Western decadence is feeding Islamic Jihad...

Another Reason to Kill Us?

By Chuck Colson 5/4/2006

Western Decadence and Jihad

In a recent Washington Post story about Abdul Rahman, the Afghan whose Christian conversion almost earned him a death penalty, reporter Pamela Constable wrote that Afghans are grateful to the United States for its economic support. But, she added, many Afghans “remain leery of Western values and associate Christianity with fornication and drunkenness.”

Clearly, Afghans link Christianity with America, and link America with decadence. But why would they do that?

Well, let’s see. In the news this week, we have stories of Duke University lacrosse players accused of getting drunk and raping an exotic dancer. Pictures of two unmarried and very pregnant American actresses, Angelina Jolie and Katie Holmes, have been splashed across the tabloids. A DVD about homosexual lovers, Brokeback Mountain, is selling briskly. Meanwhile, our lawmakers continue to discuss legalizing gay “marriage” and even polygamy. And gambling interests continue to buy political favors.

Decadent? Us? Now, why would Muslims think that?

The link between these is something else we’ve been talking about but America media ignores. How do we fight terrorists and promote democracy when we’ve lost so much moral credibility?

I continue to believe that our greatest enemy is not any external foe like Al Qaeda but our own moral rot resulting from the loss of belief in Truth.

The popularity of cultural products like "The Jesus Papers" and "The Da Vinci Code" that attack Christianity at its core are symptomatic of this deep sickness and blindness.

True Christianity is the only thing that can slow down and reverse the rot. If we stop believing in that, our doom is assured and the decline will be very steep indeed.

-Above commentary by JCR-

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Granted, Africans way of life has improved for the better due to the influence of the West, but that does not mean that we should swallow everything that has been rammed down our throcivilizationcivilisation. While the Western world prides itself in being liberal and in the process spawning moral decadence, we Africans have a history of upholding strong moral values.

Which is why we get worried when society starts exhibiting signs of Western moral decadence. We refer here to shocking revelations in yesterday's issue of Chronicle in which cases of illegal abortions are reported to be on the increase in Bulawayo with an average of five being reported in the city daily.

Our country's morality is being suffocated. Moral relativism, secular humanism, liberalism, the ACLU, PETA, environmentalists, political pandering...all fighting to compromise our God-given human nature - a common understanding of right and wrong.

These are desparate times indeed.

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