No, I'm actually saying that any improvements are swallowed up by the things that have gotten worse. Has world leadership improved any in your lifetime? Have they made sure that their subjects are as well off as themselves? Do you see vast discrepancies in the living standards of average people compared to the ones who are governing the world?
I am saying that in view of the vast experience of thousands of years of humans trying all kinds of different modes of rulership, they have never achieved one that actually works for the good of all. They have not eradicated disease, crime or poverty, despite their massive wealth. Yet there never seems to be a shortage of money for sport or increases in politician's salaries.
Is that a comfort to those who are dying from the number one killers in the world today? Cancer and heart disease take more lives than all the supposed "cures" have ever saved. Prescription drugs, used to "treat" our many diseases have caused more deaths that all the illegal drugs ever have. "Cures" are extremely rare because there is no profit in cures.....lots of profit in ongoing treatments though.
It seems obvious to me that all those medical "breakthroughs" that we hear about, never materialize in the real world......they all seem to be 10 years away.....ever wonder why? Ever wonder what happened to those "breakthroughs" we heard about 10 years ago?
This is not a third world country.....homelessness is a stark reality even in wealthy countries like the USA.
Should any person, let alone children be forced to live like this? Shouldn't the measure of a government's achievement be demonstrated by how well they take care of their most vulnerable citizens?
How often? Can't really see it. It seems to me as if we have some of the physical violence replaced by psychological violence perpetrated in cyber space by anonymous bullies and trolls intent on inflicting as much emotional harm on others as they can muster. "Non-violent" has a new definition these days, I think.
Achievements have to offset the gross errors. What have humans really achieved when you break it all down, For every good thing they have accomplished, there are way more detrimental things that have resulted.
Take our fascination with the internet. The populations of just about every nation are addicted to their devices which now form a part of their daily routine. It has opened up channels of communication that we never thought possible decades ago. Yet how much radiation are we all exposed to because of how widespread it is and how much more power it has to generate with each new upgrade. How many of us are experiencing memory loss on a scale never seen before? Even among young people? We see warnings galore about not using cell phones without being hands free....yet every second person you see has a phone glued to the side of their head. Brain cancers are becoming epidemic and surgeons are alarmed that this message is not getting through.
Texting is so popular that some teens have lost the art of communication in real life. How many lives are lost because people think that they can text and drive?
How narrow do we have to make the definition before we see something that has no down sides that cancel out the good things?
Tell that to the homeless people. Out of 15 of the worst cities in the world for homelessness, 6 of them are in the USA. How does that happen, when billions of dollars are spent on taking lives, but so little on saving them.
It usually takes a collective tragedy to bring out the caring spirit in people. We only have to look at the Londoners in the wake of all the tragedy they have experienced of late to see how people have rallied to help out the victims and the survivors. But in everyday life we often ignore the plight of individuals who are less fortunate. They become virtually invisible.
Think of the collective wealth of all those millionaires and billionaires and what they could accomplish if they chose to cut down on their wealth (not just their surplus) and put it to work helping people re-establish themselves after an economic downturn or a health related episode.....
They could provide health care and medicines....build hospitals and care facilities and food stations for those who can't care for themselves. There is a lot being done by a few, but they are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the need.
"Conservative Christians"? You mean in politics?
If one is a Christian, the directive by the Master is NOT to become involved in those things at all. Religion has no place in politics and politics has no place in the Christian religion. Marry them and you have a recipe for disharmony and disunity....the two things that Jesus promoted among his followers. He taught us to be "no part of the world." (John 18:36) We are to help out where we see a need (like the good Samaritan) but for Christians its about sharing their faith and a sure hope for the future. We can't fix this world but we can register for life in the "new earth" to come. (2 Peter 3:13)
As I believe that nothing will ever be accomplished by world governments that will solve any of man's problems, it is the role of Christians to offer people some good news about world rulership. Soon it will be taken from the hands of corrupt men and placed in the hands of the "Prince of Peace". God's will can then be done "on earth as it is in heaven"......just as Jesus said.
