The most destructive power in the world may not be nuclear power, chemical warfare, biological weapons, or any modern invention of military science.
Such weapons are terrifying because they can destroy cities, poison nations, and leave generations wounded. Yet hatred has done something even more widespread: it has entered homes, governments, religions, schools, courts, streets, churches, and nations. It does not need a missile silo, a laboratory, or a battlefield. It only needs a willing heart.
A bomb may explode once, but hatred keeps reproducing itself. It passes from father to son, from teacher to student, from preacher to hearer, from politician to crowd, from nation to nation. It can make people believe cruelty is duty, revenge is justice, and murder is courage. In that sense, hatred is a mass of destructive power, not always seen at once, but always working beneath the surface. It is spiritual fallout.
