Parallels between the fall of Rome and modern America
by Charles Biggs
Sally Kern was right - great civilizations that fully embrace homosexuality don’t last much longer.
Rep. Kern, a state lawmaker from Oklahoma City, has been the center of a firestorm after she made some absolutely truthful statements about the danger of homosexuality.
Of course, radical homosexuals like Ellen Degeneres (degenerate?) and liberal newspapers like the Tulsa World have twisted her words to attack her credibility.
It doesn’t matter because truth is truth whether they choose to believe it or not.
Did homosexuality cause Rome to fall? No, it can’t be listed as the only factor in the demise of the Roman Empire. But Sally Kern never made that statement.
Here’s my take – rampant homosexuality was a symptom of the moral decay of the Roman Empire that led to its eventual collapse.
I’m not the only one who takes that theory. Edward Gibbon, in his 18th century book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the first systematic history of the later Empire, points to homosexuality as a cause of the fall of Rome.
A lot of comparisons have been drawn between ancient Rome and modern America.
Dr. Carle Zimmerman in 1947 wrote a book called Family and Civilization. He studies the decline of several civilizations and empires. He discovered eight patterns of domestic behavior that signaled the decline of a civilization:
1. The breakdown of marriage and rise of divorce.
2. The loss of the traditional meaning of the marriage ceremony.
3. The rise of Feminism.
4. Increased public disrespect for parents and authority in general.
5. Acceleration of juvenile delinquency, promiscuity and rebellion.
6. Refusal of people with traditional marriages to accept their family responsibilities.
7. A growing desire for and acceptance of adultery.
8. Increasing interest in and spread of sexual perversions (homosexuality) and sex-related crimes.
See any parallels in modern America? Maybe we should be listening to Rep. Kern a little more carefully.
Every historian – even modern homosexual revisionists – admit that Rome was riddled with homosexuals. Hadrian, one of the best emperors, traveled the empire with a youthful lover, Antinous. Caligula and Nero were accused of having sex with just about anyone or anything.
Here’s another historical fact. Rampant homosexuality among the upper classes in Rome led to a decline in the birth rate among aristocrats and reduced the pool of leadership manpower.
In the fifth century AD, Rome was a mess. Germanic Goths overran the Northeastern Roman border in 406.
Other non-Christian tribes - Vandals, Franks, Burgundians, Lombards, Visigoths, and Ostro-goths –posed serious threats to external Roman security. Rome’s internal problems made a unified response impossible.
In 410 AD, Alaric led the Visigoths into Rome and the city was taken for the first time in 1,000 years.
The Western Roman Empire fell again to the Vandals in AD 455, and again in AD 476, when Germanic tribes over-ran it.
Rome was riddled with pederasty (literally “boy-love”), which refers to an intimate relationship between a boy and an adult male outside his family.
Every major religion in the world – including Islam – condemns homosexual behavior. In “peaceful” Muslim countries, practicing homosexuals are often killed.
Homosexuality is condemned in the Old Testament in Leviticus 20:13 and in the New Testament in Romans 1. In Matthew, male and female relationships are the only sexual relationships allowed by Jesus (Matthew 19:4-6).
But homosexuality is not the core issue. The real issue is when a nation turns its back on God.
If you study scripture, you understand that the sin of homosexuality is as bad as promiscuity, fornication, prostitution, bestiality and any sexual activity apart from holy matrimony between one man and one woman.
This is hedonism, which places personal pleasure above any concept of right or wrong. So, modern homosexuals are rejecting God’s plan for righteous fulfillment of a God-given sex drive and replacing it for a “if it feels good, do it,” philosophy.
And homosexuality, like prostitution, bestiality, etc., is a destructive lifestyle. It always damages those who get caught up in it.
Homosexual men rarely have monogamous relationships. That greatly increases the risk of disease from their unnatural acts.
A homosexual publication printed the following statistics:
• 24 percent of homosexual men had more than 100 partners.
• 43 percent of homosexual men had more than 500 partners.
• 28 percent of homosexual men had more than 1,000 partners.
A study by the Journal of Sex Research showed that only 2.7 percent of the 2,583 older homosexuals surveyed claimed to have sex with only one partner.
The risk of anal cancer for homosexual men rises by an amazing 4,000 percent and doubles again for those who are HIV positive. According to the Centers for Disease Control, homosexual men are a thousand times more likely to contract AIDS than the general male heterosexual population.
If your risk of being killed by a terrorist rose by 4,000 percent, you would probably take steps to stop it.
So, when you place homosexuality in the context of a move away from God’s morality to selfishness and licentiousness, it suddenly does become more dangerous than a terrorist with a bomb in a subway.
Sally was right. The homosexuals, including those who sent her death threats, are dead wrong.
If America continues down a path of rejection of God’s standards, we will suffer the same fate as Rome.
• A guy’s on the electric chair. The warden’s just about to pull the switch when the guy gets the hiccups. The warden says, “Do you have any last requests?” The guy says, “(hic) Yeah… (hic) could you please do (hic) could you please do something to scare me?”
• A guy walks into work, and both of his ears are all bandaged up. The boss says, “What happened to your ears?” He says, “Yesterday I was ironing a shirt when the phone rang and (hold iron to ear) shhh! I accidentally answered the iron.” The boss says, “Well, that explains one ear, but what happened to your other ear?” He says, “Well, I had to call the doctor!”
• A guy is going on an ocean cruise, and he tells his doctor that he’s worried about getting seasick. The doctor says, “Just eat two pounds of stewed tomatoes before you leave the dock.” The guy says, “Will that keep me from getting sick, Doc?” The doctor says, “No, but it’ll look real pretty in the water.”
• A guy calls the hospital. He says, “You gotta send help! My wife’s going into labor!” The nurse says, “Calm down. Is this her first child?” He says, “No! This is her husband!”