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Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
Care and well being of children is essential for the health of society, no doubt. But there's more to it.I'm sure the peace will be assisted by people all over the world -- it would have to be.
I disagree that the world has more tragedy today. It has considerably less due to technology and medical science.
Growth in morality as in a broad consensus that you don't kill people for personal gain, nor do you coerce, etc.
I think that some morals are going down, such as care and well being of children (adults are putting our own interests first, such as our sexual desires). But in many other ways, morals are going up. In many places of the world, things like rape are finally being taken seriously. We are making a dent into such things as pedophilia. We are no longer turning a blind eye to domestic violence. Child marriage seems to be the next thing on the list to make unacceptable.
It's not that these things don't still go on. It's that they are broadly and sincerely condemned and we have put some teeth into their consequences.
And regarding pedophilia, hardly is society "making a dent." Girls (and boys) who may go to religious schools often engage in sexual activity while they're very young (under the so-called age of consent), and their parents and teachers do not teach them the rules from God. Many parents themselves were sexually active in their young years without having married, and are not married yet could have many children.
One of the biggest industries in the world is pornography. While I do agree that horrible things have happened in the past, many, many horrific things are happening today at large, not just a few isolated. I would image jails are pretty full and possibly getting more of a population. And that's just the people who got caught. Technology is advanced, true, but greed, wars and injustices continue, diseases continue, medical mistakes abound, threats of nuclear war continue, and threats such as the earth exterminating itself due to pollution are certainly being proposed by scientists.
As far as not killing people for personal gain, well, in many ways that is certainly not being accomplished. So each dead person is worth something in God's eyes, meaning even if only 1 person dies as a result of carelessness or mistreatment by a doctor, God is aware of these things and knows how to take steps to rectify such matters. (It's called what Maimonides also called a resurrection.)
Getting back to religion for a moment, as I said, it's been quite a long time now that the temple in Jerusalem cannot be built. Maimonides was on the right track, but -- he's gone now and, like others including the Pope, have been influenced by other religious ideas.