
Center panel from
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Dutch painter,
Hieronymus Bosch. (Painted circa 1504)
The latest report from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the supposedly scientific research division of Planned Parenthood, says most Americans have been having premarital sex for decades.
Here's the story: Most Americans have had premarital sex, study finds
As LifeSite News has reported in the past on The Guttmacher Institute:
It’s true that the institute does not really hide its bias. “The institute's mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world,” it says. “It is to support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior and relationships, reproduction and family formation.” It doesn’t say so explicitly, but that clearly means that the institute is pro-abortion, pro-contraception, and pro-homosexual. And it is accurately described as pro-abortion, not pro-choice, because it advocates taxing Americans to pay for abortion.
Here's a shocker: Based on the results of their study, The Guttmacher Institute concludes that encouraging abstinence is 'unrealistic'
Quote:
Almost all Americans have premarital sex, says a report published Tuesday that analyzes federal data over time and suggests programs focusing on sexual abstinence until marriage may be unrealistic
One has to wonder if the conclusions of this research aren't rooted in skewed data. Especially in the light of what's known about other sexual research studies: Kinsey's Flawed Research
It's no surprise that associates of Planned Parenthood hate any attempt to focus on sexual abstinence, but it is sad that people want to listen to the illogical effluence exuding from the mouths of those who denigrate chastity, continence, and sexual abstinence because they preach a mythical gospel where all unpleasant consequences can be avoided through education and unnatural methods of contraception which denigrate human dignity and reduce an act designed for marriage into an act of mutual self-gratification involving synthetic chemicals and friction and fueled by lust. It is much easier to fantasize that all unpleasant consequences can be happily avoided by taking precautions that everyone acknowledges aren't 100% effective and which provide zero protection from emotional and spiritual damage (to say nothing of potential damnation) and which, when they fail, as they sometimes do, can spread fatal and/or life altering diseases or bring about new life that will potentially consign a child to a life of poverty, an unstable upbringing, or worst of all, be a source of temptation to consider abortion for the sake of convenience (because the "right" to abortion exists to facilitate the ability for women to have casual sex with men with whom they don't want to have children) rather than to endure any of the inconvenient difficulties required of self-control.
Why listen to the Lord, Who said:
"If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? (Luke 9:23-25)
And Who promised:
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30)
One thing is certain, people will not be able to say they were never warned:
Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few. "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits. "Not every one who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 7:13-21)
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself. (Philippians 3:17-21)
...the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameful acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. They were filled with all (kinds of) unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, and malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, implacable, unmerciful. Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them. (Romans 1:18-32)
Which leads one to reflect upon the right panel in The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch:

Any thoughts?
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