Problems Due to Misuse of Sexuality

Have you ever stopped and considered the number of destructive problems we have because of the misuse of our sexuality? Not only do we have an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, but addiction to pornography is exploding and causing all types of problems in relationships. In many cases it is ruining people’s marriages and sex lives. Then there are so many unwanted pregnancies, which lead to abortions. There are all types of psychological and physical effects from rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, incest, sex trafficking of young girls, prostitution, and all the different types of sexual addictions. Finally, and most significantly, there is adultery, which often leads to divorce and the break-up of the family. It appears that sex is out of control and causing far-reaching damage to our society.

Richard E. Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God, pg.123-124

Sex is Best in Marriage

The Christian worldview contends that the healthiest, most meaningful, most satisfying, and most pleasurable sexual experience is found between a man and a woman in a covenant relationship called marriage. A covenant is a promise--a pledge of love, loyalty, and faithfulness. A covenant involves continuity--the sense of a common future--to look forward to and a history to look back on together. A covenant means belonging--a commitment to a rich and growing relationship of love and care.

Richard E. Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God, pg. 122

Emotions vs Facts

 

Lies Will Never Be True

No matter how often lies are repeated by politically-driven accusers, and regardless of how often those lies are echoed in biased media, lies will never be true.  

Scott W. Atlas, “Science, Politics, and COVID: Will Truth Prevail?”

Secular View of Sex

Clearly our societies’ secular view of sex is a reflection of its prevailing worldview. If our world is a product of blind, material forces, then there are no rules for sex. Therefore, it means we are free to make our own rules.  It means that sex can be just another form of recreation; it is for pleasure. In our secular worldview, our culture has no God to instruct us how to limit our lusts, our passions, and our desires. This explains how sex in our modern world has no real meaning or value. There is nothing sacred about it.

Richard E. Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God, pg. 121-122

Did God Create Evil?

God did not create evil; He created the possibility of evil by giving us freedom. Evil is nothing more than the corruption of that which intended for good. It is logically impossible for Him to create a world in which people have genuine freedom yet without the potential to do that which is depraved or even evil. If God had created us without freedom, we would have a world without humans and a world without love.

Richard E. Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God, pg. 52

Do Appropriate Studying

I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

John Adams

Without God, What is Good?

Modern people so easily dismiss God because of the presence of evil in the world. Without realizing it, the notion of evil implies that there is a standard of goodness that has been violated. Who then decides the standard of goodness?

Richard E. Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God, pg. 22

The USA's Threat Within

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Douglas MacArthur

Will You Fight?

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.  There may even be a worse case.  You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm.

Do You have the “Wrong” Beliefs?

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by the individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the “wrong beliefs.”

Friedrich August Von Hayek (1899-1992)

Family, With Man/Husband and Woman/Wife is Bedrock of Society

There’s plenty of evidence proving that a family consisting of a man/husband, a woman/wife, and a child or children is our societal bedrock. On the other hand, children suffer in fatherless households. And we certainly know that allowing children to undergo hormone therapy or even sex-change operations makes them far more vulnerable to emotional and psychological turmoil. And we know that a nation founded on the belief in God-given rights is a nation in decline when it allows tens of millions of preborn children to be ripped from the womb.

Brian Mark Weber, Religious Liberty for Popular and Sound Ideas

Don’t Hold Beliefs vs. Truth

Do we not care about what is true? Are we afraid to look reality in the eye because it may take us in a direction we don’t want to go? I believe this is one of the great flaws in our human character. We stubbornly hold on to our beliefs because they generally reflect how we want life to be rather than how life actually is. For this reason, evidence does not seem to matter.

Richard E. Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God, pg. 7

Liberty Is Becoming Meaningless

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Frederick Douglass

We Are On the Way To Living in Fear

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition it has only one way to go and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S. Truman

Think About it

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire.  

The culture of the LEFT continues to force people to believe absurdities such as same-sex “marriage,” mathematics is racist, there are more than two genders, and even that a man can change to a woman and a woman to a man. 

Watch Out for Those Who Seek Absolute Power

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.

Barry Goldwater

Does God Exist?

If God does not exist, then you are just a miscarriage of nature, thrust into a purposeless universe to live a purposeless life.

William Lane Craig, "The Absurdity of Life Without God," Radix, Vol.1/No.1

The LEFT Hates Objective Thinking

The inherent problem with science is that it requires objectivity. And objectivity is the thing that leftists hate for the same reason that any cult does. Objectivity asserts that we can find the truth by stepping back from our beliefs and emotions in any field from journalism to particle physics. 

Daniel Greenfield, “No Objectivity Please, We’re Leftists”

Reparations for Slavery?

Slave owners and slave traders should make reparations to those whom they enslaved. The problem, of course, is that slaves, slave owners and slave traders are all dead.

