This satirical painting may look like a triple, cream sickle ice cream, but it’s also intended to represent a multiple, nuclear (warhead) explosion perched atop an ice cream cone base. This seemingly odd connection isn’t meant to be funny. It’s meant to bring about food for thought. Just because I (the Americans and/or the Russians?) can blow whomever to kingdom come doesn’t mean they’re in the right to do so. Might doesn’t make right–right? Obviously, that’s not a heavenly halo surrounding the uppermost blast. Not even remotely close.

The superpowers of late (the US) and the Russians have chosen to break with the present treaty which limited the number of missiles a superpower could stockpile. Holding a nuclear advantage (in the number of missiles) over your opponent doesn’t always work out as planed. Being more efficient at exterminating people doesn’t in my mind qualify for praise (think Nazi Germany’s holocaust). I’ll leave the mass exterminations up to God (the Flood). Besides, Jesus cautions us to not be afraid of those who would kill the body but not the soul. But be afraid of the One who can destroy both body and soul in hell. (Matthew 10:28. NIV)

I liken the situation to the doping craze some well intending athletes feel they have to give in to in order to be competitive. The same holds true for guns. Are they also a necessary evil? Do I have to have easy access to one in order to feel safe in America? God help us (because we don’t know how to do so ourselves!)
And God never intended for us to go it alone, on our own accord. “I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not in himself, nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps”. (NASB)