Walter Wink (1935 - 2012 AD)
"Violence is the ethos of our times. It is the spirituality of the modem world. It has been accorded the status of a religion, demanding from its devotees an absolute obedience to death. Its followers are not aware, however, that the devotion they pay to violence is a form of religious piety. Violence is so successful as a myth precisely because it does not seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It is what works. It is inevitable, the last and, often, the first resort in conflicts. It is embraced with equal alacrity by people on the left and on the right, by religious liberals as well as religious conservatives. The threat of violence, it is believed, is alone able to deter aggressors. It secured us forty-five years of a balance of terror. We learned to trust the Bomb to grant us peace."*
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* Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 218-223). Kindle Edition.
Walter Wink (May 21, 1935–May 10, 2012 AD) was an American biblical scholar, theologian, and activist ... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wink)