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\u00a0<\/a>A nude man yells at us for asking him to put clothes on. We didn\u2019t want our children to be exposed to his nudity, is that so bad? He is incredulous at the inconvenience we are causing him. Us telling him that there is a nude beach available for him not far away does little to quell his fury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A music teacher at our school can\u2019t understand why we object to a song she is teaching our second grader. The song talks about eating each others brains, \u201cBut it\u2019s a really fun song\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s just words, It doesn\u2019t matter! They are having fun!\u201d was the angry retort my wife received.\u00a0 A local college first year initiation rite involved songs that promote rape. My wife, simply said it was not a good idea. \u201cbut there is nothing funny about rape, ever.\u201d was her comment. Eyes rolling, our friend just shakes her head and walks away, mumbling something about how my wife is not liberated enough to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLife is better when you share it\u201d says my poster. It\u2019s an invitation for the people of our neighborhood to come together at my house for a BBQ. It has pictures of about 30 of us, smiling and enjoying each other and good food. The other night it was torn down. \u201cWe don\u2019t want that kind of thing around here\u201d is the obvious implication. It\u2019s hard not to notice that posters like \u201cRent Money\u201d remain unscathed. It\u2019s a local strip club\u2019s attempt to \u201chelp\u201d the more financially challenged of our female population come in once a week to give a show. They take off their clothes, the audience deepens it\u2019s sexual addiction, women in general are further objectified and these girls get their rent money. How nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Complaint\u2019s trickle in to the school: \u201cWe don\u2019t want churches in our schools.\u201d What does that mean? We don\u2019t want people of faith helping to make our schools better? Why not? What would happen in our neighborhood if someone said we don\u2019t want Asian people helping to make our schools better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will our society flourish? Will our children be safe? Will there be more peace and prosperity? What is the stuff that\u2019s really needed for human thriving? I think it is relational stability and longevity. If that\u2019s true, will we thrive if we have a culture that embraces nudity, celebrates death and darkness, condones sexual violence in media, celebrates proudly and publicly sexual freedom in all its forms, and continually marginalizes those who believe in loving a real God and loving their neighbors? I don\u2019t think so. Our society\u2019s path is not taking us to better places. I know this because I can see it in the faces of the people that walk down my street. There is a reaching but a never finding. There are deep wounds in these smiling faces. We are upside down. We\u2019ve come to think of wrong as right and right as wrong. The brights of our era have worked hard to erase both of these categories, but as humans, we just can\u2019t, so we\u2019ve inverted them. We are like my daughter hanging from her legs on the monkey bars. But we can only remain upside down for so long until all the blood rushes to our head. Eventually, we will pass out, as we slip from consciousness there might be a bit of euphoria but a great and painful fall is the end result.<\/p>\n

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