[The meek will inherit what, exactly?]
LUIS VILDOSOLA
lvild at usa.net
Mon Feb 12 20:49:44 PST 2001
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 at sonic.net> wrote:
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> 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
> >makers will inherit the world. -somewhere in the Bible-
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> "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
> -Matthew 5, verse 5.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> I regard that one verse, and its implications, as one of the most
> dire, tragic, and hopeless of all the prophecies in the bible.
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> Bear
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