Yes, I wrote the title correctly; bikinis and women having careers are what is destroying America according to President John Adams* on June 2, 1778, not homosexuality, gay marriage, sexual immorality, nor pornography.
"From all that I have read of history and government of human life and matters, I have drawn this conclusion, that the manners of women were the most infallible barometer to ascertain the degree of morality and virtue in a nation. All that I have since read and all the observations I have made in different nations have confirmed me in this opinion.
"The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a Republican Government is practicable in a nation or not. The Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Swiss, the Dutch, all lost their public spirit, their Republican principles and habits and their Republican forms of government when they lost the modesty and domestic virtues of their women."
"The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a Republican Government is practicable in a nation or not. The Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Swiss, the Dutch, all lost their public spirit, their Republican principles and habits and their Republican forms of government when they lost the modesty and domestic virtues of their women."
Women have absolutely lost all forms of modesty, even Christian women. They feel comfortable in bikinis, parading their bodies around for all to see. They have no problem showing off their breasts with low-cut tops and showing off most of their legs with short, short skirts. God commands women to be modest. He clothed Adam and Eve in coats after they covered themselves with fig leaves.
In Ezekiel 16, God says to Jerusalem, "...your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare. Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness...I also clothed you with embroidered cloth...I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk....But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot...And you took off some of your clothes...Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered...I shall gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness."
Nakedness and shame always go together in the Bible. We are to be modest, discreet, and chaste women of God, not looking as the world looks or dressing as they do. We are to be examples of Christ to the world. The world, which is governed by Satan, should never be our example for anything.
In Ezekiel 16, God says to Jerusalem, "...your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare. Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness...I also clothed you with embroidered cloth...I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk....But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot...And you took off some of your clothes...Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered...I shall gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness."
Nakedness and shame always go together in the Bible. We are to be modest, discreet, and chaste women of God, not looking as the world looks or dressing as they do. We are to be examples of Christ to the world. The world, which is governed by Satan, should never be our example for anything.
Women have abandoned their domestic virtues, as I have written over and over again. They fled their domestic duties to pursue higher educations and careers, learning the feminist agenda along the way which began with Eve when she decided she wanted to do things her way instead of God's.
Women abandoned their children to daycare and government run schools where their children are bullied and taught things contrary to the Word of God. They have failed to raise their children in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord; speaking to them when they rise up, walk along the way, and sit around the dinner table, since they are too exhausted from submitting to and obeying another man at their jobs who is not their husband.
Women abandoned their children to daycare and government run schools where their children are bullied and taught things contrary to the Word of God. They have failed to raise their children in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord; speaking to them when they rise up, walk along the way, and sit around the dinner table, since they are too exhausted from submitting to and obeying another man at their jobs who is not their husband.
What does God call us to do? Love and obey our husband, be chaste, and discreet keepers at home. We can't think we can abandon God's Word and find joy-filled lives or a healthy society when we act contrary to His Word. So many repercussions have happened since women have left their homes, I can't even begin to name them, but if you research my "keepers at home" category, you will find most of them. It is tragic, but it is mostly tragic since even Christian women, along with many of their husbands, have fallen for the feminists' lies.
PLEASE, women, dress modestly. Let the words 'discreet' and 'chaste' define ALL of your clothing. Go home and raise your children and be a true help meet to your husband. If you are an older women, teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed {Titus 2:3-5}. Thank you.
In like manner also,
that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with shamefacedness and sobriety.
1 Timothy 2:9
In like manner also,
that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with shamefacedness and sobriety.
1 Timothy 2:9
***Here is an important article for any parents who have children in the public school system. "There are two reasons for this step (taking your children out of government run schools), given this Extreme Court decision. If your children remain in the government schools, there is now no legal way for them to be taught any normal view of human sexuality. And, depend upon it, they will be taught the other kinds. And second, they will be taught an approach to civics that sees nothing wrong with the Supreme Court’s juridical putsch here, and that is just as worrisome."
*Quoted by John Eidsmoe in Christianity and the Constitution, Baker Book House, 1987, p. 272, from Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Belknap/Harvard, 1962, IV:123.
*Quoted by John Eidsmoe in Christianity and the Constitution, Baker Book House, 1987, p. 272, from Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Belknap/Harvard, 1962, IV:123.
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helen · 508 weeks ago
What a great title for the post!, and also, sobering and thought provoking words too, thank you!.
