The freedom to drink alcohol to excess has led to drunk driving that kills people and destroys lives, the freedom to act foolish and ruin the lives of others by our evil example has grown out of control. Foolishness is now celebrated while preaching sobriety is condemned as "judgemental."
The freedom to read any kind of filth ones wants to experience has led to child molestation and spousal abuse, filth is defended while a clean and righteous mind is attacked.
The freedom to divorce and remarry on demand has ruined the stability of the hearts of children, bringing discouragement while leaving our culture without a role model that works and loves well.
The freedom to make movies that destroy the moral climate of our culture, has distorted reality in the family structure, while fostering rebellion in the hearts of the children.
The freedom to murder 60 million babies has created the most heinous killing mentality ever seen in this culture. How is all that killing working out for us? We have yet to see the effects of this, in our social security system, in our jobs market in our devaluation of human life and lack of respect for anyone. The same people who advocate abortion on demand will march against war when an evil empire threatens another country.
I do not believe our founding fathers meant to foster the mentality of total freedom for all things no matter who it harms. The freedom they desired was the freedom to worship as one pleased while holding fast to the standards that make for a safe and loving society while honoring God.
Our culture is no longer safe, it is ugly and demeaning and all because some very squeaky wheels in the liberal media wanted the freedom to live as wickedly as they pleased without any restraints or stigmas attached. Hollywood has played a destructive role from the beginning in all this mess. It began with seemingly moral stories with a little lie here and there sneaking in unnoticed, while over time as people became used to and desensitised to sin, they began to add more and more immoral language and actions. Having said all that I must say this, the media only gave the people what they already desired in their hearts. Because the country was not obsessed with their Bibles and prayer, they were easy prey for deceivers in the media.
Since the church moved away from reading their Bibles in favor of massive amounts of television viewing, the church lost sight of truth. Those who went to church didn't know their Bibles and thought the movie industry was getting it right in their insidiously subtle violations of God's Word. It is not only the movies that control us, but sports has also consumed the hearts of many believers, I know this because the church chatter during coffee hour is all about the sports.
The less Bible we read and pray about, the more evil will move into our lives, taking a piece of our heart here and a piece there until eventually the Bible reading will disappear entirely while the media controls our mind and our heart.
Believers we need to spend time with the Lord far more than we spend with devices and stories, only then can we grow in grace.
2 Peter 3:18 "18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen."
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