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den destruction to the wrath and fury of
an indignant God.
Our modern nations ought not to dis–
card the historical record of the Genesis
account of what happened to ancient
Sodom and Gomorcah.
Considering the vast importance of
this fact, and its obvious significance to
our present world - fast plungíng
pell-mell into the same sensuality,
licentíousness, and immorality which
characterized ancient Sodom - our
nations had better take heed and stop
their plunge into gross sensuality, and
"consider the end."
Where the World Is Headed
Unlcss our modero orgiastic world
suddenly wakes up, and comes to its
senses; unless therc is a sudden and
drastic moral changc, for the better;
unless our modern Western nations
overcome their obsession with sex, and
cometo a right balance, we have had it !
What happens to a nation or group
of nations when their people become
sensual, hedonistic, obsessed with sex,
pleasure-oriented?
The record of history is not reas–
suring. The decline of ancient Rome
coincided with a breakdown in sexual
morality. The people of Rome had
become sex-oriented, they had discarded
their historical sexual ideals, and then
the Empire collapsed.
Oxford and Cambridge scholar
J.
D.
Unwin conducted a massive investiga–
tion of the sex regulations character–
izing 80 "uncivilized" societies and a
number of historically advanced socie–
ties, such as the Sumerians, Baby–
lonians, Greeks, Romans, and others.
He concluded that virtually all the
ancient civi lized societies started their
careers to greatness in a state of abso–
lute monogamy. When this ideal was
discarded, when infldelity and promis–
cuity rcigned supreme, when moral
standards slackened and dropped, the
ancient nations were conquered by
others which had not degenerated.
Conduded Unwin: "Any human
society is free to choose either to display
great energy orto cnjoy sexual frecdom;
the evidence is that it cannot do both
for more than one generation" (]. D.
Unwin,
Sex and C11lt11re,
London,
Oxford University Press, 1934, p. 412).
Uoless our modero nations wakc up,
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