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Let’s get back our values!

Pastor Hugh B. Thomas. Photo: Provided
Pastor Hugh B. Thomas

It is with great heaviness I write this letter. Being born a BV Islander in the mid-60s, I grew up in a time when respect, self-worth and dignity mattered. Children were children in their homes for there was parental authority in the house, so children grew up understanding authority.

We grew up understanding consequences. If you did good, you were rewarded. When you did bad, it came with consequences. Women were women that prided themselves in character, integrity and pride. Their bodies were precious to them and they treated them as such. Men were good husbands, fathers, providers and protectors. There was a oneness and a willingness to help each other in our family endeavours.

After being away for four decades, I decided to return home and was surprised that most of these values were gone.

Children are no longer children at home for the lack of parental authority so how do we expect them to be children in school?  Women are no longer women. They have become sex toys, no longer seeking to become wives but for the love of money settle to flaunt their bodies and degrade themselves. Their standard of child raising and home building has gotten so low that homes no longer exist. 

Our women are defined by the shape of their bodies and the size of their buttocks. Our men are no longer providers for home, seeking only after pleasure and surrendering their minds to alcohol and drugs, buying what the women are selling, an imagination created by tight clothes and the shape of a buttock while family is disappearing.

Churches are being attacked and falsely accused to validate them not seeing the truth,h which is I am nowhere close to where God wants me to be. Very few homes (not houses) are being formed and built so our community is dwindling away.

Our values need to be revisited. Our men need to come back to reality to see what is important, that action based on your responsibility to be a Godly man.

Call your women to a new standard to not use their bodies as a degrading toy, cleaving only to their own husbands.

Let’s get back our values!

God Bless!

12 Responses to “Let’s get back our values!”

  • wise up (15/07/2022, 19:04) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    We all long for the return of such things my brother, its all in the mind
  • ??? (15/07/2022, 19:52) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
    Did things changed in the country you vacated good pastorr? I hear you, but pastor's are not like they were back then either. They had full time jobs else where and were true Shephards.

    When the church's value eroded and started pandering to the world, so did theI member's values at home, out in the streets and inside the church.. I would love to see the utopian society you described return. However, I think the Lord will return before that happens.
  • samuel (15/07/2022, 21:15) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    This happened after we opened the flood gates of the Virgin Islands for all who wished to enter.
  • big show (15/07/2022, 22:03) Like (8) Dislike (2) Reply
    I will like to see who following this poppy show these people spend all their lives in the USA now come back here saying they are men of the cloth but only who wants to be fooled these can fool just like the Premier God will expose you in time
  • pat (16/07/2022, 10:49) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    This man need to repent
  • Shame Shame Shame (16/07/2022, 11:50) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply

    The members of his church need to research this man and see how much of a fr******t man he is. If they do that and still want to attend his church shame on them!

  • PASTORS ,COM (16/07/2022, 15:36) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    WELL THAT SEEMS TO BE THE THE NEW NORM NOW / LET'S TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THOSE 2 FROM CGB AND THE OTHER ONE WHO SAID HE IS BETTER SO HE DESERVE TO BE A BISHOP , THEY SHOULD BE
    CALYPSONIANS BECAUSE THEY ONLY SINGING MALEE AND EVERYTHING ELSE EXCEPT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY ( PURE HYPOCRISY
  • All lies (16/07/2022, 18:19) Like (2) Dislike (4) Reply
    It is intresting reading comments on this which is far from the truth. The land does not belong to no step family. It is the Estate of their mother. Because one child step up and said he will fix it so the entire family can benefit from it, they are trying to tarnish his reputation.
    I am sure that your backyard have a lot to clean up before u start cleaning someone else backyard. God bless
    • All lies??? neverrrrrr all truth (16/07/2022, 21:30) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
      U look like u ain’t pay attention in school to know wha step brother and sister is and what make’s you step a mother and what is a biological mother cause it look like you ain’t reach that far in school
    • Fix wha (16/07/2022, 21:37) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      To fix what…..the money he owe and run away from the state for

      So I guess his family and friends assets needed fixing to that he tried to get them to hand it over to him to strupessssss..u just as a poppy show as he is …get of the the people them site
  • Shem (16/07/2022, 20:08) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Its very much too too late
  • Well said (17/07/2022, 16:03) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    You were gone away for too long after the money to dress your nice and get brainwashed to call your self Pastor. You se you were supposed to be there 40 yrs ago to have this vision and help again the erosion you are taking about now. Maybe if you were there you could’ve said the same thing you saying now and help keep the scene stable. But you were gone after the same damn money. You hypocrite.


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