WHAT ever happened to old fashioned respect?

Question

I am not that old and i was taught respect. Even respect of our president..OK so some dont agree with him but, cant some state their opinions with out attacking the Presidents character?CANT we just get behind him and pray? PLEASE if you have a disrespectful answer or your a non believer in God please dont answer.

Answer 1

You are a refreshing post here! God bless your respect for knowing "respect" and advocating it.

Answer 2

Respect is an EARNED commodity---and I give respect freely to those who have earned it---I am also willing to work hard for the respect of others --- even if I don't get it a lot of the time (as do a great number of us)

I have the ultimate respect for the OFFICE of the Presidency
BUT I don't have to respect AT ALL what any individual DOES in that office !! Especially when they are at and about the dissolution of the sovereignty of the nation !!
The call for--- and the expectation OF blind respect from people simply because of one's position is an Outrage against the fiber of what this nation is about----and seeing the current administration's supporters all but demanding that people RESPECT the man that is raping the country is a little akin to the gangsta's that do what THEY do and run around talking about not getting any respect--- well guess what _____ there is a dang good reason for it --- in both cases !!!

And, for an earlier poster here--- conservatives LOVE to talk about how liberals are godless and don't have values and are the reasons for ------(fill in the blanks)----Let me clue you in --- there are a great number of Liberals who have Strong faith in God and are well founded in scriptures --- have values that are akin to the patriots of old and many of us have fought and shed blood for the flag and the Consititution --- Just because you are of a particular Political leaning is definately no sign that you have an inside sweep on the values thing or a corner office with God !!!!!

Answer 3

We lost respect for the presidency through scandals, teachers and other officials the same way, The public appetite for sleeze seems unending, and media loves the ratings from reporting it. Many hate what's happened with the war, but we hear 90% of that and whats wrong vs 10% of what the president and Iraqi's are doing right, if that. We are not sure what the presidents character is, and we sure can't find out on the daily news. Learning what you can of history, world events, and other cultures without listening to political commercials, screaming liberals, or mouthy conservatives, who just do it for the ratings, will help. Then maybe you can honestly decide what you do and don't respect in others, including polititians.

Answer 4

There's a trend that parents are more concerned with being friends with their children than being parents. The result is that they let their kids get away with breaking the rules, shirking responsibility, and NOT SHOWING RESPECT. And if you don't learn to respect your parents, you won't respect anyone. This trend is particular to parents who are Baby Boomers. Sociologists say they behave this way because they are trying not to be strict like their parents were. However, this type of "mistake avoidance" can be a problem, because those trying to go the other way end up swinging to the far opposite of the spectrum.

The good news is that studies show today's young parents in their 20s are less likely to be pushovers and are inclined to discipline their kids. So I'm hoping this "disrespect phase" will fade out.

Answer 5

I agree completely, & this is NOT a partisan issue. THIS is something that causes other cultures & countries to despise us more than amything our last two Presidents have done.

Too many of us have no respect for ANYTHING we disagree w, or that conflicts w something on our personal agenda.

I also pray that whoever has courage enough to be our next President has the ability to transcend the hatred of the self interested on all sides.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

He is our president and I believe we must respect him, you do not have to like him but we must respect his title. If we do not respect his title then that leaves it open for other countries to not respect his title.
Now you can say what ever you want about him as a President that is our right established in the Constitution. That is why we have a house and senate to counter him.
We as United States citizens can say what we want about him that is our right, but don't let any other country demean or criticize OUR President whether he be democrat or republican he is the United States President , only we can say things about him. Lets take care of our own however good or bad they may be.

Answer 8

Old fashioned respect walked out the door when mother's were forced into the work force because men could no longer support their families on one income.

This had a wonderful trickle down effect called "latchkey kids" who were left home alone unsupervised to do whatever they wanted to.

Cable television and violent video games, lyrics to music that would make a truck driver blush.

The women's movement which demanded equal rights, burned bras, flaunted their sexuality, chose abortion over self control, or even birth control, forever teaching every generation behind them that life was expendable and responsibility meant nothing compared to one's own personal choice, even if this meant suctioning the brains out of a 9 month old baby.

Let's not forget the birth control pill. The sixties, the "free love" era. All birth control did for women was launch the sexual revolution that benefited men in droves, and did a lot towards helping women to degrade themselves by having sex with whoever, the whoever having not one iota of concern or care of the women they degraded.

Women no longer demanded respect from men, and how surprising, men were willing to disrespect as many women as they possibly could. Because we no longer demanded respect from men, and gave ourselves willingly and with wanton abandon, men no longer had to marry us or commit to us. Women were abandoned by husbands and left to try to find jobs they were not qualified for while their husbands whored around with the easy women they could find everywhere they looked.

So, now we have cable television which has the morals of an alley cat, and we hear words like, dick, pussy and balls on prime time television. Songs so sexually explicit that if they were movies you'd have to be 21 to buy them, and sadly only 10 or 11 to understand them.

Little girls go to school looking like whores, and admire the likes of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and parents allow this!!

Parents take responsibility for nothing anymore, including their children. Something is wrong when children plan school shootings and bombings, suicides and murders.

These things were unheard of 60 years ago.

Where has respect gone? It has dissipated with our moral compass.

If anyone believes that I blame women for all of these problems you are wrong. I blame men more than women, and parents equally.

Answer 9

What is respect? Don't believe there is any today. Not in the vocabulary. I am old and was taught to respect. This wave has been pushed by the modernistic view of the Clinton years.
You as a believer are a minority in our new modern culture. God is a myth of old. That is the belief of the main stream today. It reminds me of Israel when they put God in a Building. He wanted to be in their every day lives as he does today, However we as Israel have put God in a box. He will not stay there. He will leave the US as he did Israel and remove his umbrella of protection from our nation as he did Israel. Read the parable of the Vineyard in the Gospels. All you can do today is to remain secure in your faith in God Jehovah and Pray for our country. It surely is in need of Prayer.

Answer 10

I believe in God. If the President want's respect he needs to earn it.

Answer 11

You obviously don't like history.

Read up on the terrible things people said about presidents in the 1800's.

American Freedom is founded on the very principle that the people MUST criticize their government.

If you found out our president was raping 12 year old boys in the oval office, would you show him respect?

I certainly would not.

But really, this recent spate all started when Rush Limbaugh went into his daily "slick willy" tyrades.

But hey, free speech!

Rock on, America!!!!