In this day and age, the basic principles of morality as set forth by the Torah and the Brit Chadasha (The New Testament) have become not only abandoned but are under fire. Quite simply, the Devil is the Prince of the Air and he is ruling the world but we as Christians need to take the world back from him and put it back in the hands of God.
Two weeks ago, I was at a Bible Study at Fellowship Bible Church in Woodbridge, NJ and we were discussing the 31st chapter of the book of Proverbs verses 10 through 31, which revolves around the idea of “The woman of valor.” The Bible sets the pace for determining the characteristics that one should look for in a mate. And often that is antithetical and diametrically opposed to what the world promotes as desirable.
I took Marketing Management from Dr. Kip Becker during my studies at the Boston University/Ben Gurion University of the Negev Joint Program in Beer Sheba, Israel in 1986. Dr. Becker is a marketing whiz who has authored hundreds of journal articles, runs various businesses and knows quite a bit more than he actually could impart in the short course of about 3 and ½ months in the program. He currently heads the Administrative Studies Department at BU's Metropolitan College.
By the way, I received an A for a grade and I completely absorbed his teachings and I also took 3 courses as an undergraduate at Long Island University, specifically, Introduction to Marketing, Marketing Research and Consumer Behavior. Par for the course, I received A's in all the courses.
Kip taught us that marketing “experts” conspired years ago to destroy the fabric of the American family by fostering decadence in the media. Similarly, the so-called “Generation Gap” didn't exist until some marketing “experts” decided it was a buzzword that could be used to promote disrespect for authority and split up families in order to make more money.
The reasoning is that if husbands and wives could be split up, they'd need to have 2 separate dwelling places. And if they had children and he couple now both needed to have jobs, the children would have to prepare their own meals.
If children had to cook, very often they would need single serving portions that are packaged to be more expensive than family sized packs and also disposable containers would be used that would need to be recycled.
Some years ago, I was thumbing through a teenage girls magazine. The book had a picture of a very expensive makeup kit and the advertising copy said, “If you're fishing for a boyfriend, consider this to be your bait and tackle box.”
I always used to read my sister's copies of Tiger Beat and also my mother's magazines like Good House Keeping and Redbook. I also used to read my dad's magazines, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics.
I told them at that aforementioned Bible study, that if I see a girl with Vogue and Cosmopolitan she's out with me but if I see Good Housekeeping and Red Book I consider that to be suitable literature for a mate to read.
Years ago, on TV, sex was big taboo subject. When Lucille Ball played on I Love Lucy, at the time she was pregnant they could even use the word pregnant, they said she was “with child.”
Furthermore, when Barbara Eden played on I Dream of Jeannie, she had to wear a jewel in her navel, as that was also not chaste to have a midriff bared. Now women go dancing around in their lingerie on TV and on commercials and it's commonplace.
The whole culture is based so much on externals but God wants the heart. We simply have created a culture that is much to our ruination.
And as a result, no one cares about anything besides money. There is very high inflation for food and household goods and the price of real estate is through the roof. Simply put, we have become a society of high priced cardboard and Styrofoam individuals.
In Brooklyn, NY and in the south you can get an apartment for a lot less money than you can up north in NY and NJ outside the high priced areas because deeply religious people care about each other and hold prices down. But elsewhere, look at the situation.
And the intention of these so-called “experts” is that it all backfired. After all, if people are generally insubordinate and unholy, how can they hold jobs and who would want to hire them? The “experts” were simply short sighted.
In our society, the former holy norms are now the exception. Hollywood is rife with busted marriages; early pregnancies and people who become mentally unstable and even die early. A lot of young stars turn to drugs and are promiscuous because no one is able to control them.
