War, and Laughter, and Bill Maher

He whose throne is in heaven is laughing; the Lord has them in derision.

 - Psalm 2

The context is people, and nations, that try to rebel against The Lord. He watches, and laughs at their designs to make war, and to become "free" from Him.

War is a human thing. It's the most violent form of tantrum-throwing. To God, it's even cute, to a point. How vain, how narcissistic, how utterly devoid of grace, love, and even maturity, as a race. All bad things come from self-love. And self-love leads to war.

I have always been struck at this passage. At this point I hardly notice the others verses surrounding it. The idea that God sees our war-making, and laughs, shows what He thinks about all of our endeavors.

He has instructed us to care for widows. We make war.

We are to protect and support orphans. We make war.

We should welcome the alien. We make war.

We should live in purity. We make war.

War sells newspapers. It dominates our history books. It distracts us from the more important things.

And it's comical. 

I am reading about Bill Maher this morning. The poor guy was let down by religion once, and his resentment of that has dominated his life. He seems in search of a Christianity that actually does what it's supposed to do. If we did, perhaps Bill Maher would find a less offensive line of work.