Caesar? Peacemaker?

In Luke’s vision, the practical corollary of the primacy of God in Jesus Christ is, to employ contemporary language, the primacy of peace and service. Where the lordship of the Roman emperor entailed a pax predicated upon pacifying strength and terror, the lordship of Jesus, so Luke believed, produced a revaluation of the world’s sense of pax. If the Caesars could be called “peacemaker,” it was not without the realization that their form of peace was tied to a still deeper possibility of military violence.—World Upside Down, page 113

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Possibility? I would say probability—no strike that—certainty is the right word. And it still is for any country that claims that there is peace through war. I'm looking you/us, America...
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