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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Before we go any further, let me ask the rhetorical question: Are the people of the world, right now, the most wicked and sinful people in the entire history of the world?

I'm not particularly inclined to suppose the answer to that question is "within my pay grade." I'd rather let the answer to that come from the one source capable of being authoritative: God Himself.

However, it is clear enough, on perfectly objective grounds, that our current generation, within former Christendom anyway, is p4retty near the top as far as sinfulness goes. Why? Well, on the whole, we have abandoned the Christian Faith in staggering numbers, and cannot possibly plead ignorance while doing so. We live in an era of (more-or-less) universal literacy, with instantaneous communications ability in a variety of different media formats. Anyone can learn the basic tenets of the Christian Faith at his or her leisure. The very culture still, in spite of everything, has a Christian underpinning to its most basic assumptions.

We are entirely capable, then, of informing our consciences and acting on the promptings of God's grace - which we presume He makes available as a norm - within the context of Christian life and morality. Yet, for the most part, the Western world refuses Him. Europe - the former heart and soul of Christendom - is effectively mission territory, and the EU is consciously distancing itself the Christian heritage of Europe with little protest from the citizenry. The Christian Faith of most of the rest of the West is, despite the bluster, pretty "soft" really. Were it otherwise, the political situations found in the countries involved (and the US is "Exhibit A" of the problem) would be radically different. The very sense of "sin" is gone, even in the minds of many people who consider themselves to be Christians. It's all about "personal failures" now, and offenses against Almighty God, considered directly as such, are not regularly contemplated by anyone. The best-known, and most trotted-out, Scripture verse in the West is "Judge not, that you not be judged," used out-of-context by unthinking hypocrites everywhere to bludgeon into silence anyone protesting even the most sordid and vile behavior. That's what Christianity has devolved down to! We call ourselves "Christians" even while we make a perversion of Christianity's most basic teachings!

So, yes, I believe that our generation is proportionately more evil than most others. I'm just not in a position to give it some sort of exact ranking. A chastisement is probably long overdue. Perhaps that is about to change. I wouldn't be surprised, and, while I suppose I don't have to "like" being caught-up in one, I can't deny that, collectively, we certainly have it coming.

15 posted on 12/04/2009 9:49:54 AM PST by magisterium
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To: magisterium
"A chastisement is probably long overdue. Perhaps that is about to change. I wouldn't be surprised, and, while I suppose I don't have to "like" being caught-up in one, I can't deny that, collectively, we certainly have it coming."

Even if we blame this mess on ignorance what else should a merciful God do to his children when they're going down the wrong road?

16 posted on 12/04/2009 10:16:55 AM PST by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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