MembersHave You Cheated? Been Cheated On? It’s Time to Pay the Piper

An encounter in Jerusalem that demonstrates how the casual normalization of infidelity is ripping our society apart.

By Oriel Moran | | Topics: Bible
Pop culture has made infidelity out to be normal, if not cool, with little or no regard for the lives it ruins.
Pop culture has made infidelity out to be normal, if not cool, with little or no regard for the lives it ruins. Photo: Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Netflix removed my favorite TV show. It was reasonably clean, and although it wouldn’t pass today’s ‘woke’ test, I could watch it without sex scenes, grotesque violence or foul language.

I needed a new show, so I chose the American television sitcom Friends. It was a popular TV show when I was a kid and a tween, and my siblings and I were excited to watch it, although my parents were apprehensive.

After watching for a few minutes, my parents declared, “no more Friends!”

They banned it, citing it immoral, which I thought was unreasonable and unnecessarily strict. So now, as an adult, I rebelled.

It only took a few minutes for me to eat my words. It was packed to the brim with all types of biblical immorality.

But what really got me was the nonchalant and unrealistic approach to infidelity. I get it; it’s a sitcom, and it’s meant to take life’s greatest challenges and extract the humor from them, but I dare you to find a person who found out their...

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2 responses to “Have You Cheated? Been Cheated On? It’s Time to Pay the Piper”

  1. Vernon Ryan says:
    March 2, 2023 at 4:58 pm

    Excellent article, I have read Hosea but not studied it, I will study it now, thank you.

  2. Lois Heal Bright says:
    March 2, 2023 at 8:37 pm

    Thank you dear Oriel for another truth-revealing article bringing to the forefront our need for understanding God’s tremendous love for us, and our need to be faithful to Him.

    My earliest days, from birth to age 4, were spent in the Toronto Jewish Mission with my parents as they provided love, shelter and encouragement to Jewish young people who had been ousted from their homes for loving Jesus. Perhaps in answer to the prayers of those precious young people, God has placed His love for the Jewish people deep within me–with prayer for their understanding of God’s love in giving His Son, Jesus, for our redemption, and seating Him as our High Priest through whom we come to God for forgiveness and help.

    Thank you again for your article; love always, and may God bless you.

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