Like many in this nation, I have had my doubts about the current president and makeup of the congress. These last three months have been pure hell for people like me. I know that not everyone believes or understand the same thing. For those who cherish liberalism, and socialism, then this president and congressional makeup is spectacular and exactly what you want.
I believe a more pertinent question is how did we get here? The answer is painfully simple. The book, The 5000 year leap boils down the founders intentions into 28 principles. Two of them are the key to solving this question. The first principle to examine is that the people of the nation must be virtuous and moral. The second principal we need to look at is that the leaders must be virtuous and moral. If one is not in place, the whole apple cart is turned upside down.
The other 26 remaining principles are fine and dandy, and very beautiful to a person such as myself. However, after examining them, if the two principles mentioned above are corrupted then rest is corrupted. This problem has been in the making for some 100 years. Nonetheless, the catalyst was in the 1960s with the move from moral absolutes to moral relativism.
The young people of the 1950s were corrupted and this corrupted spoiled generation then raised the next corrupt generation. That which was once wrong no longer mattered. They grew up, had children, became schoolteachers and professors, and raised the next generation. This is evidenced in President Clintons behavior while in the White House and before, oral sex is not sex, well that depends on what your definition of is, is Clinton said. Clinton has far less moral principles than the generation that raised him. Now, we are engaged with a younger president. This president has very different morals than even Clinton had. We shouldn’t be looking at them, they are the symptom.
The disease is in us. We are a much less virtuous and moral people than we were just one generation past. What do you expect corrupt generations to produce? In the Bible, God told the Hebrews, hey guys, tough, you are wondering the desert for 40 years until this generation passes. A new generation needed to be born, one that would know God. Here we are, in a much worse boat. We have several generations that are corrupted, and no desert in sight.
We think it is cute for our 15-year-old daughters to have pierced tongues, without understanding where this trend started from, gay sadomasochism. We think it is cute to let our 13 year olds dress in black, dye their hair purple and paint their nails black, all the while listening to some crazy music. Many parents took their kids to see, The spy who shagged me.” Do you know what the British verb, to shag means? Our movie ratings have been dumbed down so far that what used to be R rated is now PG 13. I can rant on and on about this.
Let me draw you a picture. I like to look at this as a set of multi concentric cycles. The cycle in the center is absolute purity, virtue and morality. Albeit that we would never start from there, but for the sake of the discussion let’s say we do. So here we are living and wandering around in the center. One or more or perhaps a group are curious. What lies behind the wall? One day they begin to chisel away until a hole is broken through. Everyone is in shock! They cannot believe what they see.
The few that broke through are now ripping away at the wall. Now there is no wall left. By the time this happens, the rest of the people have been exposed to what lies beyond and no longer pay attention. Soon, a group of people are once again curious as to what is beyond the next wall. The process continues to repeat until there are no walls left.
Each wall represents a set of moral values. As they are torn down, the main group is initially shocked but overtime they become immune to the repulsiveness of what was hidden. It becomes normal. Let’s look around. Today, you can find women wearing their underwear on the outside. You can see people with piercings everywhere, tattoos that don’t make sense, dressed like trash even in the work place and indeed in our churches. Profanity is all over the airwaves, music promotes beating and sexually abusing women, killing cops and so on.
So, who is to blame? Look in the mirror. We all are. Those of us who were baby boomers, wanted everything, and not have to pay for it, not have to be responsible. An endless party if you will. Our offspring have hardly any limits. This, friends is our legacy that we are leaving the world, a destroyed America, with masses that want to be like Europe, who by the way went through this process long before we did. We just want to be kids even into our old age.
This is why the founders stated that for us to remain a free nation; we had to remain a nation of virtuous and moral people. A people rooted in Natural law that is, law from God and a nation that believed in God. The founders said, if we should not be this kind of people, we would lose our freedom. The answer put God back into the center of our lives. Base our virtues and morals around Him; keep Natural law at our core. If we want to survive, we need to get back to the center.
