The response must be 200 words and use at least 2 scholarly citation(s) in APA format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years. Acceptable sources include texts, articles, presentations, the Bible, blogs, videos, etc.
Textbook:
Johnson, T. A. (2015). Cybersecurity: Protecting critical infrastructures from cyber attack and cyber warfare.Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN: 9781482239225.
Pichtel, J. (2016). Terrorism and WMDs (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN: 9781498738989.
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CBRNE
CBRNE is an acronym for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives. These types of weapons have the ability to create both mass casualties as well as mass disruption of society. As a result, multiple systems have been put into place to address potential CBRNE events and other emergencies.
National Incident Management System
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is an emergency preparedness, response, and recovery system designed by the Department of Homeland Security (Anderson et al., 2016). The purpose of the NIMS is to provide a comprehensive, nationwide approach to emergency management, enabling all stakeholders in a community to work together effectively, regardless of the cause, size, location, or complexity of the emergency or threat (Buck et al., 2017). Three components of the NIMS are to command and coordinate incidents, resource management, and information management. While the NIMS does not offer specific plans for any particular incident, the NIMS is still essential to addressing any CBRNE event. In a CBRNE event, the NIMS helps all groups involved in emergency planning, response, and recovery. The NIMS also ensures that vital resources are being distributed to the impacted areas.
Incident Command System
The Incident Command System (ICS) was created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and is a part of the NIMS. The ICS is a standardized management tool for meeting the demands of small or large emergency or non-emergency situations (Buck et al., 2017). According to Bennet (2016) the ICS provides guidance for how to organize assets to respond to an incident and processes to manage the response through its successive stages. The organizing of assets and response management is important in any CBRNE event. In any CBRNE event or other emergencies, response assets are divided into five areas. The five areas are command, operations, planning, logistics, and administration/finance. Overall, the ICS provides multiple organizations responding to a CBRNE incident a way to coordinate and focus their efforts efficiently by setting aside overlaps and competition across authorities and jurisdictions (Buck et al., 2017).
Personal Protective Equipment
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is equipment worn during any hazards. PPE may include items such as gloves, safety glasses, shoes, earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, or coveralls, vests and full body suits (Akbar-Khanzadeh et al., 2016). PPE is important in any CBRNE event to limit injuries and illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical, radiological, nuclear, and/or any other hazardous material. PPE is also important to protect individuals from physical, electrical, mechanical, and other workplace hazards.
Biblical Worldview
The National Incident Management System, the Incident Command System, and Personal Projective Equipment ensures that the United States is prepared for any emergency, not just CBRNE events. Multiple Bible verses discussing being prepared. One Bible verse states, “Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (King James Bible, 1796/2020, Matthew 24:44).
Sample Solution
Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell.
In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.
God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.
Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.
To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.
References
Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.
Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.
Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.
