On going off to War

On going off to War I saw Narnia 2 last weekend with a bunch of people... it was pretty good, better than the first.
My brother said that they changed a lot of things from the books, but i haven't read them all so i couldn't tell.
One thing that did stick with me, though, was the scene when Peter challenges the bad leader guy to a fight to the death to buy time from the imminent attack.
the idea of a "fight to the death" hinged on tradition that the humans had that Peter was able to take advantage of.

Czech it out:
2 Samuel 11:1, NIV
"In the sping, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem."

The people in Narnia had wartime traditions.
Now adays, we have "rules" for war; we have certain ways that we deal with POWs, we have certain courtesies that we follow.
And in Bible times, there was a specific time of year that they went to war with each other.
Like, that totally blows my mind.
In the spring, its the time when the flowers bloom and the bugs start biting you.
In the winter, snow falls.
And at some point, there was a time when you went off to kill the countries next to you.

like, think about that.
In order to get a tradition of "going off to war" at a certain time, you've got to fight for years and years.
The human race has been fighting for so long, that it's a tradition.
Just like Easter.
Every year at Easter time, we celebrate Easter.
Every year at wartime, we celebrate killing each other.

People tend to have a hard time getting along with each other.
Back in olden thymes, they fought over land and money.
Now adays, we fight over leaders and potential threats.

But on a level closer to home, we fight with our friends and family over stupid things.
Generally drama starts over a simple disagreement.
Instead of just getting over the fact that two people don't agree on something or someone (cough) they decide to go at each other's throats.

we should stop it.
we should stop having a tradition of fighting with each other.
and we should just all get along.....