Posted on 02/13/2015 8:12:33 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Elvis Presley Hip Shaking, Jerry Lee Lewis and his Whole lot of Shanking going on
Scandalous!
But the Parents of the 50's Parents said the same thing about Jazz.
The age of Greasers and Street Crime in the Big Cities?
A Good Friend of mine has an older cousin who point blank shot and killed a guy in the head over a drug deal gone bad in the 60's.
It's always been around.
Of course that would mean that Free Republic would be a very large newsletter with tons of letters written in for responses, at least postage was much lower back then.
I spent much of my youth listening to “devil music” and have yet to engage in my first killin spree or orgy of arson.
Funny thing is that some of my favorites have come out as Christians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wEADoybjfk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfkisxMKfVQ
Didn’t destroy the country until 60’s pop.
That’s just empirical.
Cities have always been violent. Even in the bible.
Clearly the result of whatever music they were listening to at the time.
Do you miss the days before the Steam Engine?
I sure do!
Those Romans and their concrete Ruined everything.
Didn't you love living in the 1930's, when everyone was literally dirt poor and you had to put up tin foil on your walls to keep out the snow?
Those were the good days!
But then, as Yogi Berra once said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.” So there you go.
That damn iron horse ruint everything.
For music, I think the 1960s were our best period. For actual living, I think the Reagan and GWB eras were my salad days. For morals, I think the 1950s fit my feelings the best (minus all the smoking).
We tend to remember the good things about yesteryear without the pain and hardships. And we always think the world is getting worse. I think that’s just the human mindset.
It’s been a long downward slide.
What I’ve noticed is that when you read letters and such written by people in the 18th and 19th centuries - just middle-class reasonably educated people - is how great their command of the English language was in comparison to most today (including myself). They had large vocabularies and wrote in complex sentences and used a variety of literary devices. The vast majority of people today, even people with college degrees in the humanities (not computer science like me), are virtually illiterate by comparison.
I think America is lost. Freepers comment on the flood of savages across our borders and discuss such in terms of politics. It's not politics. It's judgment. God gives countries and lands to people who love Him. Read the prophets. Both major and minor. With the exception of Nahum (who is announcing the coming destruction of Ninevah [because of what they had done to God's people; if only Jonah had waited, he would have gotten his wish]), they're announcing the destruction of Israel and Judah. He had already said,
Joshua 23:16: When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
I think what we're witnessing is the result of decades of murdering unborn children, applauding and celebrating the degradation of homosexuality, the destruction of the home, reducing Christianity to the mere level of Sesame Street (ala Joel Olsteen, et al)
I think God is giving His gift, America, to our enemies. It's happening much faster than I imagined. My wife said we would see it in our lifetime. I never believed her, but now I'm not so sure.
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