I thought this was a joke when I first heard about it, but no. A hotel in England has actually removed the Bible from its drawers and replaced it with 50 Shades of Grey:
The owner of the Damson Dene Hotel in Windermere has taken the unusual step of swapping all the Bibles in his guest rooms for the steamy novel Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James.
“I thought it would be a special treat for our guests to find it in their bedside cabinet and that includes the men too,” Wayne Bartholomew told The Telegraph.
I’ve received so many emails about this from incensed readers, and my Facebook Page messages have been burning up with it, too.
I don’t have much else to say other than what I said on Tuesday: porn is becoming mainstream. It will wreck your sex life. And if you’re already in the throes of it, find out how to reclaim a hot and holy sex life with The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex!
But in the meantime, a few thoughts.
A vicar was quoted as saying this in response to the hotel’s actions:
“Fifty Shades of Grey is all the rage but is likely to be a passing fad. The Bible is a classic, shaped and reshaped by Jewish and Christian communities over many centuries,” Rev. Michael Woodcock told the newspaper.
I think that’s rather weak-kneed. Fifty Shades of Grey may be a passing fad, but it’s a DANGEROUS passing fad. 50 Shades of Grey is dangerous for marriage. It’s making sex into something that’s about control, not intimacy; into something that’s about fantasy, not reality; and into something that’s about pushing the limits, not pushing love. Does it arouse people? Sure. Does it help intimacy and improve your marriage? No. People may be having more sex, but they’re not getting more intimacy. And in the end that leaves you empty. Go for the real thing instead.
Second, would you REALLY want to sleep in this hotel now? I mean, ugh, think about what’s on those hotel comforters. I’d get out the Lysol. (I know that’s true in every hotel, but this is just advertising it. Gross).
But now I’d like to invite you all to have your say. So many people have written to me all fired up, with things to say but you don’t know where to say them. So, please, if you’re mad about this, or sad about this, or even if you think it’s great, leave a comment. Feel free to leave a long one if you like. And then next week I’ll publish another post highlighting some of the best ones. Let’s get the message out: Sex is beautiful between two married people. You don’t have to explore erotica and bondage to get great sex!
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Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
It’s sickening, but it starts in the church, which below the surface, is rife with unconfessed sin. I mentioned this recently elsewhere, but a few years ago, a pastor told me:
“It is my opinion that the church’s prudery [read: disdain toward biblical sexuality] has been a major force in the success of the porn industry and the depth of porn addiction as a problem in our Western society. I have theological reasons behind that opinion.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV1984): “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
I wholeheartedly agree!!!! CHURCH, it’s time we step it up!!!!
I totally agree with this as well. As a woman who grew up in a “nice girls don’t enjoy sex” culture (that’s an actual quote from my mom) I can say that it definitely did me more harm than good. Even though I could read the Bible myself and determine that this was not God’s plan for sex it was already deeply ingrained by the time I was old enough to understand what was going on. The southern Baptist church I grew up in spent all its time hammering in the concept that sex is a bad decision and not nearly enough time explaining that sex is a godly thing in the right context. Churches need to be focusing on teaching young people how to have satisfying marriages (with satisfying sex lives) so that people don’t feel the need for smut to fill the void.
Greg’s pastor: It is my opinion that the church’s prudery [read: disdain toward biblical sexuality] has been a major force in the success of the porn industry and the depth of porn addiction as a problem in our Western society. I have theological reasons behind that opinion
Indeed. This dovetails with my own deep-seated gut sense that — although the church is right to reject porn — much of the hue and cry against porn in the church seems to be driven by something other than a desire for godliness. Maybe it’s just a hatred of male sexuality. Or, perhaps the porn actresses are getting ONE thing RIGHT, that many Christian wives are NOT, and thus the existence of porn constitutes an annoying challenge to their consciences.
(That said… there are certainly some men for whom porn is a true addiction, unrelated to whether or not their own wives and the church as a whole are doing things right or wrong. But I insist that this is a minority of porn users, not the norm.)
I opined a long time ago, that Christians are against porn because it’s sinful and destructive, but Feminists are against porn because MEN LIKE IT. I now retract this statement, because more and more I get the sense that a lot of Christians share the feminist motives.
I think you’re right. There is a sense that women’s desire for close relationship through talking/affection is “purer” than men’s desire for close relationship through sex, even though God made both, and both were made that way to demonstrate a different side of God’s character. One is not right over the other, but I think within the church we tend to choose sides.
