July 5, 2013 – Jeremiah 18 – 19

If you are a fan of the Game of Throne movies or books, then you know how violant they can be.  It is a cruel world where no one is really safe from being killed, usually in very cruel fashion.  But when you think about it setting in a time long ago, that seems to just be the way things were.  You can’t read any of the Old Testament without seeing cities conquered and destroyed, women and children murdered, and kings and leaders with power doing whatever they want.  We look at that and fiction like Game of Thrones and see ourselves being so civilized.

Is that really so true when you turn on the news and see what is going on in Egypt or think about what goes on in abortion  mills or look at the condition of our prisons or the state of families.  Our brutality might not be as out in the open and cities might not be threatened from attack and being brought low, but that may not mean we are so much more civilized.