This story has me in pieces. I was raised an old-fashioned Catholic. We did not even believe in donating organs, we were so overly concerned about our corporal bodies being temples to God.
When you come of age in the 50s and early 60s of America in the 20th century, it’s hard to accept how barbaric the world has become. It’s almost like overnight it became a sewer.
I agree completely. I think the zenith of our country was between 1958 and 1964. Before then, we helped people who helped themselves, mostly. After that, we began to let strangers prey on our nation’s bounty and good will.
I was reading a book this summer about the Presbyterian medical missionary Nelson Bell (his daughter Ruth married Billy Graham). Nelson and Virginia Bell were missionaries to China in the 1920’s through 1940’s. They had to return to the U.S. due to the Communist takeover. China at that time was completely barbaric, overrun by rival warlords and chaotic conditions. This type of atrocity happened often in addition to other cruel everyday occurences (leaving babies to die along the rivers, evil superstitions and other atrocities). I know what you mean, for those of us who had a “Leave it to Beaver” life, it is hard to connect that this type of evil godless barbarism is now so close to home. It has been in the rest of the non-Christian world all along though, we’ve just been very protected from it here in the U.S. for a very long time. Psalm 46
Read up on what Genghis Khan did, as well as Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Aztecs and the Apaches did to dissenters, complainers and protesters. While certainly vile, these Mexican thugs dont hold a candle to anything Stalin did.
It DOES seem like overnight, doesn’t it. ha-ha...I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
I agree with you Miss Marmelstein, the world is filled with evil. Believers are at odds with this world's system, and rightfully so. It promotes godlessness, and exclaims that evil is good and good evil. It's okay to hate this system, as one poster commented,God also hates the abominations that are on the increase. Hang in there, stay faithful to the end, and remember you are not alone.