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‘Luxury beliefs’ are the latest status symbol for rich Americans
NY Post ^ | 17 Aug 2019 | Rob Henderson

Posted on 08/18/2019 9:14:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan

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To: Rummyfan

Another good article on “Do as I say, not as I do.”


21 posted on 08/18/2019 9:57:35 AM PDT by VanShuyten (Er"...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Rebelbase

:)


22 posted on 08/18/2019 9:59:45 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: Rummyfan

nothing new under the sun- rampant sin- that’s all- and that is what God is going to judge the unsaved world for- They think they are being innovative- ‘enlightened’ etc- they are not- the world has already been there, done that- and yep- God judged those nations that practiced such immorality too


23 posted on 08/18/2019 10:01:38 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Rummyfan

A good father reflects the Father.

The negative effects are more than just having no family and no fathers.

Even a good secular father reflects Fatherly values.

Christian values is where the civil a society comes from in this country.

People are their own little gods, it is our downfall.
Too many little gods wrecking society for their own little special kingdoms of selfishness within their own pathetic little corrupt minds.

The arrogance of placing our own thinking above the creators is actually quite mind boggling to me.


24 posted on 08/18/2019 10:02:42 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Rummyfan
maybe it's time we had out own symbol, like Average, i.e. NORMAL


25 posted on 08/18/2019 10:03:21 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: CodeToad

When will the government provide incentives for stable, 2 parent families.


26 posted on 08/18/2019 10:04:31 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Rummyfan

It’s not really that new. I remember a joke from the 70s, forget who told it, “I could never afford to think property was a crime”.


27 posted on 08/18/2019 10:05:36 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: Biggirl

“Believe Right And You Will Live Right.”

Many Christians “having begun in the spirit believe they will be made perfect in the flesh” (Galatians 3:2).

BELIEVE that you will reign and be victorious in life and over all your adversaries, not by your efforts or good works, but by RECEIVING “the abundance of grace (UNDESERVED favor) and the GIFT of righteousness by Christ” (Romans 5:17).


28 posted on 08/18/2019 10:05:58 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Rummyfan

A good father reflects the Father.

The negative effects are more than just having no family and no fathers.

Even a good secular father reflects Fatherly values.

Christian values is where the civil a society comes from in this country.

People are their own little gods, it is our downfall.
Too many little gods wrecking society for their own little special kingdoms of selfishness within their own pathetic little corrupt minds.
The arrogance of placing our own thinking above the creators is actually quite mind boggling to me.


29 posted on 08/18/2019 10:08:58 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Rummyfan

A former classmate from Yale recently told me “monogamy is kind of outdated” and not good for society.

“I wanna get to know her...”


30 posted on 08/18/2019 10:25:12 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“One example of luxury belief is that all family structures are equal. This is not true. Evidence is clear that families with two married parents are the most beneficial for young children. And yet, affluent, educated people raised by two married parents are more likely than others to believe monogamy is outdated, marriage is a sham or that all families are the same.”

ask single parent households in the black community, many with no fathers on hand, how its all worked out...


31 posted on 08/18/2019 10:29:29 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Rummyfan

Maybe she’s lying to you. Her statements don’t make sense....unless she wants a husband for financial security, but would like the option of whoring around on the side occasionally. I can’t think of any other reason.


32 posted on 08/18/2019 10:53:39 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Biggirl
Or a mutiple of dads.

What are the most dangerous words an American kid can hear?

"Mom's new boyfriend"

33 posted on 08/18/2019 10:59:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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But she maintained that traditional families are old-fashioned and society should “evolve” beyond them.

What could explain this?

Secular humanist leftards believe in subjectivism and relativism. This means they can accept experimental lifestyles, and permissive morality

34 posted on 08/18/2019 11:10:38 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Jim 0216

Amen (but I would we rather stick “to the form of sound words” the Lord gave us through apostle Paul).


35 posted on 08/18/2019 11:14:49 AM PDT by avenir
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To: Rummyfan

Charles Murray described this all in 2012 in his book “Coming Apart.”

One of his basic themes is that virtue-signaling leftist-leaning upper class elites generally do NOT live by the value they espouse - they stay married and monogamous, they don’t do habitually do drugs and they emphasize education - and pass these behaviors on to their kids, which is why they stay in the upper class.

The post-modern leftist values of abortion, single-motherhood, divorce, drug-use, mass public education rather are for the lower classes, who are then decimated by them


36 posted on 08/18/2019 11:18:43 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: thoughtomator

That should be a bumper sticker


37 posted on 08/18/2019 11:23:17 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: avenir
If we first believe right, we'll live right and speak right.


38 posted on 08/18/2019 11:24:58 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: PGR88

The “post modern leftist” likes its Plantation Workers


39 posted on 08/18/2019 11:30:47 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: Rummyfan

I’ve always believed that the homosexual leftist was an affluent idea. A luxury sexuality, and predatory. It requires an affluent society to attain and maintain.


40 posted on 08/18/2019 12:05:18 PM PDT by Churchjack (Color me curmudgeon.)
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