The Good Old Days of Innocence

Its been a perplexing week, alot happening in the world, that in the good old days would have been shunned and condemned out rightly without fear. We've become a politically correct people who do many things to get recognition, praise and accolades. Has it become so hard to be disliked, or let me put it this way, do we consider it an abnormality to be disliked? Why in this era have we condoned so many harmful things in the name of, 'its my life, I can live it the way I want or like, so don't judge me coz you ain't a saint either'. Are we such a selfish and prude people that caring about another persons feelings is nothing but history? Have we become so blinded with fighting rights that are causing more harm than good, that we don't recognise that our kids are growing up more confused and rebellious than ever? Aren't we moved anymore by accountability and consequences? Do we feel that we are untouchable and unanswerable to and by God? Have we departed so far off from the principles of God that we cannot notice what is happening to the world because of our actions?

I have alot of questions and I wish as human beings we could stop for a moment from our busy schedules, our noise polluted environments, our ever round the clock entertained lives and look around. Am not ancient when it comes to age, but when I was growing up, we never worried about grenades being thrown at us, we played outside with neighbours without fear of being kidnapped. Cartoons were not weird and we did not have soap operas running at  11am, 6pm, 8pm and 10pm everyday on TV. Movies were majorly cool to watch, parents didn't have to microscopically go through them before we were allowed to watch them. Musicians sung songs that made sense, not with coded messages and wearing the most demonic fashions you ever saw in your life. When didn't have matatus that were so noisy that it became impossible to hear yourself think and meditate on how your day was. The days we all struggled with our different shortcomings but were atleast remorseful, repentant and eager for help from God.

The family set up was defined and you knew to respect your parents or else you got a serious whooping. Sex was taboo until you got to college, when curiosity got the better of you, and even then you knew to act right. Our lives were not centred around facebook and the Internet and phones. We cared to know who our next door neighbour was, even if, it was just curiosity to see how their house looked like. We helped someone when they were being robbed. We were a community, parents didn't have to worry that their baby boy or girl would grow up questioning their gender. The economy was stable or running as an economy should, no banks rigging interest rates and bringing whole countries on their financial knees. We didn't have extensively wide gaps between the rich and the poor. There was a time the church and its leaders were respected. A time when the bible was taken and read as it is and not twisted to meet our various beliefs or understandings.

There was a time we cared for each other, when elections run and candidates were content with the results. A time when you would go to church and hear pure unadulterated gospel. A time when employers cared about the well being of their employees. A time when there were no drugs like meth and bath salts, when mothers were not in so much pressure that they needed to use drugs to juggle home and work. A time when we could sit around the table, switch off the TV and talk. A time when men knew who they were and were respected as leaders of their homes. A time when the media fraternity got excited at good news as opposed to bad news only.  A time when divorce was taboo. A time when abortions was considered inhumane. A time when families loved and respected each other irregardless of how weird everyone was, and didn't grab the opportunity of their father's death to fight each other in court over wealth they never broke a sweat acquiring.

I greatly miss those times when, you at least took people at face value and people worked hard at keeping their word. The times that children were allowed to be kids, and were not molested and taken advantage of left right and centre. A time when you would go to christian concerts and not wonder whether you would have gone to the bar instead. There was a time when we knew the word morality. A time when young people hung out to just have nice fun, when we didn't know the word 'chips funga'. A time when parties didn't involve close to naked girls, excessive drug/alcohol consumption and orgies. A time when young girls' lives were not being shattered because of slave trading them into prostitution. There was a time when being a legend meant great suffering, discrimination and loneliness for the good of human kind, until death. There is of course nothing new under the sun, but I cannot help but notice how life has become so complicated because of greed, rebellion, evil and majorly selfishness. We have come from far as a human race, from days of racial segregation, wars, slave trade, discrimination etc.

But did we gain our freedom and are now heading to the extreme of things? Would our ancestors roll and die again if they saw what we have done to all that freedom they fought for? Who gave us the right to give children as young as 11years old a voice on their sexuality? Who gave us the right to say its okay to abort 'unwanted' pregnancies? Who gave us the right to fight for the legalisation of adult and child sex relations? Who gave us the right to say and completely and utterly declare that there is no God? Who gave us the right to turn 'religion' into a war game? Who gave us the right to think that its just coincidence that we wake up, go to work or wherever and come back home safe and sound and think it's by our own might and strength? Who gave us the right to destroy the temple of God intentionally? Who gave the church the right to incorporate worldly standards so as to 'win' and be 'liked' by the same world? Who gave us the right to kill innocent people for our own political agendas? Who gave us the right to oppress our fellow human beings as if their lives where in our hands? Who gave us the right to destroy other peoples lives just because we could? Who gave us the right to change the bible from what it was to what we want it to be? Who gave us the right to say that reasonably spanking your child is a violation of their rights? Who gave us the right to think we could do all things evil and encounter no consequences for ourselves and our 3rd & 4th generations? Who gave us the right to disrespect God and think nothing of it? Really I ask you, who gave you and me that right?