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14 WAR
War is, in reality, one human being murdering another human being.
War is generally defined as armed conflict between nations, but
it is individual human beings who do the actual murdering and the
dying.
War is one man murdering one woman, one woman murdering one man,
one man murdering one man, one woman murdering one woman, one child
murdering one adult, one adult murdering one child. War is one human
being murdering another human being.
Whatever the stated causes of war, the truth is that it is nothing
more than the sacrifice of our children. It is our children who
we allow to be murdered in war and their families must then live
with an inconsolable sorrow. How can this be acceptable to anyone?
War is the result of frustrations in a society that comes to believe
that there is no other solution to a particular social problem.
No nation goes to war with clean hands. No nation murders on the
battlefield with justification.
Powerful nations murder because they think they can get away with
it. They may impose their will on the survivors, but they simultaneously
sow the seeds of future wars. The thought that murder is a solution
to social disagreements is tragically laughable.
How can we delude ourselves into believing that if a person lives
next door to us, he has the same rights as we do, but if he lives
in a foreign land, his life has no value? Is human value, in truth,
based upon the physical location of one's home?
We are all God's children and we are each at one with each other.
The
murder of anyone sends irrevocable and intolerable vibrations throughout
the world. The legacy of violence is always more violence and the
legacy of war is always more war.
We are at one with God and at one with each other and we can never
justify the murder of any human being. Words like justice or God's
will can never justify the great tragedy of humanity murdering itself.
As members of a World Society, we must embrace the great moral condemnation
of murder as the legacy of war. There is no victory in war without
murder and there can never be victory of any kind with murder.
Inner peace comes in the knowing that when we all accept each
and every human being as our neighbor, not only will we refuse to
murder anyone, we will never have to concern ourselves that our
life's blood, our children, will be murdered by anyone else.
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