True or false:?

Question

-The media is corrupting this generation at any expense, even by mocking Christ.

-This generation is the worst of all in history

-Jesus prophecied that in the end times we would be living in an evil and adulterous generation

If you answered false to any of the first two:

Please, watch this.

http://battlecry.com/pages/casualties.php

If you answered false to the last one... Read the gospels. :)

Thanks for the respect and answers in advance

JP:

I have a feeling you didn't read the bible.

And if you did, it was with a prideful and skeptical heart.

The things you say don't line up...I've talked with you before.

marcelo:

I'm not angry.

I'm also not going to let this generation die without a prayer and a voice.

Answer 1

True. This generation is all about sex and money.
People are raped, murdered, kidnapped, molested, starving, and yet everyone cares about Anna Nicole Smith, and where her body will be buried.

Answer 2

I got distracted in the midst viewing the video. Late reply.

Anyhoo, a few observations:

(1) Linking something like pregnancy rates to some kind of soviet plot? Wow. That's paranoia.

(2) No citations for this data, and given the source, I'm skeptical.

(3) Teen pregnancy peaked in the United States in the 1950s. Think about that.

(4) Putting a statistic like "1 in 4 of has used an illegal drug" next to "1 in 10 of has has been raped" -- wow, again. Not even on the same par. I do not associate some kids smoking pot with some kind of societal decay. Addiction perhaps, but whatever.

(5) 4% of Sweden attends church. It has a very low crime rate, almost no social problems, close to zero poverty, and is regularly rated as one of the most transparent and corruption-free countries in the world.

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Oh, to your question:

> The media is corrupting this
> generation at any expense, even
> by mocking Christ.

False.

> This generation is the worst of all
> in history

Email me and I'll forward you an essay from 1891 that will change your mind. It's on how to raise children.

> Jesus prophecied that in the
> end times we would be living
> in an evil and adulterous generation

Maybe.

Answer 3

Society and media have ALWAYS corrupted, including by mocking Christ. This is nothing new.

This generation is no different than any other generation. We merely have access and exposure to more media to show how horrible we humans are.

Every single generation has been evil and adulterous and the earth is still here. We are still here.

I'm sorry, but people of the past were NOT that great. At least now torture, slavery, and beating your wife are viewed as a no-no.

Answer 4

Respect ? respect is something you earn and your arguments deserve no such respect.

If you look at the world now and do it per capita (that means taking the different population total into account), there is no more killing and violence now then there was in previous periods of history.

You think the Dark Ages were a better time to live in than now? Less violent? Less wicked? What about the Crusades?

You think living in Israel back in Jesus time was a safe place to live? Less suffering?

Wake up and do some real research and then you might get some deserved respect.

The media doesn't mock Christ, they mock the stupid uninformed believers who deserve it

Answer 5

False on the first two.

People have been claiming that:
1) this is the worst generation ever, and
2) Jesus is coming back next Thursday
for close to two thousand consecutive years. Remember, he was supposed to show up before his disciples kicked the bucket, so either Carl Reiner is one of the original disciples, or somebody made an adding error somewhere.

Answer 6

False to all three, and watched the thing and have read the Bible.

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The best theologians in the world read the Bible with a skeptical heart -- that's how they know they reach true conclusions. Do you think Scott Hahn opens his Bible and goes, "ah, whatever it says, my first gut instinct must be the Holy Spirit"? Or does he more likely go back to the writings of the church fathers and find out what they and the Apostles wrote, plus the history of the interpretation of that scripture?

Skeptical doesn't mean, "out to disprove," it means, "with an open mind."

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Forgot to add. I'm only 5 credit hours shy of being able to earn a BA in Biblical Studies. Sooooo... no, the idea that I never read the Bible doesn't hold water.

Answer 7

False. These premises have been said by anyone over 25 in every generation in history.

Answer 8

Doug , I'm glad that you have passion for the people and the times. I know it's the End Times. Most don't want to hear about. I will alway be honest w/you . GOD BLESS YOU
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT>

Answer 9

Another smart and well documented question from Doug.

Thanks, O Soul Saviour.

Answer 10

The only thing wrong with this generation is that they have not been challenged either physically or mentally. They have been raised with lack of parenting, undisciplined, uneducated and allowed to be very selfish. They have been bombarded with one-sided media coverage of worldwide events and do not have the desire or ability to search for the real truth. Mostly, their life agenda focuses on fashion, what their friends are doing, how they can be the center of attention, acting like want-a-be actors and actresses or other entertainers, thugs, gangstas, and anything else they think is cool. It's really too bad because in the very near future we all are going to get a true and horrendous education in the reality of war in our streets, and I truly pity all of you that have not prepared for it. For you that fit the above profile, please start at least trying to learn what is going on in the world instead of playing video games and figuring out where your next thrill is coming from. Please read the following...

Warmongering?

Ah, so soon you all forget, or is it you are just too young to remember. Saddam brought death and destruction down on himself.

For years, he arrogantly told the UN to go to Hell. He was given numerous chances over several years to allow full inspections for WMD's. He would not allow full and complete inspections. During all that time, I think he moved the weapons he had to Syria or buried them in the Iraqi desert. He did not think anyone had the balls to finally give him an ultimatum and follow through with military action if he did not comply with the UN sanctions. After 9/11, he gambled wrong. 9/11 changed the playing field on a world scale. Also if Colin Powell had not stopped General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Kuwaiti conflict, this last conflict would not have been necessary. You need to understand that we are at war, and we will be until all radical Muslims and others that want to destroy our freedoms are neutralized or exterminated. We should all thank God, our Military, and our President for making the hard decisions it takes to keep conflicts overseas and not in our streets.

General Hawley, is a newly retired USAF 4 star general. He commanded the Air Combat Command (our front-line fighters and bombers) at Langley AFB, VA. He is now retired and no longer required to be politically correct. A true patriot!

"Since the attack on 9-11, I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard
them too. Here they are:

1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative."

Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, and nothing is relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see folks, saying "We're
good" doesn't mean, "We're perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens.

2) "Violence only leads to more violence."

This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half measures lead to more violence. However, complete, fully thought through, professional, well executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial," not
"reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love." Dead.

3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community have failed us."

For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for
not protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all, (they reasoned,) you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This is very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. You have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet that bin Laden fella". Well, you can, but all you'd be doing is giving the bad guys a story they'll be telling for years.

4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us."

Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohammed Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing grounds is the son of a Cairo surgeon.
But you knew this, too. In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. It's the same today.

5) "Any profiling is racial profiling."

Who's killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the attack, The New York Times had an article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed. Please come back. Let's all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from hitting Mt.Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me to say, "Well, at least we didn't offend them."

SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, "No More Hiroshima’s"? I wish I had one that says, "No More Pearl Harbor’s”.