Culture Wars: Why is single motherhood so rampant in American culture?
Tonight, Fox covered this story and it’s insane how COVERED the answers to this simple question are.
First of all, I have a problem with the fact that the words sexual promiscuity and immorality were never mentioned. The easy but avoided answer is that we’ve lost our moral backing in almost every essential institution in America. Its hard to track back to that though because no one wants to subscribe to a central document of morality (The Bible) and everyone wants to play it their way. Because selfishness for ones comfort and own glorification is more important than anything else in today’s culture the expulsion of absolute truth becomes necessary. You see, truth cannot exist with self-importance. Christ is the truth and his way was the low, self-denying way.
So, instead of a sorrowful evaluation of our nation’s downfall, Fox reported the takeover of feminism and female independence as the key to single motherhood. Parading “femi-Nazism” as a common solution to female (all of them) “behind bars” and “trapped” feelings of centuries past, Fox kicked itself in a rare opportunity to come to real terms with our nation’s state.
I wish this topic (and many like it) were “givens” in Christian culture and American culture at large but more and more the status quo beliefs are being taken as moral standard, and worse yet, truth. It’s about time we step up and step out regarding the truth that we know.
Can’t anyone just tell the truth these days?
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Today will be/has been the longest day of my life. I have been up since 1PM on March the 10th and I will be up until at least 9PM on March the 11th (to understand the full implication you have to know that the 1PM wake up time was just after a 4 hour nap…before the nap I was also awake from 8:30PM on March the 9th until 7am March the 10th). The last time I remember being even remotely near this tired was when we first moved to Germany and Meredith and I struggled with jet lag for the first 4 weeks we were there. The common denominator is food. When we would be up in the middle of the night we would make Nutella and Cherry jam sandwiches…the bomb. Now I eat Oreos by the row and drink Mtn Dew by the case. I seriously think if you opened me up right now I’d be a modern marvel of science. Oh, and, on top of eating like a college student on crack, I also am taking Vitamin C tablets. Um, yeah. Cancellation theory anyone?
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I found out a couple of days ago that Gracie would be hitting the streets again. We are in the process of repairing her and she should be hood ready in a couple of days! I’m excited. No more driving a go-cart. 
(That guy who always wanted to drive was kinda freakin’ me out too.)
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FUN FACTS ABOUT INAUGURATIONS PAST :
- George Washington’s inauguration was held in New York City on April 30, 1789.
- Inauguration Day was changed to January 20, from March 4, in 1933 by the passage of the Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution.
- Bill Clinton’s, January 20, 1997, inauguration was the first inauguration to be broadcast live over Internet.
- George Washington gave the shortest inaugural address in history. (135 words)
- In 1865, Abraham Lincoln was the first president to include African-Americans in his inaugural parade.
- In 1917, Woodrow Wilson was the first president to include women in his inaugural parade.
- When January 20 is on a Sunday, the president-elect usually takes the oath of office privately and then repeats the ceremony in public on Monday.
And here is our leader:
Barack Obama
Born and raised in Hawaii (spent a few years in Indonesia). His college years began well as he studied at Columbia University in New York. He then went on to volunteer in a church-based social action group in Chicago whose projects included: improving living conditions and battling unemployment. His political years are scattered but well spent, working on many different fronts to improve the lives of the underprivileged. First African American to serve as President of the Harvard Law Review; also 3rd African American to serve in the US Senate since the Reconstruction. We have much to be in anticipation over in this new term. If Barack Obama’s humanitarian ways truly stay with him when he is inaugurated, we may see significant change. My fear is that there is a lot of talk and little action…but what do I know? I’m just a 20-something, single, white, female waitin on the world to change.
This is a trailer for an actual DVD which tells the story of many underground Christians in Vietnam. I hope to get the DVD soon and watch the entire thing but here’s my thought from just watching the trailer:
I don’t know what the American church believes about the persecuted church in the rest of the world…I know how we act…typically indifferent…but I don’t know what we believe about our BROTHERS and SISTERS world-wide. Should they be facing persecution on their own? Is it a case of unfortunate circumstances for those born into persecution, or saved into a faith that is shown hostility? Are we to do anything really?
Are they “chosen” to suffer and we’re “chosen” to live in the lap of luxury and under the jurisdiction of Christ-friendly government? Doesn’t really seem like a fair or just plan does it?!
I believe what Christ requires of us is: no matter what situation we are placed in to live in (proof that we are placed) he wants us to seek Him as treasure. Western Christians are entrusted monetary riches that we may glorify God by treating our money like it is NOT our treasure, that Christ is. Our food is not our treasure, Christ is. Our games and teams are not our treasure, Christ is. Vietnamese Christian’s bodies are persecuted that they may glorify God in persecution and death because their bodies aren’t their treasure, Christ is. Their families are not their treausure, Christ is. Their freedom is not their treasure, Christ is.
It seems as though we’ve been dealt an easy hand on this side of the world doesn’t it? And we have in many ways, but how many of us are wrapped up in the latest video game? Blog? Book? Clothing? Magazine? Diet? Food? Child? Husband? Boyfriend? Job? Some of these are necessary, some are even good BUT they are NOT your treasures…Christ is. There is much required to follow Christ, that is why he commands us to also count the cost … It is a matter of death and life, here or in Vietnam. Hundreds of people hang in the balance everyday because of how you DO or DON’T glorify Christ!
