I have been studying people for decades. It’s part of my job as a pastor… to understand, sympathetically and compassionately, the human condition. It continues to amaze me how skilled we are at masking our fallenness, our pain, our suffering, our weakness, our sin. Our minds are adept at developing layer upon layer of protection against change because its number one concern is self-preservation. This is the primary preoccupation of the organism. It shouldn’t come as a shock to me... Read more
I was skimming through a book on Genocide, by Alexander Laban Hinton. I’m fascinated by such topics because they expose the depravity of the human heart. Social engineering was the preoccupation of the Nazis, and this holds true for every other genocidal agenda. Basically, social engineering intends to institute a new and better order. Genocide intends the design of the perfect society, and to implement this design through planned and consistent effort. The way this happens is two-fold: first, by... Read more
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