Posted on 09/28/2017 11:30:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Overnight, we learned of the death of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Hefner is the iconic figure who not only made pornography socially respectable (and even more lucrative), but also spent a life constructing a “playboy philosophy” of sexual freedom that would supposedly undo the “Puritan sexual repression he saw in American life.”
The death of any person is a tragedy. Hugh Hefner is no exception to that. We can’t, though, with his obituaries, call his life “success” or “a dream.”
Hefner did not create, but marketed ingeniously the idea that a man’s life consists in the abundance of his possessions and of his orgasms. To women, he marketed frenetically the idea that a woman’s value consists in her sexual availability and attractiveness to men.
The “bunny” logo was well-chosen because, in the end, Mr. Hefner saw both men and women as essentially rabbits. This path was portrayed vividly by John Updike in his Rabbit Angstrom series. It is not a happy life.
And yet we are not actually rabbits. We can see our deaths coming, and we outlive those deaths to give an account of our lives. If you want to see “success,” look instead to the man faithful to the wife of his youth, caring for her through dementia.
In the short-run Hefner’s philosophy has won, on both the Right and the Left. The Playboy Mansion is every house now. Many church leaders implicitly or explicitly say, “This is fine.” In many cases, those who hold to what the church has always taught on sexual morality and the value of women are the dissidents now, regardless of how “conservative” a movement proclaims itself to be. Thou hast conquered, O grotto.
The long-run, though, is quite different. Jesus will reign.
In the meantime, the Good Shepherd searches the thickets for his lost sheep. And sometimes for a lost rabbit, too. The sign of the good life is not hedonism but crucifixion. The sign of the good life is not a bunny but a cross.
He's not clinically retarded mush. He's a luciferian.
What most people with a modicum of perception see as insanity, is nothing more than following orders from their master.
The departure of his rotten carcass is too late in coming.
“I do not support him at all. He is plain out wrong on some of his beliefs.”
Well, full disclosure; I’m now a seasoned citizen. And, plead guilty to having grown up, high school, army/Vietnam, college, reading (ok, looking at) Playboy. Now, many years happily married, three children, two grand children, church member, etc, I think I came out the other side reasonably normal with no serious damage caused by Playboy :)
“...The death of any person is a tragedy....?
for a Hefner type, but not for a Christian, a believer
Isn’t he the guy who had to apologize for taking off after Baptists who supported Trump?
It was a wasted life with no redemption. That is a tragedy.
Judging another person's internal spiritual state --- of grace, or mortal sin --- and their eternal destiny, is EXACTLY the kind of Judgment which Our Lord said is strictly forbidden.
You cannot KNOW Moore's inner heart, nor his future state.
Your judgment is a display of hubris,
Russell Moore worships the One True God, and whatever his faults, he is still a work-in-progress. As am I. I find much of his writing admirable. I pray with him and for him as he is a brother in Christ.
As for Hefner, he did not appear to regret his evil ways. So the most we can say, is that if he did not repent of his soul-killing sins and his much-boasted "Playboy philosophy," not even at the end, then he is lost.
While I don’t agree with Moore all the time, or often, he is right about this. It is a tragedy to have a man go his own way all the way to death. The world praises him. He promoted much damage and degradation to women and men. However, if it had not been him it would likely have been someone else. He had his pleasures and reward on earth. But he left a sad legacy of depravity.
Well, that would be consistent with how their dominionist associates seem to share an anathema for certain subjects:
https://www.google.com/search?q="truth+is+great+and+will+prevail"+site%3Awww.focusonthefamily.org
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Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St James
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5972961/Bunny-Tales-Behind-Closed-Doors-at-the-Playboy-Mansion-by-Izabella-St-James-review.html
Playboy mansion? More like a squalid prison: Former Playmates tell of ‘grubby’ world inside Hugh Hefner’s empire
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1342643/Hugh-Hefners-Playboy-mansion-like-squalid-prison-say-Playmates.html
I read one of those a while ago. Sad and disgusting lifestyle.
Dying at age 91 is not a tragedy.
If not the good life it came about as close as he could to make it to the good life.
My first awareness of Hugh Hefner is when Esquire magazine turned down his request for a raise. That motivated Hefner to leave his copy boy job at Esquire to start the "Playboy" magazine. That is impressive too me.
God doesnt take pleasure in the death of the wicked..but Hefner will be judged righteously by an all powerful and all knowing being, who will assign him to his rightful eternal state.
I find it unsettling that this man is cavorting with women who are about the right age to be his grandchildren
That part is right. I read ONE issue, recognized that this guy was building a fantasy world, then selling trinkets like Playboy key chains, cuff links, etc, to a gullible set of males so they could make believe they lived in that world.
Best snowjob I've seen in a long time.
Hefner is low hanging fruit, and the sentiment against him is so easy to make it's probably better not to make it. It's a waste of time. An insult to the intelligence. It's like saying the Earth is round. Hefner is in hell. Whoopy doo. But these people go after these easy targets like Hefner because that's what keeps the peasants pacified. You don't see Moore saying anything about the Marxist Anti-Christian atheist who funnels money to that immigration church whatever group he sits on. He just takes the money, declares Trump anathema, then writes articles every week addressing issues that aren't important to keep up the piety guise.
Let's face it, a guy who sits around cursing Donald Trump as too "immoral" to associate with, and his voters as "racist bigots," but he takes money from an anti-Christian Marxist and avowed atheist like George Soros, is definitely not on the level. It's safe to say Moore is going to hell and is just a political operative, not really a religious leader of any kind. Sort of like Pope Francis. He's going to hell too, just so you know.
Judge acts, judge words, judge programs and policies: these can be sound judgments because they can be objectively verified.
Do not judge souls. You cannot see hearts and minds, nor can you see the future.
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