What ‘n the world are we coming to? That’s the way Momma expressed her exasperation with all the things coming at her that she did not understand.
Almost every day when I read the news, or watch television, or simply observe culture I’m feeling that sentiment. More than 350 AI (Artificial Intelligence) researchers and engineers recently issued a warning that AI poses risks comparable to those of “pandemics and nuclear war.” What ‘n the world are we coming to?
The new language guidelines from Johns Hopkins University have re-defined “lesbian” as “a non-man attracted to non-men.” The guidelines say this new definition avoids gendered language and “includes non-binary people” who are attracted to people. What ‘n the world are we coming to?
A first of its kind, a climate trial, began recently in Helena, Montana. The plaintiffs testified that rising temperatures and increasingly frequent droughts, wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather events were causing climate change that were making them sick and compromised their quality of life.
Momma would not believe today’s causes for her question, what ‘n the world are we coming to?
Sometimes we have to simply move beyond the complexity and the plaguing question , and settle into the confidence of our Christian answer: He who has come and is coming is Jesus, and he will reign for ever and ever.
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