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The Dutch have discovered that decadence is damaging. A recent article in The Tennessean called “Dutch Rethink Anything-Goes Attitude” reports: ”the country that has been the world’s most socially liberal is rethinking its anything-goes policies.”
The article states that cities across the Netherlands are closing down shops where marijuana is sold and smoked, and closing brothels. Why?
They are discovering that decadence does damage to people and to society. The Tennessean article states that in the Netherlands today there is alarm “over the international crime organizations that have infiltrated the country’s prostitution and drug trades, the increasing prevalence of trafficking in women and children across its borders, and dismay over the Netherlands’ image as an international tourist destination for drugs and sexual debauchery.”
W.B. Kranedonk is the editor of a Christian paper in the Netherlands called: “Reformist Daily”. For years his paper stood alone in presenting traditional Christian values. Recently, however, a Christian political party has been voted into the national government for the first time.
Kranedonk is quoted as saying: “People in high political circles are saying it can’t be good to have a society so liberal that everything is allowed. People are saying we should have values; people are asking for more and more rules in society.”
Maybe the Dutch have found out that the lifestyle of anything-goes is a dead end. Hopefully America and the rest of the world will learn something from the Dutch dance with unlimited immorality!
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Hey Steve, you got a nice one there. Sudenly I am proud to be Dutch or as the saying goes " Ïf you are not Dutch you are not Much". I have not seen the Reformist paper you are referring to but I know that is of very heavy part of the christian world in Holland.
I just hope that things will work out. You know what it is like with politics: A lot of noice and nothing cocrete. |
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| Thanks, PieterJohn, for your Dutch insight. Most modern nations need to repent for our thinking that freedom means no boundaries. We have walked away from historic morality and now it is catching up with us. |
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| Who says prayer doesn't work? When you see things like this happen we can only be more sure that Jesus is on His way. Come quickly Lord Jesus. |
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| Indeed, prayer is powerful P.J. |
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| Perhaps the lesson there is that sin can't be contained. The bible says the wages of sin is death, so even a little sin or 'approved' sin has the ultimate mission of wreaking destruction. That destruction may go undetected for generations, but ultimately the piper must be paid. Maybe the Dutch have figured out that God knows more about what's good for us than we do sometimes. |
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| Well put, Birdie! Thanks for reading my blog. |
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July 07, 2008 at 7:11am |
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| All I can say is...Duh! |
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Cyn |
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July 07, 2008 at 9:12am |
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| The greatest power of Prayer! Amen! |
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