Here's the full version of the Litany from Shane Claiborne's speech in Atlanta. Text:
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 bondage to sin and death ONE: Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world ALL: Hear our prayers prince of peace ONE: For the victims of war 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 ONE: Oh God have mercy on us sinners ALL: Forgive us for we know not 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 our arms dealers ALL: Forgive us ONE: For our Caesars and our Herods ALL: Forgive us ONE: For the violence that is rooted in our own hearts ALL: Forgive us ONE: For the times that we turn others into enemies ALL: Forgive us ONE: Deliver us oh God ALL: Turn our feet to the way of peace ONE and ALL: Hear our prayer, grant us peace ONE: From the arrogance of power 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 the lack of imagination ALL: Deliver us ONE: Deliver us oh God ALL: Turn our feet to 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 ONE: With the waging of war 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 destructions 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 hording of riches ALL: We will not comply ONE: With the dissemination of fear ALL: We will not comply ONE: But today we pledge our ultimate allegiance to the Kingdom of God ALL: We pledge allegiance ONE: To the 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 the broken ALL: We pledge allegiance ONE: To the King who 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 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 we together proclaim His praises from the margins of the empire to
the centers of wealth and power: ALL: Long live the Slaughtered Lamb
Written by Shane Claiborne, James Loney and Brian Walsh.