World Affairs

One Oppressor Replacing Another

by Terry Barlow
02/26/24
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Any solution to the world's many deep and complex problems that doesn't take into account the radical corruption of the human nature that we all share, and the unlimited tendency of that nature to deceive itself..... any such solution or antidote only ends up replacing one oppressor with another oppressor,  and fails to reach the real root of the problem. Only the sacrificial blood of Christ the Savior can sink deeply enough into the soil of the human heart to make lasting change, one person at a time as each allows. Apart from that, all so-called solutions or benevolent plans or schemes, no matter how well-intentioned, only produce a new problem even worse than those preceding it. As poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen so aptly put it:  "So if you call me 'brother' forgive me if I inquire, just according to whose plan?"