[Industrialblog,
February 18, 2004]
Trojan, well, Colt
One way evil works, and by that I mean spiritual evil as spoken of in Ephesians, is to speak a lot of truth in order to sell you a lie. Trojan horse as it were. In this case, we'll say a colt.
Not to name names, because remember our struggle is not against flesh and blood, that is, individuals, but against spiritual evil working through flesh and blood, that is, individuals. We could be, and I certainly am sometimes, that flesh and blood doing the work of evil. When I'm hateful, resentful, ungrateful, that sort of thing ... which is far too often.
So I'm not going to name names.
There is a popular blogger who has been supportive of the war on terrorism, and has spoken eloquently about our need to defend ourselves. Mixed in with these posts is the outspoken advocation of gay marriage and the changing of Catholic teaching on homosexuality. A lot of libertarian bloggers may have been convinced by his arguments, as well as a lot of conservatives. Many have been confused.
And so it can be argued that this individual, who has left himself open to spiritual evil through his outspoken, unrepentant homosexual behavior, is doing the work of spiritual evil — by speaking fighting words on the war on terror as a cover for his other arguments, which is to pervert the fundamental values regarding family, marriage and sexuality. And BTW, I'm spiritually analyzing the situation; this is completely unconscious on his part. He thinks he's on the side of angels ... but he's being used by spiritual forces he simply doesn't understand. And as long as he's unrepentant, he will continue. And that's a shame, because he's talented.
As another writer said, our job is not to anathematize these individuals, but to pray for them and call them to conversion. These individuals are not the enemy; they are the mission field.
Not to name names, because remember our struggle is not against flesh and blood, that is, individuals, but against spiritual evil working through flesh and blood, that is, individuals. We could be, and I certainly am sometimes, that flesh and blood doing the work of evil. When I'm hateful, resentful, ungrateful, that sort of thing ... which is far too often.
So I'm not going to name names.
There is a popular blogger who has been supportive of the war on terrorism, and has spoken eloquently about our need to defend ourselves. Mixed in with these posts is the outspoken advocation of gay marriage and the changing of Catholic teaching on homosexuality. A lot of libertarian bloggers may have been convinced by his arguments, as well as a lot of conservatives. Many have been confused.
And so it can be argued that this individual, who has left himself open to spiritual evil through his outspoken, unrepentant homosexual behavior, is doing the work of spiritual evil — by speaking fighting words on the war on terror as a cover for his other arguments, which is to pervert the fundamental values regarding family, marriage and sexuality. And BTW, I'm spiritually analyzing the situation; this is completely unconscious on his part. He thinks he's on the side of angels ... but he's being used by spiritual forces he simply doesn't understand. And as long as he's unrepentant, he will continue. And that's a shame, because he's talented.
As another writer said, our job is not to anathematize these individuals, but to pray for them and call them to conversion. These individuals are not the enemy; they are the mission field.
By the way, did you read Reverend Sensing's recent posts on marriage?
But you're right - they still need prayer.
Yeah, I read Donald Sensing's post. I didn't know what to think about that.
Marc, I think they're over the line, too. This SF thing has certainly put an interesting spin on things.
I doubt that the incest barrier will come under attack as anything so quaint; I suspect that it will fall by as yet another forgotten relic.
As Donald Sensing pointed out, gay marriage will not threaten the institution of marriage. The institution of marriage is already destroyed, and gay marriage is but one of its death throes.
None of my friends who are married are even remotely close to divorce. That's anecdotal, yes, but remember 50 percent of marriages succeed -- and I'm pretty sure that number is lowered by a class of bad actors who are getting married and divorced a lot. I'm sure if you exclude "starter" marriages, you'll find more steady numbers. For college educated folks, the number of first marriages that succeed is something like 75 percent (but I may have made that up.)
I think what's being slipped down is a slope of cultural absurdity, and gay "marriage" is near the bottom of the slope. It's not just a marriage thing -- it's a nonsense thing. So after gay marriage will be some new kind of nonsense, absurdity and futility.
Yes, of course to say that marriage 'is destroyed' is not literally true. But the notion that a failed marriage is some sort of taint on the partners to it has long since passed by the wayside in any meaningful way; marriage as an institution is not culturally dominant, in a way its losing its cultural acceptance. It's sliding into something that a couple does because it wants to; the notion of the vows having anything to do with the permanance of the marriages is disappearing. It will be a long time before it's gone, and even that will require the world to continue in the same direction for a long time — something that it's not very good at.
And yes, there is more to come. I do expect polygamy to follow not long after gay marriage (a few decades, I would think, is all that's necessary). After polygamy? I expect bestiality to come. Maybe in the other order. After all, some people all but marry their pets anyway.