“Modernity is so overwhelming, from school, advertising, print, video, movies, politics, etc., all things push human life and thinking one way. One way to find another opinion, perhaps the only way, is to reach into the past.”  -Clay Garner

The fire and brimstone leader of the first Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, warned children in 1741:  "And you, children, who are unconverted, do not you know that you are going down to hell, to bear the dreadful wrath of that God, who is now angry with you every day and every night?"

The deceased CEO of OceanGate previously sniffed at the idea of hiring "a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys" in favor of demographics he found more "inspirational."  I do not know if a strict merit focus when hiring would have saved his doomed passengers and himself, but if it would have I'm sure they are not the first human sacrifices on the altar of diversity.

"Their foot shall slide in due time."  —Deut. 32:35.