GET MARRIED, STAY MARRIED, RAISE A FAMILY
It's a well-known fact in sociology, history, and politics that lifelong faithful marriage is the foundation for a stable and lasting society. But many today choose to ignore this fact in order to indulge their lusts. In her article "Protestants Against the Pill," Katelyn Walls Shelton relates what some traditional Protestants are rediscovering in the doctrine of the Early Church.
Her article explores a growing trend of Protestant women rejecting hormonal birth control and embracing Natural Family Planning (NFP) and an "embodied faith." It features interviews with women like Kelsey Meyers, who found NFP helped her understand her body better, and Chaney Gooley, who objects to contraception on theological grounds and its potential abortifacient effects. The article highlights the historical shift in Christian views on contraception, with a move away from the traditional Catholic stance of prohibition, as well as the redefinition of "pregnancy".
Ben Jefferies, an Anglican priest, supports a more nuanced approach, potentially allowing barrier methods under certain circumstances, but generally advocating for abstinence. Brooks Anderson, a birth doula, shares her journey with NFP, drawing on her personal experiences with her parents and her own views on honoring both the female body and God's design for marriage. The article suggests NFP fosters deeper relationships with God, husbands, and one's own body, challenging the notion of keeping faith separate from sexuality. Why then, have so many, even among professing Christians, fallen into sexual immorality? Duh!? It's the Pill! In the 1960s, the Pill opened the floodgates, encouraging promiscuity, leading to unwed mothers and broken homes.
Some today are in the habit of calling traditional Christians and political conservatives "patriarchal," "Nazis," "Fascists," and calling Hitler and Putin "Christians." This is a total reversal of historical fact. I majored in Central and East European Studies and lived over there for 20+ years. In reality, the history of Hitler and Putin is much more complex and nuanced. They may have called themselves "Christians" but actually their ideology is much more secular, socialist, sexually promiscuous, and neo-pagan. Most people, though, don't bother to learn the historical facts and instead rely on sloganeering and sound-bites to rationalize their immorality.
In 1932 when Hitler came to power, he called himself "a Christian; not a Catholic, not a Lutheran, but a German Christian" (in other words his nationalism came before religion). He imprisoned or killed many Lutherans and Catholics who opposed his rule. In 1963 while stationed in Germany in the army, I joined "The Fellowship Within the State [Lutheran} Church," the group – including Dietrich Bonhoeffer – that had resisted Hitler, so I'm very aware of what went on with Christians during WW2.
Similarly, by the early 1930s in the USSR under Stalin the ideal of the "Communist International" (Comintern) had morphed into a rebranded Russian imperialism with a socialist veneer. Hundreds of thousands of Christians were sent to the gulags or murdered. Orthodoxy in the USSR was taken over by a pseudo-Patriarch after Patriarch Tikhon was starved to death while under house arrest, Protestants there were forced to report to the KGB about everyone attending their churches, and children were forbidden to attend church or receive a Christian upbringing.
I knew personally some people whose parents helped Lenin during the 1917 Revolution but later denounced the Bolsheviks, others whose children were driven insane by harassment in elementary school, or whose parents had their homes and cows confiscated, leaving them with only the clothes on their backs. I've translated the gulag memoirs of Christian prisoners and I've gotten a few of them out of the gulags and into the West.
Few people know or care to recall that Hitler and Stalin were allies in their 1938 invasion of Poland, each taking 1/2 of Poland. Only in June 1941, two years after that, did Hitler launch "Operation Barbarossa," invading the USSR, taking the Ukraine, besieging Leningrad and Moscow, and almost conquering the USSR, which lost over a million people. It was the German "Reich" ("Empire" in English) against the Soviet Empire: two imperial systems. However, neo-socialists in the West prefer to ignore the fact that both were socialist empires. But why? Why do they try to conflate conservatives in the West with Nazis and Fascists?
Here's why: It is "guilt projection" – shifting the blame for their immorality by falsely accusing conservative Christians of political sins. Meanwhile, our society crumbles. When a culture approves of sexual activity before marriage, researchers have found that monogamy, belief in God, and rational thinking tend to disappear within three generations.
They do this in order to mask the neo-marxist hidden agenda. Denigrating chastity before marriage and continence in marriage is part of their "Critical Theory" long-range plan to destroy the foundations of society by infiltrating the movie and music industries, the educational system, the mainstream news media, and the political structure, leading to chaos, insurrection. and revolution. Look it up!
Also, read the article "Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought" by Kirk Durston, in which he quotes from the 1934 book Sex and Culture by Oxford social anthropologist (and atheist) J.D. Unwin, 600 pages distilled from a lifetime of historical research on sexual behavior. He describes three premarital types:
Complete sexual freedom – no prenuptial restraints at all
Irregular or occasional restraint – cultural regulations require an occasional period of abstinence
Strict Chastity – remain a virgin until married.
Then he lists four postnuptial categories:
Modified monogamy: one spouse at a time, but association can be terminated by either party.
Modified polygamy: men can have more than one wife, but a wife is free to leave her husband.
Absolute monogamy: only one spouse permitted for life (or until death in some cultures).
Absolute polygamy: men can have more than one wife, but wives must “confine their sexual qualities (i.e., activity) to their husband for the whole of their lives.”
Here are a few of his most significant findings:
Effect of sexual constraints: Increased sexual constraints, either pre- or post-nuptial, always led to increased flourishing of a culture. Conversely, increased sexual freedom always led to the collapse of a culture three generations later.
Single most influential factor: Surprisingly, the data revealed that the single most important correlation with the flourishing of a culture was whether pre-nuptial chastity was required or not. It had a very significant effect either way.
Highest flourishing of culture: The most powerful combination was pre-nuptial chastity coupled with “absolute monogamy”. Rationalist cultures that retained this combination for at least three generations exceeded all other cultures in every area, including literature, art, science, furniture, architecture, engineering, and agriculture. Only three out of the eighty-six cultures studied ever attained this level.
Effect of abandoning prenuptial chastity: When strict prenuptial chastity was no longer the norm, absolute monogamy, deism, and rational thinking also disappeared within three generations.
Total sexual freedom: If total sexual freedom was embraced by a culture, that culture collapsed within three generations to the lowest state of flourishing – which Unwin describes as “inert” and at a “dead level of conception” and is characterized by people who have little interest in much else other than their own wants and needs. At this level, the culture is usually conquered or taken over by another culture with greater social energy.
Time lag: If there is a decrease in sexual constraints, the full effect of that change is not realized until the third generation. Then that society devolves into chaos.
Why has Western society embarked on such a self-destructive course? Please see my article "Family Values: the Foundation of Society."
And what must be done about it? "Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks. Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God... But as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it'" (Ephesians 5:2-5, 24-25). This is the foundation of a stable society.
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