TEEN DECEPTION

The full impact of what society has done to young people came home to me as I was watching a programme that had a studio audience of 16 y.o. They had been interviewed three years previously when they were 13, and the programme wanted to know if their views had changed.

The first cab of the rank was the subject of sex. It was very obvious by most of the comments of the teenagers that sex for them was no different to having a meal, playing a game, hanging around with your mates or going to work. It was something that you did if you could get the opportunity. It obviously had degenerated into a purely physical experience to be enjoyed when you can, particularly with the aide of some grog. The only criteria applied were if you are ready for it do it.

Here are some comments taken from an article on the subject that apeared a couple of days later.

"Any Saturday night, teenagers are doing it in the dark places — parks, garages, backyards, beaches, schools, the backs of cars. Partying, drinking, drugs and sex, even in trees, according to 17-year-old Tania", who lost her virginity at 13.

"I've had threesomes and foursomes," says Lisa, 19. "It's usually at a party and everyone's had a bit to drink. It started with girls kissing girls because that's a hot thing. After that you're just kissing everyone and it goes on from there."

Chris, 16, likens it to fishing: "You chuck a line out and see if anything bites," he says.

Tania says she and her friends talk about the right and wrong of what they do. "We learn morals from other people's experiences," she says.

At no time during the programme was fidelity, sex in the context of marriage, the emotional damage that casual sex can do, or STDs mentioned. The presenter was no help as she encouraged the teenagers to talk about their latest conquest.

Sex education in schools is presented as the panacea for all the sex problems that teenagers suffer. Tell them all they need to know about sex and they will be OK. Not.

What it has done is to turn them into animals that prowl around looking for their next conquest. As a result the beauty of sex has gone out the window and the social reformers and sexologists have created a cess pool of sexual aberrations that are now considered normal and if you say otherwise you are abnormal or a bigot especially as the teenagers now have this idea that what a person does is right if they think it is and you cannot say they are wrong or point out the dangers of what they are doing. In other words, if you are destroying yourself emotionally or physically, who am I to say that is wrong?

As one noted preacher said “we have given ourselves the right to kill ourselves.”

When you assess these facts dispassionately, it is obvious that it is only one example of the unelected social gurus imposing a tyrannical regime on society, primarily to remove all barriers and taboos against the perversions that they want to descend into.

They have made the imposition of effective barriers to destructive behaviour a sin, and as a result young people no longer have guideposts to tell them what is good and proper. The law is if it feels good do it.

Well may it feel good for a few minutes, but every action has a reaction and most of these teenagers who have been sucked in by this mindless rhetoric will suffer later on in life with broken marriages, sexually transmitted diseases, unable to bear children as they probably will have gone through at least one abortion, depression which may lead to suicide, life threatening activity, binge drinking or alcoholism and emotional barrenness.

The fact that young people today are already suffering such symptoms doesn’t happen in a vacuum. They didn’t wake up one day and say I think I will go and get plastered. When that happens the emotional deficiency has already set in.

In a survey held in the USA, 46% of unmarried Christian teens who attended church, thought it was OK to have sex before marriage. If those are the facts, what chance do young people outside the church have to avoid such self destructive behaviour? What is the church doing or not doing to have produced such results?

It seems to me that the church is more interested in keeping people happy and coming to meetings than building a quality of life that will enable the people to separate themselves from the world and be an example that people can follow.

Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. Mat 16:24. I do not know how ignoring his word about our relationships is taking up your cross and following Jesus.