"We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on The Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living." -General Omar Nelson Bradly - Armistice Day 1948This is the last stanza of the "Prayer of Nonviolence" By John Dear (June, 2005)
"God of Nonviolence, Disarm my heart, and I shall be your instrument to disarm other hearts and the world. Lead me, God of nonviolence, with the whole human family, into your nonviolent reign of justice and peace where there is no more war, no more injustice, no more poverty, no more nuclear weapons, no more violence.I askof the nonviolent Jesus, our brother and our peace. Amen."
"... brilliance without wisdom ..." -- I think of the obliterating light of those bombs, and the blinding intellectual prowess that allows people to design and deploy such weapons ...
ReplyDeleteRoberta, have you read Lydia Millet's *Oh Pure and Radiant Heart* or Kamila Shamsie's *Burnt Shadows*?
Bless xo
Jaliya,
ReplyDeleteNo, i have not read either of those. tell me more....