Another analogy occurs to me

While thinking about church history, as I wrote the previous blog post, I thought of another analogy or, rather, a way of explaining the incredible spiritual crisis that exists in this world's past two generations.

Up until the past forty years or so all people of all faiths around the world strove to discover God. From the humblest to the mightiest, from Christian to Muslim, Hindu or native faiths, all people sought to become closer to God, to better understand God and commune with God. Individual people read the Bible so that each of them could discern the word of God and feel the comfort and understanding in his or her own heart. Churches, colleges, seminaries and religious orders also sought better communion with God, each using their own gifts of grace and intellectual talents.

A horrendous inversion, a total reversal, took place in the late 1960's. Rather than desiring to know God better, humans decided to get rid of God so that they could pursue on a large scale the excesses of behavior that always existed but now became, to all appearance, "consequence free." Using substance, having free sex and the pursuit of material excess caused a literal flip in interest away from God and toward the new false idols. People ran from God so that they could engage in hedonistic behavior. That was the first shoe that dropped. The second shoe that dropped was that the generation who ran from God so they could "do their own thing" cheated the next generation out of their inheritance. The previous generation became the FIRST GENERATION IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY TO DELIBERATELY NOT TEACH GOD TO THEIR CHILDREN. Around the world an entire generation was raised to know how to turn on the TV or buy a movie ticket but not to know God at all. And that generation is now having children and controlling the government, the school systems, the social mores and the "entertainment industry." The past two generations have cheated their children out of their own inheritance in a way the primitive cavemen did not even do. With each generation until its flowering in the 1950's people brought their children closer and closer to God. One single generation threw this all away so they could "do their own thing," and the next generations don't know any better. This most recent generation thinks they were born into some sort of secular "fairness" army. They were sold into slavery and their treasure given away by their drunk, stoned, sex addicted, manipulative, negligent, ignorant and power hungry parents. Many from that generation who have died and you may have fond memories of, I must tell you, are now in the "bad" place and not the "good" place. They are there not because of having sex or abusing substance but for institutionalizing their children's divorce from God.

I like to think this generation is waking up, but I have to tell you, it better hurry up. When they read of the dissolution of all that is good in humanity they wring their hands but all they know is to do even more of what caused this in the first place. When one is born into slavery, as this generation was, all they know are slave solutions and prison rules of behavior.