Blessings
Helen UK
Roxy · 508 weeks ago
My husband and I were just talking about that very scripture last night! We had put in a movie that someone told us was really funny... So we put it in and were shocked at what was in it! We took it out and repented. But those words that we heard were still with us. So now when we add words and visual to the eyes of all to see, we become defiled and now a part of the massive and no longer set apart. As a woman myself, I still get grieved over my sisters in Christ clothes and very liberal ways of talking and thinking! John Adams was a gift to our country! I will tell you that this article is the very truth that women do not want to take responsibility for the degrading of America. But I have seen way too many times that it is the women that change the atmosphere in the Home and the schools and the office...
Thank you for telling all of us this without watering it down! This is the time for hard words as the nice ones get no response anymore. But it is the truth that will really set us free!
Blessings, Roxy
Vicki W · 508 weeks ago
Katie · 508 weeks ago
After a disappointing weekend, I was encouraged by something. Last night, a friend of mine told me she was leaving her job to stay home with her family! We were pregnant at the same time and had our daughters just days apart. She is now expecting her second child in a few weeks. She is so excited about embracing her role as a mom and wife, and my husband and I are so happy for them! She said she always admired me and other mothers being home, and would often ask me questions about it. As someone once told me, we don't have children to let someone else raise them. I completely understand that some women have no other choice but to work. But if at all possible, it's the right thing to do. Older women have told me that we'll never regret being home, but being away from them. Our children need a good family structure now more than ever.
And about bikinis... It's pretty disheartening to go shopping for swimsuits for your 4-year-old and see so many skimpy two-peice outfits... Then see little toddlers and girls by the pools and beaches barely covered with suits literally almost falling off of them :( with so many people around, you never know who is going to be looking at them in a way they shouldn't. It baffles me.
Lyn · 508 weeks ago
But immodest clothing is not just low cut and short. It is also skin tight, too small, and garish (leopard print is just immodest altogether). Spaghetti straps without a cover up. I pretty much wear dresses and skirts only but think that below the knee shorts a entirely more modest than some styles of above the knee dresses or skinny jeans.
There should be an absolute distinction between men and women by how we dress. I have worn skirts and dresses for house and garden work and it makes me feel pretty to put a pretty dress and apron on for house work.
Lyn
katy010305 45p · 508 weeks ago
I also agree on the modesty issue...but oh, what a difficult subject it is. Everyone's idea of modesty is different.
Kayla · 508 weeks ago
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FABBY · 508 weeks ago
Our mothers and grandmothers were raised so differently, so chaste and so not promiscuous as some young girls are today, every time they're younger and younger.
Thank you always Lori.
FABBY
Sue B. · 508 weeks ago
The foundations of national Morality must be laid in private Families. In vain are Schools, Accademies and universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years. The Mothers are the earliest and most important Instructors of youth. The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn that their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.
In context I believe the modesty Adams was referring to is that of behavior rather than dress, but in our world we daily face both types.
Linda · 508 weeks ago
UK woman · 508 weeks ago
Thanks for this post - what you are saying is right. My family have struggled greatly in trying to stay faithful to this Word. I left a lucrative career to do what the Bible says and help my husband and raise our children. We stopped looking out for money and worked from home just to get by. However we have suffered great abuse from parents who have harassed and seriously slandered us, written pages of curses upon us and then we go to a church system which tells me my husband and I should be out working, our little children should be in school and make us feel fools for repenting. Some even say we are irresponsible too. As I right this we have 2 weeks to find a new home for our family of five. In times like these I feel very frustrated as it seems like most are following the worlds path - it is difficult to reconcile for me right now.
Cindy · 508 weeks ago
When I was small, I used to wonder what that verse meant that said "In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, "We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!"". That verse was about a shortage of men and goods in Israel, I think, but it's an interesting parallel. I think that's where we are, with every half-dozen feminist women in their late 30's vying for one gelded man-child to marry them and prove their feminine worth after having spent their entire productive years saying they didn't need no stinkin' man to feed and clothe them and pop out babies. Nope, they have their bikinis and careers, but they still cry out for respectability and just *one* little baby. Or maybe I'm totally reading in, there, but I do think that our culture is that short on men who can step up and lead a family, and that long on desperate women.
Nice post. Nice to meet you. :-)
Donna Pinto · 395 weeks ago