Today society is faced with an agony that confuses and divides many journalists, theologians, statesman, and ordinary citizens. As desperate terrorists commit tragic crimes against humanity, some voices call for revenge, others for patient negotiation. But revenge brings no lasting solution, and impatience increases as the agony goes on.
Circumstances today are pushing us to look to spiritual resources not just to console our anguish over the effects of terrorism but to protect ourselves and others from that terrorism. It can be done. We must be modest, but the solution is present. It takes the form of a higher spiritual idea than most of us now understand. But it is not beyond us by any means. We need to look more deeply and carefully in the right place.
The right place for us to look is the life and teachings of Christ Jesus. He was confronted with treachery, betrayal, injustice, brutality, and execution. Yet through God's love he prevailed. Through divine law he was victorious. He stepped out of his bare tomb; and the Science of eternal Life this illustrates sheds the purest, most powerful light that ever has or ever will grace the human race.
