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 cant, though, with his obituaries, call his life success or a dream.
Hefner did not create, but marketed ingeniously the idea that a mans life consists in the abundance of his possessions and of his orgasms. To women, he marketed frenetically the idea that a womans 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 Hefners 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.
As a rule, it is best not to get involved in fruitless argumentation, especially when it's just to defend some hell-bound wretch like Moore.
So you will be judged.
I pretty much agree. Are you saying Soros gives money to Moore? Are you Southern Baptist?
Pretty much! Moore is on some so-called Evangelical Immigration Forum, which gets its money from Soros:
They also whored themselves for the Gang of Eight Bill.
And no, I’m not Baptist. I’m Presbyterian. Used to be Southern Baptist for many years (even went to a Baptist private school), then I became a Calvinist about 2 years ago and went full Presbyterian.
Russell Moores partnership with George Soros has been well-documented. Moore, who was called an open border zealot by Breitbart, is exposed by National Review editor, Mark Krikorian, as one of the leaders of the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), a Soros front-group pushing Obamas immigration agenda (link). Evidence supports this charge, and Soros is most definitely providing the funding and direction to the EIT, and by extension, to Moore himself (link). As well as being independently confirmed by a whole myriad of news sources, one of Moores close compatriots on the Evangelical Immigration Table is the socially-progressive Jim Wallis, who has admitted that their funding is derived from George Soros (link); Wallis originally lied about the EIT being funded by Soros (link), but later admitted he had spoken falsely and acknowledged it is funded by Soros (link). Eric Metaxas, who once supported the EIT with Russell Moore, publicly renounced the EIT once he discovered Soros was behind it (link). Moore, on the other hand, still happily serves Soros and his name is still registered as an influential signatory (link) and in an article on the EIT website, it invokes the Southern Baptist Convention (and Russell Moore) as champions of their cause (link). Russell Moore speaks at and leads certain of their events (link).
Although Soros funded the EIT as a left-wing political think-tank to support Obamas immigration policies, with Obama out of office, it has now changed purposes to attack Trumps immigration policies.
http://polemicsreport.com/2017/02/06/george-soros-and-partner-russell-moore-team-up-to-bash-trump-on-immigration/
Thank you very much. Our pastor, Reformed himself as I presume Moore is, knows Moore from seminary and has a lot of respect for him. I will read this and ask a few questions. If you have anymore info I will read as well. Something about Moore has always bothered me before I knew much about him. Recently I learned that he was a staffer for a democrat and that really makes me wonder. It may have been before they were all looney tunes but who knows.
Very welcome!
Read my other posts in this thread with Moore’s articles on WAPO and NYTimes. Moore has a lot of stuff out there where he is basically calling Americans “nativist racists and bigots” because of Trump, and talking about how the Christian Church in America “will not be white anymore.” The examples I’ve provided are not rare, but common.
He’s a full on race pimp. I am not even sure what it is that supposedly makes him a “conservative” Southern Baptist.
If you still need more, just ask and I will provide.
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