American values and traditional norms promoting integration of love-sex-marriage, modesty, and self-restraint are disappearing. Our school administrations, the psychological counseling establishment, the government, and the legal system happily support a “new normal that allows erotic love to trump agape, or selfless love.
Schools today may not lead students in prayer, but they are allowed to lead students into paths of sexual expression such as ten-minute counseling before sending them for an abortion, lessons on how to put a condom on a cucumber or a banana, and the need to prevent STDs rather than uphold the sex, marriage, and love unity.
Divorce has skyrocketed during the post-WWII years.
Sexually transmitted disease has become rampant,
“Shacking-up” or “Hooking-up”cohabitation is becoming more “normal” with each passing year.
The porn industry has captured the time, money, and imaginations of tens of millions of men on the internet and there is a gossip feeding frenzy regarding the immoral habits of celebrities.
Pedophilia is being publicly defended as a legitimate activity, and being HIV-positive is something, according to “public health experts”, that can be handled by partnering with your doctor and various government-funded agencies.
We are turning out millions upon millions of sex-crazed amoral and immoral people, people burning with lust day and night, who think nothing could be more normal. The “new normal” has replaced the “old morality” for vast numbers of people.
For many people, as evidenced by the behavior patterns in our society for the past few decades, the word “morality” is no longer meaningful and is deemed as irrelevant as the word “sin”. It is a term used by old fuddy-duddies to refer to the mores and ideas of some distant past before the knowledge revolution revealed to a hungry world that any and every form of behavior is normal and right, although the practical need for social order means that certain behaviors need to be controlled.
Of all the horrible amoral and immoral trends, the most striking, in addition to the rejection of over 60 million aborted children, is also the rejection of fatherhood on a vast scale. The goal of erotic pleasure as an end in itself has usurped the desire to perpetuate the human race in its familial bonds.
Why can’t we see that these two trend lines – taking of the lives of the unborn and at the same time giving birth to vast numbers of infants outside the love-marriage-sex unity – are phenomena that feed and promote each other? This is a twofold rejection of the underpinnings of family life that has reached epidemic proportions.
With 40% of the people of the United States being born outside of marriage, increasingly, the Fourth of the Ten Commandments is being trashed. It is being replaced with “Honor Your Mother” or “Honor Your Role Model and Your Mother.” The fathers are vanishing from the parenting equation as the intact family is disintegrating. Respect and love for the unborn and respect and love for fatherhood continue to erode in our erotic culture.
If we want our society to survive, we somehow need to get past the notion that child rearing “Takes a village” and return to the core of the nuclear family that understood that it took a mother and a father.
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