Manifest Demise: Family, Home & Children vs. Career, Government and the Marketplace

Why is this fight so easily lost?
Our modern age has seen more bloodshed,
but at least as crazy is the loss of common sense.
We have lost the obvious wisdom of
family, home and children

Fight the government
Fight Wall Street and the Academy.

All of mankind might just be saved through childbearing,
Let us all settle down and raise kids.

The American apocalypse,
Manifest Demise
It is upon us and our only
hope lies in marriage and childbearing.

Lust and power
Money and fame
They are all shifty
houses on lose gravel.

The Rock is for the orphans,
The Rock will build a household.
The Rock will crush those upon whom it falls.


OR as the mythopoet Bonnie Prince Billy says, we must pass on so that when we die we will continue to live.

"My body fades, your life goes on." We must build and look forward to "A singing dawn."

----There are probably lots of qualifiers for my statements above ... but that would be tedious (and I am on vacation). All I will offer you is my favorite Walker Percy quote:

"To bed we go for a long winter's nap, twined about each other as the ivy twineth, not under a bush or in a car or on the floor or any such humbug as marked the past peculiar years of Christendom, but at home in bed where all good folk belong." (Love in Ruins)

By the way, Luther married as a monk to re-establish the idea of priests as family men, Kierkegaard rejected Regine because he felt that family and society and status were meshed together and the gospel called him to leave it all behind (he didn't say no one should marry, but he thought he was doing the exact opposite of Luther because of the times). I think that we are at another hinge and must see marriage and family again as a fundamental self-sacrifice and a taking responsibility for something larger and outside of our tiny cracked self ... this is one of the few ways left to us to escape the dread clutches of selfishness and individualism.

One last thought: God called Abraham to be a father (of the people of God). God called Mary to be a mother (of Jesus Christ). Stanley Hauerwas writes: "Just as Abraham is the father of Israel, so Mary is the mother of the church." We must take great care of what we desecrate.