Should Catholics believe that the world is getting better

[redbetta]

Exactly. Much of our violence is sterile, out of sight, and at the hands of professionals, not thugs.

 

[GospelOfMatthew]

Funny enough I do cook and bake in my free time sometimes lol

 

[Dan_Defender]

You are right about that. According to the World Health Organization, every year in the world there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions. This corresponds to approximately 125,000 abortions per day.

 

[IWantGod]

Despite all the problems one hears about on the news, wars in the middle east, poverty in Africa, Racism and Trump in America i genuinely believe that the world is better now than it has ever been. Not only do we live longer, more people are being lifted out of poverty every day, look at China, look at eastern Europe, look at India for instance. There is less homophobia, less racism than 50 years ago despite many claiming that the middle of the 20th century was a golden era. There are more Christians in the world now than at any time in history and that number is growing rapidly. Conflict and violence in society has decreased considerably since the middle ages when violence was a much bigger feature in daily life. The Catechism also indicates that the world has been constantly in a state of improvement “the universe was created in a state of journeying towards an ultimate perfection yet to be attained”

The world is practically better relative to other instances in time. However, in some ways one could argue that it’s getting worse. There was more reverence for God in the past than there is now.