Why is Christianity loosing the cultural war ?
Statistics show that adultery, pornography, divorce, abortions and other sinful and destructive behavior are as prevalent among Christians as they are in the society at large. Christianity has not been able to protect its own believers, let alone act as leaven to protect the nation.
Family breakdown (overt and covert) is the single most corrosive force and # 1 indicator for failed societies, or any civilization in decline.
Why is Christianity powerless in the face of these urgent challenges?
Why is it even the responsibility of Christianity to solve these problems? As far as I am concerned, the purpose of Christianity is to either offer people a relationship with God or reassure them that nobody can come in the way of that relationship regardless of their religion. Secondly, it is about community. It is about our relationships with God and each other.
It is not, however about solving problems in these relationships in the sense of providing
moral leadership. It's about being at peace with each other and God but it isn't about moral leadership.
To me, marriage and family is just a technicality. Some families can't stay together because of domestic violence and abuse. It's a choice between divorce and abuse or domestic violence. Divorce rates and family breakdowns are a sign of human vulnerability. The cynicist says that these people are corrupt and selfish, while the realist recognises that they are just people preserving their individual dignity and individuality.
Marriage and family is rarely ever going to survive if there is something more important: our individuality. But it is a part of my culture to be individualistic. I think I am right to be individualistic. It is a part of my personal and individual dignity, and by demanding that I retain my individuality, I command others to respect me. Sometimes, to stay in a family, you are allowing someone else to bully, intimidate, threaten and abuse you. By leaving you are making a statement: that you have been oppressed, wronged and persecuted.
The question that I would like to ask is this. Why do Christians have to be different? Does it make us less Christian if our rates of divorce and family breakdown aren't any better?
I think when people dwell on rates of divorce and family breakdown they're more concerned about Christianity's reputation and image than about genuine peace between people and God. They aren't concerned about social justice or reducing oppression and persecution.
I don't believe it makes anyone less Christian to get divorced or split up with their family. What I do believe makes them less Christian is to stay in the family because they think it's a sin to split and not do anything to make things more peaceful with their family, the community and God.
It's a matter of social justice, not protocol. Peace is more important than family or marriage.
So called Same sex "marriages" are now on the offense gaining significant legislative and social ground every day. This is a new and deeply troubling stage of this cultural and spiritual war.
Why are "same sex marriages" a threat to us? To me they're a completely different world/reality/experience altogether. Homosexuals have their own struggles and it is not our right to interfere.
It is like feminists campaigning for women's rights in a patriarchal society. Until half a century ago, they were told they weren't born or designed by God to be scientists, engineers and politicians. They were supposed to be mothers, housekeepers, cooks, babymakers and nappy-changers.
The difference between a heterosexual and homosexual is like that between a man and a woman. In the former patriarchal society, men were dominant and in the present generation, heterosexuals are dominant. Think of homosexuals as a different sex altogether.
Once upon a time, people were afraid that women and black people were going to take over. Now I think it's the homosexual's turn.
Old McDonald had farm and Martin Luther King had a Dream.
