{"id":31546,"date":"2019-04-07T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?p=31546"},"modified":"2019-04-07T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T19:33:07","slug":"secularism-the-destruction-of-america-since-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2019\/04\/secularism-the-destruction-of-america-since-1965.html","title":{"rendered":"Secularism & the Destruction of America Since 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Secularism has almost wrecked the country and most of the traditions we have held dear these past 240 years and before.<\/p>\n

The real driver of the decline is the Sexual Revolution. 1965 can be seen as the year (if we were to choose one) when all the wheels were truly put into motion:<\/p>\n

1) The use of the Pill really kicked in as the baby boomers came of age, in college (20 or so) and rebelled en masse<\/em> against Christian sexual teachings (no sex before marriage).<\/p>\n

2) Griswold v. Connecticut<\/em><\/a> came down from the Supreme Court. That struck down contraception laws and established the vaunted \u201cright of privacy\u201d that led directly to Roe v. Wade and massive institutionalized childkilling eight years later. Freedom to kill one\u2019s child was an essential plank of the Sexual Revolution, or its \u201csacrament\u201d if you will. Now women had a license to be just as decadent and sex-crazed as men had always been (and subsequently to be reduced to mere objects of manipulation, as in pornography). What a pity. It\u2019s men who needed to be more like women, rather than vice versa.<\/p>\n

3) It was also the year of LBJ\u2019s \u201cWar on Poverty\u201d or \u201cGreat Society\u201d<\/a>: huge welfare programs. The result (as predicted by [later] Democratic Senator Daniel Moynihan<\/a>, who had a sociological background), was the virtual destruction of the African-American family (especially in the inner cities) because of over-dependency on government and viewing the father as an optional figure in the house.<\/p>\n

As a result, illegitimacy rates skyrocketed, as well as drugs and crime and gangs, and we have what is seen most clearly on the south side of Chicago (even worse than my native Detroit): a community in near-chaos, with black-on-black slaughter taking place every day. That\u2019s as far as east is from west, from the traditionally strong and highly religious black family, that survived even the horrors and outrages of slavery. Tragically, it couldn\u2019t withstand the ravages of know-nothing liberal social engineering.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the civil rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King deliberately chose to refrain from speaking out about personal morality issues<\/a> (whereas the Muslim Malcolm X did<\/em> speak out on that). Their goal was strictly legal: change laws rather than hearts (the latter being the traditional Christian method).<\/p>\n

These three things: the Pill, abortion, and the massively-failed liberal \u201cGreat Society\u201d dystopia, are the leading causes of our present mess, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

If we couple that with miserable liberal economic policies, that decimate the incomes of the little guy (all economic indicators among African-Americans have declined under Obama), and the rotten public school system (ruined by teachers\u2019 unions and the absence of reasonable standards), it\u2019s a perfect storm in the inner cities: against anyone who tries to get ahead.<\/p>\n

The liberals make sure that the schools don\u2019t raise anyone up (except the most extraordinary exceptions), so they can\u2019t be upwardly mobile, as every other American generation was. They refuse school choice, merit pay, refuse to reform the unions, so that improvement could result.<\/p>\n

Look at Detroit public schools, which are in almost shambles by now. They were in great shape in the 60s and 70s when I attended them from kindergarten to 12th grade. Now graduates can\u2019t even read.<\/p>\n

But everything\u2019s wonderful in the USA: as long as we close our eyes to the hellhole environments people are forced to live in, in the inner cities. The rich fatcats are all doing fine.<\/p>\n

Secularism and its ally, political liberalism, seek to break down and destroy proper connections and distinctions that had always been instinctively assumed and understood before (bolstered by the teachings of Judaeo-Christian religion):<\/p>\n

1) The Birth Control Pill broke down several associations:<\/p>\n

A) The connection between sex and marriage.<\/p>\n

B) The connection between sex and responsibility for what could result (children), reducing sex to pleasure only (basically, hedonism).<\/p>\n

C) The connection between sex and procreation. Prior to this (primarily, in terms of purpose), sex was viewed (at least in Christianity) in terms of procreation and pleasure together.<\/p>\n

D) The connection between marriage and children.<\/p>\n

2) The Great Society started attacking fathers, seeking (by result, if not by intention) to make them unnecessary to the family, either in a disciplinary or role model sense, and also economically. Welfare checks took care of all that. The result was also to separate two parents from their children. It separated marriage and children, and sex and marriage, by breaking up the mother and father, and causing illegitimacy rates to skyrocket, with dire and manifest tragic social results, that we see now in every city. Liberalized divorce laws have also broken down the notion of the permanent marriage, leading to broken homes and much misery.<\/p>\n

3) Abortion separated the preborn child from humanity, by pretending that he or she does not exist, or is not life, or human, or (more sophisticated and wicked): a human being but not yet a person. Essentially it means that a person is no longer a person unless we (er, the child\u2019s mother) declare them to be so. It dehumanized or defined out of existence a whole class of people, just as we had done with Native Americans and African-Americans and other minority groups: but far worse.<\/p>\n

4) Now the secularists are mounting a wholesale assault on marriage and gender. Unisexism is simultaneously asserted alongside gender-fluid concepts (men and women are no different, yet each can become the other, at a whim). This leads directly to \u201cgay marriage\u201d: since gender (not to mention procreation) is irrelevant to the notion of marriage (men and women being exactly the same). And now the latest push is to pretend (as a result of this thinking) that men and women need not \/ should not even be separated in bathrooms and locker rooms. A guy simply says he is a woman, and he cannot be denied entrance to the women\u2019s locker room.<\/p>\n

According to the Christian understanding of family, marriage, gender, men and women, and the deepest purpose of a God-given sexuality, all of this is literally insane and a mindless destruction of the foundational traditions underlying all of society. And we see the detrimental results all around us, in broken homes, communities, and lives: dead children in the womb and dead children gunned down in the streets (children always suffer more than anyone else for our societal mistakes). It will only get worse, short of a massive spiritual revival and return to moral tradition.<\/p>\n

Related Reading:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Are Coercion & Persecution Coming Soon for Catholics?<\/a>\u00a0[9-2-15]<\/div>\n
*<\/div>\n
Is America a \u201cMoral Sewer\u201d (Due to Secularism)?<\/a>\u00a0[9-5-15]<\/div>\n
*<\/div>\n
\u201cForced\u201d Morality & Ubiquitous \u201cBigotry\u201d<\/a>\u00a0[6-9-16]<\/div>\n
*
\nBathroom Insanity, \u201cGay Marriage\u201d, Abortion, & Legal Coercion<\/a>\u00a0[6-10-16]
\n*<\/div>\n
Bathroom Laws Redux (Dialogue with an Atheist)\u00a0<\/a>[6-23-16]<\/div>\n
*<\/div>\n

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(originally 6-24-16)<\/p>\n

Photo credit:<\/strong> Marion S. Trikosko (3-25-76): Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)<\/span> [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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