Neil Young has just recorded an anti-war protest album: On the title track, he sings: "In the mosques and the doors of the old museum, I take a holy vow, to never kill again, try to remember peace."Nice sentiment. I'm quite certain the madmen in Tehran and elsewhere would simply laugh at that. They have no intention of taking a "holy vow" to never kill; indeed, they've taken vows to do the exact opposite.
When they develop or acquire their nuclear weapons -- which is inevitable -- they'll not use them initially to destroy cities, but rather to blackmail the world. And the western world has no stomach for confrontation, so it'll capitulate. Europe first, then outward from there.
The threat to our future is not the nuclear weapons, per se, but rather the people behind them. And right now the threat is radical Islam and, by dint of silence, the rest of Islam that refuses to condemn the rogue element within it.
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You're right, most people would vastly prefer an omnipotent God that has no particular individual concern for them. Such concern suggests accountability to the God, which is what our very beings flee from. That is why so many people try to eliminate God from their reality.
Most people deny that they're fleeing from accountability. But that's what it is.
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On or about Easter each year the news shows trot out stories about the "historical Jesus." They're all the same -- they scrub the Gospel of any hint of the supernatural and treat it as merely an account of one man's life.
One news program tagged their program with "Jesus was one of the most powerful men alive." To that I had to laugh. Poor choice of words. If Jesus was God as man, then "one of" is wrong -- Jesus was (and is) the most powerful of all time. He simply chose not to exercise that power in his human form. But, if Jesus was merely a man, then he was clearly not powerful. Influential, perhaps, in his death ... but powerful in life he was not.
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