Greg: a few years ago, a pastor told me: “It is my opinion that the church’s prudery [read: disdain toward biblical sexuality] has been a major force in the success of the porn industry and the depth of porn addiction as a problem in our Western society. I have theological reasons behind that opinion.”
Greg — Care to be more specific? I’d love to see his theological reasoning. Any chance you could contact him and get some more details?
Well summarized in your paragraph that reads: “I think that’s rather weak-kneed. Fifty Shades of Grey may be a passing fad, but it’s a DANGEROUS passing fad. It’s making sex into something that’s about control, not intimacy; into something that’s about fantasy, not reality; and into something that’s about pushing the limits, not pushing love. Does it arouse people? Sure. Does it help intimacy and improve your marriage? No. People may be having more sex, but they’re not getting more intimacy. And in the end that leaves you empty. Go for the real thing instead.”
I saw this status on a friends facebook page the other day which seems to go along with this. It said “If it makes you happy.. Do it . If it doesn’t .. then Dont . Period it’s that simple.” This is the heart of the problem here! We have Christians living this way and then wonder why the rest of the world does things like this?
It’s sickening to me that this hotel did this of course, but at the same time, it doesn’t surprise me all that much. As a whole, our culture has completely replaced God with our desire for pleasure and whatever makes us happy, so why wouldn’t we replace God’s words with words of pleasure?
I believe that we as Christians have done one of two things… #1 we have decided to be quiet for fear of offending or hurting people around us, or #2 we have decided to go along with the “if it makes you happy just do it” mentality. Neither one of these ideas will bring any solution to the pleasure problem that has taken over our culture.
I’m not at all saying that we need to come in condemning people that do these things, but as Christians we have got to learn how to boldly stand up and call sin sin! We are allowing the only voice that is heard be the voice of non-Christians and that is such a dangerous place to be in. I believe that is why we are seeing this type of thing happen and unless we as Christians decide to stand up and speak out, regardless of what anyone around us thinks or says, things will only get worse and we’ll hear of more and more situations like this.
I agree with the previous two commentors, myself. I’d like to add this.
Since at least the 60’s, sex has been more and more in the forefront of modern-day living. Women who considered themselves repressed, considered sexual freedom the height of freedom. The cherry on the sundae so to speak. I could talk a lot about feminism, but I will sum it us as, it hasn’t done us much, if any, good. Especially of you know what God calls women and men to do and be for each other.
This ‘campaign’ against pure, marriage only sex, is not new, unfortunately. But I want to echo the gentlemans statement that it starts in the church. If the church body is willing to overlook a brother or sister who is sinning, then they invite that sinfulness into their church. People are too concerned about what the church membership numbers say, or what a friend or peer might think/say, if believers start going around calling each other on sin, like we’re supposed too. What happened to worrying about what GOD thinks of our sin, and our lack of holding brothers and sisters up??
As far as the Shade of Grey book now taking the place of the Bible. I can’t say I’m surprised. It was inevitable that SOMETHING would take His Words place, since He’s been pushed out of many things already. However, I don’t think it’s a passing fad. It’s a trend towards ‘self’.
I’m looking forward to reading more next week!
Peggy
Wow! When I first read the title of your post I thought you meant the ratings of the book were replacing the Bible. I didn’t think the Bible was literally being replaced until I read your post. Thanks for keeping us informed. It’s horrible because if this book is really erotica-based, the couples who read it are being deceived and will miss out on true intimacy. To take it a step further: what about the prostitute, the drug addict, the pimp, the child molester, the rape victim, or anyone else who is bruised and wounded? They will open the drawer looking for hope when they’ll only find more perversion. That’s sad.
I do not know of this book; but from your recent postings, I know it is a bok that I will stay away from. Recently I’ve been apalled at the Top 100 Free Kindle Singles. Every time I look at the Freebies, there are books promoting erotica, sex, and more. It’s making me want to put a kid-guard on my Kindle…but not just for my kids, but for my husband and I!!!
I find it sooo sad that this hotel in England is replacing the Bibles with the steamy novel. As for your comments about the Lysol in the hotel rooms – totally agree! Maybe the hotel should provide that, too!
