Everyone Is Not Doing It!
1. Johnson C. Philip, PhD(Physics), ThD, DSc, DNYS 2. Saneesh Cherian, MA (Sociology), PhD, DMin Cover Photo Credit tiffa130
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new Mall opened in our town a few months ago. Soon after that a teenager from another church called me for a consultation. During our chat he suddenly blurted out that all the boys and girls in town have only one pastime -- to hang around in this new Mall everyday.
I was taken aback by this universalist statement. Not because the statement was morally evil, but because it is this kind of universal statements that have been used effectively to break down moral boundaries. Thus, rather than brushing aside his statement, I asked him whether he was sure of his statement, and he assured me that it was so.
I then asked him how many young people could be accommodated in that Mall. After a pause he said, a maximum of a few thousand people. Then I asked him how many young people there were in this town of two million. He immediately got my point, and kept mum. To ensure that he had
understood his
foolishness I asked him whether he thought that all, or even one tenth, of the city's young population could be
there. He accepted that they could not be. I concluded the topic by asking him whether the vast majority of young people were inside or outside the mall. He had to accept the fact that the vast majority of the youngsters were outside the Mall -- though he had been implying that they were inside.
Universals somehow so much appeal to people that they keep using them,
though they are, in the majority of cases, wrong. Worse, they keep believing the universal statements that they keep hearing every day, though they know that these statements cannot be true. Unfortunately, the most malevolent people in society know about this foolish human characteristic, know how to exploit it to destroy society, and do so with a zeal that would surpass the most successful peddler of snake-oil.
Since such a simple tool is being used by anti-social elements to destroy society, several simple tools can be used to counter this spread of evil.
However, a review of how this tool of "Universalist Slogans" has been used in the past would be very helpful.
Boundaries play an important role in society. Roadside fences are a good
example. Wild animals are prone to stray on to highways in many places around the world. Kangaroos stray in Australia, and camels in many Arabian Gulf countries. Fences placed at selected points minimise casualties to animals as well as to people. Similarly, moral and ethical boundaries
protect people from moral and spiritual damage. However, there is a key difference between fences and moral boundaries: fences are made of physically visible materials of enough strength to restrain those creatures that try to trespass. Moral boundaries, on the other hand, are invisible and non-physical, and are not able to offer physical resistance. Even the smallest damage done to a fence is clearly visible, whereas even major damages done to the invisible and nonphysical moral boundaries are invisible.
Since words are the primary tools to establish mental
boundaries, words can also be used to do the opposite: to tear down the walls. Since the moral boundaries are nonphysical and invisible, harm done to them by words are also invisible. Those opposed to objective moral values have known this for several millennia, and have used this to attack the moral foundations.
Fences and walls are built one link or one brick at a time. Moral boundaries, however, are laid down via words of instruction given by parents, teachers, pastors, and law-abiding citizens. A mental picture gradually forms in the mind about what is right and what is wrong and precisely where the boundary lies between these two. The more efficient the instruction the better is the formation of the mental boundaries. These in turn guide a person to choose some activities and reject others. Since words are the primary tools to establish mental boundaries, words can also be used to do the opposite: to tear down the walls. What is more, since the moral boundaries are nonphysical and invisible, harm done to them by words are also invisible.
Those opposed to objective moral values have known this for several millennia, and have used this information in using words to attack the moral foundations of individuals, societies, and even nations as a whole. To do so, they have to convince everyone that the presumed boundaries no longer exist and that everyone is doing once forbidden things because they are no longer forbidden.
People will generally indulge only in things that are considered socially acceptable. Therefore those who want people to breach moral barriers, and indulge in behaviour that is considered offensive, need to convince people that everyone is doing it.
One of the tactics they use is to familiarise people in such a way with morally objectionable topics that they begin to consider these topics as normal. People always have a sense of hesitation talking about forbidden things. Even if they discuss them, the feeling will be that of revulsion. However, if jokes,
official/technical jargon, stories etc. are used to discuss such topics people can be made to talk on these subjects, and the shock-value can be reduced. Once that stage is reached, the activity under consideration can be projected as normal instead of being morally offensive. In this case, they have
used convincing words to reduce the gravity with which the human mind perceives a certain action. Once the gravity is reduced, it becomes easy to breach the invisible moral barrier in human minds.
