Peace and Justice...
Sunday we hit Matthew 5.9, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God." Bill took it down the road of making peace between others and ourselves "as much as possible," not as in no war. He and I, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, find the path of Christian pacifism untenable. Bonhoeffer was a committed pacifist during World War II, until he saw the effects of the war. Yes, us living in peace as much as we can with everyone is part of who we are to be as Christians, but can we remain that way? Not necessarily. Thus, I would venture that, despite many people's contentions to the opposite, the Iraq war was a just war: it was about bringing freedom and eliminating evil/oppression/torture. However, as resolve weakened, Iraq has been left in a worse state today than it was under Saddam! Christians then were generally tolerated but ignored, today they are persecuted, killed, and otherwise driven out of their homes/businesses. Is that the only sign...