Posted on 06/04/2014 2:10:56 AM PDT by markomalley
Gallup is out with its latest “moral acceptability” survey. On 19 issues, Americans were asked, “In general, do you find the following morally acceptable[?]” The responses were ranked on a scale from “highly acceptable” to “highly unacceptable.” There was one issue – birth control, with 90% approval – that rated “highly acceptable” and nine, with approvals from 57% to 69%, that rated “largely acceptable.”
Of those 10 issues, the response to seven of them is Exhibit A in the case of the collapse of the family in America. On two of the other three issues – wearing animal fur and medical testing on animals – Gallup wasted its time. What another sad indictment on our culture that one of the oldest, most distinguished research companies in the world sees fit to deem issues that result in the clothing of humans and advancements in medicine morally questionable.
Of the seven issues that have direct impact on American families, along with birth control, there’s divorce, sex between an unmarried man and a woman (otherwise known as fornication), stem cell research using human embryos, gambling, out-of-wedlock births, and homosexual behavior.
Certainly not all of these issues involve things that are intrinsically evil. There can be a moral case made for both birth control and divorce in certain situations. Also, though out-of-wedlock births almost always are the result of an immoral act at some point, given the prevalence of abortion (which, according to Gallup, 42% of Americans deem “morally acceptable”) in our culture, choosing life is never the wrong choice.
Notice that, of the seven issues highlighted, six of them revolve around sex. This is no surprise in a culture obsessed with sex. As John MacArthur noted several years ago, the war that is raging between the City of God…
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I think the devil has more evil fun messing around with human love than any other thing.
Bump
I hope the Rapture is close.
“I think the devil has more evil fun messing around with human love than any other thing.”
Reminds one of the “Screwtape Letters”.
IMHO
God will not be mocked, ignored, or held in contemp indefinately. This is His creation and we are going to be held responsible for our actions.
He has a place for those who refuse to repent and I hope to never get near it.
It’s said somewhere that if you’re saved, earth is the closest you get to hell. If you’re not, earth is the closest you get to heaven (excepting pre-fall existance in whatever mystical dimension that exists).
Human love was given as a deeply participatory object lesson in divine love, among other things.
That’s one reason why the devil would want to mess around with it.
The great and wonderful news is that rifts in human love can be healed by sufficient recourse to divine love. God doesn’t just let things go to pieces and then look at it and say DUH, what do I do now chief? As though He weren’t God. He’s got a plan. And it’s more brilliant than anything any human could conceive of.
“In the 12 years Gallup has asked this overall question, Democrats have become significantly more tolerant on many issues, while independents generally show a smaller shift in the same direction and Republicans’ views have changed little.”
No, the Democrats have changed.
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