Similarly, it is possible to present the same forbidden activity in a desirable manner through verbal fantasy. Such activity can then be considered
pleasurable, a mark of manhood, or the mark of heroism. For example, in schools
and college campuses smoking is depicted as a mark of having ‘attained’ a certain level of maturity. There is absolutely no mention of the ills of short or long-term smoking. The same thing happens when they pass on vulgar jokes. A morally forbidden activity is presented in a pleasurable way, reducing the revulsion and offensive feeling against that activity.
Lying with people of the opposite sex is similarly projected as the mark of having “arrived” at manhood or womanhood. In groups given to crime, the successful engineering of the first crime is seen as
passing of the crucial test for acceptance, and then the number of feats one manages is depicted as a measure of “professional” success. There is no mention (deliberately) of the moral aspects of that activity. What is (falsely) emphasised in all this is that “everyone” is doing it and therefore he who does not do is the odd one out. The old expression “adding a feather to one’s cap" is given new meaning, and the person who descends to the lowest moral level is depicted as the person with
People who are interested in
fighting against morality
clearly understand the need
to use fabricated statistics to
win people over to their
side. They also understand
the power of fabricated data
to impress the masses that
have no easy way to examine
the fabrications.
the largest number of feathers in the cap. In all these things there is a repeated emphasis that everyone is doing it, and he who does not is the odd one, abnormal and not fit for acceptance by his/her peers.
It requires a good amount of knowledge and objectivity to analyse to come to
correct conclusions, particularly when many of one’s peers are shouting loudly that everyone is doing it. It also requires a bit of insight into how they are using totally distorted statistics to contrive evidence for themselves. We need to look at the way these people use statistics to misguide generations.
Mathematics never speaks a lie. Statistics, the mathematical analysis of very large groups, also does not lie. And that is why people respect numbers whether they refer to the population of a nation or the
outstanding balance shown in their bank-passbooks. However, a determined person can so misuse numbers that people can be totally misguided to believe in numbers that actually do not exist.
People who are interested in fighting against morality clearly understand the need to use fabricated statistics to win people over to their side. They also understand the
power of fabricated data to impress the masses that have no easy way to examine the fabrications. Misuse of statistics with the aim of subverting moral values began around the time when the modern printing press was invented. For the first time people had an economical method to get printed material into
people’s hands. Newspapers, magazines
and periodicals made an appearance. Soon the art of advertisement, to seduce people to buy products, was invented.
The era of the printing press and the invention of advertising was also the era of great rebellion against Christian moral values in Europe. The rebellion came from thinkers who wanted total freedom from moral and ethical standards promoted by the
Protestant Reformation. It is this generation of rebels and radicals who invented and formalised the art of contriving statistical data to manipulate the way people thought and behaved. It has now reached such a high level of
Imagine the level of statistical
manipulation that makes 5 per
hundred into 70 per hundred!
The same is the story
everywhere that anti-moralists
fight against moral values. This
type of fabrication of data has
been used to inflate figures by
very large factors to get results
which are totally false, but
which fits well with their
mission: first to change the way
people think and then to change
the way they act.
sophistication that it requires careful analysis to discover the deception. For example, from my childhood I have been hearing that two out of three marriages in America end in divorce. This statement has become so common that I was surprised when I visited the USA to discover what a big lie it was. If fully two thirds of all marriages end up in divorce, then the
whole country has to be full of divorced people. But that is not the actual situation in the USA. While the number of divorcees is high, they are still a minority when the total married population is
concerned. The three marriages versus two divorces is only a big farce, a statistical scam created by people who would like to have easy divorce laws. Here is how they fabricated this data. First of all they counted the number of people that get
married every year. Then they collected the data of the total number of divorces per year, not from those who got married in any one year, but from the ENTIRE population. The entire population of the country is made up of people who were married in the previous 70 to 80 years. This means that the divorce statistics
have been inflated at least by a figure of 70 to 80 times to arrive at the conclusion that there are two divorces per three marriages every year. On the other hand, if they check for only the marriages and divorces of couples that got married in a given year, it would more likely show a figure like 5 divorces or less per 100 marriages per year.
