Will we ever witness peace in our lifetime? It is a chilling and grim fact that we, as the current generation, have been witnesses to over 70 years of continued warfare in every corner of our poverty stricken world. It seems the mystical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse still ride their fiery steeds across the lands, war, famine, pestilence and death are our constant companions.
Across the world, military conflicts are raging unabated, while the United Nations is powerless to intervene. When you read the news, it seems mankind is always at war somewhere. Mankind has practised warfare as a way of life.
In the last 3 428 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war. War is almost considered an inevitable and peace is only a vague utopian dream. It was U.S.
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General Douglas MacArthur who issued this solemn statement at the end of World War 2: “Military alliances, balances of power, league of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be the way of the crucible war. The utter destruction of war now blacks out this alternative. We have had our last chance.
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door.” From the beginning of the universe some 15 billion years ago, it took 10,5 billion years before our planet was formed, and another 500 million years to produce life. From the first life on earth, it took nearly 4 billion years, up until 10000 years, to produce civilisation. It is only in the last 65 years, barely a tick of the cosmic clock, that we have developed, deployed and used weapons capable of omnicide.
It took nearly 15 billion years to create the self-awareness of the universe that we humans represent. This self-awareness could be lost in a blinding flash of a thermonuclear war and the nuclear winter that would follow. Armageddon lies at our doorstep. We pray for true peace and sincere justice in 2026.
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