Censored???

One of myfriends at myspace has sent a bulliten announcing a decision to delete any friend who displays nudity ("half naked" being sufficient) on their profile page. If I followed their example would I have to delete you?

We live in an age where innapropriate sex and pornography has become a consuming interest of most men and even many women. Sexual "addiction" is the fastest growing "addiction" in the USA. I think it is true in many many other countries as well.

I note the Thailand and the Phillipines particularly, where sex "workers" (prostitutes) abound and sex is a tourist attraction, being promoted in broad daylight. As one who has repented and continues to repent daily of immoral and unholy thought and behavior, I can say that the recent Tsunami in the Asian Pacific was explained as God's chastening for the largely unopposed operation of whoremongers (pimps).

I am honestly hoping for the chastizement of God to fall on a certain section of my home city: Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore has had a reputation for liscentiousness sexually (and likely otherwise) since 1773. That is right since seventeen seventy three! Remarkably, it is also the home of the first Roman Catholic Diocese, yet the presence of Roman Catholics (established as a diocese 6 April, 1789) has not seemed to slow down sin here.

Billy Graham once turned down an invitation to preach in Baltimore when his staff found no significant unity amongst the protestant churches here tThankfully he has been here twice since then.

Yet there is little progress toward the eradication of prostitution (on the street or in houses), drugs, or the sin of abortion. Can you see the connection between these three?

My sense is that God is still saving souls here one at a time. An awakening here must be preceded by a revival.

The enemy does continue to flood the homes of so many believers through his number one venue: the television. Turn it off, better yet throw it away. The internet gives you much much more choice and control that that one eyed monster. Even though the internet has pornography in seeming unlimited abundance you don't have to watch it. You may preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ instead. You can study the Bible with excellent Bible study tools like Bible Gateway, the Blue Letter Bible, E Sword and many many others.
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From the link above:

"This Baltimore Barbary Coast has the longest, continuous history of any honky-tonk area in the country. Chicago's North Clark Street Rialto dates back only to the latter years of the last century; and New Orleans' Bourbon Street was a respectable Vieux Carre thoroughfare 100 years ago. But marines, fresh from the shores of Tripoli, and the jolly jack-tars of Admiral John Paul Jones' navy roistered through the grog shops and dance halls of 'The Block," with soft-spoken, hard-drinking floozies from Fells Point on their arms, 75 years before the California goldrush and 35 years before Chicago had a single inhabitant."

James Marshal discovered Gold at Sutter's Saw Mill on January 24th, 1848. 1848 minus 75 years puts one around the year 1773.