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The children. How about the children? How can any child grow up today in America and escape becoming morally ruined by the decadent, deeply corrupting culture in which he is engulfed? How can any child survive that gauntlet of moral lie that bombards him from birth and maintain his moral integrity? I ask myself that question. I don't personally believe that very many do. I think sooner or later almost all succumb and go the way of immorality and wickedness. The corrupting forces and influences of our culture are so powerful that the likelihood of a particular child resisting them is just very small. My pessimism on this point is confirmed by all the statistics. The statistics on youth promiscuity, illegitimate births, drug use, alcohol use, cohabitation, teen crime, etc. And it is confirmed by the personal stories that come to me regarding sons and daughters of people I know. Stories of youth on drugs, youth soliciting sex via the internet, youth prostituting themselves, etc. There is no innocence any more among children in this country. That is all something from a bygone age. The reason is obvious. There is all the corrupting influence of television and Hollywood. There is the internet with all that pornography available with just a few strokes on the keypad. There is all that peer pressure. There are all those sex education classes breaking down those moral inhibitions and desensitizing the children to lewdness and immorality. There is all that authority --- government, the school system, the psychiatrists and psychologists, even many ministers --- telling him that a wickedness as gross as homosexuality is not wrong at all but, instead, perfectly OK (and not only is it perfectly OK, but the bad people are those who say it is wrong). And with all these voices of lie and misinformation impinging upon him, the child never hears the truth. The truth is just nowhere to be heard. We live in a country where the masses have been so indoctrinated in liberal lie, Satanic lie, that it is just socially unacceptable to speak the truth. Speaking obvious truth is just taboo. Most people just aren't willing to do it. Fear of what people might think of them keeps their mouths closed. It is just politically incorrect to speak the truth about a great many things in this country and very few have the courage to speak up. How can things get so bad in a society that morality becomes totally inverted, where wrong becomes right and right becomes wrong? How can an entire population become so duped, so deceived by obvious lie? Well, the answer to that lies in repetition. When any lie is repeated often enough and loud enough people will believe it. Even if it is against all reason and evidence, even it conflicts with what they can see with their own eyes, they will still believe it. Everyone else believes it so it must be true. That is the basis on which they believe it and they are not willing to believe anything else because they are not willing to go against the crowd. If adults are duped by all the liberal lie, what do you think will happen to children? The truth is in the Bible but a very large portion of our ministers are perverted themselves and twist the Bible and preach some twisted, corrupted, apostate version of it. A great many children don't hear Biblical truth and even if they do there are so many powerful forces and pressures and lies pulling them away from it that they end up going down the wrong road. We live in a morally corrupt society and this is what a morally corrupt society does. It perverts the youth. Then as time passes the older generations die off and are replaced by the generations of the morally perverted. And what is the effect of that? It has an impact on trust, confidence and interpersonal relationships within the society. It means you can't trust strangers. It would be nice if when one meets someone new he could believe he might be a good person of integrity, a person he might respect and trust. But in a corrupt society, for any particular person we might meet, the statistical odds are that he is as perverted as the society itself, that he is not a person to be trusted. So, unless we have solid evidence to the contrary, the only sensible assumption we can make is one calling for caution and deep skepticism. I am very happy that I am not a young single person out looking for a good, chaste, decent spouse in today's America. I am afraid it would be a long, long futile quest. I am reminded of a conversation that took place between God and Abraham after God told Abraham he was going to destroy Sodom. Abraham, out of concern for Lot and his family (who lived in Sodom), asked God, "Would you also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous people within the city? Would you spare it for fifty righteous?" God said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city, I will spare it." Abraham then asked if he would spare it for forty five righteous people and God said he would. Abraham then asked if he would spare it for forty righteous people and God said he would. This continued and they got down to ten righteous people and God told Abraham he would spare it for ten righteous people. Well, there were apparently not even ten righteous people in Sodom because God destroyed it, raining fire and brimstone down from heaven. How can a rich and powerful city become so thoroughly corrupt that there do not remain even ten righteous people in it? Well, moral rot is contagious. It spreads. And if you wish to corrupt a country it is best to start with the children of the country. The sin of Sodom was homosexuality. Homosexuals go for the children. They convert the children over first. They just love children. Homosexuals have a lot of power and political influence here in America and they are extending their influence and message into our schools, going for our children. Dec 2009
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