{"id":21344,"date":"2022-11-22T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=21344"},"modified":"2023-01-03T22:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T22:42:47","slug":"horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=21344","title":{"rendered":"Horrors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 2<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">There is considerable attention focused upon the protesters to nuclear energy by the news media, Personally, I believe most of their fears are unfounded. I have a few questions every American would do well to consider:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What if<\/strong> 40 \u2013 50 people were killed every day by a malfunctioning nuclear plant?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What if<\/strong> that malfunctioning plant seriously injured 1,500 others every day?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What if<\/strong> nuclear energy caused 200 broken homes every day?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What if<\/strong> it caused 250 people to suffer permanent brain damage every day, besides the other injuries already described?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What if <\/strong>it caused 125 parents to abuse their children or to assault another loved ones every day?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What if<\/strong> it caused 5 \u2013 6 billion dollars direct damage and inestimable indirect damage every year?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Now, if you will just double every figure I have quoted, you will have a partial picture of the effects of beverage alcohol! Where are the protesters?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for, and it was published in <em>The Edifier, <\/em>weekly bulletin of Pearl Street Church of Christ, Denton, TX, December 10, 1981, of which I was editor.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 2[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0\u00a0page.] There is considerable attention focused upon the protesters to nuclear energy by the news media, Personally, I believe most of their fears are unfounded. I have a few questions every American&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=21344\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  Horrors!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[475,1028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-alcoholism","wpcat-475-id","wpcat-1028-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21735,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344\/revisions\/21735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}