The Rebelution's Modesty Survey

I realized that I have a link on my sidebar, but I don't think that I ever did a post on the Rebelution's Modesty Survey.

The Modesty Survey is a 148 question survey put together by girls an answered by guys. There were more than 150,000 answers with more than 1600 guys participating. The questions were phrased as a statement and then the guys could agree or disagree on a five point scale. The questions cover everything from swim wear to skirts to makeup and jewelry. The survey was done in January 2007, and the results were released that Valentine's Day.

I would encourage you to check it out because it is quite fascinating to see what Christian guys think about certain items of clothing.

New Old Books

Sorry for not posting recently. we were out of town for two weeks.

I got two new old books. The first is a British poetry and prose book from 1938.

The second is called Literature and Life and it is from the late twenties.

I don't have the exact dates because I'm not currently at home while I'm doing this.

My grandmother gave me an old postcard that was mailed from Munich, Germany to her mother in 1929.

That's all for now...........................

Which Austen Heroine are You??

Take the Quiz here!

I did a "Which Austen Heroine are You?" quiz recently. From the Jane Austen books I could have been, Elinor or Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility,Fanny Price from Mansfield Park, Anne Elliot from Persuasion, Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice, Catherine Morland from Northanger Abbey, or Emma Woodhouse from Emma.

I am Marianne Dashwood. You can see that from the widget on the above. To take the quiz just click on it. I'd love to see your results when you are done.

Lack of Posts

If anyone is wondering why I haven't posted, I have 3 reasons.

1) I'm slowly transferring my blog over to Wordpress.
2) I haven't had Internet at my house.
3) Its 10:33 in the morning and I haven't had power since 3:15 last afternoon. I'm blogging from church that lets us live in their house.

So please be patient. Thank you!

Photo Editing

So I have this application on my computer called Paint.net. It's really cool because you can basically take any picture and turn it into kind of impressionist painting;at least, that's what I think they look like. I know some people might not like these because they are somewhat irritating to look at.

But the pics are as follows:

1. Elizabeth Swann from POTC3.
2. Will Turner from POTC3.
3. Jack Sparrow from POTC3.
4. Arwen from LOTR.
5. The Nazgul from LOTR.
6. Susan Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia 2.
7. Susan with griffon from The Chronicles of Narnia 2.

America Says: Pre-marital Sex is Okay

Something my Mom mentioned to me in a comment on my last post really caught my attention. In my last post "America Says: Abortion is Okay," I didn't really say anything about why so many girls have abortions.

According to this website, 64.4% of abortions are performed on never married women and 93% of abortions occur because of (according to this website) social reasons (i.e the child is unwanted or inconvenient.)

So I would say that a lot of the abortions performed are because the woman having the procedure had sex outside of marriage and got pregnant. What is sad about the American mindset is that so many of these girls think that their only mistake was getting pregnant and that having sex was fine.

Obviously though, you are only going to get pregnant as a result of having sex, so if you don't have sex, you won't get pregnant, but girls don't seem to realize that.

I know someone that had a baby outside of marriage. My mom and I were talking about it and she jokingly said to me "You aren't going to have a baby at sixteen are you?" I said, "No, I'm not planning on it." When I told a friend about this conversation she said to me, "Well, I don't think the girls that got pregnant were planning on it either." They weren't planning NOT to get pregnant, either. That's why purity is so important.

Besides the fact that the bible condemns it, another reason premarital sex is wrong is because: a) It can lead to pregnancy and b)then those pregnancies can end in abortion.

So I would say that the problem is not just abortion, but what it stems from, which is pre-marital sex. So if you decide that you are never going to have sex before you are married, you will never have to make a decision whether or not to abort your baby.

That is why I think that courting is so important because you keep yourself from being put in a situation where you might be tempted. But I'll save the topic of courting for another blog post.

Amercia Says: Abortion is Okay

What America says about abortion is not just that it is okay, but that it is legal. Here is a little bit of history about abortion.

Abortion was legalized in 1973 at the end of the famous Roe v. Wade court case. What happed was that a woman named Jane Roe (actually a pseudonym for Norma McCorvey) decided she wanted an abortion. She first went to her state to try to have abortion legalized. From there the case ended up in the Supreme Court, and the conclusion was that abortion was made legal. Suddenly any woman that wanted to kill her unborn baby could.

