Thanks for getting back on this issue. However materially or epistemologically contaminated the world becomes, the meek are the most in number today and historically. Take a look at the third world, it lives on charity and contamination in great numbers. Indeed, if there is a world to inherit and the human race is not destroyed as you say by a nuclear furnace, it looks to me the meek will inherit the world. That is my view and try projecting it without value judgments. Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net> wrote:

On 12 Feb 2001, LUIS VILDOSOLA wrote:

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But let's not worry so much of differences in power, for the poor and

peace

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makers will inherit the world. -somewhere in the Bible-

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." -Matthew 5, verse 5.

Think about that, though. While it may have seemed reassuring to our ancestors, who did not anticipate modern capabilities for destruction, what exactly will be left for the meek to inherit, after all the non-meek run roughshod over this sorry old planet until it becomes too decripit for them to exploit and they go elsewhere leaving it to the meek?

I don't think prime real estate, exactly, Perhaps a near-barren rock with a poisonous radioactive atmosphere and a few surviving species of insects and fungus. Perhaps less than that.

I regard that one verse, and its implications, as one of the most dire, tragic, and hopeless of all the prophecies in the bible.

Bear

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