Can Christianity Survive the Sexual Revolution When was the last time anyone heard a sermon that condemned the evils of fornication, or adultery, or cohabitation, or divorce, or bearing children outside wedlock let alone homosexuality Controlling these sins is a core Christian value. At one time a preacher could be expected to devote extended attention to these sins. And he could be expected to condemn them unequivocally. Yet today, even as the social and economic fallout from precisely these practices becomes ever more glaring and serious, pastors and priests seem ever more determined to avoid discussing them. Of course, the dowdy old parson long ago became the stuff of caricature, ranting on about unspecified wickedness. And since no pastor wants to be seen as old fashioned, and most want to be modern and appeal to the ubiquitous cult of youth, one never hears much today about the sins of illicit sex. Indeed, churches that consider themselves highly orthodox or biblical or traditional or conservative or evangelicalthose described by themselves and others as fundamentalisteven these churches avoid the problem of runaway sexual freedom. Most Christian magazines and newspapers do not publish articles about it and gatherings of clergy do not discuss how to control it. No church today would dream of admonishing or reproving, let alone excommunicating a member because of sexual misconduct. Yet ever more conspicuously, it is precisely these sins that are wreaking havoc throughout our society. All around us we can seeif we are willing to open our eyesthe social consequences of uncontrolled sex. The sexual decadence of popular culturein music, television, and videosis only the most obvious manifestation, providing material for endless and often pointless moralizing. But beyond the lamenting and bemoaning are consequences that are concrete and serious. The vast proliferation of single parent homes is having devastating consequences on our society, economy, and politics. The epidemics of cohabitation and runaway divorce have left millions of fatherless children on the exploding welfare and foster care rolls and spread crime and substance abuse and truancy throughout our communities. Why dont you go with us This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going Theres no public transit where Im. Sports journalists and bloggers covering NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MMA, college football and basketball, NASCAR, fantasy sports and more. News, photos, mock drafts, game. These problems are now bankrupting taxpayers and future generations with a financial crisis that is attributable almost in its entirety to welfare spending and its multiplier effects in crime and social anomie, while driving governments to ever more authoritarian measures to slake their insatiable thirst for revenue. Our universities and schools have become little more than orgies, with a hook up culture that dominates campus life almost to the exclusion of learning. Indeed, it now dominates the learning too, with indoctrination in not only sex education but sexual political ideology through faux disciplines like womens studies, and queer studies, that recast all knowledge as sexual political grievances. The tyrannical side of this orgiastic culture is now becoming too glaring to ignore, despite years of denial. For the inevitable corollary to licentious indulgence is authoritarianism. Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. The High Court has ruled out Liberal Hollie Hughes as a replacement for former Nationals senator Fiona Nash on the ground that she had an office of profit under. Startups news from the, including the latest news, articles, quotes, blog posts, photos, video and more. This is now plainly manifested in a political agenda pushed by the same sexual radicals who promote the hook up culture Young men are now routinely railroaded before campus kangaroo courts on obviously fabricated accusations of rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct no clear distinctions separate these vague terms, sexual this and sexual that. In the regular courts, men are imprisoned for decades on rape accusations that are known to be false. Parents regularly lose their children through spurious accusations of child abuse that are never proven in any court. Fathers are incarcerated without trial by divorce courts for patently trumped up accusations of domestic violence, or for simply trying to see their own children, or for criticizing judges. The response of the churches to all this has been silence. In traditional grammar, a part of speech abbreviated form PoS or POS is a category of words or, more generally, of lexical items which have similar grammatical. 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Terrified of being seen to defend rapists, child abusers, wife beaters, and deadbeat dads, the church sits mute in the face of what is claimed to be a vast epidemic of sex crimes. Tempted to play it safe by perfunctorily endorsing the purveyors of the new indulgence, the church sides with falsehood against truth. Now in turn, Christians find themselves being accused of hatred and bigotry and threatened with punishment for criticizing the homosexual agenda by the same lobby of radicals. As Martin Niemoeller warned of a similar ideology, no one speaks out for us because we did not speak out for others. Truly diabolical is how this neglect turns back on us and corrupts us too. Because we fail to control the sin, the sin controls us. By refusing to confront the sin on Gods terms, and instead relabeling it with terms we find easier and safer to confront, we allow the sin to enlist us as its agents. This takes the form of cheap moralizing and self righteous posturing refusing to confront the guilty, we join witch hunts against the innocent. For what the radicals have done is to redefine sin. Rather than the biblical definition set forth in clear biblical language, we now have ideologically redefined, government approved definitions formulated in politicized jargon. Sexual indulgence is no longer a sin against God it is now a crime against the leviathan state. Pastors nowadays are much more likely to couch sexual sins in the form that has been redefined and politicized by radical secular ideology. To disguise their own irrelevance, they join the mob to register their politically correct outrage at sexual harassment and domestic violence. I have never heard a pastor preach at any length against the hook up culture, but they will endorse the fabricated and discredited feminist claims of a rape culture, only to leave themselves looking foolish when the charges invariably prove false. Pastors who parrot this jargon cannot possibly know what these terms mean, because no one knows what they mean. I have been studying them for two decades and published articles on these topics in refereed academic journals, and I do not know what they mean, because it is precisely the purpose of these terms to be so vague as to mean anything. They are devised intentionally to circumvent the clear language that the law uses to define criminal assault and safeguard the innocent with vagaries whose only possible purpose is to criminalize heterosexual men and Christians with flexible accusations that no one really understands but everyone is terrified to question. By contrast, pastors should know precisely what constitutes fornication and adultery, because the Bible tells them. But it is safer to preach about sexual harassment than about fornication, because clergy are often more frightened of feminists and functionaries than they are of God. Thus Christian faith itself is gradually transformed from theology and morality into political ideology. Fornication and adultery were biblically defined sins committed by two people and punished by God and the moral sanctions of the community. Sexual harassment and sexual abuse are quasi crimes committed only by the man and punished by the state gendarmerie. The preachers know whom it is safe to criticize.