Entertainment: The Devil's Anesthesia for the Doomed.
The world population has increased by another billion since this was first written in the 1980’s, and now exceeds seven billion. W e cannot imagine that many people. For us a stadium with twenty thousand is a lot – a mere drop in the bucket compared to seven billion. And the worst news is, most of them are lost and headed to perdition, eternal doom. With this comes the staggering death statistic, now calculated to be 1.78 people per second, 107 per minute, 6,390 per hour, and daily 153,000! While you read this hundreds will pass to their destiny. Every hour thousands more pass into eternity, never to return. Onward marches the grim reaper, respecting no one, employed by Satan in the destruction of Adam’s race. Wars and famines are just some of his special harvesting techniques. False religions and “isms” help placate the doomed with false hopes and vain works until the grim one can reach them with his fatal scythe....