It’s a possibility for sure.

Neither East nor West can sate their appetite. They are the only people on earth to covet wealth and poverty with equal craving. They plunder, they butcher, they ravish, and call it by the lying name of 'empire'. They make a desert and call it 'peace' (2/2)

… Just an unrelated quote from Tacitus.

It is no use trying to escape their arrogance by submission or good behavior. They have pillaged the world: when the land has nothing left for men who ravage everything, they scour the sea. If an enemy is rich, they are greedy, if he is poor, they crave glory. (1/2)

Well and the economic elite

The Spirit certainly must be such a mitigating (victorious? healing?) force, but we also must see our mission as undoing the invasive, destructive, and replicating force of violence. (6/6)

including the "silent" violence that stifles dissent and calls it peace. A remedy to violence that is not escapism, but the active pursuit of life and way of being together made known in the life and resurrection of Jesus, a new world, a kin-dom of God by the power of God's Spirit shared by us (5/6)

I have understood this as the work of Jesus, the cross and resurrection as the power of life in the face of death, life that exposes (not quietly but loudly, not with aversion but with truth to the powers that bring violence) the injustice and violence of the world and powers that perpetuate it(4/6)

but one cannot control its destructive and growing, rippling force. The task of human creatures seeking peace, is to learn to mitigate, stifle, and undo violence, injustice, and hate, not by releasing more violence but by some counteracting force. (3/6)

It echoes and grows; it justifies more violence, and legitimates the need for greater oppressive force to keep it in check. Violence may seem effective and necessary (and I cannot judge what is necessary for those confronted by oppressive forces of death and injustice), (2/6)

I think I like the white better? www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/7900...

Good Friday bids us to expose injustice, violence, the forces of death (especially state forces of death). The body of Christ is the living executed, shamed, and disruptive body of the Messiah that refuses to be disappeared. That’s why we proclaim the death at the Lord’s table, vindicated by life.