Tuesday night, for our Institute lesson, Brother Patrick taught us from Joseph Smith's history about Moroni's angelic visits to Joseph Smith. It was awesome. He focused in on the prophecy that Moroni quoted to Joseph, about the hearts of the children being turned to the hearts of the father, with the focus on the Restoration of the sealing power. He then took this and focused on eternal families, and how they are strongly under attack.
He then told us how the Church Educational System is changing their mission statement to include families and our how our focus as young people should be toward making that leap of faith and starting a family and making education a means to this, and not having education take presidence over this. At this point, Bro Patrick played for us a clip from an address given earlier in the day by Sister Julie B Beck, Relief Society General President.
Sister Beck said several amazing things, encouraging us to have faith and get married, to make an effort to be family minded. She encouraged us to live in the real world, and not just the tech world, to apply real people skills and not spend all our time texting.
What was said next blew me out of the water. She mentioned that young women are now the new target for pornography. Wait, what? I thought that porn was something only guys did, usually by themselves. I was slightly disturbed.
Then I got to thinking: Men in general have been desensitized by pornography. Many are addicted. However, it is ruining marriages, families, etc., and certainly women had to have been getting sick of it, because it creates false expectations about relationships, human behavior in general, not to mention sexuality, and dims and narrows men's view on life as well as the respect for and the way they relate to women.
If the pornographers are recognizing this, and I daresay they have even anticipated it, they would need to get women to "see" things the way they do. Thus, young women are the new target for this to continue making this evil market a multi-billion dollar a year industry.
Does anyone see a correlation here, with the almost sudden disintegration of the family? I sure do, and I know it's not going to end here. It's no wonder that the prophets, with their vision and Heavenly connection, have been warning us to stay away from this.
And yet, the world continues to embrace this moral decline. They run everywhere, lamenting that life is falling apart, and yet they don't start the place any logical person would know to begin a change: themselves.
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