My family lives in Europe and today I took my four-year old son into a bookstore. Of course, the kids’ books are in the back of the store, and as we walked past some other displays, there was an entire section at a young child’s eye level devoted to books on erotica and sex. Ugh. So appalling. Thankfully, his eyes were geared towards the fire engine books and not the aforementioned ones.
Thanks for your posts and your honesty in sharing!
I’m wondering WHY he took the Bibles away??? If he wanted to add 50 Shades of Grey to the drawer IN ADDITION to the Bible, that’s one thing — but replacing it with this erotic novel is another! He could have put both books in the drawers –giving readers a choice! Personally, I think it is a pretty sorry state of affairs as if one was in that hotel and depressed and seeking solace — I don’t think they would find uplifting encouragement from Shades like the would from a Bible passage.
I thought the exact same thing. I know the “right” answer would be to not have it at all, but unfortunately, it seems a lot of mainstream society would not agree with that; however, I think to replace the bible all together is not only appalling, but a bit short sighted as well. There have been many other books over the years that were quite popular, and hotels didn’t replace the bible with those(not that I know of anyway). Honestly, I would have thought that hotels would have stopped having the bible eventually, anyway, as it does not cover all religions. But to replace it all together with an erotic novel! WOW. I don’t care whether you are Christian, another religion or an atheist, I think one could agree that is just insane. Personally, I am Christian, but if hotels stopped carrying the Bible in order to carry something more neutral, like say, the farmers almanac or a secular book of inspirational quotes, I’d find that easier to swallow. I cannot believe this!
I’d never go back there again.
We went to a hotel once for a christian event. It was a lovely setting in the woods and everything seemed perfect.
Then we saw that the TV provided so called adult entertainment (porn) which just went on your bill. Will avoid that place and vote with my feet.
It makes sense. Sexual dysfunction is replacing God’s design of marriage all over the world. It’s the perfect disguise for Satan to use to destroy marriages and families.
I’m just so thankful that you and other godly women are tackling this issue. It breaks my heart to see so many women sucked into this vicious destructive lie. I don’t really have the words or the platform to speak sensibly about it but I’m so glad you do. Keep it up. I’ll keep sharing. Let God’s light chase away the darkness.
You know, until a few weeks ago, 50 Shades of Grey wasn’t even on my radar. Suddenly, I started hearing about it, how increasing numbers of Christian women were reading it. I can say I’m not surprised. Some may think this an odd correlation, but consider how many women (including great numbers of Christians) were enthralled by the Twilight series. For me, the issue with those books had less to do with the vampires/occult themes and more to do with a depiction of obsession/lust as “true love”. This erotica book simply takes those themes to the next level.
Kristine, so, so true. Obsession, secrecy and control are not intimacy.
Twilight is another one I simply don’t get. My husband and I watched the first movie out of sheer curiosity…and hated it. We watched to second one to see if it got any better. It didn’t. We gave up. I can see, however, how the obsession can happen. I recognize it as the same obsession with the movie Titanic that occurred when I was in high school. It’s so important to be on our guard and teach out kids “whatever is good, pure, and lovely.”
Speaking of Twilight, my biggest concern is that with the final movie installment due out later this year, there’s the potential for a whole generation of young women who will be graduating from The Twilight Saga to The Fifty Shades trilogy.
I would say I’m horrified by that news – but then, considering the depravity of man, maybe I shouldn’t be. People are just being more open with their sin these days.
Does that make it easier to spread the gospel? Perhaps. Does it mean you’re more obvious when you stand for what’s right? Definitely.
I pray that God’s Word would shine clearly through the darkness of man’s rampant sinfulness.
To be honest, I never hear about the book except here on this blog! My friends and I must be really out of the loop. I did see a sign promoting the book at a local bookstore and all this talk is starting to get me a little curious. Perhaps I should unsubscribe until the book has run its course so I don’t end up getting too curious for my own good.
It’s like hearing over and over “Hey there’s cake in the fridge–BUT DON’T EAT IT!” when I didn’t even want cake until someone pointed it out.
Sarah, I understand your concern, and I certainly don’t want to feed it! I guess I just feel like I have to fight it because it is such a huge bestseller, and so many Christian women are reading it. I tried to avoid the topic for a few months, but then I kept getting email after email about it. And the sales figures kept rising.
I hope you don’t leave, because I don’t plan on a whole lot more posts on this topic (I think I’ve said everything I can say!). Even this week I’m only bringing it up because so many people linked to that article about the hotel on my Facebook Page. But one thing I’ve found in ministry is that you can’t ignore a trend just because you don’t like it, because that’s what so many people in the audience, or on the other side of the screen, are actually dealing with.
