World War ISIS 2015: World War III 2115
by Jan Stephen James Cavanaugh, Ph.D. on 01/23/16
The winds of war blew ill in 2015. The end-of-year cover on Time
was “World War ISIS”. We live in a time of war ever-increasing and never-ending,
and, unless something intervenes, WWIII by 2115 is within the realm of
possibility.
Pope Francis began 2015 calling for the end of war, and ended 2015
with his teaching on climate: the interface of ever-intensifying war and global
warming is his prophetic warning.
In our age what is local is global, what is global is local;
humanity is a global family not just in spirit, but in reality. When we
are as concerned about a rape and killing of sister by brother in India or
Syria, or wherever as we are about the rape and killing of a member of our own
family … this will be humanity living global consciousness. Einstein said
this change of consciousness is needed to avoid catastrophic war.
Avoiding WWIII and ending war altogether is the Kennedy to the
moon challenge of this generation.
All that is needed is the human imagination and global will to
make it happen.
What will wake humanity up? “Only a global emergency on a scale
greater than anything we’ve yet seen can accomplish that - the sort of crisis
that forces a new level of global cooperation base on the world’s true balance
of power. It might be war, a financial crisis, a public health threat,
catastrophic terrorism, an environmental disaster. Though that crisis is
approaching, we’re unlikely to get there in 2016. When it finally comes it
will be the biggest story of our time.”(Time December 28, 2015)
I bear witness to these matters and work and pray deeply that out our
children’s children do not have to suffer the age of catastrophe.
