PEACE!

 

I have a fascination with uncovering counterfeits and newspeak definitions.  Peace is a word that has a real meaning, and a counterfeit newspeak meaning.

Peace is a state of non-violence and well-being, in which people can coexist without fear or malice, but more than that, are charitable, joyful, and have freedom and peace of spirit and mind.  If you talk to a liberal, peace is non-violence and non-judgment achieved through tolerance and respect... that and unicorns, forced wealth equality (through murder and theft, but they either don't know that or omit it), and free "love".    So, therefore, to them, we have to tolerate and respect everything and anyone in order to get to peace, including those who want to destroy the family, the constitution, religion, and lives.  And in return for you condoning their vices they will condone yours so nobody will judge and everyone can be happy in their sin.  Sounds like someone's addicted to soma, doesn't it?


So, if I tolerate a murderous lunatic and respect him, will we have peace?

Really?

No.  Of course not;  That's stupid.


You'll just end up being exterminated, and that's not peace.


So where does real peace REALLY come from?  Unfortunately for hippies and liberals, real peace can only be achieved through moral living... you know, that thing that's the opposite of what happened at Woodstock.  By moral living I don't mean moral living by government force, but moral living by choice by individuals.  Why?  Because prideful, covetous people are necessarily contentious. Because immoral people are easily offended. Because morality makes people better and more peaceful in their own lives, and tolerating evil is not virtuous and doesn't make that which you are tolerating be more moral or peaceful toward you.  Moral people give. Immoral people take.  Moral people forgive.  Immoral people inflict revenge.  Moral people seek for the better.  Immoral people say there is no such thing as the better, but if you happen to find it they sure do want to take it from you. 

Is it no wonder, then, that out of the same social revolution of the 60's that tried to bring peace through sexual depravity and drugs we got the most violent radicals calling for the murder of the rich and those in the population which would not submit themselves to their prospective Marxist rulers?  The peace of the hippies isn't really peace at all but a movement toward genocide and slavery, for the simple reason that their "peace" is a counterfeit, meant to fool the foolish and flatter the immoral into believing that their immorality is the way to a peaceful utopia.  But it doesn't logically follow, does it?  It is supremely naive!  Why would murder and theft lead to peace?  Wickedness never was happiness.  The Bible states that peace comes through the Spirit, and the Spirit is only with us when we are being moral, so morality is the only thing that can bring peace.

If one more liberal friend deals me another idiotic platitude about tolerance and respect being the way to peace (which are nice words, but both insinuate only a surface level moral regard for the other person) I might just rip my hair out.  We've all heard it over and over, but it just isn't true simply because everybody repeats it.  In fact, to some extent, the reverse is true.  Intolerance of evil in our own lives IS morality. And not only are we called to respect each other, but to LOVE them, which means doing whatever is in their best interest, and to be honest, that means telling them that their actions are wrong from time to time.  Wow, that is SOOO intolerant and disrespectful... yeah... I know.  But it's good, right, and loving in reality, which reminds me of another scripture about evil being called good, good being called evil, and so on.

"The truth shall set you free" is scripture, so it should be taken literally.  Is diluting yourself into believing in a Marxist peace-promise going to set mankind free, or is it going to lead to slavery?  What is the truth that the scripture says will set us free?  I'd argue it's the whole message of the book; the entire ideology.  The whole truth about God, Christ, the Spirit, moral living, God's laws, and His plan for us, is what sets mankind free literally.  Think about it.  What countries in the world are the most free?  And what is their religion, and how free are they to learn about and practice it?  Which are the least free?  What is their religion?  In North Korea, for example, they worship Kim Jung Il.  How's that working out for them?  It's like 1984 with death camps in there!

Is becoming a slave to vices good for us or bad for us?  Sin can be easily defined as anything that makes us or someone we're acting upon spiritually, emotionally, or physically less free to become more godly.  Addictions, vices, and negative impulses we feed are sins and at the same time, are our masters.    Sin is slavery, not the other way around.  Conversely, morality is freedom and peace.  So to embrace that truth is to be set free spiritually, and because God's laws work on many levels, it ultimately has the effect of setting us free literally.  The truth shall set you free.  Morality shall set you free.  It's pretty simple.  You can't have real peace without freedom, can you?  So technically, those who are saying that morality is bunk are the ones who are really destroying our peace and our freedom.