Wankers: Then and Now

[saveliberty]

The American Thinker:

Wankers: Then and Now
By Jim Mahoney


Not long ago, one of the cable channels ran a show about Pompeii. Naturally, the city's dramatic finale in 79 AD is a fascinating story. However, this piece focused on the social aspects of life there, specifically the sexual currents that still flow throughout its empty streets two millennia after its destruction.

The academic world is divided over what the artifacts tell us. The conventional view has it that Pompeii was a bordello for the Roman restless, and there is plenty of evidence to support that. However, a competing idea is that the remains reflect a discrete moment in Roman history frozen in its last second on August 24-25, 79 AD. According to this view, the graphic images suggest a time of license, like others that alternate with times of reserve throughout all history.

[saveliberty]

[pollyannaish]

That is a very thoughtful and thought-provoking article saveliberty. One worth pondering and thinking about.

 

 

I have to say that I am increasingly struck by our human tendency to work very hard at separating our destructive behavior from those annoying little things called consequences—which in a huge stroke of irony may cause the greatest consequence of them all.

[SrWoodchuck]

I was raised with the imperitive, "Two children only, to save the planet from starvation." My parents had four. I had two, as well as my other siblings, each having two.

 

I have to agree with the article as far as Europe is concerned.

 

I read an article on Islamic birthrates that predicted a Muslim majority in America, by 2050.

 

I won't care much as I think I'll be having a dirt-nap, but my kids & grandkids may be upset.

[righteousmomma]

The academic world is divided over what the artifacts tell us. The conventional view has it that Pompeii was a bordello for the Roman restless, and there is plenty of evidence to support that. However, a competing idea is that the remains reflect a discrete moment in Roman history frozen in its last second on August 24-25, 79 AD. According to this view, the graphic images suggest a time of license, like others that alternate with times of reserve throughout all history.

 

This quote about Pompeii jumped out at me. Apparently a little known fact that is beginning to be understood more and more is that Rome (used as representative) was a bordello itself.

The entire pagan world was a bordello.

One of the reasons Paul wrote his sexual behavior admonitions in 1st and 2nd Corinthians to the Christians at Corinth is because the pagan world of his day and for eons before was a bordello.

 

Judaism and the Judeo/Christian faith bought a revolution, a whole new way of thinking and being to a thoroughly amoral pagan world. We were called out to be different.

 

Adultery and homosexuality were so rampant that the very existence of the family was threatened. Mighty Rome thus, in trying to control some of this behavior for the good of family and family procreation, even added a legalized area of prostitution in the forum itself.

 

What we smugly call "post-Christian" is just a self-indulgent term for a re-paganized culture.

 

YEP!