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J. GHANDI SAID IT BEST WHEN HE SAID, “OUR CIVILIZATION TODAY, IS LIKE A MONKEY WITH A BLOW TORCH IN A ROOM FULL OF DYNAMITE.”

K. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A FRENCH CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHER WHO WRITES, "THE END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS A MINOR EVENT COMPARED WITH WHAT WE BEHOLD. WE ARE LOOKING AT THE LIQUIDATION OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE ’MODERN WORLD.’"

M. A BRITISH JOURNALIST NAMED MICHAEL SMITH SAID RECENTLY, "I HAVE TO REPORT THE AFFAIRS OF A WORLD WHICH HAS LOST ITS FAITH; WHICH IS LIKE A DROWNING MAN DESPERATELY THRASHING AROUND FOR LACK OF OXYGEN. SINCE THE TIME OF CHRIST, THERE HAS BEEN NO PERIOD IN HISTORY WHERE THERE HAS BEEN THE SAME FEELING OF...SPIRITUAL POVERTY."

O. A GERMAN SOCIOLOGIST NAMED MAX WEBER WRITES, "OUR CIVILIZATION IS COLLAPSING BEFORE OUR EYES AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE."

P. EIGHTY YEARS AGO, DR. FRANCIS PEABODY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, SAID, "WE DO NOT KNOW WHENCE WE COME, OR WHITHER WE GO, AND WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT, WE DO NOT CARE; WHAT WE DO KNOW IS, THAT WE ARE MOVING FASTER THAN ANYONE EVER MOVED BEFORE TOWARD THE KINGDOM OF GOD."

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