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How Can Christian Believers Thrive Amidst A World Full Of Violence?

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There has always been violence in the world. It has been estimated that 3180 out of 3357 years, have been years of war. From the year 496 to 1860, there were only 227 years of peace. The ratio has been 18 years of war to one year of peace. Today there’s more wars; no doubt sophisticated and more fatalities but, there is something different about the violence of our day: It is the silent violence accomplished using the law to our own advantage. The late Catholic Archbishop Fulton Sheen reckoned that this is because humans have despaired for losing their God-given purpose. Case in point: When we have more enthusiasm in being anti-something, more than we cultivates good moral values, good virtues in ourselves, this can be distracting because violence is not the only ill in our society! There are more unfortunately. The trouble is that, without God, all the paths we take lands us back in to the same troubles we were avoiding in the first place. I call this a loop of self-misguidance. In t