I've seen two movies this week. That's a good week for me! One was about the ancient Mayans and the evil of their culture, and how they killed thousands of innocent people in false worship to false gods. Last night, I saw "Blood Diamonds" and saw brutality that made Apolocalypto look like Romper Room by comparison.
And this violence is from our day. In the picture is a girl growing up without an arm? Why? because in Sierra Leone, lots of people have their hands and arms chopped off by rebels. Even children.
Does human sacrifice go on, or are we as a species too "civilized" for that? Check out this story on the millions of girls killed in India, and you tell me. Man remains wicked. "Civilized" is just a word that means "Christianized cultural worldview." Where ever there is a Christianized worldview --even if the majority of the people in that culture aren't Christians-- people tend to restrain the evil in their hearts (though it still shows itself regularly). Wherever there isn't such a cultural worldview, the evil in the heart of man is expressed in appalling behavior.
Bottom line: the human heart is evil and capable of great wrong-doing today, just like in the Mayan days. WE are the same. Thoughts?
4 comments:
...heartbreaking...
what I've noticed is that in 3rd world countries the evil is often open and very visible - here in America it is present, but hidden and made culturally acceptable and politically correct
Amen to that Annette. I don't think evil is looked upon as evil anymore. SO MANY things are just being looked upon as preferences, like gender or abortion...lots more things. There really is right and wrong and it's like no one SEES it. As for evil, every one of us are capable of it. I think in America we've found new and unique ways to torture ourselves. And I think that in America evil is so in-your-face and commonplace that we really don't even see the forest for the trees.
True to both of these comments. However, we must not overlook the differences between us and third world nations. In America, people are just as evil as anywhere else. However, the God ordained role of human government is to RESTRAIN evil. Each human government does so differently. we give credit to Christianity as a whole when we realize that for all the evil allowed in our culture, much is restrained --much more, in fact, than in many places --like Sierra Leone, for example.
ya i think you're right. i think america does a better job of restraining evil.
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