Young People Embracing the LGBTQ Movement and the Collapse of Civilization (10.20.22)

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Plain Bible Teaching Podcast

This week we’re talking about how marriage is the foundation for society. Unfortunately, many young people are not only not being taught about God’s design for marriage, they are being encouraged to engage in behaviors that are contrary to God’s will and detrimental to the future of our society. In light of this, there are certain things we need to remember. That’s what we’ll talk about today.

STORY – Forgetting How to Be a Civilization

“Students today grow up formed by a culture that tells them anything goes in terms of sexual desire, as long as consent is provided. […] You might think: So what? If people want to experiment, let them? Why is it your business?

“There is an Orthodox Christian answer, having to do with sin, but I’m not going to get into that here. What I will say is that it is the business of this and every society to create the next generation, and to equip them to flourish, and to create the generation after that. Religious or non-religious, that is the core mission of every society that does not have a death wish. The best way for society to do that is to regulate sexual desire, and to channel it into socially constructive outcomes. Historically, most societies have done this through some form of polygamy (which has its own serious problems, but that is the historical norm). In Jewish and Christian societies (excluding, obviously, the Judaism of the Old Testament), the model has been one man and one woman, exclusively. The Harvard sociologist Carle C. Zimmerman’s excellent postwar study Family And Civilization explains how the collapse of the stable family model is always a sign of civilizational collapse. He writes about how in the West, the early medieval church brought order to chaotic barbarian tribes by imposing a Christian model of family formation on them — and how that led to the kind of social stability in which people flourished.

“We have cast that into the trash bin today, just as the late Romans and late Greeks did.” (The American Conservative)

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