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[Nell]

Originally Posted by Curious

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...-centuries-ago

While we are looking at bigger- picture stuff, I saw the above.

It helps explain how God's laws have determined the family structures we have grown up in, helping us in America and the west generally, to think for ourselves verses conformity. In other words, why WL had more trouble convincing Americans to be conformed by him than Asians. Additionally, it helps Americans to judge fairly, as we are clearly instructed in proverbs. Interesting article, again demonstrating God's laws have much more far-reaching benefits than we appreciate.

By instituting God's laws of family structure, the Catholic Church got something right. Some thing very important that probably contributed greatly to its own downfall in the end!!

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan

These words of President Reagan are based on these words in Judges. Reagan relates freedom with “knowing the Lord”.

Judges 2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.
13 And they forsook the Lord...

Nell