Well, I am looking at an article in People. It seems Donald has called Pope Leo "WEAK on Crime". And Leo says he is not afraid of Donald. And Leo intends to preach the Gospel and he is not trying to do something "political". And ones are abusing the Gospel, he says. He will speak against war, and says we need negotiation, instead. He says people are suffering and many are innocent, who are being killed.
So . . . I would say . . . of course we should not have war. But many are not God's people. And they have produced the evil leaders. Their evil leaders started in wombs . . . of mothers . . . who often enough brought them up. So, who am I to say ones noncombatant are innocent victims . . . if their culture produced the ones at the top?
A giant iceberg has a hard and pointed tip. But the tip is not the only part of the iceberg that is ice. Plus, the tip of the iceberg is supported by the giant mass of ice below that tip.
In the United Sates, for example > right now, there are ones at the top who are so criticized. But they came from mother's wombs, and were brought up in "American" families, including by their mothers . . . like pretty much all of us. They were brought up in "democracy". And yet, about half of Americans are ok with killing unborn people and destroying even little children's ability to reproduce.
My real character makes me able to think and do what I do. My character . . . in the sight of God . . . has so much to do with what I can have, for attitudes and perspective, and if I am capable of loving the way God's word means, and following how Jesus is our example.
God's love in one's character makes a person > all-loving > not picking and judging who is good enough for us to love >
"For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" Jesus says in Matthew 5:46.
And Jesus has us loving our enemies. God loves every person. And His love in our character has us likewise loving any and all people. It is in our character . . . so there is no "choosing" to love . . . because Jesus in us shares with us how He so loves because of how He is.
And this character of Christ has Jesus so He is "gentle and lowly in heart" > in Matthew 11:29. So, in our loving in Jesus we have gentle and humble emotions and feelings . . . not those cruel things of hate and unforgiveness and depression and boredom and loneliness and anger and frustration and fear and worry. God's love loves us, ourselves, then, by sharing with us His own immunity almighty against any and all cruel and dominating feelings and emotions which are of "the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience" (in Ephesians 2:2). Satanic feelings and ways of reacting can work so hard, but they can not overcome how our Father's love in us protects us >
"You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world." (1 John 4:4)
And God does not have us abuse each other with arguing and complaining >
"Do all things without complaining and disputing," (Philippians 2:14)
But, in America claiming to be democratic > how much arguing is there? Arguing can be abusive, hurting families and giving kids a bad example so they grow up not knowing how to relate in a close relationship of marriage and other intimate sharing and caring as family.
Arguing is violence, then. I wonder if Pope Leo gives this much attention. Arguing could be in the bottom of the iceberg > so that, at home, ones do not learn how to love and relate; and so then they grow up with others who don't know how to love; and together they can go after the drinking and smoking and immorality and drugs and abortion and perversion . . . all in seeking pleasure to make them feel something nicer than their own selfish sin nature. They are desperate, then, for pleasure. And they even can make an identity out of their preference for pleasure > preferences not being really sexual, but the preference is for pleasure. And from this come the wars >
"Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?" (James 4:1)
Arguing, then, can be fighting which comes from what we demand and expect for pleasure and the control to get it. And this is not loving, then, but abuse. Arguing, then, is a basic sin . . . down in the dark 2/3 of the iceberg which is at home > below the iceberg's political and other part that is showing above water. Arguing can be supporting children to grow up not knowing how to love, so that they are dark and weak enough to give in to various cruel feelings and emotions that drive them to pleasure and to fighting to get it and keep it. And from the culture of this are produced the corrupt and ruined people in higher politics.
So, if Pope Leo tries to have a sword fight with the tip of the iceberg and even were to chop off the top . . . of the violence > that could be like how killing the Iranian top people only makes room for the next ones. You can decry the violence so cold and anti-love; however . . . there's a whole iceberg of it and negotiation won't get rid of it.
What works is if God warms us in His love and changes our character to be gentle and humble like Jesus (Matthew 11:29) and all-loving and generously forgiving in prayer with hope for any and all people > here is what our Apostle Paul says to do, in prayer > "first of all" > 1 Timothy 2:1-4. God uses prayer, and our good example, at home.
This will get all that God is going to do.
"Therefore submit to God." (in James 4:7)
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
May God do all He is able, then, to change us to how He desires for us to be submissive to Him, in His own peace ruling us. And this is now, how God is able . . . and already doing this in us who obey God in His own peace.