As a note, in 1995 Norma McCorvey became part of the pro-life movement. She now tries to make illegal a case she fought so hard to have legalized.

I believe that abortion is wrong because I believe abortion is murder. In Exodus 20:13 (NIV) is says: You shall not murder. Therefore, I believe that abortion is not only murder but also a sin.

I think that these doctors who perform abortions and the women having the abortions have brainwashed themselves into thinking that the baby isn't a life. They call the baby a "fetus" and refer to it as an object, as opposed to a human being. I know that one of the reasons that Pro-Choice advocates give for the legality of abortion is that the baby in question of being aborted isn't viable. Viability is being capable of living. So they say that the baby isn't a human because it isn't capable of living on its own. However, if you left a one or two year old alone it wouldn't be capable of living on its own. Generally, everybody considers one and two year olds to be humans. So I see that as putting a stop to that reason for the legality of abortion. Of course, the pro-Choice people wouldn't agree with me.

Another thing I think is funny is that if someone murders a pregnant woman, the killer can be charged with a double homicide, one killing for the mother and one for the baby. But, if the baby isn't a life, how can someone be charged with ending it?
The definition of homicide is: The killing of one human being by another. So, obviously someone thinks that unborn babies are lives.

Because abortion is morally wrong, people end up contradicting themselves as they try to find some way to say that abortion is fine, legal, okay, correct, all of the above.

What I have to say is that I believe abortion is WRONG, and that as Christians, we should stand against abortion and put up a fight to get abortion made illegal.

Currently Reading.....

I am currently reading The Passion of Jesus Christ by John Piper. I just started reading it, but so far it is really good. Basically,in this book John Piper is giving fifty reasons why Christ suffered and died. You might be thinking, oh well I know why Christ suffered and died, he did it to redeem us from our transgressions and sins and to give us a hope worth living for and to save from us an eternity in hell.Well, yes, but there are so many more reasons in this book that I never would have thought of. I'll give a full review when I finish it.


The other book is Boy Meets Girl by Joshua Harris. I had started reading I Kissed Dating Goodbye, but as I was reading it I kept thinking, "I already know that I don't want to date and that I want to court instead." My dad had bought this book, so I went and got it and started reading it instead. That's when I realized, "Hey, here is somebody that shares the same views on courtship that I do." It is really encouraging for me to read this book, because a lot of times when I tell people that I have no plans to date and that I want to court instead, they kind of look at me like I'm an alien from another planet and then say something like, "Then how are you supposed to get married?"

It's kind of like when I tell somebody that I'm homeschooled, and the they ask the question, "What about socialization?" I've so many responses like that now that it makes me want to laugh when people say it.

Again, a full review of Boy Meets Girl when I'm finished with it.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

So, I saw this movie on opening day. I liked it. I was a little bit disappointed with some things, including the fact that they added a Caspian/Peter rivalry. I do understand to some extent though why they added a few action sequences that aren't in the book, because to be honest, the book of Prince Caspian is actually quite boring in some respects and is probably my least favorite of the Narnia books. So, I want to know what you thought of it. I know some people really hate it when the book is deviated from at all, while is doesn't really bother others.

Also, I did like it enough that I'm going to see it again tomorrow with my youth group. I would say however, that it is not a movie for really little kids. It is rated PG, but it is fairly violent.

Also, if you have read the Narnia books, which is your favorite? Mine is The Horse and His Boy.

Do Hard Things

Check out this great book called "Do Hard Things." It is by Alex & Brett Harris. (They are the younger brothers of Josh Harris, the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye)

I'm not done reading this book yet, but what I like about it is that it teaches that we as Christian teens do not have to descend to the low expectations that secular America has for us. We need to rise to the expectations that God has for us. We don't have to conform to the world's standards on many things (i.e. modesty, sex, other inappropriate stuff). We can start doing things to further God's kingdom instead.

I would recommend this book to all teens and their parents, because it's good for adults as well.

Check out the Harris twins website and blog here at The Rebelution.

My dad wrote an article on "Do Hard Things" here, on his Hammer and Nail blog.