A question has been on my mind for awhile, that is: Bible says that in the latter days men's (and women's) hearts will wax worse - that we're just getting more selfish. Until recently, that somewhere-in-the New Testament didn't quite make sense to me. Yeah, i get it: the Bible is right, and i'm an idiot - no problemo!
The question came about from what little i know about history. Just several hundred years ago, people were thrown into cold filthy dungeons for simply questioning the government, and suffered horribly slow deaths simply for possessing/sharing a few pages of Scripture written in the language which the locals spoke.
Going back some 1,500 years further, gets even worse. Uhm, isn't being hung on whatever punishment enough? Uh no, the pee-pull just had to mock and do other vicious little stunts to the prisoners. Bunch of rats!
While today, when you go to sue joe's tire center for selling you retreads - when you paid for good tires - your lawyer will seek restitution for a brand new set of tires and the two days of your lost wages. And any snarky comments exchanged between the parties will be soundly rebuked by the judge. In ancient times, however, it wasn't enough to win the suit - and there after politely avoid buying anything from Joe ever again. Oh no, back then, it was winner take all - completely RUIN Joe. For what! A stupid set of tires, that's what.
By the way, my mechanic sells good tires.
This morning, it hit me. The reason we have reasonably decent merchants, policemen, judges, and jails - where the prisoners (even people convicted of molesting kids) are issued warm blankets, clean clothing and decent food - is due to NONE other than Christian influence. i am sure anyone in non-Christian countries -who was cheated in business or had a brush with the law - could testify to that.
Getting late, godda get offa here.
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