Embracing Evil - Licentious:
- Lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint, especially in sexual conduct.
- Having no regard for accepted rules or standards.
I am beginning to wonder whether America is full of liars or full of people with multiple personalities.
Maybe both.
One thing that I am certain of is that the spirit within me aches with the knowledge and the realization of what it means for the future of the nation.
This is what I'm asking myself: If the polls are to be believed than a majority of American's consider themselves "Christian." But if that is the case, why does the American public continue to eat out of the gutter of unrighteousness and sin by engaging in licentious behaviors?
What started this rumination today? The fact that I can't seem to escape the sexual images and sounds that this culture seems bent to inflict upon everyone. Whether it's in our television programming, the commercials that say you're not happy unless you've got our product that will make others want to have sex with you, or the pervasive adds on the internet touting the same.
This morning I got on FaceBook and jumped over to a popular application that a friend invited me to try out called, "Owned!" In this online game you get "x" amount of money and can bid on the photos of your friends and other people playing the game. As you get into bidding wars the "value" of the person's photo increases and thus the overall value of the person increase. I know, it's absurd. But I found it fun bidding on the photos of friends and seeing some of the creative stuff people put up for bid.
However, today the charm is gone and I am trying to decide if I should figure out how I can get all my photos and stuff out of the game.
Why?
I was searching through the photos of everyone signed up to play "Owned!"on FaceBook and I discovered a fair percentage of photos that are sexual in nature and some that were down right obscene. There were women scantily glad and posed provocatively, sometimes with men, and there was even full nudity. These all qualify as pornography and they are a violation of FaceBook's policies as the creators of Owned! state:
As per Facebook's Terms of Service, Owned! Does not allow any images that are suggestive or sexual in nature, or that depict violence or nudity. Images in violation are removed.
But that doesn't stop people from posting these images and bidding on them. One of the valued features that the creators of Owned! Incorporated into the game is the means for people to report images. But I don't want to see them to begin with! It's too late after the fact. Plus I've noted that they don't always remove images that fit the "sexual in nature" definition after I've reported them. I know this because I reported one such person who became an owner of one of my pictures.
It's scary to me that a number of people seem bent upon degrading themselves and others in these social network systems.
The last picture that infuriated me and completed the ache in my spirit was that of a baby with a T-shirt displaying a vulgar sentence describing a sex act. The slight of the statement was that the father wanted something else but got the child as well.
How horrible will it be in the future when that grown child stumbles across that photograph and realizes the "value" he was to his father?
What must go through the mind of a mother or father that they would allow and even buy such a T-shirt for their child? I used to ask the same question in regard to a mother or father who purchases those tight fanny-shorts with sexual sayings for their daughters? Have we fallen so far spiritually that one of the top values a parent sees and passes on to their child is a sexual value?
It's this mindset that so many in America display that has me greatly worried for our spiritual and physical safety.
A number of other news items have me thinking that America does not have any fear of God.
For instance, remember the 2004 SuperBowl halftime extravaganza where Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson? I was saddened yesterday to see that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the FCC's fine against CBS. I wish I could claim I'm surprised by the decision. But in light of all the other stuff on Television that doesn't get fined it's not surprising that the court would find the FCC fines inconsistent.
Then there's this news item out of New York: The Naked City Nudes Flash: In-Buff Stuff Is Huge!. (Be warned that there is an accompanying photograph from behind of a woman doing yoga sans clothes) The article details the number of restaurants and business opening their doors for nudists.
And there's the campaign that Virgin Mobile started asking it's users to do striptease and post the video to the company's website. Then for every five views the video got, Virgin Mobile would donate new clothing for homeless children. Thankfully there was enough outcry that the company backtracked and is ceasing the campaign. The tragedy of the whole thing is that it makes light of the plight of homeless who are often pushed into the sex trade, particularly children.
But it's fatuous to think that the people behind the campaign and the people posting the video were doing such things for altruistic motives. The company knew they were playing upon the licentious nature of young people. They count on it and from what I can tell, it's a mindset that permeates most of the Virgin company.
I think one of the things that scares and saddens me even more is when I see young children using foul sexual language and acting out things that they see on their MTV videos and other forms of so called "entertainment."
Chuck Norris has a good editorial on this subject of foul language in America today.
When will we learn that just because we can say something doesn't mean that we should? Once again, we're confusing liberty for licentiousness. It is a classic example of what happens when a society leaves its moral absolutes: Everything becomes culturally relative, with each deciding what's right in their own eyes. Language is one more infected arena in America's societal degradation.
Something's wrong with our society that they find this acceptable and even promote it.
God is a righteous and holy. He will not abide this behavior. We should not be surprised if His judgment falls upon this country. But we should know that if it does, it will come because His desire is our repentance for our national immorality.
The Great Separation continues.
