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SHORT COMMUNICATION 43
Cultural Cornerstones
By
Roger Behra
In past communication (# 1) the areas of human development were given and explained. These four areas can also be called cultural cornerstones in any of the world’s many cultures. You will understand as you read on just how important mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical development really is in any culture, as they are individually developed in people’s lives. As the individual develops, so goes the cultural development. They go together, and each individual is very responsible to God, to himself, and to the culture they live in.
The progress and success of any culture fully depends on degree to which each cultural member develops his or her own areas of development. If all is going well individually, all should be going well culturally. So the four areas of human development and each individual can be called cultural cornerstones.
It matters not the culture. All the areas of the human development and the culture are interrelated. Development of one area or the neglect of one area of development has an effect on the other areas of development.
Since the middle of the 1960’s in the United States their culture has shown a definite, slow, and unacceptable decline, which continues today, 2008. When God was replaced with the pursuit of money, greed, sex, drugs, personal gratification, and personal glorification, the present and result is what was predictable. The U. S. culture suffers from very defective moral compasses and cultural cornerstones, indeed. It is clearly evident.
Now the United States is not the great culture any more. Sixty-three percent of Americans do not attend church. Fifty percent of high school students drop out before graduation. The United States has the most overweight people in the whole world. And our jails and prisons are at the bursting point with criminals. It is so sad, and the sadness is not going to end any time soon.
One can easily see that when the counter-culture movement pushed God out of so many lives, the spiritual area of development suffered greatly. And that very severely weakened the other three areas of development. It’s a no-brainer. If the U. S. culture is ever going to make a great turnaround, getting back to the proper spiritual area of development is at the top of the list. Getting back to the importance of God in every life is the real answer. Only good things can happen from that. Mortality and proper motives can turn around Satan’s very great successes over the past 50 plus years. When the counter-culture movement entered the U. S. culture, Satan entered it also. And when he entered, he convinced millions of people that he does not exist, and that has been his greatest victory, then, the downfall of the great U. S. culture and her cultural cornerstones began crumbling very sadly away.
R. B.