POSTED BY Ann Barnhardt -
DECEMBER 12, AD 2011 6:29 PM MST
“Blessed
are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God.”
Well,
according to all of the readers out there who attend the United Church of
Insipid Music, General Dumb@$$ery and Worshiping of Our Own Self-Esteem, this
Beatitude guarantees me a special place in hell involving a spit, a large fire
of the “bon” variety, and a pack of starving hyenas. I certainly may spend
eternity roasting on a spit being eternally consumed by hyenas, but it won’t be
because of my failure to act as a peacemaker.
While
it seems deeply counter-intuitive at first blush to think of an assault
rifle-wielding wench who spends her spare time giving rowdy musloids driving
directions to her home in a decidedly Dirty Harry-meets-Loretta Young pose as a
“peacemaker”, the truth is, that is exactly what I’m doing.
In
order to understand this, we have to get beyond Pastor Ashton, his super-fun
rockband, and his Crackerjack chickenpoop “seminary training”. Dude, if those
seminary curricula get any shallower, we are going to have bacteria beaching
themselves en masse. I’m convinced that the totality of most modern Christian
theological training consists of training Pastor Ashton and his ilk to figure
out a dozen different ways of taking six minutes between the rockband and the
“interpretive dance” number (barf) to tell people that they need to “learn to
seek and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in their lives.” Uh, okay, Thomas
Aquinas. Would you mind explaining just what EXACTLY that MEANS? Seriously.
That’s like handing me a clod of dryer lint and a darning needle and telling me
to go make a Blu-Ray player. I’ll get right on that.
You
betcha.
The
problem we have here with this Beatitude is that the meaning of the word
“peace” has been distorted over the course of the 20th century. Hold on to your
britches, because here comes the truth:
PEACE IS NOT THE ABSENCE
OF WAR.
PEACE
IS THE FULL APPLICATION OF JUSTICE IN CHARITY WITHIN A SOCIETY.
Let’s
use North Korea as our object lesson. North Korea has been in a state of
armistice since July 27, 1953. But, the people of North Korea have been enslaved
under a despotic, and frankly bat-poop crazy dynastic dictatorship ever since.
The North Korean people are held in slavery to this nutty regime by a
combination of engineered starvation, brainwashing, and concentration camps. If
you go to North Korea it is very, very quiet and very, very orderly. But is
that PEACE? Absolutely not. PEACE can only come to the people of North Korea if
they rise up – with help – and overthrow the Kim family and the human slime
that enable them in the North Korean government and military, throw open the
38th parallel and reunite with their fellow Koreans on the Southern half of the
peninsula. In other words, the only way the North Koreans can ever have peace
is by the forcible application of JUSTICE upon the Kim regime. And that would
involve war against the Kim regime.
So
yes, you are hearing that right: sometimes peacemaking requires insurrection or
war. Sometimes the only way to achieve the full application of justice in
charity is to gear up and kick some @$$.
Conversely,
the refusal to live up to one’s responsibility to see justice done is a failure
in charity to one’s community, nation or society. Refusing to enforce justice
actually causes the LOSS OF PEACE and tranquil order, and thus pacifism, like
all lies, actually yields exactly the opposite of what it promises. Pacifism
doesn’t yield peace, it yields WAR, DISORDER, TUMULT and SUFFERING. This is the
meaning of Amos 5:15
Hate evil, and love
good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts
may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph. Amos
5:15
The
phrase “judgment in the gate” means justice in the courts and seats of
authority. In other words, do your duty in charity to God and your fellow men,
both the innocent and the guilty, by enforcing just laws and waging wars of
self-defense and defense of allies when necessary.
This
is why law enforcement officers are called “peace officers”. That isn’t irony,
it is truth. The very men who are trained to use billy clubs and firearms
against criminals are trained and called to do so in order to see justice done
in charity and thus MAINTAIN THE PEACE. Wyatt Earp was gifted a revolver by the
people of Dodge City with a plaque on the butt with the word “Peacemaker”
engraved on it. This wasn’t snark or irony on the part of the citizens of Dodge
City. It was a statement of truth. Peace is the state of applied justice in
charity within a society, and thus it is completely appropriate to emblazon a
gun with the word “peacemaker”.
Does
this sound familiar at all? Can you think of any examples whereby a nation
failed to enforce its own laws in a spirit of “tolerance” and “pacifism”, and
eventually sloth and callous indifference, and in that failure to see justice
done upon criminals, both within and without, allowed a cancer of crime, theft,
terrorism and general evil to metastasize and destroy said nation, and
eventually an entire civilization? Hmmm?
So
as much as some folks don’t want to hear this, every time I call out musloids
and psychopath politicians and crony oligarchs, what I am doing is trying in my
strange way to inspire a shift towards JUSTICE and the craving and demanding of
justice in our nation, society and world, so that in that application of
justice there can be the ultimate harvest of true, lasting, genuine PEACE. I am
not so stupid or deluded to think that laying low and going-along-to-get-along
is going to lead to anything except an escalation of injustice, suffering and
eventual violence and death at the hands of the very people that our sick
culture demands we “tolerate”.
This
stupid nonsense all started decades ago when so-called Christian clergy began
to twist and pervert the words of Our Lord in the Beatitudes into the lie of
pacifism and touted effete weakness as a virtue and masculine strength as a
sin. Today’s ministers are just too stupid, intellectually lazy, cowardly and
money-obsessed to preach the truth. And so all they can say between rockband
numbers is, “Always be nice!” while civilization crumbles around them. Fools.
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