Imagine the level of statistical
manipulation that makes 5 per hundred into 70 per hundred! The same is the story everywhere that anti-moralists fight against moral values. This type of
fabrication of data has been used to inflate figures by very large factors to get results which are totally false, but which fits well with their mission: first to change the way people think and then to change the way they act. When people are given the impression that "everyone" is doing it, there is every possibility that they will look at it with reduced alarm even if it is a morally degenerate act. The shame, the embarrassment, the shock against that activity is reduced. That is why the radical elements keep harping that “everyone” is doing it.
Surveys are a common practice in the modern world.
Researchers pick a
representative group, survey them, analyse the responses, and come to deductions about how the larger group, which is represented by the smaller group that was surveyed, will behave.
The job of a surveyor is therefore very similar to that of a food taster or wine taster who tastes a very tiny sample, compared to the lot on which he pronounces his verdict. In this case the tiny sample is such an accurate
representation of the bulk product that the deductions made on the basis of the sample apply accurately to the entire lot.
The principle behind people-related surveys is the same. For example, a company that wants to launch a new washing powder meant for use in urban households will send surveyors to maybe 5000 urban households in five to ten cities. They will then survey women about the packet-size, colour and price-range that are acceptable to them. The data compiled from this then furnishes key insights into how the product has to be packaged, priced, and even named to find wide acceptance among urban households. The deductions are often so reliable that the survey of women in 5000 house holds will be sufficient to predict the response towards the soap for women in 50 million households. Since this kind of surveys have become very common, and since they yield results so good that ventures worth billions can depend upon them, a trust of surveys and their results has been built into modern man. It is a deep trust that will not fade away easily.
As a result, most people never realise that at least some of the surveys, and their results, thrown at them as "assured results" are absolute deceptions. For example, almost all the surveys published worldwide on human sexual behaviour by social magazines and popular books are based upon skewed data, totally biased samples, or some such factor.
Consider, for example, a survey published in the early 1990’s in India that indicated
Most people never realise that at least some of the surveys, and their results, thrown at them as "assured results" are absolute
deceptions. For example, almost all the surveys
published worldwide on human sexual behaviour by social magazines and popular books are based upon skewed data, totally biased samples, or some such factor.
that fully one third of all married Indian men had sexual liaisons outside marriage. The statement was then repeatedly mentioned by an endless number of social magazines, so that within a month of publication of the original survey, it became the talk among a large number of Indian families that marital infidelity had finally arrived and has planted deep roots in Indian society. What actually happened was something totally different from what was so widely and confidently declared. At the time that this survey was conducted, India had only one English pornographic magazine, and this survey was conducted by this magazine among THEIR porn readership, and not among the common people and not by any scientific team of researchers. This itself should have told people how unreliable the survey was, and how much more unreliable their deductions were. The actual story of the survey is much more shocking. Contrary to the well-established practices of social surveys, this particular survey was not conducted on a sample segment of the general Indian population, 80% of whom live in rural societies. On the contrary, the survey was conducted among the readers of this ENGLISH porn magazine in an India where sexual norms were still on high moral ground.
Obviously, English-knowing people who regularly subscribe to and read a
pornographic magazine in a conservative country like India do not represent the average Indian. On the other hand, they
represent the most lecherous among the population. Since these are English-literate people, again they do not represent average Indians.
Of the 1000-million Indian population at the time of the survey, around 999-million people were NOT represented by this sample. Yet the editors and writers falsely claimed that their survey
represented “the average Indian.” This is how the sex promotion industry misrepresents statistics so that people might get the impression that the entire country is made up of adulterous people, though in fact it is not.
The correct conclusion of the survey can be presented in this manner:
1. This is a survey of urban, English-literate Indians who are a microscopic minority in India.
2. This English-literate minority contains a still smaller minority of lecherous people who are given to reading pornographic material on a regular basis. They do not represent even the average English-literate Indians, let alone the rest of the Indian. 3. Among these people, there is a minority which is sufficiently uninhibited to speak
out on their sexual behaviour.
4. One third of this lecherous and uninhibited crowd indulges in extramarital relations.
5. Thus there is some extramarital activity among the lecherous urbanites of India, but this is not a common or widely-spread practice among average or typical Indians.
6. Even among the professed lecherous Indian population, the majority restrict their sexual escapades to only print medium and a full 2/3rd of them do not indulge in extramarital sex.
It is obvious that this survey does not apply to the general Indian society at all. Attempts to make it seem so is an attempt to brainwash people into believing something that is totally false. Contrary to the publicity given to this survey, everybody is NOT doing it. Even among the professedly lecherous community, two thirds of them are not doing it.
