knowledge is compassion

Somebody made the comment today that knowledge is compassion. We often heard the old adage, 'knowledge is power' and we end up with fights and brutal wars. Often, I am amazed as the brutality of people. Espescially people that you expect to be mature and sophisticated, intelligent people. What do you do in these situations ? Does one succumb to the temptation of simply letting go and give him what you've got. Or what ?

The challenge for Christians is to be conscious of the choices me make and why we make it. We become people conscious of our mental state and how the minds operate. The apostle Paul makes an interesting statement, he states, 'we destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ....' (2 Cor 10:5-6)

He is conscious of thoughts of the workings of the mind- because the brutality is bred, in an environment where we allow rash thoughts to control our behaviour. If knowledge doesn't breed a new humanity, new relationships then its simply vanity.