{"id":537,"date":"2025-01-14T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freesoft.org\/blogs\/soapbox\/?p=537"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:53:51","slug":"the-way-the-world-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freesoft.org\/blogs\/soapbox\/the-way-the-world-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way the World Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have often heard the phrase “that’s just the way the world is”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the way the world is, as I see it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. This world is basically unjust. Just because you hand someone a sandwich doesn’t mean you get a reward for your effort. This is just the way the world is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. To get a reward for their work, most people refuse to provide goods or services unless they get paid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Capitalism teaches that behaving in this way benefits society, and that maximizing your profit is what benefits society the most.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Socialism teaches that the way to overcome these injustices is for the government to run everything.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Christianity teaches that what God wants is to prioritize selfless love. Forget about what benefits society; prioritize God.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. The “right” preaches a watered down Christianity that teaches we should split our lives into two parts. Some of the time we’re preaching the Gospel and helping the poor; some of the time we’re running a business and taking care of ourselves.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. The “left” preaches that we don’t really need God at all and the government will fix these injustices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. The Book of Revelation tells us that humanity will never fix these problems, that we’ll never invent a system of government that does, and that left to our own devices, human beings will eventually exterminate ourselves.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. From beginning to end, from the Garden of Eden to the New Jerusalem, the Bible preaches a decidedly anti-populist message. The majority are immoral; only a minority are righteous.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. This society, like almost all human society, is systemically discriminatory, anti-Christian, and oppressive. It is, however, better than many others. At least I can write this on my website without being arrested by the police.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. When Jesus says “…I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you” (John 15:19), he’s not just talking about the Roman Empire of two thousand years ago. Jesus’s message is timeless and universal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    The Way the World Is<\/a><\/blockquote>