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Counter Culture Cluelessness
By
Roger Behra
It is a total shame that so much counterculture cluelessness abounds in the American culture at the present time. It has ruined American culture to a very large degree. Most counterculture people do not know why they are here on earth. Most counterculture people do not know what God expects from the life He gave them. Most no pay attention to the fact they will have an afterlife and that they will be accountable for all their thoughts, words, and actions, good and bad. That is the greatest shame on them. The fact that 60% of people do not practice religious living means they remain ignorant of their real destiny, which is to know God, love God, love neighbor, keep God’s Commandments, and gain as much knowledge as possible.
Recently three questions were asked, and here are the counterculture answers. Does religion make a person better? Does it make a person worse? Does religion have no impact on a person? The answers were no surprising and reflected the fact that 60% of Americans do not practice religious living. When the total number their answers were broken down the strong indication is religion has no impact or makes people worse. The large number of people believes that religion is unimportant and that American culture can do without it. If the larger majority just looks around them at the great increase in immorality, crime, and the extremely overcrowded prisons along with the high divorce rate caused by adultery and chaotic family life proves their thinking is greatly flawed.
The Ten Commandments are considered a central code of behavior. They are a definite part of obedience to God and the foundation of moral living. They are the most important guidelines in everyone’s life, but only 33% said the Ten Commandments were most important in their lives. Another 31% said the Ten Commandments had no value in their lives. The remaining 36% said they pick and choose to follow only some of them. All these means is that 67% of people have trouble adhering to proper religious living or even and religious living at all. Therefore, it is not surprising at all that so many people have so much trouble, immorality, and criminal behavior in their lives. The 10 Commandments were given to us for good and specific reasons. America’s overflowing prisons attest to that. The high divorce rate (50%) attests to that. The Catholic discipline in America's schools attests to that. The high crime rate of many types of crime attests to that. The picture is very clear.
The harmful effects of no religious living in people’s are many, but the two most harmful are the lack of God’s graces and help in lives and the inhuman lack of respect for the dignity of human life which leads to murder, abortion, rape, and child abuse. All of these have become very prevalent during counter culture times. All of this is no surprise, because wherever God is absent many bad things happen, and the door is wide open for Satan and evil to be present. Satan is very active in counterculture lives and evil is extremely abundant. Like it or not everyone has to live by the 10 Commandments. People simply cannot make up their own rules as they go along in life. That is a recipe for ruined lives. Just ask all those in America’s overcrowded prisons and relatives of dead family members who died while making up their own rules to live by.
R. B.