But I’m so glad you’re not!
Sarah,
I understand what you are saying. All the hype peaks the curiosity of my flesh, so I pray for the armor of God every time it comes up. I am thankful, however, for Sheila and other bloggers who have spoken against Fifty Shades.
Unlike you, I have seen the book everywhere. Every week there is a different woman reading it at my children’s baseball games. People are talking about it on facebook and… well, practically everywhere I go! And you know what they’re saying? They love it! I stopped reading modern secular fiction several years ago because I couldn’t take the language and sex anymore. This book had my curiosity, though, and I almost picked it up when I saw the display at the bookstore. A few days later, I read a negative blogpost about it. Then I read Sheila’s post and more. I am so thankful I did not buy it and I am so thankful these godly women spoke out against it. I would not have known what it was about unless I had read their posts.
I’m sure the hotel owner thought that they were doing something ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ to market their business, but in this case, I’m not sure the old adage about ‘any publicity being good publicity’ is true. From a marketing standpoint, I can see this backfiring in a big way, and causing people’s first thought about their establishment being ‘ICK!’ rather than ‘wow, that’s cool!’ As you mentioned, Sheila, I don’t think everyone wants to consider all the other sex acts that have been carried out in a hotel room prior to your visit. I think there are a good number of people who would consider this as reason NOT to book a stay there.
At least, I’m clinging to that shred of hope for humanity…
Society is craving intimacy and substituting sex for it and it is rampant…. What is even sadder is they get further and further from intimacy by delving into multiple sexual partners and having a piece of themselves left behind/lost with each one they have… So sad that this only increases their need for intimacy and they try to fill that void all the more – such a vicious cycle.
The acceptance of this novel and people flocking to it is so heartbreaking as it speaks volumes as to where society is today… It is so frustrating to have this flogged main stream when the courts are trying to punish perpetrators for some of these crimes which inflicted much pain and suffering on their “victim” I would love to know how many women in women’s shelters have been affected by this type of thing…..
Love your comment that it is not intimacy that is being increased – so true. We all crave to be known, loved and respected by someone and this is definitely not any of these qualities!
Ironically enough, women have been fighting for equal rights for years and yet they are flocking to read this??!!
I can only hope that people who rent a room in the hotel and find this book and disagree with it would put a complaint into management and withdraw their business! Unfortunately, I’m sure they would be in the minority.
As others have mentioned above, I think the church is ripe with immorality in the area of sexual sin. From teens to marrieds having affairs, not to mention the use of porn. We need to stand up and hold each other accountable and when need be call each other on the carpet. So much grace based preaching these days that it makes me sick!! God calls us to be holy for He is holy and yet this theme has taken a back seat to cheap grace. A s one pastor wonderfully illustrated this point: Grace is like a net under a tightrope you are walking along. It is there to catch you if you fall, not a net to gleefully jump into.
Thank you for taking a stand on this issue, Shela, and may God richly bless you for doing so!!
As we think about all the destruction and idolatry that people are willingly inviting into their lives and their marriages, this is appalling, but even more so, it’s deeply saddening. This really is a prime example of how, rather than viewing sex as a GIFT from God, sex has become an idol, a god of their own making. God created sex. And He created it to be good, beautiful, amazing and so many other things…but He did not create it to be worshiped. (Justin & Megan)
Another thing worth noting is that not only is this erotica, it’s bdsm. And selling faster than the Harry Potter series! I can only conclude that porn and promiscuity has so desensitzed modern society that we’ve become masochistic. What used to arouse is no longer strong enough. Our senses are deadened and need to be beat back into life. But with each resurrection of the ever-dying sex drive, the sex drive grows weaker still. As porn becomes more and more mainstream, the darker, more voilent, and more perverted our erotic cravings will become. Perversion is a slippery slope. Has anyone noticed that the name Anastasia means “resurrection”? And St. Anastasia is remembered/celebrated on Christmas day. We all notice the irony that the “hero” of this trilogy is named “Christian,” but what is the symbolic intention of naming the heroine Anastasia? There is definitely a demonic undertone here.
I don’t think it is as simple as that. Some have it in them from a very young age before they have even heard about it. It doesn’t mean they have to be promiscuous or ungodly or read porn etc. but it does have to be worked out somehow in their marriages.
