Posted on 09/13/2016 4:48:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
There are many recent developments in the godless West. To name a few:
--The Supreme Court of Italy last week ruled that public masturbation is legal (except in front of minors).
--The New York City Council voted in May that public urination is not a criminal act.
--The San Francisco City Council decided, by one vote, to continue the city's ban on public nudity -- not, of course, on the grounds of "decency" but on the grounds of public health. Since that can easily be resolved by use of a towel on public benches and chairs, it is only a matter of time, probably a couple of years, before people will be permitted to walk around naked in San Francisco.
--A few weeks ago, teachers in Charlotte, North Carolina, were instructed not to refer to their elementary school students as "boys and girls" but as "students" and "scholars." The reasoning is presumably for inclusivity -- there may be a student who has no gender identity -- and that adults should not impose a gender identity on young people.
--In a New York Times op-ed column, a professor of philosophy noted his shock at learning that most young Americans do not believe that moral truths exist. They are incapable of asserting that anything, including killing for fun, is wrong beyond personal opinion.
These are all inevitable consequences of the death of belief in God and Judeo-Christian values, and of the Bible as society's primary moral reference work.
The West has been in moral decline since World War I, the calamity that led to World War II and the death of national identity and Christianity in most of Europe.
There has always been one exception: the United States. But now that is ending. The seeds of America's decline have been sown since the beginning of the 20th century, and they came to fruition with the post-World War II generation, the baby boomers.
Radical and aggressive secularism and atheism have replaced religion in virtually every school and throughout American public life.
We have gone from President Abraham Lincoln reading the Bible every day to Alaska Airlines feeling forced to stop passing out prayer cards with meals. In a hundred years, we've gone from near-total biblical literacy to near-total biblical illiteracy. One wonders whether half of America's college seniors could correctly identify Cain and Abel, or whether more than 1 in 10 Americans could cite the Ten Commandments. We have gone from President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaiming the need to save "Christian civilization" in World War II speeches to a virtual ban on American presidents mentioning the word "Christianity." And, as is widely noted, Americans are no longer supposed to wish strangers "merry Christmas," and they must refer to a Christmas party as a "holiday party."
Similarly, the European Union constitution never mentions Christianity, despite the fact that it was Christianity that formed Europe.
The prices that we Americans and Europeans are paying for creating the first godless societies in recorded history amount to civilizational suicide. Boys and girls are not to be referred to as boys and girls; Western elites dismiss national identity as protofascism; the belief that moral truth exists has been destroyed and replaced by feelings and opinions; fewer people are marrying; and more people live alone than at any time in American history.
Western European countries have become empty, soulless places. They are pretty and appear materially secure (for now), but they stand for almost nothing (except "multiculturalism" and "tolerance"). They have replaced a Jewish population that overwhelmingly wanted to assimilate with a Muslim population that does not want to. And nearly all European countries are headed to Greece-like insolvency as fewer and fewer workers pay enough in taxes to support those who collect welfare, and as tensions with their Muslim inhabitants increase.
But the good news is that now, beginning with Italy and New York, citizens can watch each other masturbate or urinate in public.
There is no way to prove that God exists. But what is provable is what happens when societies stop believing in God: They commit suicide.
He was
He is
He will always be.
And who besides the Devil and a few indulgent reprobates benefits from the erosion of moral structure? We’re continually told we have to do these things to “liberate” people, to make them happier. Do they seem happier to you? Is structure — values — something to be so afraid of, and sheer license so fervently to be sought?
When societies kick God out, they bring a curse on themselves and the generations that follow them. God is still in control, and He has marked the hour when “the earth will pass away.”
He was
He is
He will always be.
Well said, my FRiend!
This is not an indication the West is Godless. It means it’s populated with @$$holes. Cowards and @$$holes. Cowards who won’t stand up to the islamic threat.
It’s not the end of the beginning; it’s the beginning of the end. One of my hobbies is teaching business law. I’ve come to appreciate just how fully our form of government and legal system were derived from acceptance of Natural Law and Common Law. Both are premised on the notion that there is a Creator who has established an absolute moral law higher than any king, judge, or politician. With the loss of that belief, we have already lost much of the protection of life, liberty and property the founders intended. It won’t be long now before tyranny and violence reign supreme.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!
Amen Brother!
Can’t point to a date when this actually started,but i can point to a date when it started getting a lot worse.
very good observations!
The Godless west does not work well at all.
We pray that as a nation we repent and seek Him first.
A good place to start would be the Supreme Court decisions of 1962 and 1963 which basically threw God out of the public schools and the public square. It was all downhill from there.
Roe v Wade was the grease spread to hasten the downhill fall.
Exactly
Thank you my FRiend.
Thank you Sister!
Ann Coulter, with whom we often become irritated, had the right idea for her book titled “Godless”.
So many of the American people endorse ‘’Roe v. Wade’’ even if they can’t define it.
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