Civilization Versus Chaos

The codification of law came into being with Hammurabi's Code in what today would be called the Middle East. Over the centuries, order emerged and that region became sacred to three major world religions. One of these faiths has yet to undergo a reformation and still clings to practices that were the norm for other folks around 700AD. Muslims still employ stoning, beheading, and crucifixion. Much of the rest of the world has enjoyed democracy for a century or more, but the Islamic World is just now dabbling with concepts of self-determination. Fundamentalist Muslims profess an open disdain for democracy and instead, embrace submission under Sharia. What the so-called Arab Spring unleashed now appears ugly, dangerous, bloody, and destabilizing for the whole world. Nostradamus and Revelations warn of great cataclysm with tribulation in the Mideast. Let us pray that the movement toward global conflagration may be arrested before it is too late.