Walter E. Williams

I want to also point out that it was Africans who sold other Africans into slavery, so why don't the people in the "reparations" movement take their claims to Africa?

The Main Stream Media Hates Truth

When Society Is Doomed

 

Religion and Morality Needed for Freedom

Statesmen may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.

John Adams, letter to Zabdiel Adams (21 June 1776)

Liberty

 

Colleges Are Brainwashing Students Into Fear

When I see Americans walking outdoors with masks on, my first reaction is to mourn the death of reason and my second is to wonder what college they attended. Because one of the many other awful things colleges do to most of their students is make them afraid: afraid not only of dying if they pass another human being while walking their dog but also of dying from global warming, and afraid of any ideas not inculcated into them by their school. That’s why they and most of their professors object to conservatives speaking at their school. To the brainwashed, different ideas are frightening and make them feel “unsafe” (hence, “safe spaces” at so many colleges).

Dennis Prager, When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed.

America's Moral Free Fall

America is in a moral free fall. Just look at it as I would as a pastor. You murder the babies in the womb. If they survive the womb, you try to seduce them into transgender sexual deviation when they're young. If they survive that, you corrupt them with a godless education. If they survive that, you have divorce in the family and if they grow to be adults, you drown them in a sea of pornography. This is a nation so far down in the sewer of immorality and wickedness that nothing surprises me. In fact, I would be shocked if a judge said, "Open all the churches and close all the strip clubs.’”

John MacArthur during interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News.

The Decay of Culture

 

Fatherlessness Leads to Crime.

Some people, mainly on the left, think there’s nothing to see here. They’re wrong. The vast majority of incarcerated juveniles have grown up in fatherless homes. Teen and other mass murderers almost invariably have filial rupture in their biographies. Absent fathers predict higher rates of truancy, psychiatric problems, criminality, promiscuity, drug use, rape, domestic violence, and other less-than-optimal outcomes. Here’s another pertinent, albeit socially radioactive fact: Fatherlessness leads to a search for father substitutes. And some of these daddy placeholders turn out to be toxic.

Mary Ebrstadt, The Fury of the Fatherless

How Nations Die

 Nations do not die from invasion, they die from internal rottenness.

Abraham Lincoln

If You Take the College Debt, YOU Pay It!

Policies should never entice students into greater debt, nor should they put taxpayer dollars at greater risk. There are too many politicians today who support policy that does both. We’ve heard shrill calls to cancel, to forgive, to make it all free. Any innocuous label out there can’t obfuscate what it really is: wrong. The campaign for free college is a matter of total government control. Make no mistake: It is a socialist takeover of higher education.

—Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

"Liberalism" Is the Road to Socialism

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.  But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

—Norman Thomas

The LEFT Is Destroying Our History

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

—George Orwell

Heroes vs Celebrities

Our society has replaced heroes with celebrities, the quest for a well-formed character with the search for a flat stomach, substance and depth with image and personality. In the political process, the make up man is more important than the speech writer, and we approach the voting booth, not on the basis of a well-developed philosophy of what the state should be, but with a heart full of images, emotions, and slogans all packed into 30-second soundbites.

J.P. Moreland, Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul, pg.21,  1997

Real Heroes

Modern culture is quick to label anyone a hero, to the point where the word has all but lost its meaning. Successful athletes are heroes. Honest politicians are heroes. People who return lost purses with money still in them are heroes. As Florence King has observed, all anyone has to do to become a hero in America today is fall in a hole and live to tell about it.

Today, such dilution of the title results from two forces opposing each other to an unprecedented extent One is that the world is desperate for heroes. It always has been. We want someone we can could up as an example to inspire us. We want to be part of a race that produces great people who accomplish heroic things; we want to be able to look at a hero and imagine that, with dedication and strength of character, we can be heroes too.

The opposing force, stronger no than ever, is a culture that discourages heroism. While we crave it as always, heroism, so rare in the first place, has become increasingly difficult to find. A society that embraces relativism and multiculturalism is hard pressed to produce a hero. If every view of the world is equally acceptable, there can be no absolute standards of bravery, sacrifice, patriotism, faith, truth, fairness, fidelity, and honor.

And without absolutes, there can be no heroes.

John Perry, Sgt. York: His Life, Legend & Legacy, pg.331

Half-Truths

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Tennyson.

Cited by Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale, Jesus Among Secular Gods, pg.208

A Defect of Atheism

The atheist in fact talks of the true, the good, and the beautiful, but never asks why we admire or pursue such categories. These are ideas by which we judge everything, as Mortimer Adler points out. The same applies for liberty, equality, and justice. These are ideas by which we seek to live. Wars are fought over them. Books are written because of them. If such categories exist, which of the worldviews is able to explain them or justify them or sustain them? Atheism simply cannot do it. To be sure, it has been tried.

Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale, Jesus Among Secular Gods, pg 56

The Modern Muslim Invasion

Watch Europe cower under the heel of Islamists who have not forgotten that they were stopped from overtaking Europe and beaten back by Charles Martel thirteen centuries ago. Now, with patience and the clever control of demographics and a gullible media, they stand by, ready to one day take over the structures and edifices built by a different ethic and a different belief system. It is only a matter of time, and they are in no hurry. Thirteen centuries ago, Europe was able to stop the theocratic Islamic tidal wave because it had a faith to defend. The value-less culture of today will not be able to withstand the attack.

Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale, Jesus Among Secular Gods, pg. 12

The USA Has Died

 The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

Are Democrats a Political Party?

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance  cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 3/6/56. 

Totalitarianism Won’t Win

Totalitarianism will never win in the end—but it can win long enough to destroy a civilization. That is what is ultimately at stake in the fight we are in. We can see today the totalitarian impulse among powerful forces in our politics and culture. We can see it in the rise and imposition of doublethink, and we can see it in the increasing attempt to rewrite our history.

Larry P. Arnn, Orwell’s 1984 and Today.

The Meaning of “One Flesh” Marriage

The one flesh marriage is not just a physical phenomenon, but a uniting of the totality of two personalities. In marriage, we are one flesh spiritually by vow, economically by sharing, logistically by adjusting time and agreeing on the disbursement of all life’s resources, experientially by trudging through the dark valleys and standing victoriously on the peaks of success, and sexually by the bonding of our bodies.

Dr. Louis H. Evans, Jr.  Cited in Preparing for Marriage, General Editor Dennis Rainey

Do Your Own Thinking!

We NEED Informed Patriotism More Than Ever

An informed patriotism is what we want. Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?” 

Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn’t get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-sixties.

But now, we’re about to enter the [1990s], and some things have changed. Younger parents aren’t sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style. . . . We’ve got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It’s fragile; it needs protection.

So, we’ve got to teach history based not on what’s in fashion but what’s important—why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. You know, four years ago on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who’d fought on Omaha Beach. . . . [S]he said, “we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did.” Well, let’s help her keep her word. If we forget what we did, we won’t know who we are. I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. 

Excerpted from President Ronald Reagan’s farewell speech, January 1989.

These Again Are Times That Try Men’s Souls

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

We Must Fight to Keep Liberty

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

D.H. Lawrence

Sex MUST Go With Marriage

Christian young people often ask me how far they can go, not even realizing that once you are on that road, it can only lead to harm. This is not because sex is bad but because it is so powerful and can easily destroy what is so good. When you try to possess this enjoyment in a relationship outside of marriage, it will bring destruction.... 

If you find yourself even thinking in the direction of sex, you had better ask yourself why you are not thinking about marriage. If you are thinking about marriage, it should be with serious-mindedness and the intention of establishing a Christian home.

Richard L. Ganz, Controversies That Almost Killed a Church, pg.86, 87

Public Schools Kill Our Culture

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury.

Marriage is Better Than Cohabiting

Compared to their married peers, cohabiters consistently have lower rates of well-being than married people. Why? Because cohabiting relationships are ambiguous. Usually each partner has a different understanding of the nature and future of the relationship. In marriage the couple is clear about the claim they have on each other. Husbands are more likely to come home after work and not stay out all night with the guys than boyfriends are. Wives and husbands are not as likely to flirt with others outside the relationship. Marriage helps them know who they belong to emotionally and sexually.

Glenn Stanton, Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, pg.124-125

Totalitarianism Is Here

Education vs Indoctrination

Freedom vs Safety

 

Social Justice

Marriage is for Culture, Not Individuals

Marriage doesn’t serve individuals’ or couples’ needs for equality and justice before the law. It serves the cultural need for social norms for how we channel sexual energy in socially beneficial ways. Marriage is the way we socialize men, protect women from the exploitation of unattached males and ensure every child grows up with a mother and a father. This is driven by nature, and it is why we find it in every know society and the major world religions.

Glenn Stanton, Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, pg.46

How To Destroy People

 

Homosexuality is NOT Analogous with Race

No academic institution in the world nor any U.S. court has ever established that homosexuality is given at birth and is a permanent feature of an individual like race, nationality and gender are. There are no former Blacks, Whites, Hispanics or Asian folks. But there are hundreds of people documented who have happily and successfully left homosexuality. Homosexuality and race are clearly two different things and therefore should not be treated as similar.

Glenn Stanton, Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, pg. 38

Restricting Critical Examination?

The instant that any person or ideology is considered off-limits for critical examination and even ridicule, freedom of speech has been replaced by an ideological straitjacket.

Robert Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad, pg. 13.

What Television Does

TV makes people physically lazy, intellectually uncritical, emotionally insensitive, psychologically confused, and morally disordered.

