Authors of the Old Testament portray Hebrews as the chosen people of their God, Yahweh. The chosen people value Yahweh in the same way they value the War Lords who invented him – he is their savior, their protector – as long as they are obedient. How then do authors explain the defeat of those chosen people? Sunday’s first reading from the Old Testament explains they have been disobedient to Yahweh. The War Lord Yahweh thus responds, “the anger of the LORD against his people was so inflamed … enemies burnt the house of God.” The Old Testament teaches us it is only through obedience to the War Lord class and its deity that we can be saved and protected.
An old adage is that the victors write the history books. It means that Militarists have been writing human history. They are thus history’s heroes, even saviors. But are they? Consider the truth that Militarists are not our saviors but our slave masters, not our protectors but our destroyers. Consider the truth that the War Lord class has always been willing to enslave and destroy its own. The enslavement and destruction War Lords do to external enemies they also do to internal ones, their own ‘Chosen’ people. Militarists’ and the empires they devise value deadliness, from their genesis to their demise. Deadliness is the history and value of the United States Empire and its War Lords. They will enslave us and they will destroy us as they indoctrinate us and propagandize us with fables as to their being our saviors. In late July of 2001 the G-8 were meeting in Genoa, Italy under the threat of terrorist attack. World wide news, except in the U.S., reported on international intelligence determining an Al Qaeda threat to fly airplanes into tall buildings. It was thus reported that President Bush stayed off shore on a war ship for his safety. Two weeks later on August 6, 2001, President Bush received a briefing titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S” identifying planes as weapons. Given the July G-8 experience and other intelligence reports, this briefing about an air attack was no surprise – to the War Lord class. Four weeks later on September 11, 2001, Bin Laden attacked the U.S.’s World Trade Center. It was a life altering surprise to those enslaved and destroyed by the War Lord class. This month marks the 15th anniversary of Bush’ declaration of war against an oil rich nation that had nothing to do with the attack. It is an eternal war in which young men are valued for fighting and dying while old men value the plunder gained. War Lords keep telling us we should value them, they keep us safe, they protect us, and it is our duty to obey them. In truth, it is only through our DISOBEDIENCE to the War Lord class that we the people can be saved and protected FROM them.
For 2,000 years Militarists have been attempting to re-write the history of the Gospel – Jesus is an obedient son of a War Lord deity Father who suffers and dies on the cross as our savior in place of the people. It is a lie. Jesus was disobedient, judged a sinner, and murdered by the War Lord class because he was a peacemaker showing others how to be peacemakers too. “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.” The world is saved through peacemakers. Will we be among them?
Prayer: Spirit, lead me to be a peacemaker
Question: How do I live my peacemaking?
March 11, 2018 Gospel John 3:14-21 Fourth Sunday of Lent
Well said! Militarism only begets violence, never protection. Thus we now see an average person using military weapons. We have a long way to go!
It is great to see Peace Farm back up and running!
Yes, as military weapons have been used against the people of Iraq etc, it makes sense that military weapons are used against the people of the U.S. It took a while to get the website back up. Thanks for the encouragement.