Humanity

Tonight, we all watched the movie "The Mission." It is about a group of people I had just researched for a project, the Guarani.  They are the indigenous people of the Brazil area in South America.  The movie tells their sad tale of being taken by slave drivers, finding hope in the "Missions" founded by the Jesuits (full functioning, educational, community owned and worked plantation type forts), then the brutal driving out of the Guarani and expulsion of the Jesuits by the State. What was the purpose of driving them out of their happily settled new homes in the Missions? The pure greed of mankind in wanting self gain.  With the Missions no longer in operation, the settlers could use the Guarani people as slaves and not have to compete with the Missions for economic prosperity.  When the resistant Missions were brutally attacked, it made me realized how sick and perverse money can make man.  The fact that slave owners' selfish desires for money drove them to slaughter innocent people makes me absolutely disgusted with my species.  It's amazing how selfish desires can lead us to do so many terrible things; they do not have to be as brutal as slaughtering a whole people but even down to getting back at someone to "feel better" or be snappy for the reason of not wanting to have patience.  Won't it be wonderful when Jesus comes back and all eyes are focusing on Him rather than on ourselves? I can't wait for that day!