Oh, For The Good Old Days
Sometimes it takes one who has lived through real terror and upheaval to put our current world in context. Anatole Kaletsky does just that with this piece in the Times Online. I like his concluding paragraph:
Compared with the upheavals of the early 20th century, the challenges we face today - whether as families and individuals or as societies and nations - are almost laughably trivial. Have psychologists who tell us that accident witnesses need grief counselling forgotten about Holocaust survivors and PoWs in Burma? Do environmentalists really believe that global warming is the greatest threat ever faced by Western civilisation? Do judges understand what they are doing when they extend doctrines of human rights to gay adoptions? Can politicians honestly speak of terrorism today in the same breath as the threat from Communists and Nazis to previous generations? Anyone who makes such comparisons is insulting our intelligence, as well as our courageous forebears.
What many don't realize is the real threat to our civilization on today's horizon. We are not reading the times and watching with a real Biblical understanding.
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Darris McNeely
Darris McNeely is a retired elder in the United Church of God. He and his wife, Debbie, have served in the ministry for more than 53 years. They have two sons, who are both married, and four grandchildren. Darris continues teaching at Ambassador Bible Center and is a member of the Council of Elders. Darris and Debbie continue to travel and keep up with the many friends and relationships around the world.
