"The world is at war and the human race is in travail and mortal combat. The dark night of hate hath taken over, and the light of good faith is blotted out. The peoples and kindreds of the earth have sharpened their claws, and are hurling themselves one against the other. It is the very foundation of the human race that is being destroyed. It is thousands of households that are vagrant and dispossessed, and every year seeth thousands upon thousands of human beings weltering in their life-blood on dusty battlefields. The tents of life and joy are down. The generals practice their generalship, boasting of the blood they shed, competing one with the next in inciting to violence. ‘With this sword,’ saith one of them, ‘I beheaded a people!’ And another: ‘I toppled a nation to the ground!’ And yet another: ‘I brought a government down!’ On such things do men pride themselves, in such do they glory! Love--righteousness--these are everywhere censured, while despised are harmony, and devotion to the truth."'Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha, p. 2
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Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
Acts 4:23 - 37
A most challenging and exciting part of the New Testament.
With love,
Mom
ya need to be a mom, ya need to bring up children in order to ask such wise and good question.
‘I beheaded a people!’ And another: ‘I toppled a nation to the ground!’ And yet another: ‘I brought a government down!’ On such things do men pride themselves, in such do they glory!
Fits in perfectly with Iraq today.
Yah,
And here be the kicker! — It was written by a spiritual leader named Abdu'l-Baha, who was alive from 1844-1921.
I could not find the date he wrote these words, but they are certain to be close to (if not more than) 100 years old.
Like yer avatar btw.
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