So the American dream was busted - just like a bubble. Who are there to cheer on? The little children - the innocents. Now they can have their preoccupied parents back into the families, doing what families should be doing (like working or playing together in the snow) instead of running around trying to make more bubbles.
So what do you expect if you take the steel frames away from a building? It becomes a house of cards which cannot withstand the slightest breeze. What do you get when you take away Jesus out of the families, classrooms and societies? there is no truth anywhere anymore. Our world becomes a dungeon filled with wild beasts devouring each other. Can it really be that bad? Think - politicians or government heads manuver policies based on greed and ambition, denying humanity. (President Bush and his cohorts said their country has been safe since 9/11. Safe from what? Most of the hurrican victims are still waiting for help, almost the whole world was dragged down financially by the American controlled stock market). Supreme court judges favour the criminals, CEO's care more about their own pockets than products or workers, university professors teach pride of knowledge, confusing wrong with right , creating more people of the above, media advocates more tolerance on immorality. Children are rebellious in the classrooms and families become delapidated warm houses.
Was the old days any better? Not necessary. Depend on how you looked at it in history. There were a lot more fiercesome battles during WWI and WW2. There were tens of thousands soldiiers and civilians died in different countries. But people knew they were dying for the right cause and they had hope in life after death.
I remember when I first stayed in Toronto 40 years ago, people bragged that they did not have to lock their front doors in the downtown part of the city at night. Forty years is a relatively short time. To me, it is like the blink of my eyes. Our world is getting smaller but more complicated as a result. We tried to reach out or solve problems with our own device, it is like trying to put out the California fire with a stong wind blowing on our back.
And Jesus talks about building a house on the sand.
So what do you expect if you take the steel frames away from a building? It becomes a house of cards which cannot withstand the slightest breeze. What do you get when you take away Jesus out of the families, classrooms and societies? there is no truth anywhere anymore. Our world becomes a dungeon filled with wild beasts devouring each other. Can it really be that bad? Think - politicians or government heads manuver policies based on greed and ambition, denying humanity. (President Bush and his cohorts said their country has been safe since 9/11. Safe from what? Most of the hurrican victims are still waiting for help, almost the whole world was dragged down financially by the American controlled stock market). Supreme court judges favour the criminals, CEO's care more about their own pockets than products or workers, university professors teach pride of knowledge, confusing wrong with right , creating more people of the above, media advocates more tolerance on immorality. Children are rebellious in the classrooms and families become delapidated warm houses.
Was the old days any better? Not necessary. Depend on how you looked at it in history. There were a lot more fiercesome battles during WWI and WW2. There were tens of thousands soldiiers and civilians died in different countries. But people knew they were dying for the right cause and they had hope in life after death.
I remember when I first stayed in Toronto 40 years ago, people bragged that they did not have to lock their front doors in the downtown part of the city at night. Forty years is a relatively short time. To me, it is like the blink of my eyes. Our world is getting smaller but more complicated as a result. We tried to reach out or solve problems with our own device, it is like trying to put out the California fire with a stong wind blowing on our back.
And Jesus talks about building a house on the sand.
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