I will not be writing a long post on this one. I simply saw the following quote from Mr. Zacharias posted on a friends Facebook status and thought it worthwhile to ponder.
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"In the 1950s kids lost their innocence. They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term ---the generation gap.
In the 1960s, kids lost their authority. It was a decade of protest---church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.
In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion....It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.
In the 1980s, kids lost their hope. Stripped of innocence, authority and love... large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.
In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.
In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore."
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder
Sic transit gloria mundi. We gave up our birthright for a mess of potage and now must fight amongst our own tribe members for the blessing that only God can bestow. I am fighting for my own innocence and crying out to God for the lost innocence of the world into which my children and grandchildren have been born. O God, my God, come quickly to help us!
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