Mrs. Mohler Must Have Kicked Albert To The Couch Again

This conjecture is made on the hyothesis that Dr. Mohler rides his early marriage high horse when things hit a rough patch in his household as in my experience those that pester singles the most about marriage are those from the most miserable marriages.

While there are lovely sentiments expressed in the article Mohler references, for most, they are just not reasonably possible.

Of the article, Mohler writes, "He adds, 'Instead of trekking to Africa or exploring Rome alone, why not marry the person of your dreams and take him or her along?'."

All well and good, but for the majority these days the ripe old age of 23 is an unnecessarily low deadline.

In most urban areas of the country, this just isn't possible.

Why should a fairly moral individual of Euro-American heritage have to settle for an Afro one that has already parented numerous children by the mid 20's or for someone that barely speaks a lick of English who is only showing you the time of day because they see you as their meal ticket to staying in the country.

If theologians are going to trod down this path of guilt-tripping the young into early matrimony, perhaps we should also exegete what happens the young make these decisions not out of love or the leading of the Holy Spirit but rather from the result of ecclesiastical busybodies that can't mind their own business.

My mom was accused of being a lesbian because she did not have a boyfriend of a teen.

And there is the case of someone my family was close to that ended up marrying such an outright whore, who unbenownst to him had already had a child in her midteens, that one almost had to consider it a blessing from God for him when he died in a carwreck at the age of 28 just so he could be relieved of that hell-hole of a marriage. Yet even that did not end the pain as the shrew fled town and the grandparents ended up not seeing those grandchildren for nearly 30 years.

Contrary to the swill spewed from the average American pulpit, following God's will is rarely as happy as it is made out to be whether one remains single or gets married.

by Frederick Meekins