The world sucks, it is somebody's fault
Nathan Xanders
Issue date: 4/3/09 Section: Opinion
Dads are leaving home and never coming back. Men are beating their wives and children. Father's are gambling their savings and family's future away. Men are treating their wives like roommates and short order cooks. Men are letting pornography tear their marriages apart.
Sons are growing up and becoming just like the fathers they had-or didn't have at all. The sons grow up and beat their wives, or don't touch them at all because; they're too busy with the mistress or the porn web site they have in joint account with their son. If they do talk to their son, its "pass the pepper" at the dinner table, and that's all. Or worse, they yell obscene demeaning things at them, and that's it. Then that son of the son grows up-it's a vicious cycle.
You see we don't have an economy problem or an environment problem or a whatever else problem, we have a sin problem. We have a human nature problem. Human beings are not inherently good. If you think otherwise, I respectfully suggest that you're wrong. If you think this world is going great and that people are naturally altruistic and good beings then I don't think you're paying attention.
Men, more so than women ,seem to be shrinking away from the proverbial plate that they should be stepping up to. It's not just that men aren't hitting home runs after stepping to the plate, it's that they're not even showing up to the ball park at all.
Baseball analogies aside, I think our culture, and even the world, has a serious problem with masculinity and manhood. We've got it all wrong-we're confused. Men are confused. Look at all of those things I just mentioned. How many of those things are a natural result of men being depraved?
I'm not saying women aren't responsible for any of the world's problems, I just want to foucs on problems in masculinity because I am a man.
Some men don't have the slightest clue what authentic masculinity is. Their perversion of masculinity can also have grave and detrimental consequences that are similar to the results in an absence of authentic manhood.
Sons are growing up and becoming just like the fathers they had-or didn't have at all. The sons grow up and beat their wives, or don't touch them at all because; they're too busy with the mistress or the porn web site they have in joint account with their son. If they do talk to their son, its "pass the pepper" at the dinner table, and that's all. Or worse, they yell obscene demeaning things at them, and that's it. Then that son of the son grows up-it's a vicious cycle.
You see we don't have an economy problem or an environment problem or a whatever else problem, we have a sin problem. We have a human nature problem. Human beings are not inherently good. If you think otherwise, I respectfully suggest that you're wrong. If you think this world is going great and that people are naturally altruistic and good beings then I don't think you're paying attention.
Men, more so than women ,seem to be shrinking away from the proverbial plate that they should be stepping up to. It's not just that men aren't hitting home runs after stepping to the plate, it's that they're not even showing up to the ball park at all.
Baseball analogies aside, I think our culture, and even the world, has a serious problem with masculinity and manhood. We've got it all wrong-we're confused. Men are confused. Look at all of those things I just mentioned. How many of those things are a natural result of men being depraved?
I'm not saying women aren't responsible for any of the world's problems, I just want to foucs on problems in masculinity because I am a man.
Some men don't have the slightest clue what authentic masculinity is. Their perversion of masculinity can also have grave and detrimental consequences that are similar to the results in an absence of authentic manhood.
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Margie
posted 4/03/09 @ 2:58 PM CST
Excellent article!!!!! You are right on target with what you said. It is somebody's fault - and the somebody is US. The problem doesn't start with the economy, global warming, lack of healthcare, lack of services or freebies - THE PROBLEM IS SIN! I am always amazed that people choose to ignore the obvious, but that is the problem. (Continued…)
David
posted 4/03/09 @ 4:29 PM CST
Where are you getting these numbers? No sources, huh? Oh oh! I can make up things too! Did you know, that 73% of Australian children are raised by kangaroos? In addition, when the male kangaroo beats his wife to death and the child I sent to an orphanage, it will probably be adopted by a homosexual dingo. (Continued…)
Margie
posted 4/03/09 @ 6:30 PM CST
David, perhaps when you ask the author where he is getting his numbers from, you should wait for a reply rather than saying ridiculous things that make you look like an idiot. (Continued…)
YAY FOR FREEDOM OF CHOICE
posted 4/04/09 @ 2:37 PM CST
Not everyone likes to have fake statistics shoved down their throats. And not everyone believes that gays, divorce, and abortion make our world suck. (Continued…)
Student Reader
posted 4/05/09 @ 8:28 AM CST
This makes the Oracle look terrible. It's a struggling publication as is. Perhaps the communications program offers no classes in editorial writing? This is certainly not one. (Continued…)
John Norse
posted 4/05/09 @ 11:31 PM CST
Let's not dodge "Student reader's" point, whether attributed to a name or not. And let's certainly not do so by making him/her seem feeble in his stances because he/she didn't use a real name. (Continued…)
TheNightWatchman23
Alumni Reader
posted 4/06/09 @ 7:31 PM CST
Nate,
While I can respect "freedom of the press" and all that goes with it I think your points would have been more impactful had you backed it up with some hard evidence. (Continued…)
Steve!
posted 4/07/09 @ 12:04 AM CST
Wow. I didn't realize that the Oracle was an evangelical paper... Neat. I guess you learn something new every day, or at least I do. It seems, Mr. Xanders, that you only learn something new once weekly on your Sabbath, or maybe nightly when you're all snuggled up giddy with glee and watching Bill O'riely or discussing new ways to convert the world to your religion. (Continued…)
Michael Vigeant
posted 4/07/09 @ 11:50 PM CST
WOW I feel guilty being a man in a good marriage with two good kids that I don't beat. All I got out of that article was that the problems of the world are squarely on the mans shoulders and he can do no right. (Continued…)
Margie
posted 4/08/09 @ 12:26 AM CST
Nathan, I appreciate your article and I appreciate that you stand up for what you believe. Personally, I do not understand the attacks on your journalism skills. (Continued…)
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