Are we losing the culture war?

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The root of the cultural decay we are witnessing is the apostasy from the Catholic Church.
 
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Are we losing this battle
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It is lost since decades, but things probably became to crack when a culture separate from the religion has started to emerge officially. Secularism.
But we are not dead yet!
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are we ever going to win it?
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As we have currently lost, and Catholic faith and numbers of Catholics plunged in the western world, no, probably not.

But had we really compet or not? This mainstream pop culture is by essence so secular, so anti Christian.
There is a pop Christian culture but with a limited audience, strong little devout circles.
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I mean, the world is supposed to get worse before it ends, right, not better?
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It is supposed to get worst, but we don’t know when the hour will come. It is our responsability to not let the world get worst, on purpose withouut doing nothing.
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Is it pointless going up against the machine,
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Pointless no, but I will say hardly effective.
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should we just be concentrating on saving as many souls as we can from the grips of this evil, rather than trying to overturn the cultural propaganda as a whole?
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I think it is a wrong dichotomy. Many more souls will be lost to this culture if she is continued than the few we can humanly saved. I mean for thoses interested in saving them.

What we should do practically is difficult and rather a matter of choice.
I will say:
  1. We should not let us be the spectators of the worst elements of this culture if we think they are wrong. What is the point of wtaching/listen to something that would hurt us?
I am happy to live in a bubble with no children old enough to be educated by this culture.
I didn’t know Cardi B for eg. Just look on current photographies. I dind’t need to know her past to have an opinion. But now that my curiosity is taken I will look at her song to know what you mean.
  1. we should fight against the worst elements of this culture when they are “imposed” in the public sphere- such as indecency, incitation to depravation or subvertion of Godly things, or drug abuse. We should be very vigilant, as a Church, as citizens and as parents and teachers to what our children are exposed in home, in school, in medical appointments, via their peers or when they are in the home of others people.
    We should take public action, dialogue with school official, and even judiciary actions if necessary. Be united in association is better to do something than to do nothing alone.
  2. For thoses who want to have access to culture and arts, we should carefully selected and also see at the alternative christian culture. We should also encourage and promoted it.
    There is many way to do it. Friend to friend talk. There are also society that produced christian art. We may choose to support them financially or help them to promote their films, music, books.
    we also should spent our money on buying christian books and stuff for our home rather than secular stuff that can be loan if we want.
 
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Are we losing the culture war?

I think some historical perspective is in order here.

There’s always been a culture war. There’s always been sin. There’s always been scandal. There’s always been evil. It may not have taken the form of Cardi B. It may have been a Renaissance bishop fathering his mistress’ children. It may have been a corrupt king torturing innocent people. The latter just didn’t have the technology to share it all with the world.

What’s important to remember is that in the midst of sin, scandal, and evil, the light of Christ has shone threw it all. It is our job as His followers to continue shining it.
 
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Increasing suicide rates are a measure of deteriorating mental health.
know this.

But I think you already know this.
 
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Increasing suicide rates are a measure of deteriorating mental health.
know this.
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All it means is people are not held back by religion.

I want to die every day but I don’t because I know how much it hurts my Catholic family.

Also I wanna see how stuff turns out around me. I can’t do that once I’m gone.
 
Wait.

So your claim is that suicide is a reasonable and mentally healthy response to the stress of life.

And then you further claim this increase in suicide is a positive development?
 
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So your claim is that suicide is a reasonable and mentally healthy response to the stress of life.
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I’m in pain and the world doesn’t care. I can continue in pain or I can make this soul ripping pain created by the world and have it stop.
I don’t because I don’t want to pass on that pain to my family even if they don’t respect it exists.
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And then you further claim this increase in suicide is a positive development?
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It’s a side effect of the society that has become more civil who sees that less of fear of a God who will punish them for it. And they wouldn’t need to kill themselves if we did more about it.

You have no conceptual idea of how much pain one can be in. The food starts to taste like ash and I once joyful things sound dull and muted. The world becomes rotten around you and sleep is the only escape assuming you can.

It’s not a good thing, it’s all these people have left is to sleep and not wake up.
 
I am so sorry.
Sometimes life just becomes very dark. :confused:
FWIW, i think your decision not to hurt your family is very brave.
 
I am sorry that you are suffering so much.

Please see a good psychaitric as soon as you can, or try another one or a complementary therapy if it is not enough.

God bless you.
 
I think that what many people seek is oblivion. Our lives need to slow down and we need to re learn how to appreciate the more simple things of life. I think religion can help even though it’s not for me but so can many other things.

With so many losing religion to form a community with, something else has to become important in their lives beyond their jobs and home. We are community seekers. Heck, even a bowling club can give people a spiritual lift…a sense of belonging. Everyone needs someone to call when you don’t show up! But, with the loss of religion, many are wandering around not knowing what to replace that community with!
 
Culture is never at war, it never has been, a war is perceived because of resistance to change, not because of changing culture.

Culture simply changes or evolves through the generations as culture only reflects the collective intellectual achievements of humanity over the passage of time.
 
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