Understanding the Church, by Joseph M. Vogl and John H. Fish III, pg.51

Psychology is the Antithesis of Christianity

Why is psychology taught in seminaries and Bible colleges? Because the modern church has abandoned the Scriptures as the final authority for faith and life. How ironic that even secular critics of psychology are being ignored by seminaries even though “there is a growing band of psychologists and psychiatrists warning the churches that they have bought tainted goods, and urging them to reappropriate a peculiarly Biblical wisdom about mental and spiritual health.”

Rather than heeding the warnings about psychological infiltration, seminary leaders react with defensive hostility. They have not only allowed the camel’s nose to sneak under the tent, but they have welcomed the entire double-humped beast into their dwelling with open arms and a warm kiss.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.222

Conservatives Need To Take Control of the Government

 

God Is the King of America

Do The Moral Thing

We Are Now Living in 1984!

 

People ARE Responsible For Their Actions

But choices are mental and spiritual matters. The unproven psychological theories of unconscious drives over which a person has no control are simply mechanisms for excusing irresponsible, immature, and undisciplined behavior and thinking.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.114

A Lie of Psychology

Psychologists are in error to state as fact that humans use less than a given percentage of their total mental capacity. It is misleading for psychologists to claim that they scientifically examine minds, emotions, beliefs, values, and behaviors. A major writer [Judi Striano] of integrationist materials admits that “it is difficult to use scientific standards to study emotions like love and hope, the behavior of street gangs, the religious experiences of churchgoers or the effectiveness of psychotherapy.” Still, he believes that psychology is scientific.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.51

One Piece at a Time.

 

Government Health Care?

 

Psychology Makes Nothing Better

Psychological studies have not shown that mankind is mentally healthier since the introduction of psychological theories and therapies. To the contrary, there is evidence that society has become more psychotic rather than better-adjusted. The increase of “mental illness” may someday be found to be in direct proportion to the number of psychologists and psychiatrists who set up practice.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.28

Beware the Lack of Reason

To Become a Christian Means to Change

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions—if he continues to be just as snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before—then I think we must suspect that his “conversion” was largely imaginary; and after one’s original conversion, every time one thinks one has made an advance, the is the test to apply. Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in “religion” mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better; just as in illness “feeling better” is not much good if the thermometer shows that your temperature is still going up.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 207

Building Compound Interest of Good and Evil

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparent trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 132

The Monstrosity of Fornication

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 104

Study History

He who forgets his own history is condemned to repeat it. If we don’t know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “Why Study Church History?” Christian History, 25 (1990), pg.41

Questions for Husbands and Wives

Husband—What would happen in your marriage if you devoted yourself to loving, honoring, and serving your wife in all things? What if you determined that the preservation of your oneness with this woman was worth every sacrifice and expression of love you could make? What would change in your home if you took that approach to your relationship on a daily basis?

Wife—What would happen if you made it your mission to do everything possible to promote togetherness of heart with your husband? What if every threat to your unity was treated as a poison, a cancer, an enemy to be eliminated by love, humility, and selflessness? What would your marriage become if you were never again willing to see your oneness torn apart?

Stephen & Alex Kendrick, The Love Dare, pg.148

Lust vs Love

Lust is in opposition to love It means to set your heart and passions on something forbidden. And for a believer it’s the first step out of fellowship with the Lord and with others. That’s because every object of your lust—whether it’s a young coworker or a film actress, or coveting after a half-million dollar house or a sports car—represents the beginning of a lie. This person or thing that seems to promise sheer satisfaction is more like a bottomless pit of unmet longings. 

Lust always breeds more lust. “What is the source of the wars and the fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?” (James 4:1). Lust will make you dissatisfied with your husband or wife. It breeds anger, numbs hearts, and destroys marriages. Rather than fullness, it leads to emptiness.

Stephen & Alex Kendrick, The Love Dare, pg.117

"African-American"?

Let's stop with the stupid, condescending, divisive, insulting term "African American." I am an AMERICAN who is Black. Congress banned importation of new slaves in 1808, 212 years ago. Why do I have a descriptive for the continental origin of my ancestors but whites who came to America later do not?

Larry Elder, Random Thoughts On and Around Election Night

DANGER!!

Circular Reasoning is Endemic to Evolutionism

When an evolutionist looks at human DNA nucleotides, how does he know which ones are the results of mutations and which ones have remained unchanged? Obviously, to answer that question he must know what the original or ancient sequences were. Since only God is omniscient, how does the evolutionist get the information about those sequences that he believes existed millions of years ago? He uses as his guide the DNA of the chimpanzee. In other words, the studies that seek to prove that human DNA evolved from chimp DNA start with the assumption that chimp DNA represents the original condition (or close to it) from which human DNA diverged. That is circularity with a vengeance.

Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, Pg.174