Friday, December 7, 2007

Judge Yourself

So a friend of mine just showed me a bulletin that was posted on Myspace. It asks a whole bunch of questions about social problems and such. For your benefit, I will post it here (The "pic of" indicates that there was originally a picture there.):


"Why do people commit suicide?picture of SuicideWhy do people cut themselves?pic of BleedWhy do girls become anorexic and bulimic?pic of AnorexicWhy do kids bring guns to school?pic of KillWhy do kids get depressed...so they start using meds, and abusing them?pic of OD MedsWhy do girls feel the need to act like sluts to impress guys?pic of Slut (in gym, with guy, yiiikes)Why cant people show their sexuality freely, without worrying about being judged?pic of Lovely (two gay guys YYYYUUUUUCKKKKK)In the Bill Of Rights, it says we have FREEDOM OF SPEECH! So why are we so afraid to speak up for ourselves?I KNOW WHY!Shh!pic of Evil"Whores"pic of Plastics (putting on tons of makeup)"Geeks"pic of Losers"Goths"pic of Darkness"Emos"pic of andfadetoblackAND THAT’S NOT EVEN HALF OF THEM!Society in generalpic of EarththetruthIS THIS the world?pic of Child AbuseIS THIS THE NATION FIGHT AND WE LIVE IN WARS TO SUPPORT?pic of TrappedI AM SICK OF IT!Stereotypes, and everything else.I want to live in a good place, without suicide, rape, murder, and JUDGEMENT!pic of Killing is wrong (why do we kill people who kill people to say that killing people it wrong?)IF THIS HAD ANY AFFECT ON YOU REPOST IT!No, a ghost will not rape your dog.You wont have relationship problemsNo you won’t die in 7 days.BUT you will have the guilt on your shoulders that you didn’t try to get the message across.I want to stop the madness.If I only reached out to 1 or 2 people that’s fine.At least MY conscience is clear...HOW ABOUT YOURS?--You have to click 'Reply To Poster', and then copy and paste in a different bulletin or you won’t get the whole bulletin…"


So despite the fact that it's a Myspace bulletin and full of atrocious grammar and other such teen horrors, this script is very misguided. In a nutshell, it is saying that the reason kids have so many problems is because people judge them for who they are. My friends, this is most certainly not the case. Kids ae not the way they are because some person thought something different than they did. If that was indeed the case, then we're raising a generation of genuine wimps. The reason goes a lot deeper than that. People aren't messed up because of stereotypes. People are messed because of one little word: sin.


The problems we have in our society are not because people feel judged. Maybe that plays a small role, but not a huge one. Sin is what twists our society. Every problem we have in society today is atributable to sin. The problems in society also spring from a wrong view of many things; pain...suffering. So many things we see today have the wrong solutions, the wrong diagnosis...the wrong everything. People don't kill because they have an emotional problem, or a physical problem. People kill because they have a spiritual problem. Our society tends to think of everything in terms of sickness. Our culture is absolutley intent on removing any concept of responsiblity from the halls of justice. Murderers are sentenced to pyscho-therapy. Pedophiles are released back into society for another chance. There is more crime now than there was 50 years ago because people are so obsessed with the idea that people deserve a second chance...no matter what. It's ridiculous. This is what happens to a nation who forsakes the Lord.

Kids are messed up because we teach them that they're an accident. More on that in a later post!


2 comments:

Althusius said...

Amen.

All of the problems do go back to sin, but it's also true that we are raising a generation of genuine whimps. That's just not the root problem.

Anonymous said...

I completely agree! They're going to act like animals if they're being taught that they evolved from apes instead of being made by a loving God.