It is often stated that the U.S. government is always prepared to fight the last war. In fact, our preparedness is worse than that. We are not prepared to fight even the last war. The U.S. government is prepared to fight only a World War II-style conflict.
Colonel Gerald Schumacher, Army Special Forces (Retired), A Bloody Business: America’s War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq, pg.26
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
Heinrich Heine, born 1797
Being drawn to a person’s God-given beauty is one thing; having one’s eyes directed to another’s body by a sensually designed garment is another. While clothing does not have to smother one’s gender, any apparel designed to draw the eye to the erotic zones of the body cannot fill the requirements for Biblical decency.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.65
When we expose ourselves to one another in garments designed for sexual attraction, are we honestly preserving chastity in body, mind, and affections in ourselves and other? Are we avoiding provocations to sin? Does this really qualify as watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses?
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.60
The fashion industry does not believe that the principle purpose of clothing is to cover the body; it believes that the principle purpose of clothing is sexual attraction. This is the very opposite of Christian modesty.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.53
To believe that a garment designed to eroticize various parts of the body is a thing indifferent manifests the dichotomy of thought…. Here’s what the dichotomy produces: men and women who would never dream of walking out the front door in their undergarments will parade their newly naked bodies publicly in swimwear.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.47
Like the Democratic Party historically, the left is racist. And it is so in precisely the way the word was always used — the Left believes in black inferiority. That is why leftists advocate lowering standards for blacks. That is why they advocate policies that always result in more blacks dying at the hands of other blacks. That is why they believe the state must take care of blacks more than any other group. That is why left-wing policies, from the Great Society to today, have destroyed so much of black life, especially its family life — and they don’t care.
Dennis Prager, A Brief Guide to Leftist Destruction.
Clearly the purpose underlying swimwear design was exposing human anatomy in a more sensual package. This could not be successfully achieved on the streets of the city. But in the name of recreation and especially sports, an amazing dichotomy of thought began to permeate our society. At the turn of the century, what was naked and lewd in the city was suddenly perfectly justifiable at the beach.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.41
Fashion designers did not view swimwear as simply functional garments with a specific use like overalls. They envisioned their creations as highly fashionable garments, and therefore designed them both to reveal and arouse. What they clearly understood is that this new aquatic garment was merely a symbol of dress. This is why swimwear ultimately evolved into a form of nakedness thinly disguised as dress.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.38
In place of real democracy American totalitarians in the Democrat party and the technocratic elite in the Republican party want a managed society headed by bureaucrats and a bureaucracy whose universal vision of societal governance and order is disseminated to the local apparatuses of the government writ small: school boards, universities, businesses, etc. Hence the strong-arm tactics to get local municipalities, businesses, and schools across the country to comply with new federal and state government dictates. Any holdouts will be penalized into conformity. So much for democracy.
Paul Krause, Destroying Democracy by ‘Saving Democracy’
Some forms of public nakedness are shameful and/or explicit sinful since the Fall of Adam. Exposing the male or female body, which should be covered, is out of harmony with the Biblical model. Moreover, since exposing the privates is shameful, it seems obvious that clothing which emphasizes or purposely draws attention to these areas of the body is likewise shameful and immodest. And modern swimwear is the epitome of these things—by design.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.34
