For a huge portion of our society, TRUTH is seeming more and more foreign. When the law of God is spelled out so plainly by Saint Paul in the first chapter of Romans, we cannot change that. We may ignore it, and suffer the consequences. ALL of Western Civilization and ALL of Islam is already suffering the culture of death created by mankind having gone insane. What did Saint Paul say? He said:
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
If that does not express the present state of things nothing can. And too many of us are guilty of the very last sentence, that although we may live moral lives, we have been seduced into the crude entertainment of evil, where through the media we watch the expression of total debauchery, presented as comedy and drama. The early Christian Fathers warn against participating in the entertainment of debauchery. Then it was an act that required effort, you had to go to the circuses, you had to go to the theaters. Today every form of debauchery is available via this media of the internet, and via cable T.V. And we all sit like pigs at the trough, trilled by sexual exploitation and sadistic savagery. WE put the dollars into it, WE pay for it so that we are also without excuse. This isn't a matter of "politics", it is not a matter of some trivial thing. It is a sea change in the consciousness of our society.
My ex-son-in-law, himself a deputy sheriff in Georgia, told the story just this week, when entering his subdivision with a twenty-five MPH speed limit a young man tailgated him so angrily he turned off to remove the obstacle. As misfortune would have it, it happened to be the street where the young man was headed. At the culdesac my son-in-law rolled down his window to apologize and let the fellow know that he meant to let him pass and not slow him down further. He said that before he could say anything, the young man got out of his car, cursing and screaming, walked up to his house and dared him to follow. He said, "I knew he intended to kill me." This is the generation our own morality has created, let us not kid ourselves.
Tomas Hoeflin wrote:
The problem with those of the Libertarian bent, folks who have been heavily influenced by Ron Paul and others, who are trying to surrender the fight to defend marriage and the natural family for us, is that they utterly fail to recognize a number of critically important things:
1) The fundamental nature of the marriage bond and its character as the basis for all human civilization, governance and economy.
2) The moral depravity that the homosexual idea represents.
3) The fact that if you give government over to moral depravity you will have destroyed the possibility of republican, constitutional self-government.
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness -- these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."-- George Washington
"No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." -- James Madison
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net." -- John Adams
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