{"id":222,"date":"2011-11-04T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/i-guess-people-really-dont-care-about-apathy\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:10:00","slug":"i-guess-people-really-dont-care-about-apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/i-guess-people-really-dont-care-about-apathy\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess people really don’t care about apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between ignorance and apathy? \u201d<\/span><\/strong>\u201cI don\u2019t know and I don\u2019t care.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u2014\u00a0Mother Goose and Grimm<\/a><\/span><\/em>

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\u201cI, the devil, will always see to it that there are bad people. Your job, my dear Wormwood, is to provide me with the people who do not care.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u2014\u00a0The Screwtape Letters<\/a>, C.S. Lewis<\/a><\/span><\/em>
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As much as we would like to say we care about the world around us, our actions tell us otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Despite our verbal fervor for all things right and true, when push comes to shove, We shirk our duties. We shrink from hard truth. We fade away in the bright light.<\/p>\n

We just don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Apathy attacks our core, it destroys our good intentions, it muddies our motives. It derails our passion.<\/p>\n

But Jesus had something to\u00a0say<\/a>\u00a0about apathy \u2014 and it\u2019s something\u00a0he can\u2019t stand<\/em>. Either be hot. Or you can be cold. But dancing around, walking the fence, toeing the line, straddling both sides is like spit from the Savior.<\/p>\n

What do you think about apathy?<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between ignorance and apathy? \u201d\u201cI don\u2019t know and I don\u2019t care.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Mother Goose and Grimm\u201cI, the devil, will always see to it that there are bad people. Your job, my dear Wormwood, is to provide me with the people who do not care.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Screwtape Letters, C.S. 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