Have you read my recent short story?
Alas, Brave New Babylon
(link to the Free Republic thread)
Yes but you would think they would have seen the endings of Saddam, the Coucesceaus, etc and think this through a little further. I guess those types always believe their money and power will protect them, even as they work to stir up hell on earth.
Proverbs 10:15-16, 24-25
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, 15 but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
The wages of the righteous is life, 16 but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.
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What the wicked dread will overtake them; 24 what the righteous desire will be granted.
When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, 25 but the righteous stand firm forever.
Oh and yes I have read your excellent short story. It’s getting too close to possible reality. I fear it may turn out to be a prophetic documentary rather than fiction. : (