About five years ago, I wrote that “You don’t have to be a Darwinian realist to know that most people will adopt bad lifestyle choices when given the chance. Go for maximum taste, cheap thrills, and mindless entertainment, they say. The Christian concept of Original Sin seems alive and well.”
Cries for more taxpayer-funded medicine are everywhere in the Western world. Let professionals manage every aspect of your lives. Central planning is still on the march. It’s ironic that with both parents now working, they are also “out of a job” when it comes to managing their families and inculcating values in their children.
Personal responsibility is hardly in the equation these days. The world clock reminds us of our latest Malthusian fear: we’re approaching 8 billion people on the planet at a breakneck speed. Nonstop social-justice coverage by the media won’t hide the doom that awaits us, as the value of human life become less and less.
Cradle-to-grave welfare programs are only a temporary blinder. Our bailout, safety-net society makes people less healthy. Doctors and nurses are trapped in government-managed webs.
It’s too bad that history isn’t being taken seriously in schools and colleges these days. But at least we still have churches that remind us of what earlier peoples were like in a biblical world without modern luxuries and distractions.
National Geographic’s “The World of Ancient Judea: Life In The Land And Times Of Jesus Christ” serves to reach the unchurched masses, asking “What was the world population at the time of Christ?” The answer: “At the time of his birth, the earth’s entire population was just 300 million, smaller than the U.S. by itself today. About 45 million of those people, including Jesus himself, lived in the Roman Empire, whose borders stretched in Jesus’ time from modern-day Portugal in the west to Turkey in the east.”
