{"id":2566,"date":"2012-06-02T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/06\/because-all-they-care-about-is-money-thats-why.html"},"modified":"2012-06-02T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T20:33:00","slug":"because-all-they-care-about-is-money-thats-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/06\/because-all-they-care-about-is-money-thats-why.html","title":{"rendered":"Because all they care about is money, that’s why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

And today, the winds have definitely shifted toward a progressive, secular viewpoint in our society.\u00a0 Oh sure, numbers may suggest a split.\u00a0 But our education systems, our media, our vendors of popular culture, all embrace the various assumptions of secular, post-Western liberal values and ideals.\u00a0 Therefore, those who don\u2019t follow those viewpoints are increasingly shown the door, punished, mocked, ridiculed, ostracized, or in some other ways made to pay for their lack of vision. <\/p>\n

While\u00a0you have a fair amount of folks who may hold to some form of traditional values, but not all are going to stand up and make a stink of it.\u00a0 Plus, the philosophy that gives you sex, drugs, narcissism, hedonism, open pornography, no-fault divorce, materialism, and basic self focus has its appeal, even to the most dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist.\u00a0 So while the staunch conservative may rail against gay marriage, there\u2019s a least a chance he has a Sports Illustrated<\/em> swimsuit edition on his nightstand; he may possibly have a copy of Hustler<\/em> or Penthouse<\/em> under his mattress for easy retrieval. <\/p>\n

Thus there\u2019s not really much of a fight at this point.\u00a0 Many who used to fight are giving up, throwing in the towel, preferring to focus on doing whatever it takes to protect free enterprise, especially if it clears the way to bottomless bank accounts and golden parachutes.\u00a0 Others are starting to taste of the benefits of a world in which God may truly be dead, or at least in the closet. <\/p>\n

Those few who do resist are in a dog fight with one another, some embracing a morally suspect form of \u2018I\u2019d torture babies to save America\u2019 approach to tradition (tradition that never condoned torture, even if it sometimes happened), while others are pushing for a no rules, it\u2019s everyone for himself approach.\u00a0\u00a0Even those\u00a0trying to find some form of traditional Christian values often that split down the line of Catholic or Protestant, Mainline or Evangelical.\u00a0 Even within those folds, various groups have divided and fought each other with more passion than was ever mustered against any other force or movement in recent memory. <\/p>\n

So when we read that Target is aiding the Gay Cause<\/a>, or that J.C. Penney has decided to go pro-Gay Dad<\/a>, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised.\u00a0 These stores only care about money.\u00a0 That is all.\u00a0 The profit.\u00a0 The bottom line.\u00a0 That\u2019s all that matters.\u00a0 If the winds of change were pushing toward outlawing homosexuality, these stores wouldn\u2019t get near the issue except to support its ban.\u00a0 But the winds aren\u2019t going in that direction.\u00a0They are going the other way, and that\u2019s where the money is. \u00a0As Rod Dreher so bluntly put it, the war is over<\/a>.\u00a0 The non-Heterosexual normality movement won.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to reexamine where we go from here.\u00a0 And where we as traditional Christians\u00a0go is certainly not relying on companies who worship at the altar of Mammon for our alliances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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