Yes, and the trend needs to stop. Fashion designers control everything from selling this body type, this face, these cosmetics… etc. And clothing buyers, not women, select what is stocked in their stores.
Ancient Rome was pretty bad.I don’t mean to sound hyperbolic, but has a society ever been in such a chaotic state as ours is in today? I mean, there must be some sort of precedent or worse time than this, right…?
That’s true. I guess I was just thinking of the attempted redefining of marriage and gender dysphoria that our society is dealing with today. I don’t know if you can really measure how morally bad a society is (or how disrupted the social fabric is), maybe that we’re just dealing with different issues. Thanks for the perspective!
I don’t idealize the early 1960s for its music but for the fact that people lived out their Christian beliefs more and were civil more toward each other. That I will uphold till I die. The radicals really took off with their nonsense in the 1970s.
I didn’t say that God intervened in any of them so as to change the outcome. (Although He may have done so subtly).
My only point was that the current USA or its people have faced far worse than the difficulties we have now and have gone on. I’d much rather be living now than in any of the times I named, or even in the 1960s (a time we now idealize because of its music).
And even in the 1970s (a rather mild time if there ever was one), there were those who said America was done.
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This is all true. However, I feel that traditional gender roles were somewhat oppressive. I don’t know the exact nature of the women’s liberation movement but women were and in some cases still are treated as second class citizens (especially in nonwestern countries). In too many cases a woman being submissive to a man can be a bad thing, especially if the man controls the woman. Divorce rates are low in non western countries but the societies are more male dominated, which can lead to subjugation of woman due to their default status as the weaker gender. Ultimately, I feel traditional gender roles are great but ripe for abuse by some men.
Im not sure you believe that traditional gender roles are oppressive because they are not to those who would like to live their life that way.
The Church has spoken about gender roles. I lived through the Women’s Liberation Movement. Our perspective on the roles of men and women in society should be formed by the Church and not radical feminists.
That is the message every man and woman contemplating marriage must hear. Thank you.
Yes, I am not eloquent as my words just come out as a train of thought. It is definitely not oppressive to those who want to live their life that way. However marriage as an ideal defined by Catholicism (which I believe is not a societal construct) is definitely a boon. Marriage as viewed in many Middle-Eastern countries is actually demeaning to women in the form of polygamy and woman being relegated to almost servant status.
Well, God promised to never again wipe out the whole human race, so…it could get pretty ugly before Jesus returns. It’s been worse than this before. There is still much more that could go wrong…unfortunately.
It was made to be this way. The family had to be destroyed. The right reason concepts of human sexuality had to be destroyed. Time doesn’t change things, only people do.
Yes.Well, God promised to never again wipe out the whole human race, so…it could get pretty ugly before Jesus returns. It’s been worse than this before. There is still much more that could go wrong…unfortunately.
But we must remind ourselves that Christ has already won the battle.It was, and was more open about it IMO.
Abortion is worse only because of the numbers involved, but we are also a far more crowded society.
It’s hard to compare evil. Evil is evil. But one thing insidious thing about abortion is the deception element.