Blessed are the peace-makers, not the peace-lovers. I am not taking that thought any further, only reminding you that the two are not synonymous and may even be opposed at times. Look first into what it might mean for individual conflicts, tempted by no thoughts of politics. Only then should you very tentatively wonder "How shall we then live" in a corporate and even national sense.
I grew up UCC in the Vietnam era. I never heard anyone suggest it meant anything but being antiwar. I now think it is a great evil to narrow it that way, suggesting that our clergy was more into feelings and social acceptance among the literary class than Bible application. I have since lived among those who leaned so far out on the other side of the boat that they fell into the sea there.
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