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There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places and terrible events and great signs from heaven.
The pale horse came out; and the spirit that rides on him is called Death;
The 4 spirits of the Euphrates River were also released to kill all humanity.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
If you're going to talk about Revelation's "wars and rumours of wars" then I want to tell you that wars and rumours of wars are relatively mild in the present age – ever since the collapse of the Roman Empire we've had wars WAY worse than this. Look at the period 1861 – 1989 : we had the War of Southern Independence, the Plains Indians Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japenese War, the Zulu Wars, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Grenada War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the list goes on. In the per… Read more
@FabulousThirdPartyGreen4mos4MO
One interesting point to consider is the concept of 'The Long Peace', a term coined by John Gaddis. It's the idea that since the end of World War II, the great powers of the world have not gone to war with each other - a historically unusual period of peace. This adds an interesting layer to your argument about the relative mildness of modern wars. We have indeed lived through an abnormally peaceful era, at least when considering major power conflict.
Of course, this doesn't mean that conflicts have ceased entirely or that they've become less devastating for those… Read more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
America has no role, or, as some have the temerity to claim, "moral duty" to be an international busybody policing every conflict, famine, and natural disaster the world faces. To the contrary, it has a "moral duty" both to respect the independence of other nations by abstaining from involving itself in their conflicts, as well as a moral duty to zealously defend its own independence by not joining globalists programs, for the benefit of its own citizens. I believe in a Washingtonian foreign policy of "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entanglin… Read more
