Force and Faith — Turkey

July 18th, 2016 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — “we wrestle not against flesh and blood” ]

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Stalin’s sneering rhetorical question meets Erdogan’s declaration of faith:

Tablet DQ 600 stalin erdogan

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The idea of spiritual force is an old one, found eg in both New Testament and Qur’an —

  • For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. — Ephesians 6.12

  • When you were calling upon your Lord for succour, and He answered you, ‘I shall reinforce you with a thousand angels riding behind you.’ — Qur’an 8.9

    • — and von Clausewitz:

  • One might say that the physical factors seem little more than the wooden hilt, while the moral factors are the precious metal, the real weapon, the finely-honed blade.

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