"[North Korea] will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which the world has never seen before."
It's ghastly to even suggest it but one way we would learn not to make or house nuclear weapons would be to have about half a dozen civilizational centers—across the races and religions and systems of economics and continents that divide us—turned to glass by these horrors.
All of a sudden we'd understand the enormity of the evil these armaments represent.
It would so alter human consciousness that part of being human would forever after be opposition to their existence.
We'd also, for hundreds of years, be limited in traveling to those areas and they would thus remain memorials to our folly that we would fly over and film.
It would be an international memorial holiday to stop and remember our inhumanity, and the reality of human limits in the face of material mysteries like the atom, and—God help us—where the boundary between "can" and "should" lies.
In the meantime, we have to listen to people talk about using these babels as if using them is a moral option, as if using them would show everyone what genuine power looks like.
What genuine power looks like is a feed trough for a crib, and the stars for your roof, and a towel around your waist, and a basin of water in your hands, being nailed helpless to a tree, life blood seeping from your body.
This wounded God is the power that holds the worlds in place, the energy that ignites the stars in ten trillion galaxies, the life that gives breath to every creature on earth.
Humility not arrogance—certainly not the armaments of men—is the source of all genuine strength. Humility is what the Christian worships and trusts.
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