After reading your first post about the book, I have been hearing about it more and more. I have a friend who is a Pure Romance consultant who has now read the sequel and is ready for the third one. As of reading your post, I am not interested in reading the book, but am also hearing other ladies in my church talk about the book. I am sad to hear that a hotel has replaced the Bible with this book, but am more interested in learning how to battle it. Aren’t we suppose to be on the offensive on stuff like this?
Many years ago, when I was fresh out of my parent’s home and on my own, I saw a review for a book called “The Story of O”. The review said only that it was a wonderful book and how great it was, etc. but nothing about the real *content* of the book or its plot line at all. This being before the Internet, and I was very (can I say it again? VERY) wet-behind-the-ears, I bought the “wonderful” book and read a good portion of it. I read more than I would now, as a more mature adult (and happily married!) but I read as much as I did because it was like a train wreck: I was morbidly fascinated and couldn’t look away.
Eventually, I was disgusted and disturbed enough that I DID look away (and threw it away!) but some of those ideas and images stayed with me for a long time. There really is no way to *fully* do a “mental scrub” and remove such unwholesome images.
So, from the reviews I’ve read, I’m pretty baffled by the interest shown in this particular “series.”
a) it’s been done a few times before (I’ve also stumbled into similar smutty images when perusing books in the bookstore- THAT book I didn’t purchase and DIDN’T read further than the paragraph that first hit my eyes when I opened to a random page!)
b) the reviews I’ve read of FSoG have said it is not very well written as a literary piece,
c) the one friend I have who has read it (or perhaps the only friend I have whose *admitted* to reading it?) said she was “bored” by it and skipped “those parts” to get back to the plot line
And finally, the one question in all of that that occurs to me again and again:
WHY OH WHY do we as a society cry out against abuse of women and then CELEBRATE a book that actively encourages such abuse?? How do we reconcile this in our heads? I don’t understand it – the images, the very idea of that sort of pain (speaking from the images described in the Story of O, since that’s the one I read!) mixed in with my love life makes me sick. It does not excite me.
While it may be true that there are *times* when I want my guy to be The Man and take control, *I* get to be in control too sometimes, and that give and take is important for lots of reasons (not the least of which is to keep things interesting in a healthy way!) This is not a book I’ll ever open the cover of; I’m appalled that they are making it into a *movie* of all things (though not surprised, sadly); and I’m afraid for what my own five children may one day stumble across in their wet-behind-the-ears innocence as they leave the care and cover of our home. We actively work against it and have discussed how to address this with our children as they get older but there are truly some subjects that will be difficult to explain and it makes me sad that we’ll have to go “there.”
There really is no way to *fully* do a “mental scrub” and remove such unwholesome images.
Ain’t that the truth. I’m 48, and I have a perfect photographic memory of the pornographic newspaper that I found on the schoolyard when I was about 12 or 13. That paper has long since crumbled to dust (i had to stash it outdoors so my parents wouldn’t find it). And even if it hadn’t decayed on its own, I destroyed my last remaining porn the night before I got baptized and that paper would not have survived that purge.
But those pictures and stories, I will remember for the rest of my life.
So true. Sigh.
I may be “out of the loop” but I had never heard of this book until you started slinging its title into my inbox day after day. Lets find something “true and pleasant” to discuss instead.
Gill, I will certainly move on to something else soon. But what I want people to understand is that while you may not have heard of it, thousands (if not millions) of women IN CHURCHES are buying this book. Women who come to this site. And so many women have said to me, “my friends are reading this, what should I do?” If it was a minor trend, I’d let it go (and I didn’t comment on it for months). But it’s become a major trend, and I just think we need to be aware of it and know what to say when our friends start talking about reading it, you know?
While I appreciate your sentiment of wanting to focus on pleasant things, true things are not always pleasant. We can not stick our heads in the sand sining “la la la, I can’t hear you” whenever an ugly subject comes up. There are lives being destroyed by this evil book and what it propagates. It would be an abomination for someone with wisdom and knowledge concerning any issue that exists to destroy lives to keep silent.
Yes, it’s ugly. And it’s not a small issue, hiding from darkness has never made it go away.
