Where Are We Heading?

“Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?” 1 Cor. 5:6

Are you concerned at all with the morality of our country? Where are we heading? People just don’t seem to care and if you have morales you are looked at with a skeptical attitude. How far have we come? Read what one magazine wrote:

“On typical nights, television networks run show after show of police activities, social problems, sexual problems, perversion.

For example, on a Christmas Eve, a married couple separate after a fight; there’s a drunk in a bar menacing people with a broken bottle; a priest is killed viciously in a church; a drunken driver is there; there’s a stripper; a Peeping Tom; six other killings; and more than a half-dozen woundings.

Researchers have found that by the time an American child reaches the age of eighteen, he has spent more than 20,000 hours before the television set, much more than he does in any of the classrooms.

Last season, television showed the rape of a housewife, the story of a prostitute’s life, and a homosexual couple living together - topics that were unmentionable on air not long ago.

The morning and afternoon ‘soap operas’ of the ‘70s continue to mirror a version of the ‘typical’ American life that includes abortion, premarital sex, extramarital relationships, blackmail, murder, drugs, wiretapping, and embezzlement.

Violence is so much a part of television’s simulated ‘real life,’ that studies have shown that it may occur five to nine times in one hour in ‘prime-time’ television, as often as thirty times an hour during Saturday morning and after-school cartoons. In studying the responses of 120 boys from the ages of five to fourteen, researchers found clear evidence that ‘heavy TV watchers’ were no longer shocked or horrified by violence...

It will be difficult for children who are raised in this era when they reach adult life to be decision-makers about right and wrong, because they have been without guidelines. They will have no idea what moral concepts are all about.”

This was in U.S. News and World Report October 13, 1975. What was shocking then, is old hat today. We are deadening the moral compass of our current generation. Where will we be in 10-20 years from now?