I am reading a new book about religion and politics, my two favorite subjects.... and here's an interesting excerpt:
Most of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. Coveting begins with appreciating blessings. Murder begins with a hunger for justice. Lust begins with a recognition of beauty. Gluttony begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of God start to consume us. Idolatry begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of worship.
continuing on i found this real winner quote from Harry Truman:
"Having found the atomic bomb, we have used it. We shall continue to use it...It is an awful responsibility which has come to us. We thank God that it(the atomic bomb) has come to us instead of to our enemies and we pray that he may guide us to use it in his ways and for his purposes."
wait...did i just read that correctly? excuse me, but who made us the moral police? and using weapons of mass destruction in the name of God? i suppose his purposes line up with the US domination of the globe all in the name of freedom. what a concept.
another great quote:
"Every war...with all its ordinary consequences...the murder with the justifications of its necessity and justice, the exaltation and glorifications of military exploits, the worship of the flag, the patriotic sentiments...and so on, does more in one year to pervert men's minds than thousands of robberies, murders, and arsons perpetrated during hundreds of years by individual men under the influence of passion." -Leo Tolstoy
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