I have a t-shirt that says "Fight War not Wars" with a large peace sign affixed in the center of those words. I am a peace activist, have been all my life. I don't ever remember a time when I didn't want peace. Who doesn't?
Some may believe war is inevitable. I believe war is only inevitable when people, especially our leaders, believe it is. Sure, we live in a dangerous world. There is much violence, but the greatest act of violence, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi said, is poverty. The disproportionate distribution of wealth and resources is the greatest single act of violence in the world.
I think Jesus meant for us to understand that problem. He, afterall, spent his life trying to teach us to love one another and share our resources, so that we could have God's Kingdom here on earth.
In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says, (and I'm paraphrasing) The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you. People just can't see it.
They cannot see it because they have not tried to see it, or imagine it. JohnLennon wrte the song, Imagine" to try to capture that ideal, to imagine a world that would eliminate poverty, a world where everyone had everything they needed. If you imagine a world like that, believe it will happen, then we will be one step closer to being that world.
War is greed perpetrated through violence. Make the choice to love your neighbor, act on that choice, and the world has already changed for the better.
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