Objectively done surveys play a significant role worldwide in business, society, education, etc. They bring to light information that can be used to create new products, offer people greater security and comfort and help make society a better place.
However, exactly like the Indian example cited above, the sex-industry worldwide has been misusing statistics and
presenting totally false interpretations to serve their hidden agenda: they want to transform the whole world into a super-mega sex shop. This transformation is possible only when everyone becomes a sex-consumer, and that is why they have been spreading the lie that ‘everyone’ is
doing it and that there is nothing wrong with it.
There were some notable surveys of sexual behaviour in the nineteen fifties and after by Masters and Johnson, Share Hite, and several others. These surveys made such bold claims that people remember these names even after half a century. However, most of these survey The lie behind these epoch-making surveys were eventually discovered and exposed, but irreversible damage had already been done by that time. The society had already started believing falsely that everyone is doing it. Using lies, they changed the moral outlook of several generations to a more lax one, ultimately ushering in the present
sex-were worse than the Indian survey mentioned earlier.
These surveys purported to represent the sexual behaviour of the average
American. However, rather than conduct these surveys among the average American population, most of them were conducted among prisoners, sexual deviants, prostitutes, and psychiatric patients. These are not only a microscopic minority among the population, but also people with the most deviant sexual behaviour and fantasies. It is the information elicited from these sexual and moral deviants that was presented as "general" American sexual behaviour. The lie behind these epoch-making
surveys were eventually discovered and exposed, but irreversible damage had already been done by that time. Based upon a chain of lies, American society had already started believing falsely that everyone is doing it. They changed the moral outlook of several generations to a more lax one, ultimately ushering in the present sex-revolution.
Repeated researches have shown that publishers and news media in general tend be more lax and radical in their thinking than the values of the society for which they publish. Consequently, totally false sex surveys will go on being
published, and they will keep indoctrinating people, destroying the moral fiber of entire generations.
The prejudiced and totally false sex-surveys mentioned earlier continue manipulating the way people think. While only a minority indulges in deviant behaviour, most people think that it is a majority behaviour. Then the majority who are not partakers of such crime start thinking that they are an exception and a minority -- though they are the majority and the normal people. Thus mind-manipulation through false statistics has great power to confuse people’s thinking. This, among others, results in the following consequences:
1. A microscopic minority is perceived as a majority. 2. Deviant behaviour is projected as normal.
Totally false sex surveys will go on being published, and they will keep indoctrinating people, destroying the moral fiber of entire generations, unless those who know speak out!
3. Thus deviant people can continue their immoral practices with greater ease due to reduced pressure from the others.
4. The majority continues under the illusion that deviant people are the majority. Thus they will not raise their voices against deviant behaviour, and that ensures greater freedom to deviants to continue what they are doing.
5. The false impression helps the deviant crowd to attract and seduce the fence-sitters to their side to gradually increase their number.
6. All of this sets up a vicious cycle against moral uprightness and in favour of deviant behaviour.
7. This further helps the agenda of deviant people to project morally deviant behaviour as normal, and normal moral behaviour as abnormal.
The more this kind of mind-manipulation remains unchallenged, the more they succeed in intimidating straight-forward people. The more the straight-forward people are forced into silence, the bigger the impact of the deviant campaign will be. This is the way they have subdued many cultures, civilizations, and even entire nations.
Even today morally-upright people are the majority in these nations, but inactivity on their part has resulted in them losing their voice.
Everyone is NOT doing it. The next time someone makes this statement, do not hesitate to challenge it firmly. This might start a chain of introspection that will eventually save many from moral destruction.
About The Authors
Dr. Johnson C. Philip is a physcist and Christian communicator. He is also the senior-most Christian apologist in India, having trained more than 10,000 apologists worldwide through distance education. At present he serves on the faculty of several theological seminaries worldwide.
He has authored close to 100 books/ebooks and over 10,000 article (2011) and a good number of his ebooks are available free.
He is also an expert in Indian Numismatics.
Dr. Saneesh Cherian is sociology major with interest in Theology and communication. He has authored close to 50 books/ebooks and numerous articles. He was one of the architects of the first Christian apologetics and Systematic Theology textbooks in the Malayalam language.
At present he serves on the faculty of several theological seminaries worldwide, including Brethren Theological College as its Academic Dean.
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