It is becoming clear that much of the world’s misery and poverty are directly associated with the misguided war on the family. This takes place first of all within modern Christian society doing the exact opposite of what God requires of those who would practice pure religion.
It goes like this: a man with a legal wife and children finds another woman and builds a relationship with her. Nothing new here, it is simply nature taking its course. But society, in the form of churches, governments, and other institutions, refuses to recognize or condone this relationship. The man is ostracized if he is open about his 2nd wife and the children he has by her. He is not allowed in church and civil law is against him. He wants to maintain the relationship but he is forced to do so furtively and, under enough pressure, may reduce time spent with the 2nd wife and their children, or abandon them altogether.
The 2nd wife and her children become objects of pity for well meaning do-gooders, who have the same attitudes that hurt or destroyed her relationship to the man in her life. She is now dependent on handouts and welfare. She may be able to hang on to her children but in many cases she is too destitute to do so. She is left bereaved and childless. She is a victim of the war on the family by the forces of socialism and its misguided Christian allies.
You can see her and her children in late night commercials where a do-gooder will ask you to help feed and house them.
Why not just let her have her husband and the children have their father and stop the war on the family?!
The same goes for the woman who finds herself widowed and her children fatherless.
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27
For a church to support a widow she must be 60 years old. Yet we are still required to look after her and her fatherless children. This is best done by letting a man, even if he is already married, give himself to her as a husband and to her children as a father. We believers must keep ourselves from being polluted by the world’s perversion of marriage and practice pure and faultless religion.