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Once we've really discovered how to love our neighbor as ourselves Capitalism as we know it wont be possible, and Marxism wont be necessary.

Peace? or a Genocide of the Wicked?

"There will be times when nations -- acting individually or in concert -- will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified." - Barack Obama

Recently Obama made his decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, and shortly after recieved the Nobel Peace Prize.

The fact that he declared this war morally justfied was very troubling. There have been too many "morally justified" wars in our world. I heard a story on NPR from the people of Afghanistan asking Obama not to send more troops, but to create jobs and build schools, and I longed to see that kind of peace making. Martin Luther King Jr. who also won the Nobel Peace prize said "violence never brings permanent peace" and history shows this to be true. I understand that there are threats against the United States, but is force really the answer? I had hoped for Obama to be better than this. His inauguration speech made me hopeful that I would see America act differently, non-violently and make real steps towards nuclear disarmament, And he did act differently for the most part, but a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Has war made the world a better place? If these people had jobs, and their children were educated they would never want to join the radicals. But with every terrorist killed, countless more are born.

This war is about revenge,
This is not peacemaking.
Peacemaking is forgiveness. Reconciliation.
This is a genocide of the wicked.

If you look up the antonym of peace, you'll find out that is war. Peace by way of war truly is like purity by way of fornication.

If Bush had sent 30,000 more troops, advocates for peace would be raising hell, but it seems like many have been pacified by Obama and their voice is becoming a faint whisper. There have always been anti-war activists in Downtown Dunedin over the past few years almost every evening, dozens of them. Now there are only about three people out there still there asking for us to get out of Afghanistan. As Christians and as human beings we cannot support this war. I pray the church and all people of good-will will rise up to practice radical peace. Non-violent peace. Imagination. Shining a light in the darkness. It takes a very creative mind to practice non-violence. War becomes the easiest solution to so many problems. History is full of stories of war and battles of people who believed themselves to be morally justified, in fact that is a majority of what I learned about in all of my history, and we record the periods of our country by all of the wars we were in. But every once in a while we stumble across people who did things differently, Ghandi, M.L.K., Jesus, St. Francis, Thomas Merton. These were some amazing minds, but why have there been so few?

When God told Solomon that he would give him anything he asked for he was pleased that Solomon did not ask for the death of his enemies. We should do the same, because we do not have the right to judge the fate of the wicked, only God. This world is broken, and it can't be fixed with smart-bombs, and tanks, but with peace and love for our fellow human beings.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

Love your enemy.

Another world is possible.

Give your greed

Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But give what is inside the dish to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

-Luke 11:39-40

I find this to be an amazing statement.