Changes

====1960 and beyond====

====1960 and beyond====

The decade of the 1960's would begin the most dramatic moral change in America's history. While  a more developed moral social consciousness helped to effect beneficial and needed changes, such as in the area of civil rights, as regards such non-moral aspects as race and color, this recognition of basic equality was used by liberal moralists to advocate liberty for immorality in word and in deed, most predominately in the area of sensuality. The 1967 "Summer of love" saw hundreds of thousands of teenagers leaving their homes in search for deeper meaning, as well as fulfillment of lusts of the flesh, with "turn on, tune in, and drop out," being a favorite phrase. Vast multitudes made their pilgrimage to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, an area home to many rock icons, and known for its liberalized ideology and culture. The civilization that resulted was a testimony to the practical result of prolonged practice of this ideology, and when the infrastructure of tradition society, which they both rebelled against and depended upon, could no support them. While the [[liberal media]] tended to celebrate it as a positive attempt at Utopian culture, indolence, homelessness or unsanitary living, and drug (and overdoses) use abounded, along with marked increases in crime and disease. "By the fall of 1967, Haight-Ashbury was nearly abandoned, trashed, and laden with drugs and homeless people. Most of the kids that descended upon the Haight with such hope and optimism in June returned home sick and out of money by September."<ref>http://deathofthehippiesubculture.blogspot.com/2009/05/and-finally-bit-about-decline-of-hippie.html</ref>  The 1960's culminated with [[Woodstock]] 69, with the decade being marked by rebellion against authority in general (though usually not to living off it) and against capitalism, and the promotion and practice of pre-marital [[sex]], recreational drug use, the rise of [[feminism]] and the advocation of liberal ideology in general.

The decade of the 1960's would begin the most dramatic moral change in America's history. While  a more developed moral social consciousness helped to effect beneficial and needed changes, such as in the area of civil rights, as regards such non-moral aspects as race and color, this recognition of basic equality was used by liberal moralists to advocate liberty for immorality in word and in deed, most predominately in the area of sensuality. The 1967 "Summer of love" saw hundreds of thousands of teenagers leaving their homes in search for deeper meaning, as well as fulfillment of lusts of the flesh, with "turn on, tune in, and drop out," being a favorite phrase. Vast multitudes made their pilgrimage to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, an area home to many rock icons, and known for its liberalized ideology and culture. The civilization that resulted was a testimony to the practical result of prolonged practice of this ideology, and when the infrastructure of tradition society, which they both rebelled against and depended upon, could no support them. While the [[liberal media]] tended to celebrate it as a positive attempt at Utopian culture, indolence, homelessness or unsanitary living, and drug (and overdoses) use abounded, along with marked increases in crime and disease. "By the fall of 1967, Haight-Ashbury was nearly abandoned, trashed, and laden with drugs and homeless people. Most of the kids that descended upon the Haight with such hope and optimism in June returned home sick and out of money by September."<ref>http://deathofthehippiesubculture.blogspot.com/2009/05/and-finally-bit-about-decline-of-hippie.html</ref>   

While most of the [[Liberal Media|main stream media]] and University professors in America are seen to treat this revolution and its foundational ethos as liberating and beneficial, its effects have been manifestly deleterious, as evidenced by multitudinous studies and statistics. <ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html REVEALING  STATISTICS]</ref>

 

As regards moral decline, overall much of the generation of that decade and those that followed evidenced increased rebellion against authority in general(though usually not to living off the government) and against capitalism, and the promotion and practice of pre-marital [[sex]], recreational drug use, the rise of [[feminism]] and the advocation of liberal ideology. While most of the [[Liberal Media|main stream media]] and University professors in America are seen to treat this revolution and its foundational ethos as liberating and beneficial, its effects have been manifestly deleterious, as evidenced by multitudinous studies and statistics.<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html ''REVEALING  STATISTICS, or Costs of the war against God'']</ref>

    

    

While promoting tolerance within its culture, and (in the beginning) rejecting the idea that materialism brought fulfillment, the 1960's cultural [[revolution]] birthed an unprecedented intolerance of traditional values, while its affection for drugs - used to find the alternative reality they sought - and the its later promotion of the demonic [[victim mentality]] (Gn. 3:1-5), had destructive effects upon society, in particular upon its weakest members. The emphasis on social justice may well have been a means to justify a basic rebellion against authority in general, in particular fathers, headmasters, police officers, soldiers.  

While promoting tolerance within its culture, and (in the beginning) rejecting the idea that materialism brought fulfillment, the 1960's cultural [[revolution]] birthed an unprecedented intolerance of traditional values, while its affection for drugs - used to find the alternative reality they sought - and the its later promotion of the demonic [[victim mentality]] (Gn. 3:1-5), had destructive effects upon society, in particular upon its weakest members. The emphasis on social justice may well have been a means to justify a basic rebellion against authority in general, in particular fathers, headmasters, police officers, soldiers.