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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you look at the explosion of various sexual identities, rampant mental Heath issues including ADHD, depression, Autism and Anxiety, violent crimes including school shootings but too numerous and disturbing to list individually, and think WTF is happening and why?  [/quote]

Yes, I do, but I don't wonder why it's happening. [b]I think I know why,[/b] and so do most of us in the 50+ category, who came of age in the relatively normal 70s - 80s - early 90s, if we really dig deep enough.[/quote]

Why do you think? 
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Well a combination of factors obviously, but...

- The continuing erosion of the nuclear family, most specifically that there are too many homes in which a father is not present, or known, or around to guide his kids in moral development
- The loss of the common belief in God and the general societal understanding that we can know truth and good/ bad, as God alone has revealed to us
- A vision of the world to replace God - promoted in large part by schools - that the world is plagued by systemic injustices and an emphasis on identity-based differences, rather than harmony, repentance and forgiveness, and unity
- Sheer laziness, manifested in communication with other humans via social media, etc, rather than human presence
- The emphasis on the need to be entertained and "happy" at all cost, with any emotion contradicting that being unacceptable and something to be medicated or dealt with in some other artificial way

I could go on, but that's the general gist of it.  All of us, again, who came of age before these profound changes in society know at level that this is true.[/quote]

THere is a lot wrong with what you wrote, but I am going to primarily address the bolded and leave your God bullsh1t for others.  Plenty of places don't believe in your God and manage to have a great moral compass.

Post WW2, huge numbers of men all across Europe never came back.  My mother was one of the only kids in her class to have a living father.  Not the only, but they were rare--and those that were not suffering from PTSD were even more rare. Yet somehow they all grew up with a moral compass.  Your statement reeks of ignorance and misogyny.

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I agree with the PP and nowhere did she state "her God". The fact that you got so triggered and rude over her post seems to show you are part of society gone bad. You claim to be accepting but you really arent.[/quote]

Well 1st poster here, let's discuss ignorance. If you think the explosion of sexuality issues has to do with the lack of religion,  you are sadly mistaken. There were gay,  non binary, cross dressing,  transexual, and bi people since the dawn  of time. This is well documented in history, but, in fact, it is actually religion that sublimated it. Not allowing it to be, or pretending it doesn't exist,  and outlawing it doesn't mean it is not there.

So, you think the nuclear family is missing(?),  and by your definition- a man and women married for  life. Until recently in history,  women moved up quite a slow trajectory in terms of any freedom. They couldn't own property, they couldn't be educated. They couldn't have careers,  they couldn't do much. They were expected to marry. My mother's generation..married in 1954,  could surface level date  but was expected to marry by her early 20s. She wasn't likely educated. If she was ethnic or black,  she wouldn't have even be eligible for a scholarship to go to college, as even her male counterparts in these categories couldn't go to college- there were ethnic quotas. She couldn't have her own money. No credit card in her name,  she couldn't own a home. If she got pregnant before marriage, that child would have been put up for adoption. This  behavior fueled and still 
fuels  the largest human trafficking behavior there ever was. All dictated by religion and men.   She would have been in a maternity home for up to 6 months- tucked away with the shame of having intercourse before marriage. Men went on with their lives- no labeling, no shame. There was really also no such thing as rape. It was men being men.  It was your boss, your pastor,  a neighbor, your friend's father. Women who did work before marriage made pennies on the dollar before men, because they were not considered breadwinners. Birth control,  other than a condom was a practice in failure. 
Divorce was shameful and impractical.  It was a woman's only economic lifeline, leaving an unhappy marriage was not something that anyone could do.  So you think there were all these happy nuclear families ? Society made that appear so, not choice. Plenty, and I mean plenty of those spouses were also gay because no one could be gay. There was depression,  alcoholism, anxiety, spousal abuse- all unlabeled and untreated. PMS was treated as a mental illness. Post partum depression was never addressed.  What looked like happy nuclear families to you often were not.

In my childhood we lived in neighborhoods that were homogenous. Long after the Civil Rights Act,  there still were no black people in my neighborhood,  and few in my suburban school.  It was an unspoken rule to never sell to a black family. Many of these neighborhoods had actual racial and ethnic covenants.

Ah yes, so cute the holy communion, with the white dress and flowers, Sunday school  and the alter boys, all receiving the sacrament. We now know the vast, methodical, overwhelmingly catastrophically enabled pedophilia consuming Catholic parish after parish. Not just here, but all over the world.  Children were entrusted into their religious leaders hands, because, of course,  we have to have religion- but were instead sexually, psychologically, and physically abused. When I was 16, there were many girls my age enduring this abuse in a private Catholic school in Baltimore...just 10 miles away from my public  high school  where my peers dated,  engaged in Viet Nam protests, wore "hippy" clothes, did pot, etc., but no adult had that much control over us in a systematic way.  It is stunning how these girls, at my same age, thought this was something that was expected of them by a priest. Watch the documentary, The Keepers.  Oh yeah,  murder, too.

And it wasn't just the Catholic Church. Religion of all types hid many abuses of women and children, as did other wholesome activities sponsored by religious and upstanding civic organizations-Boy Scouts,  camps,  etc. So you think all we need is religion,  is that right?

Patriotic veterans,  huh? More Viet Nam vets didn't return than in WW2, and those that did  came back with life long PTSD and mental health issues that this country never addressed, and they were sent to Viet Nam in the first place based on lies. So don't discuss patriotic hubris.

School shootings? We live in  gun culture perpetuated by those such as yourself who take pride in false flags and pseudo patriotism, all the while the corrupt NRA collects funds from complicit and corrupt politicians that you support. "Don't take away my guns and my religion!"That's why there are school shootings.

You have your head in a place where you cannot see clearly- and I think we both know where that  is. Society didn't change- information changed. [/quote]

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