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We seldom read the word sin <\/em>in the newspaper or hear it on TV, in the movies, or even in conversation. It has almost become a sin to label any act as sin<\/em>\u2014especially sexual practices.<\/span><\/p>\n It has not always been so. Our nation\u2019s founders held Biblical precepts regarding honesty, justice, murder\u2014and yes\u2014sexual behavior, as Divine Law. This national moral \u201cculture\u201d prevailed for almost two centuries, and particularly regarding the sins of fornication and adultery. It is not so now.<\/span><\/p>\n What has caused such a casting off of the Biblical concept of these sins? Charles Darwin\u2019s God-denying evolutionary theories (mid-1800s). Darwinism paved the way for Humanistic psychologists, sociologists, and educators to reject Divine decrees in favor of their fleshly follies by the dawn of the 20th<\/sup> century. Following their lead, theologians decided guilt is a harmful emotion, so sin<\/em>, the cause of guilt, became a dirty word. With the elimination of sin and guilt has come the corresponding elimination of shame. By the 1960s, these ideas had so taken hold that they produced the \u201csexual revolution.\u201d As the saying goes, \u201cThe rest is history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The means of mitigating the idea of these sins in the public psyche was ingenious: Label sinful acts by new names and\/or call them \u201cdiseases\u201d or \u201cdisorders.\u201d Related to this strategy has been the employment of \u00a0Karl Marx\u2019s dictum of \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d (PC), a euphemism for deceptive \u201cadvertising.\u201d Consider some examples of PC labels of sin:<\/span><\/p>\n Sexually active, common-law marriage,<\/em> and safe sex<\/em> belong in the same list. The PC \u201cpolice\u201d insist on \u201ctolerance\u201d of all viewpoints and practices, except, of course, those viewpoints that insist on the \u201cintolerant\u201d Biblical doctrines that define sin and exalt righteousness. \u201cRighteousness exalteth\u00a0 nation, but sin is a reproach to any people\u201d (Pro. 14:34).<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, January 7, 2011].<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From www.thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, proprietor, curator, and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 9We seldom read the word sin in the newspaper or hear it on TV, in the movies, or even in conversation. It has almost become a sin to label any act as sin\u2014especially sexual practices. It has not always been so. Our nation\u2019s founders…<\/p>\n\n