I’ve talked before about the need for purity in a culture saturated with pornography. I consider pornography to be one of the greatest enemies of human dignity and a major foe of marriage. Besides the immorality of pornography, however, Matthew Warner suggests something I’ve never considered: the social capital sacrificed by pornography users.
Noting that Americans spend 11.4 billion hours and $13.3 billion on pornography each year, Matt describes the social revolution that could occur if Americans diverted those resources towards good:
With that same amount of time (man-hours) we could…
- Build the Empire State building…1,628 times.
- Visit every single one of the 1.5 million U.S. nursing home residents, every single day of the year, for 20 hours a day…and still have free time left over.
- Visit every single one of the 2 million prisoners in the United States, every single day, two people at a time, for 8 hours.
- Have every single person (310 million) in the U.S. spend an extra 36 hours in prayer.
- Spend 3 extra hours per week with each and every one of the 75 million teens and children in the United States.
With that same amount of money we could…
- Provide, prepare and serve 7 billion school lunches. That’s enough to feed over 38 million students every school day of the year.
- Pay for 1.9 million four-year college degrees.
- Build 190,000 Habitat for Humanity homes…in Orange County, CA. Or we could build 7.25 million of them in India.
- Give $13.3 million to one thousand different charities each.
- Feed 1 billion people a meal…70 times.
Read the rest of Matt’s article here.
Porn or Social Revolution. The world awaits our choice.