MORAL DEVIATION

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MORAL DEVIATION

By

Roger Behra, B. S. Education *

* Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico. He took five courses, 15 graduate hours, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. 19 years experience teaching language arts in Arizona and Ohio, U.S.A. 10 years teaching religion in St. Ann Catholic School in Ohio, in addition.

Moral Deviation has been increasing rapidly since the middle 1960´s in most cultures of the word, and in the United States of America leads the way in most categories. And this ignominious leadership has greatly hurt the position of the U. S. A. in the word.

Moral deviation can be defined as the ignoring of the difference between right and wrong, between good and evil and a noticeable difference from acceptable standards of moral behavior. You can witness this abundantly as you live from day to day in the world´s cultures.

Moral deviation takes various forms and leads one toward different directions. All moral deviations are gravely sinful and in at least one individual from greatly disordered. More on that individual from is explained later.

Examples of moral deviation are:

1. Co-habitations – living together before marriage.
2. Adultery – married peoples having sex outside of this marriage.
3. Fornication – sexual relations outside of marriage.
4. Promiscuity – not limited to one sex partner.
5. Teen-age sex – sex before adulthood before marriage.
6. Homosexuality – sex between same sex members, greatly disordered.
7. Other breeches of morality – disregard for right or good noon – sexual behavior.

The areas of moral deviation can overlap each other making the deviation much more gravely sinful. For example someone can be a promiscuous adulterer or co-habit with a homosexual and engage in homosexual sex Regardless, all moral deviation is gravely sinful and is a matter of degree of sinfulness.

In matters homosexuality, a person attracted to a person of the same sex is not necessarily a sinful person. It can lead to sinfulness when sexual behavior, becomes a reality. We can accept the homosexual but no accept homosexual behavior, which is gravely disordered and totally unacceptable.

What must one do to avoid moral deviation? One must adjust his/her moral compass to start with. And that might be very difficult. It cannot be done without God´s help and graces. So, prayer, sincere prayers is the first step. Choose moral friends and places. Know the 10 commandments. Attend church regularly. The need to rid one´s life of moral deviation is so important. Failure to do so can lead to Satan opening the door very wide to other evils, to demonic promptings, to demonic influence, to demonic affliction, and even to demonic possession. And that is absolutely most serious. Satan would gladly like to be a very strong part of one´s life, active daily in one´s life, controlling one´s thoughts and actions. May God forbid that ever happening.

R.B.