Living On The Edge--of insanity

Coming home from the market, I caught Chip Ingram's radio show. Today, the good Chipper was ranting on and on about divorce--citing from a 50 year old book on family and civilization. What was the conclusion, you ask? Well, Chipper quoted from some speaker at the SBC who cited these causes of the decline of civilization:

-- marriage loses its sacredness, often ends in divorce;
-- feminist movements abound;
-- public disrespect for parents and authority increases;
-- juvenile delinquency, promiscuity and rebellion increases;
-- increasing desire for and acceptance of adultery;
-- tolerance for and spread of sexual perversions of all kinds, especially
homosexuality and including rape, incest and bestiality.

Hmm. This is so wrong. Such a misuse of the past. First, and I am not an expert on ancient history, but civilizations "fall" for a lot of reasons. But they want to turn this into an attack on liberals. Nice. Are we really sure that marriage has always been sacred?

Are we really so sure that feminist movements are evil? Is it evil that women not be raped by their husbands? Or that they have opportunities beyond child rearing?

Ok, I will let this go, but one more thing. Chipper especially liked this one: "-- increasing desire for and acceptance of adultery" which Chipper pointed to some handy percentages on all the depictions of sex on tv, noting how many of them portray sex outside marriage. First of all, dumbshit, that is different than adultery. It may not dawn on some people, but unmarried people having sex is not adultery. And even if we look past that, does our culture really present adultery as fine? I don't think so. Maybe I watch the wrong tv, but on my shows, adultery has costs. Consequences. What more would you want?