When Patrick Henry beaconed, "Give me liberty or give me death," his maxim was pointing to an overbearing government and their oppression through taxation, not the systematic departure of moral authority. When you observe our culture, you see a people obsessed with images, a people obsessed with sex, violence, and instant gratification. You see a people that have forgotten to logical consequence of their own behavior. They have jettisoned absolutes and don't realize they will reap what they sow. For example, take the typical 26 year old man who is addicted to porn and denies God. Well, now give that man a wife and two children. His porn problem continues if not consistently; on and off. Now, fast forward 20 years, when his daughter is 18 years old. Her figure is becoming more prominent, and her curves more visible. She is an attractive young lady in the eyes of men, but her father (now 46) stops hugging her and kissing her. Why? Well think back to his porn problem, it has now a deep root in his heart, and he cannot stop his habitual sin. The lustful videos and photographs of women posing and inflaming his lustful desires have messed with his mind to the point where he feels shame because those women are beginning to remind him of his daughter. In short, when he sees his daughter his mind goes to naked women he has been looking at on the computer because of the general patterns of association the brain develops. He now doesn't want to touch his daughter or express affection because he feels shame.
We have forgotten that we reap is what we sow. One needs to realize on the other side of liberty (freedom) is responsibility. Personal responsibility for ones actions, choices, and decisions. Perhaps lady liberty needs a sister statue erected on its sister coast, the statue of Responsibility. God is not mocked whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.(Gal 6:8) Let us wake up to the destruction of our day, think you the logical consequences of our actions and not make decisions in haste.
As C.S. Lewis, the British philosopher delineates, we have removed the organ, yet demand the function. In short we have created men without chests!
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