10But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, 11'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. We hear the pronouncement as an accusation. But the truth is, we don't have peace, not any more. Nor can we deny that peace is lacking in our world. Murder is commonplace.
Politicians slander each other.
Instead of peace, what we have is an abundance of anger, selfishness, and closed-mindedness. We don't listen to each other. We don't talk to each other, only at each other. Our practice is like the snapping jaws of snarling beasts. We can't hear the message of peace because we can't get past our own evil desire to be self-sufficient.