A radio pastor I listened to a long time ago said,"A world without Christ is a cruel world."Well, I can't help but observe certain things as I go on in life, and I would have to agree. I would use the word callous,as that means unfeeling.Now Christians, what are our fruits? Compassion,outgoing love of others,even sympathy.We're taught the higher aspects of humanity in the Spirit.Now look at the people out in "the world",and how they deal with people with problems.It's a cruel world. And nowhere does this come out more than when money is involved.If someone loses their job, is unemployed for a while, or just runs into unexpected expenses, how do the bill collecters act? Do you think they have "Christian compassion?"The landlord will put you out in the street, the finance company will repossess your car, the electric co. will leave you in the dark. And it doesn't matter if you have kids or not.If you can't pay the supermarket, you starve. Period. And your kids call starve with you.Looking at it, when I hear about the reign of the Antichrist,I can see the "spillover" from todays thinking to that. We read if we don't take the mark, persecution will come. Is it any different now?If we dom't have money, we can't do anything. If we don't take the mark,"no one can buy or sell'. It's the same mindset, only now with money, then with the mark. Goes back to that callous attitude.Which the unsaved have , and we don't.See what I mean? That hardhearted attitude.