In many ways we can look back to Greece to see where our civilization came from. Unfortunately it may be that we can look there, now, to see where we are going.
The last I heard three people had died in riots in and around Athens, and a number of buildings have been burned or damaged. I'm not a political analyst, journalist, or economist, but it looks like the issues are pretty simple and straight-forward:
The country is broke. Without a massive amount of money from the outside, Greece will cease to exist as a nation.
Many Greeks are not willing to go along with the spending cut-backs that are necessary for the bankrupt government to receive aid from nations like Germany.
Unfortunately, I see a tendency here in the U. S, of A that could lead to that kind of action--in fact in limited ways it already has. Rather than people asking, "What is right?" too many folk ask, "What do I want?" I heard George Will give the frightening statistic that a majority of Americans had absolutely no personal interest in seeing our Government be fiscally responsible--they were on the receiving end. I heard Paul Harvey say, one time, something to the effect that once the citizens of a nation figure out they can vote themselves a raise there is little hope of that nation surviving.
A basic principle of Biblical morality is that we need to think of the needs of others and not focus only on what we "need." (Philippians 2:4)
I fear we are seeing the unraveling of a nation because people are ignoring that concept.
Are we far behind?
It is STTA.
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