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Found this, thought it to be amazing,

Wanted to send it out A.S.A.P 

Created with the help of our friends

Jim Loney (CPT Reservist) and

Brian Walsh (activist theologian)
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One:     Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world

All:      Have mercy on us

One:     Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world

All:   Free us from the bondage of

All: Have mercy

One: Women, men and children

All: Have mercy

One: The maimed and the crippled

All: Have mercy

One: The abandoned and the homeless

All: Have mercy

One: the imprisoned and the tortured

All: Have mercy

One: The widowed and the orphaned

All: Have mercy

One: The bleeding and the dying

All: Have mercy

One: The weary and the desperate

All: Have mercy

One: The lost and the forsaken

All: Have mercy

All:     Forgive us for we know not what we do

One:    For our scorched and blackened earth

All:     Forgive us

One:    For the scandal of billions wasted in war

All:     Forgive us

One:     For our arms makers and arms dealers
All:      Forgive us
One:    For our Caesars and Herods
All:      Forgive us
One:     For the violence that is rooted in our hearts
All:      Forgive us 
 One:     For the times we turn others into enemies
 

All:      Forgive us
One:     Deliver us, O God
All:      Guide our feet into the way of peace
One:     Hear our prayer. 
All:      Grant us peace.

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the myth of redemptive violence

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the tyranny of greed

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the ugliness of racism

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the cancer of hatred

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the seduction of wealth

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the addiction of control

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the idolatry of nationalism

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the paralysis of cynicism

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the violence of apathy

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the ghettos of poverty

All:      Deliver us

One:     From the ghettos of wealth

All:      Deliver us

One:     From a lack of imagination
All:      Deliver us
One:     Deliver us, O God
All:      Guide our feet into the way of peace
One:     We will not conform to the patterns of this world
All:      Let us be transformed by the renewing of our minds
One:     With the help of God’s grace
All:      Let us resist evil wherever we find it

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the legalization of murder
 

All:      We will not comply
 

One:     With the slaughter of innocents

All:      We will not comply

One:     With laws that betray human life

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the destruction of community

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the pointing finger and malicious talk

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the idea that happiness must be purchased

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the ravaging of the earth
 

All:      We will not comply    
 

One:     With principalities and powers that oppress

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the destruction of peoples

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the raping of women

All:      We will not comply

One:     With governments that kill

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the theology of empire

All:      We will not comply

One:     With the business of militarism

All:      We will not comply    

One:     With the hoarding of riches

All:      We will not comply    

One:     With the dissemination of fear
 

All:      We will not comply

All: We pledge allegiance

One: To a peace that is not like Rome’s

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the Gospel of enemy love

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the Kingdom of the poor and broken
 

All: We pledge allegiance
 

One:  To a King that loves his enemies so much he died for them

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the least of these, with whom Christ dwells

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the transnational Church that transcends the artificial borders of nations

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the refugee of Nazareth

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the homeless rabbi who had no place to lay his head

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the cross rather than the sword

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the banner of love above any flag

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the one who rules with a towel rather than an iron fist

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the one who rides a donkey rather than a war-horse

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the revolution that sets both oppressed and oppressors free

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the Way that leads to life

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  To the Slaughtered Lamb

All: We pledge allegiance

One:  And together we proclaim his praises, from the margins of the empire to the centers of wealth and power

All: Long Live the Slaughtered Lamb

One:  Long Live the Slaughtered Lamb

All: Long Live the Slaughtered Lamb