[Vision2020] Interfaith Panel Thurs. May 15

[Kai Eiselein, Editor]

Only when greed, anger, jealousy and sociopathic tendencies are bred out of 
the human race will peace and harmony have any chance to flourish.
My bet is that the sun will burn up the Earth long before that happens.

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From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Interfaith Panel Thurs. May 15

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Kai Eiselein, Editor
> <editor at lataheagle.com> wrote:
>
>> Of course someone with an even more jaded outlook could ask, "Why isn't
>> there someone on the panel who believes harmony and peace are 
>> unattainable?"
>> If you look at human history, everywhere, it not just a European 
>> phenomenon
>> (attn: Chas), war is a constant throughout that history. Peace is not.
>> Humans have fought each other for thousands upon thousands of years. I
>> highly doubt there has been period of note where there has not been a war
>> somewhere on this planet.
>
> I believe that peace and harmony are attainable.  I don't believe that
> they are necessarily a realistic expectation, but I do believe that
> they are within our grasp.
>
> Corinthians 13:11
> When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
> thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
> things.
>
> It is naive of me, I acknowledge, but I hope that mankind is leaving
> its infancy -- it might take several hundred more years , who knows --
> and is preparing to put away its childish things.  Religions are
> evolving into more ecumenical creations, finally concentrating more on
> charity than doctrine.  I believe we have a chance at peace and
> harmony, if we continue to work for it.  A slim chance, but still a
> chance.
>
> Chas
>
Kai Eiselein
Editor, Latah Eagle