Now humankind has the power to undo creation. We have enough nuclear-tipped rockets aimed at one another to destroy the earth many times over. We kept the Russians from firing their nuclear weapons at us by having enough weapons aimed back at them to assure mutual destruction. And they returned the favor. As strange a defense as it is, it seems to have worked so far.
People relate to one another in a private form of atomic warfare.
I've seen it all too often, and I'm sure you have too. It pictures us as passive recipients of the disaster that hits. But most of the time the destruction is of our own making. It was that way for the people of Israel. The major thesis of the prophets of old was that the Hebrew people were turning from God and bringing destruction on themselves.