Here's why:
If there’s one thing that ought to lead people to Christianity, it’s the proven ability of the Christian moral rules to guide believers away from the sins that destroy them. A lot of modern “Christians” have reduced Christianity to being about their feelings and their community, while allowing the culture to determine their goals and moral boundaries. But that won’t protect them from danger.
Wintery Knight is going to die an 80 year old virgin. He should have joined a priesthood. I see the point he is making, but Churches are failures and have been for long time. They won't encourage young people to marry young while in college and work together or give them the tools to do so.
ReplyDeleteI still remember as a GenX in a rural community where all they want to do with young guys like me is push religious BS on us instead of acknowledging a few realities.
He likes to push Christianity, but is it the mentality of the couples involved that match poorly or something else? What legal and financial incentives are there for men to get married? WK needs get out more. Church does not solve all that he thinks it does.
Oh you poor little Texan, Church solves the one issue it exist to solve: it. saves. souls.
ReplyDeleteWether someone dies virgin is irrelevant. People marrying young or old is irreleavant. What is relevant, is the state of someone's soul.
BTW marrying young is american ideal. Here in Europe people have NEVER married their "highschool sweethearts". men simple could not marry before they could support a family, that ment they were closer to 30. And girls just waited and tried to save money and make their trousseau.
Only in upper classes girls married young and married older men, and that got less and less common after year 1800, when romanticism bloomed and young people started marrying for love.
Anyway that religious BS IS the one and only reality, you should really care about. Focus in that, and your earthly life will pretty much see to itself. Because God starts guiding you and he will give you wife if he sees it fit. If Church focuses on any other "realities", it has utterly failed.
It is said, that if you focus on eternal life, you get this one in bargain, but if you focus only on this life, you loose both.
Ah, such typical drivel. I was tired of listening to it years ago. So young men 'have to support a family' but don't deserve any female companionship in the meantime. This why church is such sorry rubbish to me though I like Christmas and the altruistic aspect of Christianity. Your condescending tone as an introduction is not helping your case. I would challenge my morals against any Christian anytime.
DeleteI'm not a big fan of abortion, evolution, Zionism, thought Biden was a disgrace to attack Christian abortion protesters, and hate leftist in general.
If they would have taken a 'smart guy' like me after high school society would get way more out of me than it does now. You are another sorry moralist who refuses to acknowledge that sex intimacy are important and should start young.
I simply don't feel any connection to any religion. If you like doing that, fine with me. I'm sure your God is so small that he is really concerned about a government piece of paper called a marriage license. I'm all for two parent families and being around for any children.
You might look up Christian divorce rates; not a good statistic.
I don't have a cause, sweetie. My job is to inform, not convince, as one of the saints said. And I am being condescenting, because it triggers you and that way you will remember.
DeleteMarriage is not "piece of paper". It is sacrament, where God melts two fleshes to one.
Divorce rates for christians may be sad, yet they are half or less of those rates of secular people. And when we remember, how often secular people do not even get married, and those arrangement end up so much more often than actual marriages...
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ReplyDeleteHere is a link for you, Texan. I suggest you check their youtube -channel. They have really lovely Rosary video, start with that. It will all start to make sense to you, since you start saying Rosary -not even daily, start with once a week. It is enough. And of course you can do more, if you feel like it.
Their channel has also other marvelous videos. You'll see that staying chaste like these good monk-priests doesn't make men eunuchs, so to speak, but more of men.
I'll pray you will find a way to channel that angry-young-male -frustration to something better.
I'm not a fan of Catholicism. I have friends who are Catholic and happily buy a raffle ticket or two from them if asked. I did attend a Catholic retreat for a weekend over a decade ago, but don't see any point to Catholicism. I'd happily help a stranded priest or nun out on my rural highway at no charge if they needed it.
DeleteYou might look up William Donahue and Jordan Maxwell on YouTube. Not that I can't appreciate a choir chant or the amazing art. My Czech ancestors were mostly Catholic, but it's not for me.
A Texan, generally speaking, churches which teach these things nowadays could find themselves in trouble and targets of the media smear campaigns. And yet, they do exists, even in the USA. Still, many young people rebel and leave, just because they can. BTW, there are statistics out there which show that marriages where both spouses attend church regularly have much lower divorce rates.
ReplyDeleteModern society is very corrupt and it's true for church as well. Yet, where there is faith, there is always hope.
I'm in South Texas where there is literally a church of some sort every other block or so. The rural town I attended public school had no less than 12 churches for a population of 3000 and maybe a few more from the surrounding area.
DeleteI'm sure not a one will address the marriage issue with any honesty. You might check out Aaron Clarey and his 'Christian dating' podcast and read the comments. Even agnostic men like me want a feminine and charming woman to be a good man to.
BTW there are statistics from EVERY COUNTRY, not only western, that conervative women living in traditional marriage (gender roles, that is) are the happiest people.
ReplyDeleteThis makes the rear ends of feminists and liberals hurt so much.
I would love to have a woman who can keep a household, but I've never had a problem taking care of my spouse if she is sick or needs the help. I can cook and clean if I need to and sew a button (after I spend minutes threading the eye of the needle).
DeleteA Texan, ultimately, even though religion helps, human behaviour is modified by laws of the land. Divorce used to be rare when it was difficult to get one. So if you have a problem with modern feminism, which is quite understandable, you should take it up with your government, not the church. Unless you expect the church to lead some sort of rebellion, which generally isn't something churches are supposed to do.
ReplyDeleteAs an American, I totally agree with you, but the churches don't do themselves any favors. America, with all its pontificating about free speech, does reign in churches to some degree with the IRS rules on political activism.
DeleteWell, religious freedom in the West is hanging by a thread so the churches' behaviour is hardly surprising.
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