I have been reading Jeremiah this week. Jeremiah was not a team player. In the hour of crisis, Jeremiah declined to play the booster. He did not preach "Don't worry; be happy"; instead he condemned the sinful ways of God's people, and was for his trouble was deemed a traitor. Even though the Lord eventually saw to the destruction of Babylon, in his wisdom and providence he did not forbear first to employ them as a chastisement to a people gone astray. Looking at this week's pictures of a desolate lower Manhattan, I could not dismiss from my mind the biblical Lamentation for the desolate Jerusalem.Hard words, but true.
To address the larger issue which you implicitly raise, we must ask ourselves why we oppose this foe. I believe that, if we must act, we must do so to deprive the foe of the ready capacity to harm innocents. I say the 'ready' capacity because the foe will always, at least in the near term, be able to harm innocents in some ways. But we should (dare I say must? might it indeed be our duty to?) make it more difficult for the foe to cause such harm.Also very true.
Dominus Vobiscum
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