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THE BIBLE WARNED US — AND SO DID HISTORY · The Slippery Slope

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  Sex, culture and the collapse of civilizations.
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  I'm going to be revisiting JD Unwin's Warning.
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  I'm Jay Fallon. This is the Slippery Slope
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  podcast. download. While back, I released an
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  episode digging into the work of JD Unwin.
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  He's the anthropologist who studied 86 civilizations and
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  found the same pattern every time When sexual morality
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  collapses, the civilization collapses with it.
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  That episode sparked a bit of discussion, and honestly, the
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  more I've continued looking into Unwin and the scholars who
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  followed him, the more convinced I am that his warnings weren't
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  just academic observations. They're almost verging on
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  prophecy. So today I want to revisit that
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  earlier episode, sharpen the arguments, and expand on the
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  research with insights from Mary Ebberstack, Kirk Dunstan, Pastor
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  Jack Hibbs, and Scripture itself.
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  Because everything Unwin documented nearly a century ago
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  is unfolding right in front of us.
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  Unwin studied 86 civilizations across history, different eras,
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  religions and geographies and found the same outcome every
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  time. His conclusion?
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  Civilizations rise when sexual restraint is strong.
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  They peak when monogamy and stable families dominate, and
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  they decline when sexual morality loosens, and within 3
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  generations of a sexual revolution, the civilization
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  collapses or is conquered. He called it a monotonous
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  repetition, and he published this in 1934, decades before our
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  own sexual revolution. So from the light le.
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  So from the late 1960s onwards, thank you hippies.
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  Western culture embraced sexual liberation as progress, but
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  according to Unwin's research, this wasn't progress, it was the
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  beginning of civilizational decay, Unwin said.
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  The first generation after sexual liberation still looks
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  stable. The second generation begins to
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  show cracks. The third generation experiences
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  rapid collapse. We are entering that third
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  generation right now. Mary Eberstadt's book Primal
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  Screams adds another layer to Unwin's findings.
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  She argues that the sexual revolution didn't just change
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  behaviour, it destroyed the family and with it, the
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  foundation of identity. Her research shows sexual
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  liberation leads to family collapse, family collapse leads
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  to identity collapse, and identity collapse leads to
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  social chaos. She links the rise of mass
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  killings, skyrocketing depression, extreme identity
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  groups, tribalism, political fragmentation to the loss of the
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  extended family structure that once gave people belonging and
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  purpose. Today's identity politics isn't
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  a political movement, it's a Primal Scream from people who no
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  longer know who they are. So everything that Unwin and
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  Ebstadt describe aligns with what Scripture has been saying
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  for thousands of years. I was listening to some
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  preaching by Pastor Jack Hibbs and he put it bluntly, saying
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  that pornography and sexual immorality are more spiritual
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  than physical. He points out something
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  remarkable. Scripture never says stealing
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  while stealing is a sin, But scripture never says that
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  stealing is a sin against your own soul.
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  It never says murder is a sin against your own soul, and it
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  never since says cursing is a sin against your own soul.
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  They are sins. You should not do them.
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  But it doesn't say that these things are a sin against your
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  own soul. But sexual immorality, That's
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  different. It reaches into the spiritual
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  realm. It creates bonds, wounds, and
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  consequences that go far deeper than physical actions.
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  Paul writes in First Corinthians 618.
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  Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits
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  are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually sins
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  against their own body. Sexual sin is unique.
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  It damages the very core of a person, their identity, their
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  soul, their spiritual integrity. And when sexual immorality
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  becomes normalised across an entire culture, the spiritual
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  damage becomes civilizational. This is the layer Unwin couldn't
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  measure but scripture reveals. Unwin described the final stage
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  of a collapsing civilization as zoistic, a culture that rejects
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  religion, rejects restraint, rejects responsibility, becomes
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  self absorbed, becomes obsessed with pleasure, loses interest in
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  the future, stops caring about anything beyond the self.
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  And this is exactly where we are today.
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  And Scripture describes the same thing with absolute accuracy.
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  Paul writes in Second Timothy 32.
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  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
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  boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
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  ungrateful and unholy. Unwin's zoistic culture and
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  Paul's prophetic warning are parallel descriptions of the
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  same phenomenon. A generation consumed with
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  itself, obsessed with pleasure, rejecting authority, rejecting
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  truth, and rejecting God. Today's generation isn't even
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  atheist. Atheist requires some thought.
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  Today's generation is simply non religious by default.
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  They're too uninterested in God, uninterested in truth,
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  uninterested in anything beyond their own feelings.
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  This is the final stage before collapse.
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  The writer Kirk Dursten makes a powerful point.
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  God's moral laws aren't arbitrary rules meant to
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  restrict us. They are operating instructions
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  for human flourishing, Dursten writes.
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  God's moral laws pertaining to sexuality, although they may
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  restrain us from some immediate pleasure, protect us from
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  enormous long term suffering while maximising our long term
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  flourishing. Unwin's research, completely
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  secular, confirms this. Eberstadt's research confirms
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  this, Scripture confirms this, and history confirms this.
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  When a society abandons God's design for sexuality, it
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  destroys itself, King Solomon said.
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  There is nothing new under the sun.
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  Civilizations have risen and fallen for the same reasons for
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  thousands of years. We are not special and we are
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  not exempt. We are not immune.
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  We are simply repeating the same pattern Unwin documented in 86
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  cultures before us. And unless something radically
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  changes, and when I say that, I mean, unless our nation cries
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  out to God, we will meet the same fate, But that's just my
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  opinion. I'm Jay Fallon, thanks for
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  listening to the Slippery Slope podcast.
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