Messed up values. . .

As you may have heard or read, those who presume to call themselves medical and science professionals are working on the unthinkable.  They would like to be able to transplant Fallopian tubes and the uterus from a real woman into a man who thinks he is a woman.  Oddly enough, this is perhaps even possible.  Sadly though, it is likely that money for medical research for good causes will likely be diverted to this questionable purpose because right now the trans agenda is a high value political issue among some, perhaps even many, on the liberal and progressive side of things in America.  Let us just explore how much worse this could get.  The man who thinks he is a woman and who might get the reproductive organs from a real woman might also make the decision to abort the child within that borrowed womb.  How does that strike you?  If abortion is a right that goes hand in hand with the sexual desire and gender alphabet soup and their claimed rights, it is logical to assume that abortion will be the favorite choice for the trans who get pregnant by some manipulation of bodies and organs -- just as it is the choice for those who are real women who do not value children as high as their own self-interest.  

This illustrates the problem.  The scope of the problem facing American culture, society, and religion is not as simply as abortion or sexual desire or gender identity.  In the end, it is about a complete breakdown and loss of what is marriage, family, and community.  While this is certainly a religious problem, it is not exclusively so.  Everything that we are and home to be as a nation is rooted in the stability and security of the home and of the family within that home (husband, wife, children).  The challenge facing us as a nation and society is that we have decided that the common structures of marriage, family, and community are less important and compelling than the protection of the individual and the free range of choice afforded each individual.  Furthermore, those in the driver's seat of such change have no view of or interest in how this shift will affect us down the road.  We are being driven off a cliff by people who are not holding onto the steering wheel or looking at the path before us.  It is a recipe for destruction but few seem to care.  I approach this from a theological and Scriptural point of view but you need not be religious to see how the path we have chosen for our nation will undermine and destroy what makes us a nation.

What awaits us when children who have been raised to believe that sex is a right, sexual desire has no moral compass, and gender is the choice of the individual?  What will the future look like for children who come of age believing:

• that marriage is a patriarchal and abusive estate, 
• that children are a burden to be avoided, 
• that life is common and ordinary and to be disposed of at will, 
• that digital community is the same as personal community, 
• that sex is normally for individual pleasure and only exceptionally for reproduction, and 
• that all of our current definitions of just about anything are open to change when we decide they no longer work for us?

The scope of the challenge before us is not simply protecting ourselves from the onslaught of an anti-Biblical understanding of life, the created order, our purpose, and our future.  It might be easy if that were all we were facing.  But when the future falls to pieces on the flood of sinful reality, Christians will need to offer an identity and an order for those who are not content to live where everyone is an island and we are all good with it.  This is what Christianity has done in the past and, if the Lord gives us more time, it will be what we will do in the future.  We are not merely protecting our own rights to disagree but positioning ourselves to raise up the truth when the lies we have chosen become our undoing.
 

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