Christianity in todays world

Here is an article I ran across recently that I thought would be interesting to share with others.I am not sure I agree with all of the authors points that she makes but I also feel that she brings many interesting discussion topics to the table.Check it out and see what you think!
Here it is:
Allllrighty then! Well after reading a few other articles on this thread, I must say I'm amused, slightly shocked, and a little bewildered. I have to add as well, it's difficult to take seriously the articles of people who cannot properly spell simple one-syllable English words, or of people who use profanity repeatedly to make their point. But I digress. Having said that, I don't think this thread is about how many commandments one can name or whether or not Jesus is atonement for sin. For every 100 people reading these (or any) articles, there will be 100 or more different opinions. Religion and Biblical text are too subjective, or at least have become so, to be able to say, "this is the definitive answer and any other belief or response is wrong." And having said THAT, I offer the following:
I've lived on several different sides of this multi-faceted issue. I am not some hardened sinner who, in an adult life, used Christianity and being "born again" as a cop-out for my past transgressions. I came to Christ as a young child. All of the damage done by this sinner came later, much later, in life. I have faced nearly every temptation to commit wrong-doing that exists, with the exception of wanting to murder someone (well, let me think on that one), and I've failed miserably time and again. Have I failed because my Christianity, my claim to Christ or God, is fake or flawed? No. I've failed because I am exactly what man (and woman) has been since Adam and Eve...a sinner. I'm a human being with a sin nature.
Consider this analogy of water flowing uphill. It is not in the nature of water to flow uphill. Water finds its own level and water submits to the forces of gravity. Water cannot possibly flow uphill by its own free will because water was not created with that capability. The only way to make water flow uphill is to provide it with a force that will cause the water to defy gravity and move against its nature. And even as that water is being propelled uphill at its center, all around it, the very same water is flowing right back down. This is who we are as humans and sinners. No matter how hard we try we cannot, within ourselves, perform the impossible (perfection and sinlessness) because we were born with a sin nature and the complete inability to be anything but sinners. In order to even attempt the uphill climb, we must have another force that propels us. For me, this is God and my relationship with Him. And even in the midst of His hand guiding me against the grain of my own nature, parts of me still backslide.
Today's world bombards us, Christians or not, do-gooders or not, with the temptation to be "do-badders." Let's take a slice of 1950s morality and say, for the sake of argument, that the following things are wrong and sinful: Pre-marital sex, homosexuality, drinking, drugs, adultery, pornography, lying, murdering, raping, stealing and working on Sunday. (I'm being somewhat facetious here.) Now going through that list, think of those things in relation to modern media. In Hollywood, everyone has sex before marriage, being gay is cool and gets you your own TV show on Oxygen, drinking is commonplace, drugs are what the cool people do for recreation, adultery is fine because "we're in an open marriage", pornography is two clicks away, etc., etc. I literally could go on for days. This same media-driven world gives very little play, if you will, to the do-gooders, the Christians, the upright in the world. The only time you hear about Christians is when someone in a public school is in trouble for praying at lunch or passing out salvation tracks in study hall. The only time good will to men is considered is at Christmas and maybe Easter. The only time it's cool to mention God or Jesus is if you are including them in a brief nod during an Oscar acceptance speech or after winning the Superbowl. I know I'm being minimalistic to a degree, but I also know I'm not too far off the mark. The point of all of this is, it's hard, if not impossible, to live a Christ-like life in a Christ-less age.
So in conclusion to my too-long dissertation here I say, when I'm faced with the temptation to lie, to lust, to envy, to hate, to be apathetic, to judge others, to (fill in the blanks), I know only this; no matter how much my heart may want to flood uphill, my nature can only obey to the gravity of the sin within it and I pray for God's sovereign hand to gently lead me higher. A mere thought from God was enough to part the waters of a sea, so I can trust fully that God can deal perfectly with the tiny trickle that is my humanity.
Learn more about this author, Esmerelda Q. Culpepper.