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March 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy explained:
I use Nonviolence rather than nonviolence. The capital letter is meant to convey that what I am speaking about is rooted in the being of God and is not just a humanly derived ethical position or political tactic.
My own preference, which grammatically is not always possible, is Nonviolent Love, Nonviolent being the definer of the Love that is Divine, Agape. “God is agape” (1Jn 4:7-8).
God, to employ a formal theological term, is infinitely simple. The Father and I are one (Jn 10:30). He or she who sees me sees the Father (Jn14: 9-11).
Everything, without a smidgen of exception, that one sees in the Son is in the Father—and Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies is what one unequivocally sees in the Son, who is the visible image of the invisible God (Col1:15).
Jesus is Nonviolent Love incarnated because God is Nonviolent Love.
But, the word nonviolence as it presently exists in living languages is almost contentless. It is open to indefinite interpretations, many times contradictory ones.
For the Christian, Nonviolent Love of all is rooted in the definitive image of God given in history, namely, the person of Jesus, God incarnate (Jn 1:1-5,14).
For the Christian, or at least Catholics and Orthodox, the term Nonviolence is first and foremost a Christological and Trinitarian term. It is in the imitation of Christ-God,”Love one another as I have loved you” (Jn 13:34), that the word Nonviolence enters into the ethical domain.
This means that in the Christian context all reference to the word nonviolence, its implications and its applications, have to conform to the truth of God and God’s Will and Way as communicated through, with and in the Nonviolent Jesus of the Gospels, the incarnate Word (Logos) of God in history.
Jesus for the Christian is the ultimate and definitive Communicator and Communication of God and God’s Will to humanity.
The word nonviolence can be used independent of being defined, evaluated and validated by the Jesus of the Gospels, but then it is not Gospel Nonviolence, although it may be by some other definition and understanding nonviolence.
Gospel Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies is about God. It is equally about human beings struggling in their freedom to truthfully conform their lives (thoughts, words and deeds) to the Imago Dei in whose image and likeness they have been created from the beginning (Gn 1:27). And where does one find the true image of the true God to which he or she should conform?
In Jesus.
And why struggle to live in that image?
Because that is what the human being truly is, because therein, and only therein, is the power that conquers evil, and because therein, and only therein, is life, the fullness of life (Jn 10:10), temporal and eternal.
Hence as an aid to clarification of thought, I use Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies and Nonviolence instead of nonviolent love and nonviolence. Said in other other words, Nonviolent Love of all: it is God’s Life, it is God’s Truth, it is God’s Way, now and always and forever and ever. How do we know? Jesus tells us so! www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org
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