If I came across a one of those male chauvinistic pigs – I apologies.
This is a big can of worms and my views are not mainstream – remember, I am neither a Protestant nor Catholic. There are two sides to this conversation, spiritual, and secular. The spiritual side of the conversation has ZERO impact on the secular side. However, the secular side has come to have a great affect upon the spiritual side.
Before I answer your question, I am going to tell a long winded story so you understand my perspective:I have two small girls in my home, ages 7 and 8, their impression of the world is so very different than mine, my father’s, or grandfather. To a child current events, such as, war news, remote drone attacks, internet, public sexuality (TV, cartoons, movies, the vocabulary of the kids they meet at the park, the way people dress to shop at Walmart), and the strength of religious conviction by most everyone they meet – just seem to be the way of the world.
Questions about , ‘Why are some of the movies we watch are in black & white and why are the special effect so elementary? ‘ are difficult enough to explain to a small child let alone trying to explain and educate about the social changes the frame the world they are growing up in.
This is my attempt to explain it to them:My girls are well versed in the Joseph/Moses/Exodus Bible story. For lack of better dating information we just picked 1400 BC as the time of the Exodus (it makes the math easy), therefore we say it was approximately 3410 years ago. My girls then decided for themselves that throughout history men became father around the age of 20. Therefore The 10 Commandments were given to us 170 grandfathers ago.( Although my father was born in 1908 and his father was born 1872 – but this is just a story for my girls)
Then I try to explain the world to them this way: For 169 of those grandfathers life was pretty much the same. Ask any of those 169 grandfathers, who created the world and the answer was always, God. Ask any of those 169 grandfathers, ‘What is the single most important thing about being alive?’ ‘The answer was always to know the Lord, or to obey the Lord.’ There was no electricity, no indoor toilets, no telephones, no cars, no cancer, no pollution, no UFOs, no public education, and no doubt by the majority of the people that Judeo-Christian values were the guidebook for how to properly live their lives.
When their grandfather was born, 1908, grandfather #170, at his birth everyone believed in the Creator, then everything stared to change indoor toilets, cars, planes, electricity, both world wars , a man on the moon, and the belief that science is the answer to all of life issues – like Big Bang and Evolution without God. Now here we are today. My attempt is to get them to understand that the world we live in is only the product of the last generation and we see none of their friends in church on Sunday. In fact, we tried to get our neighbor kids to attend VBS with us and their parents didn’t let them go.
My point to my girls is – that for 169 of those 170 grandfathers Judeo-Christian values from the Bible is how mankind lived, It is only this generational period that people have strayed.
Because you are older than 7, I’ll add to my story.
The role of America in world history and end-times prophesy.It all begins with SATAN'S COUNCIL OF THE 1700'sRead more:
ponderingconfusion.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=nwo&action=display&thread=119#ixzz2YCX7r1v5America is colonized for religious freedom, but the end result was only to splinter Christianity into more and more factions, to eventually include Mormonism, Jehovah Witness, and the Unitarian Movement – none of which I consider as Christ based movements.
The Civil War had the greatest impact on our society in ways that you will never learn about in school.
1st it revolutionized the gun. Firearms changed from heavy, single shot, hand make things into the relatively light-weight semi-automatic Colt rim fire revolver and the Winchester rifle. This revolution in weaponry changed the entire sociological nature of killing your fellow man. Face to face, hand to hand combat changed into firing weapons from great distances away. Face to face both combatants were connected to the trauma of the killing. The personal trauma of hacking someone to death with a hatchet, sword, or bayonet changed into just watching the silhouettes of the enemy fall from your view.
2nd it killed so many southern men that for the first time in history women found themselves as a large percentage of the land owners – instantly empowering women s never before.
3rd it displaced many families into the American West – which has a twofold effect.
a. Up until this time in history, men fought the battles, while the women stayed at home protecting the children. But now in the American West, armed with the gun, man and women fought side by side, and often, mom was left alone to protect the family with a gun, while dad went off to hunt. It didn’t take long at all for a few women to gain fame for their ability with the gun, Calamity Jane and Little Oakley Annie.
b. also, the American West provided the natural resources and business opportunities that gave rise to our current world elite.
4th during the war and for many years afterward the industrial North dominated industry giving rise to Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, DuPont, and Vanderbilt. Of these the Rockefeller Empire personally shaped our culture today. The misunderstood aspect of the Rockefeller Empire was the Laura Spellman Foundation, which gives us Public education, NBC, CBS, ABC, Time Warner, Fox News, CNN, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdock, and Hollywood.
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ponderingconfusion.com/papers.php?id=orthodoxmed5th following the Civil War we have: Albert Pike, and the modern cult of Freemasonry - all working through the Rockefeller Empire to give us modern medicine, personal income taxes, and the Federal Reserve, not to mention WWI, WWII, the National Security Act, the CIA, Vietnam, and 911.
Empowering women has had several negative impacts to our society.The first major impact by the suffrage movement was probation – the 18th amendment. This sounded like a good idea, but instead of saving our society, it gave us the American gangster and the FBI, the perfect role model for our war on drugs that gave rise to the drug cartels that dominate all our neighboring nations to the south.
The Free Love movement of the 1960s was another feminist movement that harmed the Judeo-Christian values of our nation.
Equal rights started out as a racial issue, then adopted by the feminist movement for equal pay and has left our society with the woman’s right to choose and Row vrs Wade.
Today, women serve in the military and pastor many of our churches all in the guise of progress – but the end result is to validate non-Judeo-Christian values as a nation.
I am a male. I had this conversation with many young males in a youth ministry. The end result of all of these changes is that men today are unaware of their own identity. As I said before, throughout history guys did guy things and girls did girl things – and today women can do anything and as a result men have become disconnected with their identities as men.
Insecurity in men is a common feeling by young men in this country and age. What does it mean to be male today? Women continue to have a rite of passage from being a young woman to motherhood. You are a young woman as long as you want to be, but as soon as you have that child, from now on you are a mother. Men, on the other hand, have lost this rite of passage.
I grew up watching John Wayne and James Bond and my perception of being a man was an illusion. I dream of honor and conviction, but without Judeo-Christian values to guide me I have lost even what it means to be accountable or responsible. I get into trouble with my male friends, and instead of standing like the men we dream of being, we are all out to make the best deal for ourselves. If morality is no longer absolute, but has become situational, then in this situation it’s only about me.
Today I am a high school student, tomorrow I have graduated – does that mean I am a man, or am I still a boy? 100 years ago, on career day at school, I could have aspired to be a poet. Today, I would be laughed out of class being called a sissy or worse. ? I join the Army and my commander is a woman, does that insure that I am a man? I have gotten married, my wife earns more than I do, Perhaps I am staying at home to care for the baby. Does this make me feel like a man?
Today, what it has come down to for most young men between 16 and 30, especially in the inner cities and depressed areas - violence. Violance has become the only remaining defining aspect of being a man. If I can kick your ass in the ally, then I am the man and your still the boy. Strength of conviction and honor, have faded away into just the concept of being the alpha male.
Oprah Winfry has taught an entire generation hat before you can love someone else, you must first love yourself. So we have an entire generation of narcissistic youth dating each other. Just how does it take to find fault with another person? How many partners does one have to go through before that find true love – and all of this just drives our culture farther and farther away from Judeo-Christian values.
This is the secular impact of feminism – and it has been directed and supported by the master of this world over the last 150 years.