You have chosen...wisely.
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While at the gym today I noticed a young man working at the front desk staring intently at his laptop. You could see the stress on his face.
Before I left, I asked if he was in college and he said yes, so I asked what he was studying and he told me pre med, which led into a conversation about why he had been staring so intently at his computer.
He showed me his screen and told me he was literally debating dropping his current classes while he could still get a refund. He’s hearing from older grads struggling just to get residency and he’s not sure he wants to keep paying for school if there may be no jobs at the end.
That conversation today is exactly why this fight matters. A pre-med student, halfway through the hardest path you can take, sitting there debating whether to quit… not because he failed, but because he doesn’t believe there’s a future waiting for him at the end.
We are now at a point where high-achieving American students are questioning whether merit even matters anymore.
They’re watching graduates struggle for jobs. They’re seeing doors close before they even get there. They’re being told, in every indirect way possible, that effort isn’t enough.
This is how a country collapses its own future... quietly, systematically, and in plain sight.
You don’t need a war when you can convince your next generation to give up before they even start.
That’s what this is. This is not just about jobs. This is about whether Americans still have a place in their own economy.
And if we don’t fight this now, hard, loud, and without apology,
there won’t be anything left for the next generation to fight for.
The issue is that the Bible was written in a time in which one could assume that your spouse was a virgin. To say otherwise, would've clearly been an incredibly scandalous thought. The argumentation is equivalent to saying babies can't be baptized because the Bible specifically doesn't say babies are in a household even though 2000 years ago it would've been assumed that a household had plenty of babies.
Virginity should not be the #1 factor Christians look for when considering who to marry. Godliness and being attracted to them is.
Virginity matters, and it's a blessing from God. It's not wrong to desire someone who is a virgin. And past sexual sin regularly carries present-day consequences.
But I fear we've placed virginity on such a high pedestal that it's become an idol for many.
The Bible doesn't say that someone "is free to be married to anyone [they want] — only if they're a virgin." It says that someone "is free to be married to anyone [they want] — only in the Lord (aka, only if they're a Christian)" (1 Cor. 7:39).
In other words, what matters above all else is that your spouse is a believer, virgin or not.
Again, while desiring to marry a virgin isn't a bad thing, it becomes a bad thing if it causes you to miss out on marrying the person who truly matters: the man or woman who's born-again, passionate about Jesus, excellent in the God-given characteristics of a godly wife or husband, and physically attractive to you.
And a mature Christian should desire those things in a potential spouse above all else, regardless of the past sins the person may have gone through (though they should certainly weigh out that aspect as well in this decision, since it does matter).