Americans have moved from being an upbeat nation of those who looked to the future, to a nation which sinking into sentimentality and love of the past. Sad.
Part of the problem is that now singles form one-half of the adult population of America. Children make adults look towards the future, but with so many singles not interested in the future, but only the now, posterity is not even on the radar.
I have been pondering the preoccupation with the past among people I have met recently.
Coming to the conclusion that people are in love with death, rather than life.
Why?
Why does a culture look to the past? Why are most television shows merely repeats of 1980s shows?
Why are many movies remakes of older movies?
Why is there a preoccupation with old music, old memories, old cars, old brand names if even mediocre ones...?
These odd "celebrations of life", that even Catholics are falling into instead of saying the rosary for three days for the soul who, hopefully, is in Purgatory, deny temporal punishment for sin, and, also, the un-Biblical emphasis on universal salvation-that everyone goes to heaven.
These so-called celebrations look towards the past, and not the reality of eternal life.
The cult of death also causes the preoccupation with vampires, witchcraft, satanism, and the numerous forms of the occult.
There is a demon of Death, who is wanting people to think of negativity, despair, suicide, death.
Jesus is the Lord of Life. Look to Christ.
John 14:6
6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.
