Counterculture Achievements, By Roger Behra

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Counterculture Achievements

By

Roger Behra

The counterculture population includes the leading edge (now 62 years old), children and grandchildren, (It is far to say that not all of the leading edge´s generation subscribed to the counterculture´s philosophy that was started in 1964.) But a very large part of this generation did wholeheartedly. And today we glaringly have their achievements staring at us in modern American culture.

To refresh our memories an achievement is something important that some or group succeeds in doing by their own efforts. And the counterculture population has many achievements. Some of their more obvious and effective ones will be mentioned in this communication.

The irreligious living the counterculture movement started caught on quickly and is their first achievement. God was quickly pushed aside, and the two great Commandments and the 1o Commandments became very much less relevant. As a result the American culture is riddled with irreligious living (59%) and an incredible and varied amount of crime. Irreligious living is at the root of so many other counterculture achievements (widespread evil in general) that includes the great evil of abortion (over 30, 000, 000), a high divorce rate (51%), and the most overcrowded prisons in the history of America. And has the list of achievements goes on we must mention the high rates of infidelity, adultery, co-habitation, pornography addiction, drug addiction, pedophile priests, alcoholism, identity theft, computer crimes, failing students and the school systems, and the highest obesity rate in the whole world. Wow! What a list of achievements! And the very hot item of achievement is the clamor for legalized recognition of homosexual marriages. Satan must be reveling in unbelievable joy at the counterculture list of achievements. And the list could go on.

Now it is time for the leading edge of the movement to think about retiring. But they cannot easily do that, mainly, because of the high cost of living and health care. They are stuck in the world of their achievements. A great many of them cannot retire and move to some inexpensive paradise out of the country and away from the culture they helped achieve here in America. They are stuck in a culture of the results of their irreligious living, greed, cluelessness, and the making up of life´s rules as they went along. No tears should be shed, except only for the leading edge people who did not subscribe to the counterculture movement when it first began. Yes, there were some of them, and unfortunately they have to live in a culture they did not help to create.

The counterculture achievements are sad enough. But the saddest part of it all is realization that no reversal is in sight. The only way the American culture can return to pre-1964 days, when irreligious living was the order of the day and the fear and acceptance of God and His laws a great motive to keep moral compasses headed in the right direction, is if God intervenes. And that is not going to be very pleasant at all, folks. His intervention is called the Chastisement. And the few (compared to today’s billons) who will remain will enjoy a world and life free from evil and uncertainty. And only God knows who they will be.

R.B.

7-2-09