Our Culture

A strange phenomenon has happened to me today...I have free time. One of my clients couldn't keep me for very long because they had to leave for something, so I'm actually home, checking my email and things of that sort. It's very strange. It won't last for long. I have so much to do that I'm just taking a few minutes to write.

Down to business....
The older I get the more shocked I am at the culture we live in. Maybe it's because my parents did a good job of sheltering me, maybe it's because pop culture sickens me so I've never paid much attention to it, but I've never seen behavior as bad as it's been in the last few years.

To begin with, we've made the words "modesty" and "abstinence" synonymous with leprosy. I hate that people are ashamed to admit they're a virgin. Since when did that become a bad thing...preserving yourself for your spouse?! Okay, venting...

The mascots of this anti-modesty movement are the wonderful role models of oops-my-clothes-fell-off Britney Spears and oops-someone-pulled-my-clothes-off Janet Jackson. I'm telling you, television is simply not safe to watch. (On a side note, I'm a Justin Timberlake fan, or I should say I was a Justin Timberlake fan...that stunt made me so angry...I hope their careers are bruised for it.)

Another thing that just gets under my skin is how mean people are to each other. The ad hominem attacks toward conservatives, especially Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush, are so full of vitriol that I just can't listen to them without become enraged myself. Why can't people on opposing sides of an issue just talk with reason and respect?...could be that liberals don't use reason, but that's beside the point. Politicians need to learn manners, that's all I have to say.

And let's not even talk about the character assassination the media have attempted with Mel Gibson. That man deserves every award we could come up with for not caving and for handling himself with grace. We're so starved for role models in this culture, but men like Gibson cast a ray of hope into the darkness called Hollywood.

Okay, I think I'm done for now. I just had to get that off my chest. I'm horrified for my children. I don't know what things will be like by the time I have them.

Come quickly, Lord Jesus.