Now the Christians are hanging mass murder on their spiritual opponents...here's Robert Peters, President, Morality in Media (his phone number is helpfully given: 212-870-3210)
The underlying problem is that increasingly we live in a 'post-Christian' society, where Judeo-Christian faith and values have less and less influence. Among other things, Judaism and Christianity taught that murder was wrong and that included murder motivated by anger, hatred and revenge. Both religions also taught that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves and to forgive others.
For many citizens, what has replaced Judeo-Christian faith and values is the secular value system that is reflected in films, rap/music lyrics, and videogames and on TV and now the Internet, where the taking of human life for just about any reason is commonplace and is often portrayed in an appealing manner and in realistic detail. Murder motivated by hatred and revenge is also justified.Too damn much. I'd say in 1927, America was a firmly 'Christian' country, and not in the throes of the sexual revolution (although there were flappers and cocaine...). In Bath, Michigan, Andrew Kehoe killed 45 with a series of bombs set in a school. Hmmm...
This secular value system is also reflected in the 'sexual revolution,' which is the driving force behind the push for 'gay marriage;' and the Iowa Supreme Court decision is another indication that despite all the damage this revolution has caused to children, adults, family life and society (think abortion, divorce, pornography, rape, sexual abuse of children, sexually transmitted diseases, trafficking in women and children, unwed teen mothers and more), it continues to advance relentlessly.
It most certainly is not my intention to blame the epidemic of mass murders on the gay rights movement! [...Throatclearling lie, as set out in his next sentance - A.L.] It is my intention to point out that the success of the sexual revolution is inversely proportional to the decline in morality; and it is the decline of morality (and the faith that so often under girds it) that is the underlying cause of our modern day epidemic of mass murders.
Look, I believe that we have philosophical and moral issues that - in part - make the barrier ot runnink amok thinner. But blaming this on the 'gay agenda' is as opportunistic and contemptable - and un-Christian - a thing as I can imagine.
And the leap of logic is stunning:
This secular value system is also reflected in the 'sexual revolution,' which is the driving force behind the push for 'gay marriage'then
It most certainly is not my intention to blame the epidemic of mass murders on the gay rights movement!then
It is my intention to point out that the success of the sexual revolution is inversely proportional to the decline in morality; and it is the decline of morality (and the faith that so often under girds it) that is the underlying cause of our modern day epidemic of mass murders.
If the success of the sexual revolution is inversely proportional to the decline in morality, then the more the sexual revolution succeeds the less morality declines.
This sentence gives me the impression of someone tripping over himself trying to be devious.
Sex seems to drive a lot of people over the edge.