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Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Dream of a Nuclear Free World


I had a dream last year that was so real I still think about it. I was up on a mountain and saw a nuclear detonation about 10 miles away, I think I was in Tucson, so I take cover behind a large rock and I feel the moment of being pulverized....and I had to wake up to see if I was dead.

Obama spoke on the desire to rid the world of nuclear weapons on a sound bite, and quoted Ronald Reagan on his belief that we should end nuclear weapons. He spoke of the power to destroy masses of people and everything we have built must never happen again.

I googled it and found a NYTimes article that called the President naive and wasting time even thinking in this direction. I always wonder, quite naively, why a nation that calls itself Christian..would not practice the golden rule. Why is peace through strength or speak softly and carry a big stick a better approach to this problem?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why??????
Because there is nevil in this world/age that belives that killing you/me ia the will of God.

Rom 13:1-4
13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil . Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil , be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil .
KJV

Don said...

With all due respect, this verse speaks of local government that have the power to imprison or execute the guilty. Nuclear Weapons annihilate hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and are you then saying the God has appointed the USA to be the ruler of the world, because that is precisely my point. Nuclear warfare is mutually assured destruction.

Anonymous said...

We live in a fallen world/age sometimes God use's evil to restrain evil.Ask your self what kind of nation would we be if we did'nt have the more and bigger bombs.Would we still be the u.s.a?????