Truly sad how people conform to the world’s ways without a single thought. Just do it! ..implies “DON’T THINK!” I know if I relay this article to some friends their response would be, “COOL!” I hadn’t even heard of this “shady” book until recently when it started popping up in conversations. I personally am not needing to be interested in this. I have a better book to live my life by and it truly is LIVING! But sadly…most will never experience that because they don’t take the step to test it. From experience I can say that unless you are process this action with deep thought as to where it will lead you will think this is just fine.
p.s. Rev. Woodcock should know better about the unhealthy seeds that get planted through this “fad.”
I mean, this DOES NOT MAKE SENSE! How has the owner figured out that everyone who books into his hotel wants THAT book!?
And pray, why remove the bible? Now, it’s sad that he’s put 50 shades there in the first place, but remove the bible? Come on.
The very first thing my kids do when we check into a motel room is look to check which Bible version the Gideons left. Thanks for the warning. …What next??
I consider it wise to ignore this book, but also to be aware of its (potential) impact. However, I’d like to also advise to not allow this trend and you aversion to it to be projected on your marriages. There is much that is righteous that can be thrown out just because someone did something bad with it.
As an atheist I am still saddened by the fact that media constantly keeps churning out sexual content in every place and form imaginable. I cannot say I’m upset at the fact that the Bible was removed from the hotel drawers but why replace it with a book that encourages immorality? Certainly people can still enjoy a popular non-issue novel. Perhaps have a library instead of choosing a book for their clients?
Unfortunately this may be a case of ”any publicity is good publicity.”
I would never stay there out of principal. they can have the clientel whom they are seeking. Eventually the place will become tacky. I have seen it happen before.
From what I have heard about it, and I have no more intention of reading this than I have to look at the pictures in the current issue of, say, Hustler, this is Mommyporn. As such it would be nice to hear Sheila disapprove to the same extent she does men looking at pictureporn and to say that a wife reading this book gives her husband as much cause to divorce her as his looking at porn gives the wife a right to divorce the husband.
Fred, I just want to clarify that it was not my position that a man watching porn is justification for a divorce. In fact, in this post I said that I think that argument was a little overblown. There’s a big difference between an addiction to porn and occasionally watching it. And so I don’t want to give the impression that I think porn is carte blanche for divorce. Both porn and erotica are wrong; but let’s not be cavalier about divorcing. It really is only for the worst situations when you’ve tried everything else and the person has checked out of the marriage and is continually taking their sexual desires elsewhere.
I know cases personally where I believe divorce was the right and only move because of the level of porn. It can be grounds for divorce in extreme cases as you say. Some have no conviction about doing it and it became mental adultery.
I’m going to take a risk and be honest, even though I know a few other people who read this blog.
My husband and I used to watch porn together and even use some ‘novelty’ items. We thought our sex life was great. After we chose to start living a Biblical marriage and each pursue our own relationships with Jesus, we were strongly convicted that all of that needed to immediately stop – and we did stop all of it right away.
Our sex life is so much better now, in every possible way, than it was then. The good feelings we had from those extra things were an illusion. The incredible intimacy we have now, with just the two of us and our relationships with the Lord, makes those old good feelings seem like a joke. We have never looked back.
My son has always said that SEX sells. Of course it does; most men and women are even lovers of themselves. We don’t exactly live in a Godly world. That would call for decency, respect of elders, even following rules set up to protect us all. We live in a day when police are the bad guys, don’t you know!?! My book “Royal Ferdinand Other Tales” was dropped from my publisher’s list of books, after a 4 year run. Why? Because they were dropping all children’s’ titles for erotica, they told me.
Phil Donahue called it right when he wrote, “Man the Human Animal”. We are not evolving as Darwin would like, but are regressing into our earlier primordial form. Those who know God personally will keep a good hold on their dearest possession, the Word of Creator God, while most others will fall into this other ‘den of iniquity’. Supposedly, as we see all of this sort of trashy lifestyle begin to become the norm in society, we can expect that the Son of God is readying himself to return to this Earth, one last time, to redeem those who have chosen the better path to go on. The last chapter of God’s book is Revelations and we are truly in the last days of this world! Many are chanting: “Come quickly Lord Jesus”. The stage is set! It won’t be long now. Selah! Greywolf
It is very sad but Jesus did warn that evil would wax worse and worse in the last days. In the UK our Prime Minister is expousing same sex marriage as if there was no tomorrow. He is even saying that the aid to other countries will be affected if they don’t go along with same sex marriage. Really? What is going on? I am not proud to be British just now.