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Освен здравните медиатори, изненадващ съюзник срещу вируса се оказа и Евангелистката църква. Имунизациите в Сливен например, са организирани основно от пасторите там. И поне 7-8 години със сигурност морбилито няма да ни е проблем. Докато не се появят нови неимунизирани групи, разбира се.

"If we make a god of sexuality, that god will fail in ways that affect the whole person and perhaps the whole society," wrote author Philip Yancey. One day while browsing through the windowless warrens of a university library, he discovered a 1934 book called Sex and Culture by scholar J. D. Unwin. It showed Yancey a direct tie between monogamy and the "expansive energy" of civilization. Unwin, who had studied the sexual practices of 86 different cultures, concluded that --

"In human records there is no instance of a society retaining its energy after a complete new generation has inherited a tradition which does not insist on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial continence."

Did you catch that? Sexual immorality led to social decay. Babylon, Sumeria, Greece, Rome and other ancient pagan civilizations disintegrated when sexual boundaries disappeared. While temple prostitution and ritual sex had been permitted within prescribed boundaries from the beginning, unbridled promiscuity had been taboo. Its return signaled cultural decline.

Unwin couldn't explain why. But the pattern he saw impressed him enough to propose that British citizens "take vows of chastity before marriage and observe strict monogamy after marriageall for the sake of the Empire."

God's principles can bring order into chaos even when followed by non-Christians. For those who trust God, they bring triumph. But those who reject them suffer consequences they can't understand. Yancey showed why:

"For the Christian, sex is not an end in itself but, rather, a gift from God. Like all such gifts, it must be stewarded according to God's rules, not ours. "