all men and women are equal human beings. I believe in God's promise of a new heaven and a new earth where justice and peace kiss. I believe in love with open hands, in peace on earth. Amen."
Also read the bestseller: "Peace is STILL possible" by environmental journalist Franz Alt.
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Dr. Heribert Prantl writes about the Jewish/Christian God in his bestseller DEN FRIEDEN GEWINNEN in 2024. He looks at the myths of the creation of the world, of paradise, of the first humans, of the Flood: ... the biblical canon, as a significant, normative past that does not pass away. They are “real” in the literal sense of the word, they continue to have an effect, they are our prehistory on our very own questions of being human and the origin of our humanity as it is. It is a world full of violence that demands interpretation and orientation. It tells us that Cain, the first child of the first human couple created by God, is a murderer. The myth enters into the most disturbing historical reality: man kills his brother. The brutal bluntness of the narrative poses this question of meaning in Gen 4:1-16 of “holy scripture”; what if it were silent about such realities? ... The Cain and Abel story reveals one of the causes of violence:
Inequality and power imbalance among people. Cain, the fratricide, is the prototype of the man who is consumed by his anger out of perceived lost honor. Just like in life: One has a mother who loves him, the other a father who hates him. One gets a clever head, the other a weak heart. Fate gives one and not the other. Why him and not me? Everyone has to come to terms with it at some point. God speaks to Cain: Why are your features slipping? Cain's offended narcissism has opened the door to sin. “Your brother's blood cries aloud to me.” With a protective mark of Cain, he now wanders restlessly through the world. He imposes the curse of his evil deed on himself. However, as the founder of a city with amenities, culture, progress, technology, etc., these also contain the “being bought” associated with violence.
In the Flood narrative, on the other hand, God shows himself to be a brutal murderer of his entire world. In his fervent zeal, he not only kills the man, but also the mouse. The flood myth also exists in similar versions in other ancient religions. However, the Old Testament connects the force of nature with the unjust actions of man. One can, one must be horrified by this God who behaves like a fundamentalist mass murderer who wants the world to be good and pure. But then God says: “Never again!” The same ability to compromise is now written into our hearts. ... These cruel texts in the OT are therefore not innocent. They are disturbing and therefore not immune to criticism - on the contrary - it must be in the interest of Christians to subject them to critical examination. Gen 9, 1-13
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: “Be fruitful, multiply and populate the earth.
Fear and dread of you shall be upon all the beasts of the earth, upon all the birds of the air, upon everything that moves on the earth and upon all the fish of the sea; they have been given over to you.
Every living thing that moves shall be your food. I give you everything like the green plants.
Only flesh in which there is still blood you may not eat.
But when your blood is shed, I will demand an account for the blood of each one of you. I demand an account from every animal and from man. For the life of man I demand an account from each of his brothers.
Whoever sheds the blood of man, his blood will be shed by man. For he made man in the image of God.
Be fruitful and multiply; populate the earth and multiply in it.
Then God spoke to Noah and his sons who were with him:
I hereby make my covenant with you and with your descendants
and with all living creatures with you, with the birds, the cattle and all the beasts of the field, with all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark with you.
I have made my covenant with you: Never again shall all creatures of flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall a flood come and destroy the earth.
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and the living creatures.
Prantl goes on to draw a number of parallels in the context of our older and more recent history. His examination of violence and non-violence in armed conflict also takes as an example the taking of Jericho: Many wars of God in the Old Testament have a sacred character; here it has all the ingredients of a fantasy thriller: a fortress, spies by night, a harlot with whom they hide, a lot of noise and, above all, it is about good versus evil. With trumpets, led by the priests, Israel marches around the city wall seven times. Then the people let out a mighty shout of joy and the walls collapse.
The fortress of Jericho stands for the almost invincible, aggressive great powers that threaten the land. The narrative of victory over them is an anti-despair narrative that sets the victims of violence and bloodshed against the experienced reality.
The Old Testament scholar Jürgen Ebach has this to say about the “law of war” formulated in Genesis 5.20: “Well, there would be no more effective means of actually preventing real wars than if this instruction were adhered to. Then all potential soldiers who still have a wife to marry, a child to father, a house to build or who are simply afraid would be allowed to stay at home. Then there would be no need for highly armed troops at all. After all, if God himself is fighting, the left-handers are enough, or you could take an enemy city with a music corps - the walls would fall down from the sound of the trumpet. In short: these instructions are just not for a real war ... I found Prantl's book: CHILDHOOD - first home - not only very appealing. Faith and religion were and are both warmongers and a force for peace. The one should be tamed and the other must be encouraged.
