Posted on 02/14/2014 7:58:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Sex before marriage makes marriage meaningless.
Fornication is the forgotten sin.
Unfortunately, it clearly cannot be entirely blamed on the minority communities in the Bible belt. There has to be other factors at play here.
I guess they didn’t check the hollywood biblebelt because they don’t have one.
Wrong. It is racial. Likewise with the obesity "studies" that show Mississippi indexing poorly. Take the blacks out of the equation and the Magnolia State is as a healthy a place as they come.
It wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact thar the largest percentage of the black population lives in the bible belt would it. There are very few black families that stay together for the duration of their marriage. Most probably don’t make it past their 2nd year.
Map seems totally bass ackwards: Deepest color (greatest “intactness”) in the blue cities and metro areas, lightest in flyover country.
But all shack job members refer to each other as “fiancé”, I guess that makes it alright.
Most blacks live in the South and skew the polling for others, as black families are in crises. 72% of black babies are born to single women. But all the political energy is spent trying to make the white man confess to being raciest and demanding reparations of one kind or another. They need to work on re-establishing the nuclear black family. They need to look at themselves.
I wonder if this study repeats the fallacy
of many like it:
A divorces are counted but splits between,
say, cohabitating couples is not.
Look at the map in the article-- Los Angeles County is pretty dark blue.
If the bible belt is leading the way in family break ups, it is NOT solely because of the black community. That may be a factor but it is blatantly obvious that this is not the sole factor. Insisting other wise is pure wishful fantasy thinking. I would like to see the actual studies that show that Mississippi is not above the national average in obesity rates if you are only counting whites. A major reason for the high obesity rates in Mississippi and neighboring states is that frankly, Southern cuisine, wonderful as it is, is also fairly well known for being awfully reliant on deep frying stuff and on excessive use of fattening dairy products, which affects Southerners of all races. Anyone whose been to these Southern States will undoubtedly find their share of white as well as blacks folks who are quite husky to put it mildly.
Nope. The study measures what percentage of families with 15-17 year old children have 2 parents who were married for the kids' whole lives. So divorced and never married are treated the same.
I think the main issues are that education is simply on average inferior in the South relative to the rest of the area and that welfare dependency is out of control. And to varying degrees I do believe it affects Southerners of all races, not just one race.
I heard one theory about this problem that I can believe.
They get married young there before they are ready or really know what they are doing, mostly hormones.
I am not Catholic but I always like the idea of requiring classes on marriage before the Church will marry.
And no, 1930 back when my Grandmother got married is not coming back.
I agree. I doubt blacks can skew the averages to such an extent.
Similar to the call for more government when government programs fail, so the church fails to understand that the condemnation of the law is sin's strength (1 Cor 15:56), so they just pour on more old testament condemnation and law.
The answer is the gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24) by which we are no longer dominated by sin because we are no longer under the law (Romans 6:14-15). The church must turn from the twice-cursed false gospel of law and works (Galatians 1:7-9) and once again "earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints" (Jude 3).
It is this true gospel that is the power of God to save, heal, and deliver that allows us to "reign in life by one, Jesus Christ" (Romans 5:17).
At least the people who are getting divorced got married in the first place. The WSJ said that in some cities, NYC and Silicon Valley, for example, many singles are not interested in marriage.
People in the Bible Belt are at least giving it a try.
I’d also like to see the age of marriage
in the South and the percentage of people
who actually get married. Same for the
number of children. Compare to the “North.”
I think marriage and children are considered
blessings in the South; in the “North,” they
are more likely to consider children as injurious to
“Mother Earth.”
If so, then Southerners might rush into marriage
and children earlier. Later they also get bitten
by the “self fulfillment” bug from Northern culture.
All conjecture, of course.
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