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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 12 Feb 2001, LUIS VILDOSOLA wrote: > > > >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- > > "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 > > > ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
