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--- Quote from: Craig on November 14, 2013, 08:30:24 AM ---
--- Quote ---As evil only seems to increase in the world
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Actually we live in a relatively good time. If evil really hit everyone hard, most would fold like a stack of newspapers.
Craig
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Very true. Peace, peace and there is no peace -BUT- be thankful for the relative "good times" we have now.
lareli:
--- Quote from: Craig on November 14, 2013, 08:30:24 AM ---
--- Quote ---As evil only seems to increase in the world
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History proves that evil has been much worse in the past. The difference now is the advent of news, internet and the population explosion. A flea farts on the other side of the world and we hear about it. In the past something happening in another state or county would harldy make the local news. Now all news is local.
Actually we live in a relatively good time. If evil really hit everyone hard, most would fold like a stack of newspapers.
Craig
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I guess it depends on how you define 'evil'. Ive also been intrigued by history more and more over the passed couple years, and so I think (Apologies if Im off base) you might be reffering to evil in the form of mass killings and brutalities such as Hitler killing 6 million Jews, or the brutalities of Gengis Kahn, or the attempted genocide of the Native American and enslaving of Africans etc. etc.
But what about deciet? Is killing someone more evil than lying to someone? Perhaps it seems that these days arent as evil as former days because we view certain evils as worse than others?
Craig:
--- Quote from: largeli on November 14, 2013, 05:08:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: Craig on November 14, 2013, 08:30:24 AM ---
--- Quote ---As evil only seems to increase in the world
--- End quote ---
History proves that evil has been much worse in the past. The difference now is the advent of news, internet and the population explosion. A flea farts on the other side of the world and we hear about it. In the past something happening in another state or county would hardly make the local news. Now all news is local.
Actually we live in a relatively good time. If evil really hit everyone hard, most would fold like a stack of newspapers.
Craig
--- End quote ---
I guess it depends on how you define 'evil'. Ive also been intrigued by history more and more over the passed couple years, and so I think (Apologies if Im off base) you might be referring to evil in the form of mass killings and brutalities such as Hitler killing 6 million Jews, or the brutalities of Gengis Kahn, or the attempted genocide of the Native American and enslaving of Africans etc. etc.
But what about deciet? Is killing someone more evil than lying to someone? Perhaps it seems that these days arent as evil as former days because we view certain evils as worse than others?
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No, I don't think so. What makes you think deceit is worse now then in the past? Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar. The deceit of people, leaders and government is probably not worse. Want to see some evil deceitful people? Check out the early Popes. And it is just not the mass killing like Hitler, it is also the treatment of our fellow men, the way women are treated, children abused and everything else; through history it has been just as bad and worse in most things. We think the world and the US is evil now, because of sexuality, drunkenness government deceit and abuse? Just study the roaring 20's. We cannot claim the title of being worse now, maybe not better but certainly not worse. As I said before because of technology and news, people who were shielded from debauchery in the past see it in the open now. There is nothing new under the sun.
Craig
Kat:
I totally agree Craig, I too was reading up on historical accounts of centuries pass... it is incredulous the atrocities that have taken place in every class of people. The fact is humanity is carnal and has a proclivity towards wickedness - selfishness - corruption, we are too spiritual weak to resist sin now and all throughout history. Evil is evil and the world has always had plenty of it.
Now one thing I see is that as the population keeps growing, that naturally increases the number of carnal people that live on this earth... so just by sheer volume of people on earth wickedness will increase.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
lareli:
Kat I agree. Just 300 years ago there were less than 1 billion people alive. Today it's close to 7 billion.
Another way to put it is that 300 years ago there were less than 1 billion 'sinners' alive and today there are somewhere around 7 billion 'sinners' alive.
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