Hey everyone it's Leslie Lutie, host of the Set-A-Part girl podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages. Today we have

Halloween coming up this week and it really inspired me to take a fresh look at where our culture is at in the area of darkness and death.

And one thing that I've noticed and you've probably noticed it too is that in the past decade or so, especially in the past five or six years,

the culture has really escalated in celebrating death and darkness and glorifying things that are evil and really even trying to make and popular and it's really easy for us I think as Christian women to kind of overlook

that and not take it very seriously but there's a scripture in Proverbs that is

so interesting to me it's talking about true wisdom and it says those who hate me, meaning the wisdom of

God, love death. Those who hate God's wisdom love death. And that's what you see when you look around our world today

there is a love for things that are representative of death you see skulls and

skeletons everywhere it's not just I mean when I was in high school it used to be just

like on the t-shirts of kids who were really into heavy metal bands and you know

road skateboards and had long shaggy here and there was a sort of a subculture of people who loved, you know, skeletons

and skulls and now it's absolutely everywhere. It's got sparkles on it and it's on scarves and jewelry.

I even remember a few years ago I bought a pair of swim trunks for one of my boys he was probably three or four years old at the time so they were like little kid toddler swim trunks and I grabbed them off the rack thinking that

they had a beach scene on them and when I got them home I took a closer look at

this beach scene was actually in the shape of a skull. And so here is clothing actually made for little

kids that celebrate darkness and death and you see these little babies wearing skull and

skeleton t-shirts, you see girls wearing you know sequins

skulls and skeletons on their purses and bags and there are even aisles that my

kids and I have to completely avoid in the toy store because the toys in

those aisles are so demonic and you just walk down the aisle and it's like

you're assaulted with violence and blood and gore and that's in a toy store

so that just shows you how far our culture has come in this area of celebrating darkness

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