The peace founded on war. The peace defined, justified, legislated and imposed by the powerful, propertied, and privileged. The peace built on the blood and bodies of the displaced, dispossessed, disenfranchised, and disemboweled.
The peace where the father was head of the family and everyone was his property. The peace where the rich got richer and declared heaven-blessed, while the poor got worse and judged accursed and destined for hell!
Historians tell us that Christians were never called peacemakers in the earliest days of the Jesus movement.
They disrupted. They divided. They were disturbers of the Peace of Rome. Like Jesus.
Today, the powerful, propertied, and privileged keepers of the Peace call them criminals, rioters, dissenters, communists, and, yes, terrorists! They remain disturbers of the Peace. Like Jesus.
*image, "The Time Jesus Started a Riot," copyright, Brendan Powell Smith, from Reboot (WordPress).
