EDUCATION ... THE KEY?
Our society has bought into the belief that if we "educate" people we will solve all our problems. So our children are forced to sit through "sex education" classes which depict and discuss every kind of immoral, perverted sexual behavior imaginable. Then they are encouraged to practice "safe sex" by being provided condoms and birth control pills.
Our president's drug task force recently demanded that new needles be provided for drug abusers. Somebody help me out here - isn't it illegal to abuse drugs?! Why is that not encouraging illegal drug use?
We are demanding that tobacco companies accept the responsibility for contributing to the epidemic of lung cancer while we demand that tax-payers provide needles to drug abusers?! Am I missing something here?
Psychologists are selling the idea that homosexuality, drug abuse, and "sex addiction" should be thought of, and treated as, "normal". We have put "homosexual discrimination" on the same level as race and gender discrimination! They are not the same! You have no choice of your ethnic heritage nor your sex - you do have a choice regarding whether you abuse drugs or who you choose to have sexual relations with!
Unfortunately, we are being forced to educate our children regarding the consequences of rampant immoral behavior. But that is not the solution to our problems. Has educating people regarding the risks of smoking stopped smoking? If you teach people the consequences of drug abuse, will they stop abusing drugs? Has the risk of contracting aids stopped sexual immorality? It hasn't... and it won't!
We contribute further to this problem by defending (and even rewarding) people for immorality by electing them as public officials or paying to see their immorality in movies. They are our heroes. If they are "important enough", we'll overlook anything and everything they do. We'll even defend them, won't we?
You don't change a murderer by giving him instructions on firearm safety and then providing him a weapon and ammunition.
... We DO want to change him, ... don't we?
Now that I think about it ... maybe we don't really want to change the immorality; maybe we just don't want to reap the consequences. Maybe that's why we keep fighting aids and sexually transmitted diseases and abuse and crime statistics... and we won't admit that these are the consequences, not the source of the problems. Maybe that’s why we keep harping on educating people and not on disciplining and punishing people.
Maybe we're asking people who are addicted to immorality to punish immoral people. It'll never happen!
Friends - it's late. We are far down the wrong road. Who will wake up and turn around?