Contemptus Mundi

David Alan Black / The Covenant News:
Even as we commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, we are gearing up for another major conflict, this time with Iran. How and why can this be happening? I think the answer is to be found, at least partly, in our false understanding of "truth." What Americans desire is not "the truth" so much as "to be right." As long as we are "right," we may use any argument to prove it. We need others to be wrong, if only to preserve the fiction that our righteousness is vindicated. No wonder we lie. No wonder we make war. Our lies and our wars provide the foundation of "truth" upon which we erect our Towers of Babel. Never mind that the end result is untold suffering, murder, and disaster.

Posted by Editor at March 25, 2008 04:03 AM