-Internet porn (top reason cited by elderly gentlemen as to why we're wicked)
-School shootings
-Gangs
-Teen pregnancy
-Abortion
-Terrorism
-Obama (yes, they even mention Obama)
-Rampant homosexuality and gay marriage (a growing favorite since prop 8)
Oh the horror of our society, where if there is a murder or gang shooting, we have a police force who immediately investigates and tries to solve the crime of the shooting using modern science and forensic technology and a justice system that often prevails. Or if there is a teen pregnancy she is at least somewhat taken care of by a welfare system and churches who care for her. Or if there is a rape or molestation of a child, there is some sort of law that protects the harmed child, unlike our predecessors who married her.
Let's review the some of the wicked generations before us. I often want to use these examples during Sunday School to shock the minds of the class, but merely rage on the inside:
The ROMANS:
-Used Christians (that's us!) as torches at night in the streets so they could see the darkened cobbled roads
-Used Christians as fodder for the lions as entertainment
-Used slave women as actresses to reenact a play where a woman would rip out her uterus on stage and die on stage. This is reality TV for them. Only it was live. A live death of a woman ripping out her uterus. Delight.
-Popular entertainment included gambling and brothels. Think Vegas. All over the empire.
-Murder for political gain. Cleopatra and Antony - yes, Cleopatra was deemed a suicide but recent studies of the crime scene suggest that an asp couldn't have killed a human. Ah, modern forensics. Solving even ancient crimes. So wicked. Bring a flood.-Volcanic remains in the ancient preserved town of Pompeii shows that pornographic paintings were actually displayed on the walls of homes as art. Sexual poses, large erections, breasts, all in your living room, rather than hidden on a hard drive, as seen here.
The GREEKS
-Gay. Gay. Gay. Socrates was really old - in his 60's, when he had a 17 yr old male lover, despite his wife and three sons. In Plato's works The Phaedrus and The Symposium he speaks of homosexuality and pederasty as if they are positive tools to understand love. Aristocrats and intelligent philosophers need women to procreate - but they must have the love of a man to really understand love! This was the rampant thought of Athens as the women slaved at home and the men gathered in the Acropolis. Wow. This seems like the modern thought of the Priesthood meeting! Just kidding. This is totally Satan's way of deceiving the Greeks by copying God's plan, and then luring them into homosexuality.
-Slaves. Our forefathers battled with this. But our country progressed passed enslaving our fellow men and seeking equality for all. Despite gangs, etc. at least we don't have slavery. Anymore.
-Dionysus: the god of wine. Maenads. Little nymph like creatures who got men and women drunk and follow Dionysus. I'm sensing a them of drunkenness here amongst the Greeks. Bacchus, Zeus, Ares. All these Gods, myths, and stories involved drinking, sex, violence, infidelity - and these were their deities! Although if you really think about it, Brigham Young might have as many wives as Zeus has lovers...but he was married under the convenant and Zeus was having affairs on Hera so totally not comparable. Just a stray thought.
The MIDDLE AGES
-Knights and maidens, the stories of heroic love and tragic tales that often leave women wishing their husbands were their "knight in shining armor". Wrong. Knights were never a woman's husband. They were warriors serving her husband, falling in love with their master's wife, and illicit affairs by bringing her gifts and writing her poems.
-Families lived in houses together, often one bedroom huts in which they all lived in the same bed. A husband and wife made babies while their other babies were right there in the bed with them.
-VD ran rampant. So did prostitutes. The uneducated peasant class which made up the majority of society couldn't read the bible, therefore they often were "unclean".
-The peasant class were pretty much slaves with zero prospect of owning land. Where's free agency and will when you had to serve a lord?
Don't even get me started on Mesopotamia, pirates, even the Utah 50's housewives and what drugs doctors were prescribing that I'm pretty sure ran contrary to the Word of Wisdom (use some common sense). My point is, the black and white thinking that our generation is so terrible and the worst of all-time is completely absurd if you historically look at the generations preceding us. WE'RE ALL THE SAME!!!!
The context of my rage of course came from Noah and his ark. They were so wicked! The Sunday School teacher of course forgets to mention that the particular generation that was flooded were Nephalim - giants who could have been the descendants of fallen angels. I mean, if angels looked down on women and decided to breed with them, God probably would have to say, "Ummm, no. Those fallen angel genes sure screwed up my plan and I need to baptize this earth and start over."
And maybe they weren't angels but monkey-men who hadn't yet become human from evolution. Or maybe they were just some type of genetic screw-up since it was the early part of the plan and maybe Jesus didn't really know what he was doing yet. He wasn't perfect until he came down, right? Learning curve. None of this was mentioned in the lesson, and of course, we were subjected to a basic morality play akin to 13th Century puppetry.
Rant over. I'm out.
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