{"id":6913,"date":"2024-09-30T16:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2024-09-30T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:35:36","slug":"oxymoron-treadmill-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6913","title":{"rendered":"OXYMORON &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; TREADMILL OF MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Treadmill of man&#8217;s progress&#8212;now that&#8217;s the oxymoron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man&#8217;s progress in what we can make and what we can do is almost miraculous, almost supernatural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact it is&#8212;a gift from God, &#8220;in His image&#8221;, to make full use of the world and of our potential, just as He instructed, &#8220;and have babies&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man&#8217;s progress in making man better inside and in how we life&#8212;that is quite another story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We think, we write, we teach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re even getting set to begin another repeat of socialism, marxism, communism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, and murder millions.<br>The sales presentation alone shows that man is not getting better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And add that we believe and teach that we are just new-and-improved animals&#8212;no wonder we&#8217;re not doing better than animals, often worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PROOF OF PROGRESS ? ? ? &#8212; backward, in the wrong direction&#8212;masses believe lies, hell-on-earth again, never left, coming worldwide, bigger that ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bottom line&#8212;without God, man never gets better&#8212;he can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treadmill of man&#8217;s progress&#8212;now that&#8217;s the oxymoron. Man&#8217;s progress in what we can make and what we can do is almost miraculous, almost supernatural. In fact it is&#8212;a gift from God, &#8220;in His image&#8221;, to make full use of the world and of our potential, just as He instructed, &#8220;and have babies&#8221;. &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}