— Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) August 27, 2019
I hate to ascribe racism to someone, but just which portion of "civilization" are Americans failing to uphold by not getting married? (I'll leave the Texas provision for common law marriage to another day. In the eyes of the state, marriage is marriage is marriage, so long as two people say it is. Seems sensible as hell to me. The state only cares about two things when people are married: who owns this property, and who is responsible for these kids? Mohler may have more spiritual concerns, but the state doesn't.) The implications are frighteningly clear, but they also undercut the argument that the 2nd Amendment establishes a "God-given right" and that mental illness or "godlessness" is the reason we have so many shootings in America.
So why not the rest of the world, which is certainly as afflicted with "mental illness" as we are, and by Mohler's definition, I have no doubt, far more "godless."
But, "to be human is to be a parent"? That's cruel and malicious and reprehensible. Many people don't have children, through no fault of their own; or never marry, because the obligation to marry doesn't outweigh the obligation to "marry for love" (which is still a better standard than any other, though there are countries in the world that disagree. And I don't mean some kind of brutal "forced marriage" where an old man takes a child as a bride. I know of happy adults from non-American countries whose marriages were basically "arranged," and they find our method as bizarre as we would theirs. Takes all kinds, and your kind ain't the standard of measure for all things.) Many people don't have children, for any number of reasons from fertility challenges to simple health challenges to simple lack of interest in being parents. If that's a problem for you, you need to reassess your priorities.
And then there's the whole idea of the load on the planet's resources of so many souls, especially those trying to live at an American standard of living (which the planet can't sustain).
The basis for this is, as one commenter on Twitter noted, an "abiblical cultural agenda." And indeed it is. It is also the great weakness of social media: any damned fool can remove all doubt as to his foolishness and display it to the world at the same time.
I don't hate Albert Mohler, and I don't wish to condemn him for this; but saving civilization? Really, dude? You had to go that far? You know that's only a line for action movies and comic books, right?
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