2 Timothy 3:1-2, 3. 4, "But understand this, that in the last days will come perilous times of great stress and trouble, hard to
deal with and hard to bear. For people will be lovers of self and utterly self-centered, lovers of money ... proud and arrogant
and contemptuous boasters ... unholy and profane. They will be without natural human affection, relentless, slanderers, loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled ... lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God."
PRESIDENT CLINTON'S BEHAVIOR
Doesn't this Biblical prophecy about the Last Days fit perfectly the situation we have with President Clinton? During the Presidential Campaign of 1992, we learned that Candidate Clinton had an affair of 12 years with a woman by the name of Gennifer Flowers. During the discussion of this allegation, we learned that Arkansas State Troopers regularly escorted young ladies to see Governor Clinton in his hotel room; much later, we discovered one of them by name, Paula Jones. While many people believed that this sexual conduct had occurred, they voted for Clinton anyway.
In the 6 years that Clinton has been President, we have discovered that he has had sexual relations with several dozens of women in the last two decades, even though he was married all during this time, and even though he was a father to a young daughter. Yet, Clinton has consistently been a very popular President.
How is it that Clinton has been able to survive sexual revelations about his adulterous past and present when just a few decades
ago, especially prior to World War II, such revelations would have so disgraced the man that he would have been forced from office? Contemporary wisdom is that Clinton has been able to survive because he has kept America out of a shooting war and because the economy has done so very well, making most Americans feel like they are in better financial condition.
While these two factors are true, I submit that the REAL reason that Clinton has been able to survive these terribly detailed sexual escapades is that the American public has changed its values and attitudes so much that they will either dismiss the President's behavior as "irrelevant to his job performance", or empathize with him in his sexual philandering! I submit to you that the latter reason is the most important one, and it leads to the first reason being given by people to excuse Clinton's behavior. Too many men secretly admire the President for being able to "bed" that many beautiful women, wishing that they could be so "lucky". Too many women secretly wish that they would be able to "sleep" with the President.
WHAT THIS REVEALS ABOUT THE TRUE NATURE OF AMERICANS TODAY
How did we get to this place, where just 40 years ago, the average man and woman would not have felt this way; they would not have let the President off the hook in this manner; and they held to a public standard of morality that ascribed to the Christian value system, even if they were not devout Christians themselves? The answer is both simple and profound.
Especially since World War II, Americans have been silently, daily, consistently subjected to an insidious plan of action that
changes attitudes and values on any subject, and does so invisibly, gradually, and from within, so that, once the person's values
and attitudes have been changed in the manner desired, that person believes they arrived at that change on their own! They will
defend their value system to the hilt, believing the value is their own, not realizing for a moment that they had been cleverly
manipulated to get to that point. In fact, if they are told of this manipulation, they will likely get very angry with you for even
suggesting that they could be subject to such manipulation. Besides, they feel within their heart that they, and they alone, are
responsible for arriving at this particular value or attitude. People always defend the most vigorously that which they perceive to
be their own.
This system of values change is called the "Six Step Attitudinal Change Plan", and it has been successfully used since World War II to invisibly and silently move the majority of American citizens from a Christian based values system to a Satanic based values system. Believe me, this attitude toward sex, expressed in action by President Clinton, and supported by many Americans, is Satanically based, as we will demonstrate at the end of this article.
How does this "Six Step Attitudinal Change Plan" work?
Step 1. Some practice so offensive that it can scarcely be discussed in public is advocated by a RESPECTED expert in a RESPECTED forum.
Step 2. At first, the public is shocked, then outraged.
Step 3. But, the VERY FACT that such a thing could be publicly debated becomes the SUBJECT of the debate.
Step 4. In the process, sheer repetition of the shocking subject under discussion gradually dulling its effect.
Step 5. People then are no longer shocked by the subject.
Step 6. No longer outraged, people begin to argue for positions to moderate the extreme; or, they accept the premise, challenging, instead, the means to ACHIEVE it.
