{"id":1159,"date":"2004-08-06T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:04:56","slug":"are-we-less-righteous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/08\/are-we-less-righteous\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we less righteous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often speak about the unrighteousness of our generation and nation, but what do we mean by that? (See <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/001148.html#019943\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/001148.html#019955\">here<\/a>.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHistorically speaking it isn&#8217;t obvious that North Americans or those on the Americas as a whole are particularly less righteous in sexual matters than were our ancestors. A little genealogy is usually a quick cure for those who think otherwise. Technology has made mass murder possible on a scale impossible before the twentieth century, but I don&#8217;t see strong evidence for a claim that we are more war-like than previous generations or nations. Here, too, doing one&#8217;s own genealogy is likely to confront one with the realization that our ancestors were often quite blood-thirsty, racist, etc. Or, if we take a comparative approach rather than historical one, and compare the situation as a whole in the Americas with the situation in various parts of Africa, the mid-East, Europe, and Asia, it is difficult to argue that we are more unrighteous than anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often speak about the unrighteousness of our generation and nation, but what do we mean by that? (See here and here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5518,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/5518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}