Of all the blog posts I read on Christmas, this one from Lew Rockwell is the one that truly moved me:

On this day in 1914, in the first year of the great civilizational disaster called WWI, German and British soldiers on the Western front stopped shooting. Not only that, they celebrated together, as brothers, the birth of the Prince of Peace. Their panicked leaders eventually forced them back to killing, but some day, the soldiers may not listen to the generals and the presidents, but to a Child born this day in Bethlehem. Then the angels’ song of “peace on earth” can begin to come true.

You can read more about the Christmas Truce here.

This is what I write for, and this is what I hope and pray for.

Christianity has everything to do with politics. When a group of men began proclaiming that a crucified, failed messiah was now Lord and Savior of the World, it was a direct challenge to principalities and powers at the time, especially Caesar. A true prince of peace, in contrast to the so-called Pax Romana that was drenched in the blood of common men and women.

So too is the gospel a direct challenge to the world’s rulers, including the evil men who perpetuated World War 1, sending men off to die for no purpose but to solidify their own power, thereby kicking off one of the bloodiest centuries this world has ever known. So much for the age of “enlightenment.”

I only hope that one day, we will stop listening to the politicians, as the soldiers did on the night of the Christmas Truce.

We will stop believing them when they insist we must kill this or that person.

We will stop believing them when they promise national glory.

We will stop believing them, and realize we have more in common with other people and nations than we were led to believe, like the soldiers discovered that time between the trenches.

Believing them only leads to death, for ourselves or others. History has shown no other outcome.

There is only one who deserves our trust, belief, and allegiance.

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