How’s That Again?

Scripture References: Judges 11:27; Mark 13:7-8

In May, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur explained why he didn’t feel that war with North Korea was imminent. The nature of warfare had fundamentally altered its acceptability to the common people of the world, the brilliant strategist declared. Perhaps it once served a useful purpose in settling quarrels when hand-to-hand combat killed only a few, but total warfare, afflicting millions indiscriminately, had rendered the idea so loathsome that people would neither seek nor allow it.

A general of the United States Army actually made these statements; a man widely read in human history, a warrior from his youth. For a full year North Korea had been stockpiling military supplies and troops on her southern border, and MacArthur had seen CIA reports forecasting war in June 1950. On June 25, 1950, five weeks after his comments, North Korea invaded South Korea.

Humanity and war go together like secrecy and paranoia. We find ourselves in constant conflict with each other because we all war with our Maker.

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