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About Jesus - Steve (Stephen) Sweetman A
Culture Of Fools The United States congress recently met with CEO's of social-media corporations because it and much of our western culture believe social media has a negative impact on children. In part, it's why schools ban cell phones from classrooms. Simultaneously, much of our culture also believes that a child has the inherent ability to claim a gender he or she does not outwardly appear to be. If a child thinks she is a he, or he is a she, our culture, including schools, accommodate the child as it appropriates pronouns associated with the child's newly-claimed gender identity. Consequently, Michelle is now Michael, Stephen is Stephanie, and that without parental consent. Gender identity is now considered to be the child's responsibility, not the parents'.
Where do children get
the idea that they are not the gender they appear to be?
They get it from the same social-media content on their cell phones
that schools, government and culture claim is negatively influencing
children. Is culture
conflicted? It says social
media is negatively impacting children while it embraces social media's
impact on children. In the
process, it usurps the authoritative responsibility rightly due to
parents. This reminds me of 1
Timothy 4:1 and 2. "The Spirit clearly
says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving
spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through
hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot
iron." Is our culture following
"deceiving spirits and things taught by demons?"
Could it consist of "hypocritical liars" whose speech is
confusingly conflicting? Has
its "conscience been seared as with a hot iron," leaving little
to no logical common sense? Could
God actually be stepping back from our culture and handing it over to its
culturally suicidal sins, as Romans 1:28 says is possible?
Romans 1:22 might answer these questions. "Although they
claimed to be wise, they became fools." Post Script Can you imagine me,
Stephen, claiming to be Stephanie as a twelve-year old back in 1963?
I would have been a candidate for a government sponsored
psychological intervention. Of
course, such a thought never crossed my mind.
I had no cell phone with access to social media that could
negatively influence my not-yet-mature, easily-influenced youthful intelligence.
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