{"id":401,"date":"2009-01-31T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T17:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/pray-the-devil-back-to-hell.html"},"modified":"2009-01-31T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T17:05:36","slug":"pray-the-devil-back-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/pray-the-devil-back-to-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"Pray the Devil Back to Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Herbert wrote his column today in the New York Times about the political power of prayer<\/a>\u00a0to make peace in Liberia as documented in Pray the Devil Back to Hell<\/a>. \u00a0The next time someone says to you that religion is the cause of all war – remember that just as often religion is the power that can bring peace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The filmmakers Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker show us how Ms. Gbowee not only rallied the women at her Lutheran church to pray for peace, but organized them into a full-blown, all-women peace initiative that spread to other Christian churches — and then to women of the Muslim faith.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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They wanted the madness stopped. They wanted an end to the maiming and the killing, especially the destruction of a generation of children. They wanted to eradicate the plague of rape. They wanted all the things that noncombatants crave whenever the warrior crowd — in the U.S., the Middle East, Asia, wherever — decides it’s time once again to break out the bombs and guns and let the mindless killing begin.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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When the Liberian Christians reached out to “their Muslim sisters,” there was some fear on both sides that such an alliance could result in a dilution of faith. But the chaos and the killing had reached such extremes that the religious concerns were set aside in the interest of raising a powerful collective voice.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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The women prayed, yes, but they also moved outside of the churches and the mosques to demonstrate, to protest, to enlist all who would listen in the cause of peace. Working with hardly any resources, save their extraordinary will and intense desire to end the conflict, the women’s initial efforts evolved into a movement, the Liberian Mass Action for Peace.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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