Hemorrhage wrote: “If this is, as I suspect, about protecting my marriage and my children from pornography ... I can handle that myself, thanks.”
How incredibly naive. Playing defense is fool’s game, because you’re facing a literal army of porn pushers. While you’re trying to restrict access to your children, the porn pushers will be selling them a bunch of lies, like the one that porn is harmless fun. And, I’m not talking about the hard stuff. Just turn on the TV and see how much it glorifies illicit sex.
You only have to fail once. If you do, your children can make mistakes that last a lifetime.
Now, please explain to me why the perverts should have the right do whatever they wish while goodly people hunker down in a defensive war? Sorry, but I’d rather have the smut lords go back under the rocks where they should be.
>>> If this is, as I suspect, about protecting my marriage and my children from pornography ... I can handle that myself, thanks.
>> How incredibly naive. Playing defense is fool’s game, because you’re facing a literal army of porn pushers. While you’re trying to restrict access to your children, the porn pushers will be selling them a bunch of lies, like the one that porn is harmless fun.
It takes a village to raise a child, eh?
Ridiculous. It takes parents to raise a child. My children are my responsibilty - not yours, not Ed Meese’s, and not Hillary Clinton’s.
Christianity (and religion generally) is ALL about playing defense ... that’s the point. You defend, with Salvation, against the constant onslaught of sin. You cannot legislate an end to temptation - and, to my mind, any belief that you can is truly naive.
You cannot control the entirety of the outside world ... you can only control your immediate surroundings, i.e. yourself and your family (to an extent). Living a moral life is, by definition, defensive ... because you cannot force morality or religion on someone.
>> And, I’m not talking about the hard stuff. Just turn on the TV and see how much it glorifies illicit sex. You only have to fail once. If you do, your children can make mistakes that last a lifetime.
I am aware of the content of television. I am also aware that it has yet to destroy my life, my family, or the moral fiber of my Christian home. Its a television show ... if you don’t like it, exercise your freedom to simply turn it off.
>> Now, please explain to me why the perverts should have the right do whatever they wish while goodly people hunker down in a defensive war? Sorry, but I’d rather have the smut lords go back under the rocks where they should be.
That’s the way freedom works. You live by the values that you hold dear, watch what you want, exclude who you want, and dislike whatever you want. The “perverts”, however, get the same freedoms that you do ... freedom to live, watch and do what they want (within the bounds of the law, and to the extent that they are not intruding on the freedoms of others).
Without the freedom to choose, religion is simply meaningless. God gave both you, and the “perverts”, the freedom to choose to follow Him, or not. There are consequences to both decisions. You choose to follow Him, and more power to you - but you will be forced to endure the onslaught of temptation. They chose another path, and there will be consequences to their choices as well.
However, we are free to choose the values by which we live our own lives ... and we will all have to accept the consequences of those decisions (in this life and the next).
It is simply not within the governments purview, particularly under the U.S. Constitution, to control the content of information that the public views.
H