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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles<\/strong>\u00a01<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n Progress<\/em> is a relative term. To a skunk progress is squirting a hunting dog in the face and escaping. But the dog would not call that \u201cprogress.\u201d So with humans. What is progress to one is the opposite to another. Progress<\/em> should connote something good, positive, and helpful. However, if the wrong people are allowed to define the term, look out!\u00a0 I fear that this has already happened to a considerable degree in our beloved nation.<\/span><\/p>\n Usually, those who campaign for liquor in a dry area, do so in the name of \u201cprogress.\u201d They will even profane this good word by including it in the title of their organization. If making liquor, with its long train of tragedy and suffering, more easily purchased is progress, then I\u2019m sick of progress!<\/span><\/p>\n Astute observers from other nations have labeled America the most \u201csex-obsessed\u201d nation in history. We are bombarded with books, magazines, TV shows, and movies that should never have been allowed to escape the cesspools that produced them. Modern \u201cliberated\u201d women despise being mere \u201csex-objects,\u201d yet they bare more and more of their bodies each year for the eyes of ogling males. Liberal-minded educators and sociologists are determined to drag sex instruction into the public-school curriculum. The climate of immorality is such that the homosexual does not feel ashamed to openly speak of his (or her) evil relationships. To many it is great \u201cprogress\u201d to be \u201cliberated\u201d from so many moral hang-ups, but to the pure in heart it is all very sickening.<\/span><\/p>\n Opposition to capital punishment, general leniency for criminals, relaxation of abortion laws, the ever-spreading welfare system that makes it more profitable not to work than to work, and the flourishing attitude (bequeathed to us by the radical \u201cpeace children\u201d of the 1960s), if it feels good, do it,<\/em> all add up to \u201cprogress\u201d to far too many in our society.<\/span><\/p>\n To some unbalanced persons, it is even a sign of \u201cprogress\u201d to escape the \u201cshackles\u201d of believing the Bible to be the Word of God. I tell you, I\u2019m sick of this kind of \u201cprogress.\u201d It is the devil\u2019s progress, if it is progress at all. Watch out America: \u201cWoe unto them that call evil good, and good evil\u201d (Isa. 5:20).<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it was published in The Edifier, <\/em>weekly bulletin of Pearl Street Church of Christ, Denton, TX, December 16, 1982, of which I was editor.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 1[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles\u00a01 page.] Progress is a relative term. To a skunk progress is squirting a hunting dog in the face and escaping. But the dog would not call that \u201cprogress.\u201d So with humans. What…<\/p>\n