Prince of Peace

Why wait until Xmas? The subject arose yesterday.

Sitting in a restaurant, I was reminded why I stopped going there several years ago; the blaring country music and the overwhelming displays of religiosity all around.

The largest hand-made cardboard sign (about 2ft. X 2 ft., hanging above the cash register) screamed: "There can be no peace on earth until the coming of the Prince of Peace." I naturally recoiled at the blatant ignorance as well as the stupidity of running a business while preaching at the customers. But I also thought about the sentiment. That was again, quite unfathomable to me.

Why would humanity want above all else, a coming absolute dictator to force us to be "at peace" with each other. That seemed to be the reasoning; peace will have to be forced upon our species or it can't be obtained at all. That was the mentality in our "old West" when they actually nicknamed a pistol, "the Peacemaker." Force people by threat of killing and maybe a few will struggle to stay peaceable among their neighbors. So just wait until that wonderful lord and master arrives with his six-shooters blazing at all humanity!

Why wait??? I personally am a prince of peace! Aren't you? Or perhaps you're a princess of peace? Don't the majority of all humans think peace is better than war? Are we not intelligent enough to find a way to make the peacefulness reign over the battles? I think we could manage. My friend Al, who publishes his blog, The Age of Reason - 21st Century makes a good point today. He promotes the concept that females are more equipped to negotiate and live in harmony than males have proven to be. So we should let the women politicians have their day; it may save our societies at last.

What kind of total foolishness says, "Yes, we all want peace, but since we are not capable of attaining it within our human strengths, let's all believe in and wait for that completely loveable yet dictatorial supreme being from the heavens to come here to force us to be better!?"

Stupidity kills.