Contributed by Jay Winters on Jan 10, 2008
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Almost every culture has a New Year’s celebration. The ancient Romans celebrated the new year with the birth of Janus, the two faced god who could look back into the past and forward into the future. They exchanged gifts, not because they were overjoyed with each other, but as a method of bribery
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 9, 2008
Our cultural advertising motto is “sex sells.” Sex sells clothes, cars, food, beverages, even exercise equipment. “You can have the body that you have always wanted.” While they show two “perfectly” chiseled bodies using their equipment (always one male and one female), the message is that once you
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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Rules. The world, our culture, our families... all have rules. Without rules, our world would be in anarchy, chaos. Some rules are called laws. We have civil laws and criminal laws. Break a civil law and it can cost you a lot of money or other material wealth. Break a criminal law, and you could
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
John McArthur said, “We live in a culture that has elevated pride to the status of a virtue. Self-esteem, positive feelings, and personal dignity are what our society encourages people to seek.
“At the same time, moral responsibility is being replaced by victimism, which teaches people to blame
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Contributed by Byron Sherman on May 9, 2001
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Johnny’s first day of school the class was to put their right hands over their hearts & repeat the Pledge of Alliegence.
The teacher watched the children as he started the pledge, "I pledge allegiance to the flag..."
She stopped when she noticed Johnny’s right hand over the left side of his rear
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Civilization is the progress of a society towards privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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You can't say civilization don't advance...in every war they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are
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