Bruderhof wrote:
> Bruderhof wrote:
>
>> Anyone with eyes in his head can see that in Europe nothing could be
>> more sensible than efforts for peace. Whoever would speak word against
>> peace today is making a mistake. True, there is still a certain
>> political atmosphere winch has been cooked up, as it were. For
>> centuries now a kind of lust for war has been working itself into the
>> flesh and blood of Europeans and other peoples. This war-lust reigns
>> within some sectors of the population; but stable people know nothing
>> of it. Nevertheless, they let themselves too easily become enthused
>> about it, because in the back of their minds still sleeps the idea,
>> “There must be wars.”
>>
>
> To this very day, in the political world there are certain questions for
> which we can find no solution except the sword. But it is scandalous to
> think that there should be no other solution than knocking one another
> around to see who is the more fortunate (one hardly can say “more
> powerful,” because there are thousands of instances in which the more
> powerful have gone under)...
>
Whoever can think of it, should think once of how shriveled we are in a
political sense. This great, round earth with its peoples, what an
unconfined playground it could be for a genuine humanity, and how small we
have made it in dividing up ourselves as tigers and lambs, fox and
geese—with, naturally, the fox gobbling down the geese. On this earth,
things go according to particular rules of animal life, and the life of
the
Spirit is not to be found.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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