Today there are many alternate lifestyles and it’s hard to assign any to a list. Alternate life styles used to mean doing something that society did not sanction and probably that defines the topic today, but there’s a difference. Less people seem to adhere to rules of conduct and long-held ways of living than they did perhaps fifty or more years ago. However that does not mean that all alternative life styles are destructive, but many are. 

Again, a definition: Destructive life styles are ways of living that go against life as it was meant to be lived. It’s simply impossible to go against nature and throw caution to the wind and do what one pleases and then expect not to have to pay penalties somewhere on down the road. And whether or not most people believe it’s okay, if it blocks the normal flow of life, there will be consequences. 

What’s at stake here? What exactly does this topic ask? It asks to list ways of living that is not sanctioned by the Creator. But why bother with him, you may ask, we’re simply talking about day by day living and not about religion. That’s the problem and is one alternative life style that is running rampant through society and by all look of things, is not gaining because of it. 

Parenting life styles

Okay, what about the children? Is it fair to bring them into this world and then neglect them. Of course not, many say, that’s why we prefer to go against nature and have none. We simply don’t have time for them, besides they’re too expensive to care for. Each of us have our own work to do and the children are added burdens. 

And then there’s the gay adoptive issue creating even more confusion for children. What a shame. A child needs a mother and father that cares for them and loves them. They’re the most precious things on earth and once large families, gay parents, single parents were not the problems as they are today. Alternative life styles have gone too far where children are concerned.

Large families didn’t necessarily mean more loving families in years past but more workers in the families. The children were needed in farms and factories. Now they’re simply not needed. But who then will take care of the future? For all time children have had to bear the burden of bad parents, but now alternative life styles seems to be the last straw. Unless of course the alternative life style is one that turns back the clock to pre World War II days and mothers stay home and care for their children, at least in the formative years. 

Children today are given too much and too little is expected of them. That’s another way living has changed. Ideally a family will make room for their children and will love and care for them not only because they’re emotionally attached but because they want them to be who God created them to be. 

Overuse of drugs

Drug use is rampant in today’s society. Once drugs were used sparingly and under the care of physicians who wisely watched that their patients didn’t become addicted to pain killers. Addictive control was a big part of medical competency and although it still is, somehow the pharmaceutical companies now run the show. How ridiculous to advertise dangerous medications especially to those who will insist the doctor prescribe it for them. What kind of care is that? It’s irresponsible and it’s also another way responsible health care is a thing of the past.

Who is to blame? Everyone who accepts this ridiculous alternative situation and does not howl right back at the perpetrators of greed and fraud, and yes those that listen to all that rubbish advertised on television. Yet, it is also good that people learn about their bodies and what it needs and try as much as possible to help themselves. No longer can they do whatever they please and then expect accommodating professionals to bail them out when they refuse to listen to reason.

Inappropriate actions

Anything goes today, or does it. Most worthwhile ‘things’ are still responsible actors in society despite the hullabaloo that shouts otherwise. But far too many actors on today’s stage have never risen emotionally above their belly buttons. And by this its not necessarily meant theatrics in general, but those who believe that others care to see what they have to show. Cover it up now and keep it at home where it is safe under lock and key and bring it out only when it is welcomed.

Selfishness is not really an alternative life style but knowledge of it is. Before, wrong doing and sexual abuse was prevalent, but it was hidden. Now one welcomed life style change of bringing it out in the open is refreshing. And while the subject is now open for discussion, make sure no one part of society is being blamed more than the whole of society. In other words, there’s as much, or more, abuse of children in all walks as life as there is or has been in the Catholic Church. At least they’re willing to accept their part of the blame and to make amends, but how about those protestant preachers, lawyers, school teachers, professionals who are likewise guilty. It’s a human problem, not a church problem!

And to sum it all up, alternate lifestyles is simply another way of saying that what once was done is not done anymore, at least by a large fraction of society. In a broad sense it’s a way of white-washing one’s actions to make the unacceptable appear acceptable but carried further than a trip to the toilet. And to be honest, much of what once was polite society was nonsense. What’s wrong with simply saying the truth. 

The truth of that statement may be too far gone to retrieve and it’s better to say nothing than mess up a fact of life with silliness: No woman in her right mind would leave a dinner table to go ‘powder her nose” but she might need to excuse herself to go do what she has to do. Common sense usually works best when alternatives are considered.