7/6/2023 0 Comments Atrocitology![]() ![]() (Matthew White, Atrocitology: Humanity’s 100 Deadliest Achievements. ![]() Every great Faith calls on us to manifest love and kindness, so war and the mass violence it causes contravenes the basic teachings of religion and the desires of our Creator.īut war does seem inevitable-after all, we’ve fought wars forever.Īlthough we will never have an accurate body count, historians like Mathew White tell us that the deadliest acts of mass violence between 480 BC and 2002 resulted in the death of approximately 455 million human beings. When we try to solve our issues and difficulties by killing and destroying, we’ve denied our most important spiritual duty as human beings-to love one another. War is the horrible consequence of human anger, human distrust and disastrous human decisions. ![]() Of course, in one sense no war “has to be fought.” War is the worst diplomacy fail. By this, could it be reasoned that while the ideal utopia would have no war, it is okay to fight wars as long as they have to be fought? I know Baha’i teachings are against war, but I also know Shoghi Effendi said that the results of the American Civil War could not have been brought about any other way. Are Baha’is pacifists? A reader asked that important question in this unique way: “it is okay to fight wars as long as they have to be fought?” ![]()
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