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How God’s Word Guides us to Understand Disasters, Massacres & Bad Things That Keep Happening all Around Us Each of us this morning lives in a world, unlike anything human history has ever known.
The advent of electronic media has ushered in the relentless barrage of visual images that cause the average person to vicarious experience the equivalent of what would have been a lifetime of disasters for the average 18th Century individual about every month.
Mass, global, instantaneous, on-demand communication means we see everything, and it means that we see and hear it constantly. Media has catapulted most Westerners onto the observation deck of human misery and evil. Almost without realizing it we sit and get numbed by overexposure to more and more disasters, each day.
No other generation before ours of the past ten years has ever seen anything like what we now can and do see constantly. We see or hear about every major disaster, catastrophe, and tragedy sooner or later, delivered to us in full color.
As we watch and listen we vicariously experience the sorrow, pain, loss, anguish, and death that fellow humans have gone through.
We are each Experiencing Lifetimes of Tragedies