Do we choose peace, or does God choose for us?
A dangerous fundamentalist political leader recently said:
“We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. “
Here he is calling for an alignment of human choice with divine choice. Align your choices with God’s and the inevitable will seem to be chosen, and you along with it. He asks his people to turn over their destiny to God and embrace the notion that perhaps his people are divinely chosen.
He is using this thinking to justify a war. By all accounts, this is the statement of a fundamentalist terrorist. If you are one of his people and you can’t agree with this, what now do you do to advance the cause of peace in the world?
