A Christian Definition of Peace on Earth through Evolution
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against religion itself, I just have a problem with the world being destroyed and war, death, and suffering being inflicted on people. I have a problem with religion to whatever extent religion contributes to those things.
If you’d prefer, you’re welcome to use this definition for what I’m doing:
If you’re a Christian and you believe that your all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving god created the universe, people, and everything else, then you agree with everything I’m doing unconditionally, even if you don’t realize it.
If you’re a Christian, you believe that your god created all the characteristics of everything in the universe, and gave humans the intelligence they need to study them. You also believe that your god sent his only begotten son to teach people to bring about Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men.
If you’re not a Christian, you still believe that the universe, everything in the universe, all the characteristics of everything in the universe, and human intelligence all came into existence somehow. If you’re a progressive activist, you obviously believe in Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men and Women.
I don’t have a problem with the belief that Jesus knew everything. But he obviously communicated to people in words, not by direct thought transference. And he used his words to communicate to a fairly small number of people who lived 2,000 years ago.
What Jesus was or wasn’t able to communicate to people was not limited by what he knew, but by what his followers were capable of understanding. If Jesus knew everything there was to know about life, then he knew everything that molecular biologists are discovering now. But the words he needed to talk about molecular biology didn’t exist at the time. Microscopes hadn’t been invented yet, and the people Jesus talked to had no way of knowing that cells existed.
Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men has been one of the biggest challenges in the history of the world, and certainly the most important. Today, scientists are using their intelligence to study the characteristics in the universe. They have discovered that the way people are acting now, something that’s essentially indistinguishable from the Battle of Armageddon is going to start within 100 years, and probably something closer to 20 years. They have also figured out enough about how the universe works that Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men is at last within our reach, if we act fast enough.
Since Jesus was here, a lot of people have become so obsessed that Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men will happen as the result of divine intervention, that they’ve neglected to take action for that purpose themselves. Now, thanks to the scientists who have contributed to the field of planetary biology, Jesus has returned. Not in the flesh like you expected, but in spirit, anyway.
Obviously, one of the hardest lessons that humanity will have to learn before Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men is possible is that those things depend on people’s personal action, and we can’t depend on divine intervention to make them happen. So maybe this is the big test of whether we can learn that lesson or not. People all over the world value peace, and Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men is possible—but only if we take action ourselves and stop waiting around for divine intervention to save us. If we fail, the Battle of Armageddon is our punishment.
I’m a Pagan who’s easily mistaken for an Atheist. But if your god created everything in the universe, then he created me too. Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men necessarily includes everyone, including the 70% of humanity who don’t practice your religion. That means you don’t have a monopoly on the benefits of Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men, you just have a monopoly on believing that you do. So maybe this is another test that’s being placed before you.
You might argue that it doesn’t say anywhere in the Bible that this was supposed to happen. But then, maybe this is a surprise test.
Since you believe in Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men, and I’m telling you how people have used the intelligence your god gave them to study characteristics that exist in the universe he created to figure out how to bring it about, maybe I was sent by your god to teach you about science, and I’m just not aware of it.
You know, the funny thing about believing in things that are impossible to prove or disprove is that it makes impossible for anyone to prove that your god didn’t send me to tell you all this.
Is Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men really your highest priority? Or is proving that what you, an imperfect human, believed to be true must be right?
Choose your answer carefully. You know as well as I do what happens if you pick the wrong one.









