Here's a posible future, I tdon't just think that it a fevered sci-fi scenario it is a foreseeable consequence of a combination of factors many of which are already at work in our world, just add in peak oil issues and stand back. "'Imagine a great metropolis covering hundreds of square miles. Once a vital component in a national economy, this sprawling urban environment is now a vast collection of blighted buildings, an immense petri dish of both ancient and new diseases, a territory where the rule of law has long been replaced by near anarchy in which the only security available is that which is attained through brute power"
The thing that arises for me, as a Christian, is how we respond to that. The Augustinian appraoch to the nearest comparable historical event [the collapse of the Roman empire -unless anyone else has some other analogues] was to encourage Christians to use state power and so get into the violence 'game' with the hope that it could be wielded for good and there are some arguable successes for that approach: King Alfred of Wessex might count. Though the latter is flawed in my view by being too readily available to justify [as I have heard the Israeli ambassodor on TV say] repressive governance in Israel Palestine ... DO we have a way forward which is perhaps more in keeping with the anabaptist spirit on this which I feel has more gospel about it ...?
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