Vice is a Monster

"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace."

~Alexander Pope, 'Essay on Man', Epistle II, section V~

The above excerpt goes well with this scripture from the Old Testament: Isaiah 5: 20 "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

The scriptures define a lot of sinful behavior, which is overly abundant today, according to a prophet. In fact, some civilizations which have been destroyed by God in ancient times were even less sinful than we are now. That's a little scary, but it also denotes the fact that there must be a lot of righteous people living on the earth. Hence, we, as a people, are not RIPE for destruction. That's comforting, I guess. But if we hang around sinful behavior too long we begin to pity the sin itself and eventually embrace it as acceptable. Each murder we hear about on the news becomes less and less stinging. Seeing and hearing about sexual themes in television and movies cheapens the true purpose behind sex which is to create children. Marriage was an institution created by God, NOT mankind. HE defined marriage as between a man and woman and, as far as I know, has not seen fit to alter that definition. Yet those who defended that heavenly-defined thing in supporting Proposition 8 were seen as evil, hateful, and prejudiced.

Sexual sin makes lots of people very wealthy. It surrounds us and permeates the media. I saw a commercial the other day where a pretty woman was seen blowing kisses and making suggestive poses at some unseen person in the background. Turned out to be a cow. It was a commercial for Angus beef hamburgers from Arctic Circle. What hamburgers and sex have to do with one another is beyond me.

Satan seeks to cheapen and dilute marriage. Why? A critical point to our beliefs and to the Plan of Salvation was that all God's *spirit children come to the earth to receive a body. I believe this number is *finite. When that number is reached and there are no more spirits waiting to come to earth, the Second Coming can occur and Satan's reign on earth will be through and he will be bound for 1,000 years. By wrecking the family, re-defining marriage, and cheapening sex, he is, in effect, lengthening out his time here on the earth. The more humankind participates in sexual deviancy, thus postponing the creation of children, the more souls he will gain.

You may ask, "How does sexual deviancy equate to a decrease in the number of children born on the earth? Wouldn't it increase that number???"

Let's think about it. Are teenagers who get pregnant outside of wedlock more or less likely to have more children? Studies say less likely because they do not have the support system that traditional marriage would provide. See here.

What about homosexuality? Universal homosexuality would cause the entire human race to die out in a single generation. That's as self-destructive as it gets.

I'm not judging homosexuals, just homosexuality and sexual sin. I count myself a sinner just like everyone else. That's why I go to church each Sunday and try to repent; to become a better person. I'm just stating the facts as they occur to me.

As a bit of a side note this article and this article speak to the increase of multiple births in the world in the last 20 years.