Human suffering is the product of the immense unrest in Syria and elsewhere in the Mideast. A secondary tragedy is the loss of innumerable religious and archeological treasures.
Many of the cities date to well before the birth of Christ. Things to do with Christian, Muslim and Buddhist worship have been destroyed, often with raucous and horrible zeal.
The current savagery going on in Aleppo could have been worse from that perspective had not the famous Aleppo Codex been removed many years ago, now housed in a secret vault in an Israeli museum.
The codex is reputed to be the oldest — scribed in the 900s — and most accurate version of the Hebrew Bible. Its current residence, albeit less 200 of its 500 pages that mysteriously disappeared, is sequestered with the museum’s collection of Dead Sea Scrolls, found starting in 1947.
The Aleppo Codex is revered by many worshipers as being a direct link to God — a tenet of all those of faith, regardless of Bible.
To see such wanton and careless destruction of religious and historically significant buildings and artifacts is yet another reason to abhor war and work diligently to prevent its occurrence.
The most prominent reason: People are killed, often the flower of nations’ young.
— Bob Johnson
