The Increasing National Abhorrence for God

RaptureReady ^ | Undated | Don McGee

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Blame the WWII veterans. They returned from the war and were utterly revolted by the status quo. Many of them wanted to go to college, get married, get a good job and raise a family, and they were in no mood to be told what others expected of them, especially when those expectations were contrary to what they had been fighting for. And the people trying to order them around had no legitimacy to do so.

So blue laws started being overturned, because they wanted to drink and not be told they couldn’t. And they wanted to go to the church of their choice, and not be discriminated against for doing so. And they wanted to be married to someone they wanted to marry, not someone picked for them.

And they were sick and tired of blacks being discriminated against. While it is rarely mentioned, most of the US was segregated until the vets came home, and by the time of MLK and the Civil Rights movement it was on its last legs and confined to just the South.

Likewise, by the time the “sexual revolution” was official, in much of the US it had already happened. Women who worked in the defense industry during the war liked working a lot, and were very upset when they were fired because there was a man available who wanted their job. The idea of going back to what they had been was intolerable to them.

Kinsey was lying through his teeth, and it didn’t matter, because that was what the public wanted to hear.

[OneWingedShark]

I hope they will connect with many of the young who are disillusioned and ready for REAL change,

I'm afraid they won't find it in the Republican Party. The Republican Party has mastered the art of presenting one ideology (the party planks) and not doing much of anything to further them. just look at what they did in Bush's terms when they had the executive and the legislative... not even a token gesture against Roe v. Wade (repeal/overturn has been a plank since mid 80s). and how did they do on decreasing gov size and scope? How about financial responsibility?

Not only that but the party in in most cases passive-aggressive to people who will strive for those goals; remember the 2010 tea-party candidates? Heck, sometimes they're actively hostile: remember NY-23?

I'm not saying this to be gloomy/discouraging; I'm saying it because I have no time for a party that is all about lies when it comes to what they'll work towards.

[OneWingedShark]

Why is it I keep encountering this connection between sexual perversion and concern for Christians-of-color? Are they considered honorary atheists or something?

It's their running theme; they want to make the parallel between slavery and homosexuality/marriage. That the two are completely unrelated is irrelevant to them, they seek to put the association on the emotional-level and hijack the social-programming of "slavery is bad."

[Lee N. Field]

I don’t know if I would use the word “abhor” or “hate”.

It seems more like a nonchalant “I don’t care if there is a God or not. I’ll go about my own things in my own way.

The natural man is at enmity with God. Push it too hard, and you'll see the hate.

[Salvation]

You don’t think it’s just indifference? That there really is a hate for God there?

I can see how someone can hate another person for trying to proselytize them all the time. But hate God?

[Salvation]

Ronals Reagan was quoted as saying something like this: “Isn’t it strange that all the people who are against abortion have already been born?”

How about this then?

“Isn’t it strange that all the people who say they hate God are here because God created them and gave them life?”

[Vision]

It's amazing more people don't see that as Americans began to reject God, America has fallen little by little. The only reason why we're a rich country (and appearing successful) at the moment is we've so overextended/destroyed the dollar.

That said it's amazing that people hold parades for men who sodomize each other.

[x]

Religious feeling and belief move in cycles. The radicals of the 1910s rejected religion and a larger segment of the population in the 1920s lived for the moment. As Scott Fitzgerald said, it was a generation "grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Depression and War brought people back to religion in the 1930s and 1940s.

The 1950s were a high point for churchgoing but behind the scenes they also saw widespread secularization which would have political consequences in the 1960s. After Vietnam, riots and protests, Watergate, recession, gas shortages, and inflation, the 1970s and 1980s saw a return to religion that became quiet strong by the turn of the century. To be sure, people weren't always moral in their behavior, but in terms of professed belief in God we were more religious than most other industrialized countries.

This same pattern goes back into the 19th century: repeated revivals or awakenings followed by periods of slackening of religious faith and feeling. Now we're in one of those periods of reaction against religion. It will affect the country, but it won't last forever, if only because misfortune brings people back to religion, at least in the US.