So many problems happen in our world when we start treating people as things not people.
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We’ve seen it with countless royal commissions and public scandals. The way men end up treating women, when they treat women as things not people, all the way to Canberra.
Consumerism and capitalism – when we treat people as things instead of people we end up with slaves and work exploitation.
There are so many areas of life where as soon as we treat people as things, things go bad.
Remember people are people.
This becomes all the more profound when we start treating God not as a person but as a thing, as a power to manipulate to give us power. Then things go really bad.
Do you treat God as a thing, or a person?
Paul Clark’s musings can be heard on radio across Australia and at atthetop.org.au.