There is a peace and unity ethic which turns morality upside down. Isn't everyone for peace? The question is how to produce peace.

Some persons assume peace is produced by talking about it. The hippies of the sixties were that way. But there is a more serious peace and unity ethic which needs to be criticized.

Moral criticism is almost made too trite by the fact that all corruption starts at the same point and ends with the same results. Obsession with power is always where corruption begins. Power feels like the right thing to promote. The method of promoting it might be hawkish or dovish depending upon how driven to destroy enemies the persons are.

The dovish outlet for power mongering results from diminished conflict resulting from sin. There is also an increased need to prevent conflict due to experience with power and absence of experience as a victim. Conflict upsets the status quo, which threatens power.

The primary method of mongering power is siding with winners. Elitism is the term for that manifestation of corruption. The degree of success is in the number of other persons who are aligned together. The power of numbers is the most significant source of power to corrupt persons.

When combining the need to avoid conflict with the need for the power of numbers, the result is a need for unity. Unity by such criteria means all agreement and no conflict.

There are other criteria for unity. In fact, there are other criteria for peace. Christ said he does not give peace as the world does (John 14:27). The world promotes peace as agreement and absence of opposition. But agreeing with what or whom? There is no what, because analysis would result in logic and truth in conflict with the corruptions. The unity must orient around the persons who amass power most successfully. They are the winners.

This is the peace and unity ethic. Peace is promoted as status quo. It's a tangential way of opposing conflict. Conflict upsets the apple cart, while total absence of conflict is a type of unity. The problem with this type of peace and unity is that it tolerates no dissent. One of the most important forms of dissent is criticism, which requires truth. All truth conflicts with corruption. So the peace and unity ethic is as intolerant of truth as any other corruption.

Obviously, intolerance contradicts the assumptions of peace and unity. Usually, the bliss of power glosses over the contradiction. The bliss of power means opponents can be defied, attack, subverted, etc. very inconspicuously. For example, Jim Crow laws can prevent blacks from voting while pretending that it's just a question of intelligence. Media owners can block all dissent and say anyone is free to say anything they want. You just have to own your own publishing house to do it.

Another corrupt assumption that usually goes with the peace and unity ethic is that opponents can be forced into submission. Opponents can be allowed to die in the gutters, since they have nothing; and if they don't like it, they can submit. A few always rebel, and then they must be defeated. The result is the peace and freedom wars.

The way Christ gives peace is by replacing sin with life. He teaches what sin is and how to sustain life. Life is sustained by producing truth as the defining principle. Of course, truth is intolerabale to corrupt persons. So the real path to peace is a martyr's path in a world which satan owns.