Wednesday, February 12, 2014

       Objectification: means treating a person as a thing, without regard to their dignity. I have written blogs on the topic the darker side of modesty before and how it has affected my life in the past.  I have come to the viewpoint that many of people within the Christian community, have taken the idea of modesty and turned into a version objectication, and saying that if a woman dress a certain way she is good, and if she dress at the end of the spectrum she is bad. Nothing, on the fact we all born sinners, and that is the heart is what is truly evil and everyone is born with Sin, or that we are each going to be accountable for our own sin. That a man who lust after a woman will held accountable for that sin, not woman in the “short skirt”, whom the man’s eye beheld. That's the yin and yang of the modesty culture is the rape culture, to say if a woman is raped when dress in a provocative way, that she is a at fault for that, it’s the same argument that modesty culture uses to say that a woman is responsible if a man lust after her. NO! Only one person is responsible for their sin, and that is person sinning.
          There is a viral video going around Facebook (which I will link below) Virtue Makes You Beautiful, with a group of school boys and Alex Boye. Who are singing about modesty, okay, annoying beyond belief (a “parody” of a One Direction song) and breaking more copyright laws than I can count! The idea in and of itself, is not a bad one; only they say that “they need my modesty” and that if I could see what they could see, then I would understand I am beautiful. Okay, nothing of the fact that I am created in the image of God and on that point alone I should be called beautiful period. Nothing on the fact, they need to take responsibility for their own actions and learn that sex is not in of itself a bad thing, what makes it a bad thing is, Man twisted version of it. God version which says that it is meant for marriage, is beautiful and that all of God’s creation in any type of covering is beautiful, because God made it. My cry today, is for young men out there that if you look at young women out there as something God created therefor they beautiful, and that woman could be the girl dressed in a long denim skirt with no makeup in your youth group or the hooker you just passed on the street, who is just as beautiful and as much value to God as the girl you are sitting next to in the denim skirt, because God made her, and she does not need to change, who she is to come to Christ. Christ ate dinner with women like her, not just with girls in long denim skirts, and people, who followed the Law, but with those who need him most.