“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the Sons of God.” (Mathew 5: 9, King James version)

The Concordant Literal New Testament translates “Blessed” as “Happy are the peacemakers…” Either Happy or Blessed leave little room to dispute the meaning, and it is one of the most ignored passages in the Bible because It Is so difficult to live in our age. It is so easy to turn our backs on mass killing far away, but Is there a greater sin than the deliberate and organized killing for money?

Military persons may have little choice once they are in. Millions of Americans carry their Bibles to church but feel no responsibility for paying for organized killing. We Hold These Truths is all about peacemaking, and we ask other Jesus followers to hear our message. You are receiving it after Christmas because we don’t want to interfere with your “happy” days, but we do want to be a “peacemaker.”

To begin, we need you to join us in teaching other Christ Followers about a Christmas Eve example I read in Yahoo news. Newsweek
and Yahoo News.  Both tell us our President has just pardoned four men, in prison for the murder of fourteen Iraqis’ in “The Baghdad Massacre” of 2007. Were those who did the killing on a military mission? No, they were private mercenaries, paid by Blackwater, a contractor a for-profit corporation, hired by the US government to carry out secret war acts.

Many Americans would assert that those 14 killed were probably Muslims, and don’t qualify for what St. Mathew said. But when Jesus and his follower spoke the words of peace, Apostle Mathew did not rule out the often brutal occupier who murdered Jesus at the behest of the Pharisees. No, there are eight Beatitudes in Mathew, Chapter 5, and not one implies hatred of the Romans.

The killers of the Iraqis were paid to carry out dirty jobs our military is forbidden to do. This is why the four were tried in a civilian court, not in a military court marshal!  Not one American in the hundred even knows that there is a “Blackwater,” working for the CIA and others. It has now renamed itself “Academi”, a clever peace-ruse that sounds like an institution of higher learning.

What about “Happy are the Peacemakers?” Was the apostle Matthew wrong when he said “peacemakers will be called the sons of God?” What will murders for cash be called? We Hold These Truths is now in its 18th year of asserting “Blessed are the Peacemakers.” We know doing so by itself can not bring peace, but we also believe that God can use us, which is why we do not quit exposing Warmakers! We hope you will start by reading our website, WWW. WHTT.org and that it will lead you on Jesus’ blessed path for peace.

We teach, and we do accept help. www.whtt.org, PO box 35, Wheat Ridge Co 80033

Charles E. Carlson