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Sunday, July 27, 2014

Random thoughts on modesty

 
  I see a lot of feedback on modesty on line, and it is unfortunately often from Christians trying to excuse how they want to dress. Sometimes it is from someone showing why a Christian should be able to dress in revealing and seductive ways. I have been thinking about it a lot today, and instead of writing a long well thought out blog post, am going to post some random thoughts on it.

1) Modesty isn't just for women, it is for men also

2) It is better to look like Old Mother Hubbard, than to look like her cupboard.....kind of bare.

3) Why do men let their brides wear such revealing bridal gowns? Do they want to show off what they are getting?

4) Why do so many ( sadly even Christian) brides wear gowns baring the arms and shoulders and showing part of their breasts, while the groom wears a long sleeved shirt buttoned to the neck, tux, and a tie? Also applies to prom attire.



5) If the same rules of modesty were applied to grooms and young men at proms, they'd either be shirtless, have on a muscle shirt, or some other revealing shirt.

6) Men are much more visually stimulated than the average woman.

7) Any man who lets his daughter dress immodestly, knowing how men are wired, is crazy.

8) Any parent who lets their daughter go out in a revealing prom dress with a hormonal teenage boy who, like all boys his age,  has sex on the brain, is crazy.

9) I believe God DOES care how we dress, how much skin we show.

10) Just because a man should control his thoughts and lust, does not give women license to dress immodestly in front of men. It is on a woman if they dress in ways to cause men problems, whether they want to accept that blame or not. And yes.... it is on the man too, if he acts on that lust, but it still does not excuse the woman even when she claims it is all the man's fault.

11) A man going shirtless is not modest. It can cause the same problem for some women - and some men  - as a woman running around topless would cause men.

12) Immodesty has no place anywhere, but especially at church. Church should be a safe place, not a place where people have to avert their eyes because of how someone is dressed.



13) If you have to put your hand on your neckline before you bend over, chances are your neckline is too low.

14) If your shirt is longer than your shorts or skirt, chances are your shorts or skirt are too short.

15) Christians dress in ways now that even non-Christians once considered immodest and immoral.

16) How would YOU want women to dress when they are around your sons, your husband, your brothers.....especially if the said men were struggling with lust and trying to keep pure?

17) All men have a struggle to stay pure and not lust. And it isn't always about women, sometimes it is about men.



18) Clothing can cover every inch of the body, but if it is too tight, can be just as immodest as clothing that bares most of the body

19) If more skin is showing than not showing, it is most likely immodest

20) I've heard comments made by other men about women they see, and I can't remember any being made about a woman who was truly modestly dressed and had a modest walk and actions.

21) Modesty also involves how one conducts them self.

22) How would you dress, and how would you dress your daughter, if you knew the neighbor had been in prison for rape?

23) You never know how many rapists or would be rapists you come across on a daily basis.

24) No one deserves to be raped, but I do believe a woman showing a lot of skin would be a target over a woman modestly dressed.

25) One cannot let their daughters dress immodestly, then be surprised when they have sex and/or get pregnant outside of marriage.

26) Adam and Eve made aprons for themselves when they discovered they were naked, but God made them coats.......He obviously cares how much skin we show.

27) Most people wouldn't answer the door of their house the same amount of clothing they wear to the beach.

28) Don't advertise what you aren't selling.

29) The way too many Christian woman dress, is the same way women working the street used to -and still do - dress.

30) We cannot let the world dictate to us what is modest and what is not.... the world has no modesty anymore and the church is blindly following along.




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