We’re not allowed to kick puppies either. Or sell heroin.No one is forcing a christian to use contraception or have an abortion or get married to someone of the same gender, for example.
BUT…if a Christian is trying to prevent others from doing those things,* that’s* tampering with a person’s freedom.
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How are you being forced to recognize and play along? They devised a rainbow slip to send you in the mail and like jury duty you have to report legally to the nearest wedding between two people of the same gender?And as for “gay marriage”: we are being forced to recognize it and play along with this parody.
They are forcing it on our children in schools.Wake up!! God Bless MemawHow are you being forced to recognize and play along? They devised a rainbow slip to send you in the mail and like jury duty you have to report legally to the nearest wedding between two people of the same gender?
You know your own beliefs on the subject, so who is forcing you to do anything?
Imagine you’re a small business that bakes cakes. And a gay couple comes in for a wedding cake. You refuse to bake the cake, although you’re perfectly fine with selling them other baked goods, and you get sued and get forced to shut down your business because you can’t afford the legal costs.How are you being forced to recognize and play along? They devised a rainbow slip to send you in the mail and like jury duty you have to report legally to the nearest wedding between two people of the same gender?
You know your own beliefs on the subject, so who is forcing you to do anything?
The government is trying to FORCE non Christians to PAY for contraception…simply ask the Little Sisters of the Poor who are being sued by the Obama administration.No one is forcing a christian to use contraception or have an abortion or get married to someone of the same gender, for example.
BUT…if a Christian is trying to prevent others from doing those things,* that’s* tampering with a person’s freedom.
That’s why they had to frame abortion as “healthcare”. Because only big Catholic meanies would oppose healthcare for women. Because they’re patriarchal and antiquated and want to force women to stay in the kitchen.Lastly, one of my favorite lines from the pro-abortion rights crowd is “The government needs to stay out of my bedroom and out of my womb”…but interestingly they want that same government to get inside my wallet to pay for what they do in their bedroom and womb.
Hypocrisy.
I like your analogy, and I’d like to add to that. Later in the movie, the king appears utterly dumbfounded and says, “how did it come to this?”Last night I watched The Two Towers. At one point, the king’s mind has been overthrown because he’s under the counsel of a cunning liar from the enemy. War is imminent, but because of this liar’s advice the king will not risk “open war” for fear of making things worse. This counselor labels dissenters as war-mongers and rabble-rousers, and marginalizes or removes them. He’s constantly quelling the notion that there’s any trouble, so the one person in power who could do anything won’t. He’s constantly undermining everyone’s better judgment.
The applicability of this scenario to current events hit me like a brick. People are saying peace, when there is no peace. People are telling you it’s all in your head. Relax, man.
In my experience, you counter it with igniting the imagination. Get creative. Take it from the head to the heart. Take back the story. Man does not live on bread alone, and that’s the glory of Christianity. Secularism can’t ultimately fulfill that itch.
That scene often comes to my mind.I like your analogy, and I’d like to add to that. Later in the movie, the king appears utterly dumbfounded and says, “how did it come to this?”
Our culture is decaying at its foundation, and right now everything appears (outwardly) more or less fine. Yet, one day in the future (probably reasonably soon), people will look around and see the real decay and then they too will say, “how did it come to this?”
While people are busy living in all manners of sin, they will not see the decay until one day the decay will be unavoidable–everyone will see it then.
The most powerful force against Christian moral teaching today is Christian hypocrisy and selective morality. When those who represent Christians to the world start start preaching against Greed the way they preach against sexual vices (as they should do) then people will start listening.From the National Catholic Register.
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Ed
Well,though it may not be the right thought,here is a thought: we left empty spaces. In all good will,we retreated to safer places ( I am not referring to home schooling from the article, only just the image of our little safe havens. Whatever they may be ).The most powerful force against Christian moral teaching today is Christian hypocrisy and selective morality. When those who represent Christians to the world start start preaching against Greed the way they preach against sexual vices (as they should do) then people will start listening.
Greed? The greatest ill facing Western culture today is anything goes sex and legalizing sexual perversity. When families were attacked, and No-Fault Divorce appeared, the sexual perverts were waiting their turn. Here we are. This didn’t happen overnight. Turn off the TV, stop thinking porn is OK and sex without marriage is OK - especially cohabitation. The family is the building block of all societies. - I’m speaking to all reading.The most powerful force against Christian moral teaching today is Christian hypocrisy and selective morality. When those who represent Christians to the world start start preaching against Greed the way they preach against sexual vices (as they should do) then people will start listening.
Actually Greed and sexual license and perversity go hand in hand. As the great CS Lewis observed many years ago, it is a common technique of modern advertising to keep people (usually young men) in a state of sexual agitation, because they will spend money so much more easily that way. One only has to look at American advertising over the last 50 years to see that in practice. Pornography is itself a multi-million dollar “industry”. As for sexual perversity, there is a reason why “gay rights” and “same-sex marriage” quickly became a cause of corporate America. Under the theory of corporate capitalism, there is no room for “non-economic values” like traditional sexual mores and marriage. Everything is about money. Who blackmailed the Georgia governor into vetoing the religious protection legislation? Disney and other corporate giants.Greed? The greatest ill facing Western culture today is anything goes sex and legalizing sexual perversity. When families were attacked, and No-Fault Divorce appeared, the sexual perverts were waiting their turn. Here we are. This didn’t happen overnight. Turn off the TV, stop thinking porn is OK and sex without marriage is OK - especially cohabitation. The family is the building block of all societies. - I’m speaking to all reading.
Ed
Money is usually just a means to an end. Look up the ‘Opium Wars.’ The sexual addiction patterns starting in the 1970s when graphic porn became legal, were planned. So when us religious nuts complained, the pornographers told us they had the First Amendment right to do this. And only a few years earlier, the worst you could legally do was buy Playboy. Playboy to gynecology.Actually Greed and sexual license and perversity go hand in hand. As the great CS Lewis observed many years ago, it is a common technique of modern advertising to keep people (usually young men) in a state of sexual agitation, because they will spend money so much more easily that way. One only has to look at American advertising over the last 50 years to see that in practice. Pornography is itself a multi-million dollar “industry”. As for sexual perversity, there is a reason why “gay rights” and “same-sex marriage” quickly became a cause of corporate America. Under the theory of corporate capitalism, there is no room for “non-economic values” like traditional sexual mores and marriage. Everything is about money. Who blackmailed the Georgia governor into vetoing the religious protection legislation? Disney and other corporate giants.
Actually it started way, way earlier. Playboy was founded c. 1952. One of the leading female characters in “Goldfinger” by Ian Fleming (one of JFK’s favorite authors) published in 1959: “”(slang term for vagina) Galore". “The greatest generation” was awash in pornography, adultery, fornication.The sexual addiction patterns starting in the 1970s when graphic porn became legal, were planned.
Ed
I agree with much of what you are saying, and I also agree there’s cross-over between greed and sexual immorality, but I’m not sure that preaching against greed will make people more receptive to Christian sexual mores. I’ve heard it’s selfish to have more than two children. That represents a sensitivity to greed, but not a sensitivity to the Christian ethos.The most powerful force against Christian moral teaching today is Christian hypocrisy and selective morality. When those who represent Christians to the world start start preaching against Greed the way they preach against sexual vices (as they should do) then people will start listening.