HAVE TRADITIONAL VIEWS BEEN TOTALLY SUBSUMED BY THOSE WHO DOMINATE OUR CULTURE?

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE WALTONS?

If an extraterrestrial suddenly fell to earth and landed in the USA, he would likely get the idea that the society he found himself in was clearly a non-theistic society.   All indications would point toward Americans having no consciousness of a god , or of any recognition of a power limiting their own.

Despite that, however, America is still a land in which the vast majority (75%) acknowledge a supreme being. And, probably, a majority of that 75% adheres to traditional values.

One would never suspect such a large number being traditional in their views, given what passes as entertainment in 21st century America.  As Hollywood continues to spew out sex-and violence- filled spectacles, television, pop music and the print media are not far behind with their products, which cater to the basest of instincts.

On several fronts, traditional values, and especially Christian values, are ridiculed by the Moguls of pop culture.  Even government has jumped on the band-wagon, with certain Christian groups being marked for discrimination by laws that require them to pay for government-sanctioned abortion and birth-control.

In promoting its programs, government now has a tendency to sink to the lowest of  pop-culture levels.  Cases in point abound in the disastrous Obamacare roll-out, which seems to be pulling out all the stops in appealing to gays, promiscuous millennials and other very non-traditional folks.

DID WE TRADE THE MARLBORO MAN
FOR PAJAMA BOY?

In many instances, political correctness has invaded the public schools, to such a point that Christmas has become a dirty word.  Concomitantly, in some states school bathrooms are now open to choice rather than to the obvious gender of students.

Handbooks designed for the indoctrination of new recruits in the armed forces designate the Roman Catholic Church and evangelical and fundamentalist Christians as "extremist groups," while Islam gets a free ride.

Increasingly, the media have become so sensitive to the likes and dislikes of shrill minorities that have made a career out of supposed oppression that traditional views have been muzzled.  Many of the younger cohorts of our population have no recollection of a time when divergent views were openly and freely discussed without fear of economic or political retribution.  Those who take pride in branding themselves "liberal" are now most illiberal in shouting down or silencing those who might disagree with them.  And, of course, there is always the liberal fallback of tarring alternative views as "racist."


And let us not forget the inane "Life of Julia"  series put out by our government.  This severely dumbed-down production assumes to follow the life of a pathetic female, whose life is circumscribed from cradle to grave by government dependency.  Poor Julia, her education, her security, even her birth control and eventual pregnancy are influenced by government.  But, what is even sadder is that there are multitudes of young Americans who, no doubt, believe that it is government's role to make certain there are no bumps in the road of life.

What a strange world we now live in.  The majority has been pushed into minority status.  What are traditional views still held by a majority are now outside the approved realm of political correctness.  People of faith are dubbed as outcasts, to be ridiculed and made light of.  The concept of tolerance has gone by the wayside, to be replaced with a new "truth," which is almost as rigidly and severely enforced as the truth of long-ago New England Puritans.  Is it possible that those of my own persuasion will eventually be called upon to wear a "scarlet letter"?

Deo vindice!

May God bless Texas, and may the Lone Star State remain forever red!