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Eye on the world: Responding to terrorism
In “Caring for Islamic State’s victims” The Christian Science Monitor reports that the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Iraq and Syria has killed thousands of people, while its supporters abroad have killed hundreds more. “IS’s death-filled violence is designed to instill fear and weaken the resistance of its perceived enemies….” However, in the wake of recent events like the IS-inspired mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, the Monitor asserts that “what clearly unites the rest of the world against IS—and sets it above the group—is the way that the victims of IS are treated with life-affirming compassion and truth that help restore their dignity and identity.” Humanity’s powerful response to terrorism with love will quell the bondage of hatred.
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments.
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
Mind is supreme: Love is the master of hate; Truth, the victor over a lie.
— Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896 p. 336
Whatever indicates the fall of man or the opposite of God or God’s absence, is the Adam-dream, which is neither Mind nor man, for it is not begotten of the Father. The rule of inversion infers from error its opposite, Truth; but Truth is the light which dispels error. As mortals begin to understand Spirit, they give up the belief that there is any true existence apart from God.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 282–283
Related articles from The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Some thoughts on terrorism”: “... the light of Truth, a synonym of God in Christian Science, exposes and expunges evil in all its manifestations. ” And “Despite material appearances, the spiritual fact is that God, who is entirely good, never created a man capable of evil or error. Nor can man, whose very heart is fashioned by God (see Psalms 33:15 ), be conditioned into hatred by ethnicity or nationalism or by false views of religion or God.”
In “Halting hatred”: “If one is able to recognize the power and presence of universal Love, hatred can be halted.” And “As we glimpse Love’s allness through prayer, it has an impact similar to the effect of turning on a light in a dark room. It eliminates anything unlike itself.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.