Dehumanization is a Fallen World

We are living in a time of dehumanization. There are many people who treat friends and relatives like objects to be used and discarded when they are no longer useful.

Two very good examples of this is divorce and remarriage as well as abortion.

When we can throw people away because they are having problems or don't act exactly the way we think they should, we are practicing dehumanization.

The Nazi death camps were a demonstration of the dehumanization of human beings. People being treated like objects always leads to atrocities.

Do not think for one moment that we have escaped this mentality of using and tossing human beings. Our culture is full of people who discard someone before they can ever work out a problem.

It is very difficult in our time to talk with most people about problem solving. Since no one is willing to admit their sin against others, using justification and blaming as their main tactic, they cannot stand by someone who is irritating them to be able to have empathy for them.

Self is on the throne in our culture, so much so that attempting to work out a problem is often the catalyst to escalation. War breaks out often when one party wants to talk a matter through and the other is enraged at the suggestion.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."

We can maintain our joy when we know this is to be expected in these last day. Its not about us, its the condition of the world we live in and its spiritual.