Interesting. Angelic pronouncement came along with Jesus' birth. "Peace."
He practiced peace, to the point of death. He instructed his followers to take up their own cross too. He didn't try to defend himself. He didn't fight to throw off Roman oppression. Non-violent.
"My kingdom is not of this world." It seems like maybe we've replaced allegience to that kingdom with patriotism.
You have to work pretty hard to see the two wars in which we are engaged as defensive struggles. Even if they were preventing a larger evil, we are not following the proscription for a just war. Is such a war even possible with our current way of fighting?
Curious.
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