Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Even some of my friends who are not liberals will trot this line out and it is maddening, as if simple prayer is all it takes. Too often it takes *imposition* for peace to occur.
Can’t we just imagine the Mullahs (or what’s left of them, anyway) saying, “oh people have prayed for peace! Let’s stop the bombing and the terror cells!”
The statement “pray for peace and justice”, sounds suspiciously like “No justice! No peace!” but inside out and upside down.
Argh, Leftists have corrupted language, and so too reason.
Peace is properly understood as tranquilitas ordinis, the tranquility of a properly ordered society.
We sometimes use the word “peace” to describe external stability and “justice” to describe internal stability, but they’re both broader concepts than that. It’s wrong to pit them against each other, at least in their fullest meanings.
“No justice, no peace” has its own problems. The statement is literally true, but it often seems to carry a threat: if you don’t give us justice (as we see it), we won’t give you peace.
I agree with Pinky.
We could say they are friends at the journey’s end, but often quarrel in transit.
When we pray for peace and Justice, we [ray for God’s peace and God’s Justice.
“Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”