In this situation, at hand, the "practice so offensive that it can scarcely be discussed in public" is the concept that Christian values
toward marriage and sex are no longer valued and do not need to be followed any more. In the early 1950's, this was not the attitude of most Americans, at least in public.
However, by the late 1950's, many people were beginning to advocate the non-Christian values system, that sex outside marriage was all right and that people need not be married any more. Country & Western Music certainly advocated this position, as did Elvis Presley when he broke upon the scene. Other entertainers immediately followed suit, and soon radio airwaves were filled with this type of immorality.
Then, in 1960, we elected the first President who blatantly flaunted his sexual desires and activities, although he did not do it as
publicly as Clinton is now doing it! President Kennedy was rumored to have had many affairs before he was elected, and the rumors were flying while he was serving as President. In the past few years, many authors have linked him with many more sexual liaisons than we would have ever believed. If you have not read the informative book, "The Dark Side of Camelot", by Seymour M. Hersh, we encourage you to do so.
The important thing to grasp is that the combined efforts of Elvis Presley and other like entertainers, and President Kennedy, to
demonstrate this new non-Christian immorality, exactly fulfilled Step 1, because their positions were RESPECTED and they were personally RESPECTED. Many young Americans felt that, if their public idol felt that Christian values were "old-fashioned" or "boring", or "irrelevant", then so did they.
Step 2 was fulfilled as many older Americans, from parents to pastors and priests, to certain educators, and to many incumbent government officials, reacted very negatively to this new immorality described above. Many lectures were given individually, and many public speeches were presented to convince young Americans to refuse to follow this new immorality.
Step 3 followed almost immediately. Many persons, both in the press and in Entertainment, began to argue that the "older" group described in Step 2, above, should not "force" their morality on others. Thus, it became very fashionable to "publicly discuss" this new immorality.
Step 4 is the natural result of the combination of Steps 2 and 3. The reaction against the new morality of the people mentioned in Step 2 met the advocacy of people in Step 3, resulting in a huge battle for the morality and minds of our young people. Novels and books were written, songs were written and sung, TV and movies were produced [most of which supported the new immorality], resulting in the battle which provided the "sheer repetition" called for in Step 4. As more and more people were exposed to the subject, more and more of them felt more comfortable with the new immorality, and more and more of
them practiced it and felt great doing it!
Then, in the mid-1960's, the battle was lost. The Beatles broke upon the scene, glorifying sex and drugs and Eastern Mystical Religions. Many young people joined the burgeoning anti-Vietnam War group, in spirit if not on the picket lines, and many other entertainers became more bold in advocating the new immorality. Rock Music changed in the early 1970's, to more explicit sex and overt Satanism. Steps 5 and 6 followed very rapidly.
Today, three decades later, we have had this process complete its cycle. Today, we have more sex and adultery portrayed in TV, movies, novels, and in the lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Hollywood, than ever before. Today, the great majority of Americans also subscribe to this immorality. Today, we elect and reelect a man as President who is a great practitioner of sex outside of marriage, a man who does it too obviously and too boldly.
And, he gets away with it, simply because too many Americans feel too comfortable with his value system. In fact, Clinton's value system IS the value system of a majority of Americans today.
As far as your post, dougin, I believe the ante has just been raised for the final time. In order for the writer to be able to "entice" the future young adults who are now teenagers, he will have to go another step further. Simple sex, simple drugs, and simple violence will not give the thrill anymore. The envelope will be pushed to the limits -- that is, to God's final limits just as in sodom. We are so close to this "straw that will break the camel's back". Then judgment will fall, and those who have ridiculed and mocked God will "cry for the stones to fall and crush them" rather than have to face a just God.
If you cannot read the Bible and see the words being fulfilled in detail, then I don't know what to tell you. If you still think that man's intelligence can overcome man's pride, then what else can I say. It is coming, my friend. Watch Israel. Events should begin shortly.
I remain,
SOROS
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