Matthew 5.9 says, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they're going to be called

sons of God, not going to be called, for they will be called sons of God.

And this falls in the middle of a list of things called the Beatitudes where Jesus

is describing the values of his kingdom, the kingdom of heaven, that is, like, these values are way different from the kingdom

that we're used to. They're all kind of upside down and backwards. And so in Matthew 5-9, when he says,

Blessed are the peacemakers, we might look at that and think, oh, that's not upside down and backwards because everybody likes peace.

But do we really like peace?

Come on.

I mean, we got a prize for it, a piece prize or whatever, but effectively that's just a political weapon that sometimes gets used in ways I really agree with and like for my team.

And at other times it gets used in ways that maybe I don't like so much for my team.

But really we like conflict and come on if you don't believe me, look at the feedback loop that

we get from the internet.

Just look at the internet and think of it as a mirror to us. Now look you're here, I'm here, we try to do things that are of goodwill,

I'd like to think that's what this relationship and this conversation is, but if you look at the bigger trend, I mean chaos and violence and

conflict and vitriol gets clicks.

So as a result we get served more chaos and violence and hatred and vitriol.

Thus making the plateful of news that we see in front of us every day, an unfortunate reflection on what we actually value in the secret place

where we decide what to click on. We just can't help ourselves. We got a thing for

violence and strife. I remember in ninth grade we've never had a war before I mean see some like

G.I. Joe in a couple of movies but I don't really understand what this is about I

heard some things in history books that sounded very very interesting it seemed like

this is where actual stories and actual history and heroism and adventure and change happens.

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