Minor thinking on middling

to major events:

Eighty-plus million Americans

of all ages watching the Super Bowl finally get a sanitized glimpse of

what the MTV-youth culture sloshes around in all the time.

And we are shocked, shocked!

Well, what did you think was

oozing 24 hours a day into your home via cable channel 50? Just because

we adults eschew the sonic and visual assault media that today's

pop culture has embraced, did you really think it was not THAT bad? I

mean, your 13-year-old is absorbing that stuff with her mouth open.

And when the thump-thum-thump

of the 140 decibel rap speakers rumble up beside your mini-van at the

traffic light, what do you imagine the words to the "music"

are actually proclaiming?

Foul stuff, really foul stuff,

for the most part.

Today's music, the driver

of American youth, has about the same relation to artistic worth as Caligula

has to creative expression.

Yeah, I know our parents didn't

like Elvis, but consider the downward spiral from there. At least the

King's hips were covered with waist-high jeans and were not publicly

contact-grinding into anyone else's crotch. I wonder at what point

we can no longer call ourselves an "advanced" civilization?

Janet Jackson's star ornament

and Massachusetts gay marriage fiat are water-marks of this present culture.

I will leave it to your own philosophical discrimination to determine

whether that mark represents height or depth.

Speaking of discrimination

... My hat's off to it. We've been so battered by political

correctness and the beyond-Pluto's-orbit AJC editorial board that

we can no longer make moral, cultural or societal judgments.

Yes, I said the "J"

word. The mostly liberal bunch whose only working knowledge of the Bible

begins and ends with "Judge not, lest you be judged," just plain

misses the point. Throughout the Bible, God requires people to make "righteous"

judgments, about their own actions and those of the cultures around them,

their own responses and those of the cultures around them. Whoever thinks

Jesus is judgment-free or taught his followers to be judgment-free is

biblically ignorant.

And Jesus never said anything

about homosexual sex? Good grief! He never said anything about cannibalism

either, but you are not free to dine on your neighbor. (Actually, that's

exactly what the Pharisees thought he was saying about his body and blood,

but most can see that they most definitely missed his point.)

(And, no, to the inevitable

knee-jerkers, I am NOT comparing gay sex to cannibalism. Let's get

a rhetorical clue.)

The entire Bible is God's

letter to his wayfaring children, begging them to come