Our institutions reflect our belief systems, and some good progress is being made in the external world, as there is a sense of an increasing shift toward a global awareness. Generally supporting institutions like the United Nations and the World Court, although they are often still embarrassingly sectarian in their decisions, is important because they are the wobbling first steps on a social and political level for creating world peace. The external laws, policies, and efforts at international justice of these institutions support and create an international matrix needed for a shift toward international brother- and sisterhood. Perhaps, as part of this movement toward strengthening international institutions, we are now in the process of a paradigm shift toward respect for civil and human rights as a value system to guide us to work out differences in the world community rather than the old mode of seeing war as a way to solve problems. There will come a time when war will be as outmoded and ethically unacceptable as the institution of slavery. Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, MD Creating Peace by Being Peace
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:40:09 +0000
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