... the risk of sowing to the Spirit -- that is, seeing God as living and active, seeing God as merciful and compassionate, desiring that all people share in the riches of his grace both materially and spiritually. In his book, Wealth And Poverty, George Gilder says, "It is the idea of economic futility -- not capitalistic growth -- that gives license to the culture of hedonism and sensuality."[1] It is the loss of hope, the succumbing to despair, that creates a people resigned to eating, drinking, and being ...
... disconnected from their families and wives and children. When young males are torn either from the discipline of their fathers or the social obligation of marriage and child rearing, they lose all sense of obligation to the larger society. That's why as George Gilder points out in his classic work, Men and Marriage, though single men comprise only 13% of the population, they make up 40% of the prison population, and commit 90% of our violent crimes. Single men, even when they become adults, are five times ...
