Posted on 07/15/2014 7:18:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some historical perspective might be useful.
The notion that pedophilia is a uniquely awful crime is a quite recent one, though one I should point out I agree with 100%.
Till the later 19th century, the legal age of consent in UK and in American states was generally set at 10 or 12. In one state, DE, it was 7!
Sex with children, while not openly engaged in, was in our society not paid much attention to. Possibly that is because it was extremely rare. Or possibly it's because nobody cared that much.
In the later 19th century people did become concerned, and the age of consent laws began going down.
But for a long time, and until quite recently, the attitude was not one of the horror with which most people react today. I remember one Woody Allen movie where a "wise old sage" say, "I have lived many years, and, after many trials and tribulations, I have come to the conclusion that the best thing is... blond 12-year-old girls. Two of them, whenever possible."
I doubt that line would fly today.
Which is why education is so important.
We Christians have turned it over to monsters, and are surprised when things go bad?
“So how soon will progressive twist libertarian in to buying in the this.”
They’ll use the exact same justification as for sodomy: what do you care? It doesn’t hurt you. The more educated among them might even trot out their favorite snippet from Thomas Jefferson:
“If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?” (Paraphrasing)
How difficult it is to make a point about America’s moral fabric when the secular left doesn’t believe in anything greater than itself. I’m sure the very idea that America -has- a moral fabric is as ridiculous to them as the notion that God exists.
And once the secular left embraces this, who knows how long it will be before pseudo-conservative phonies like Beck get on the bandwagon? Don’t think it’ll never happen. I’m sure nobody ever thought he’d go carting teddy bears, soccer balls, and hot meals to the illegal alien invaders pouring over our border, but he did.
It is not that big a leap to think that a nation that promotes the slaughter of the unborn, actually protecting it and celebrating it as a “right”, may someday rationalize pedophilia as being innate and natural, and that children also have “needs” and “desires” as well. Under the banner of “children’s rights” and the medical and psychiatric mumbo-jumbo of “minor attracted persons”, laws will be overturned as black-robed miscreants will declare banning this behavior unconstitutional. And the sheeple, not wanting to be judgmental or intolerant, will just go along to get along.
The collective conscience of this nation is becoming more seared every day. How long, Oh Lord? Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
I need to cry now.
In agreement with your prayer! AMEN!!
Ah, when depravity is normalized.
So far it has been the presence of the Christians that have kept these abominations in check.
But when the believers are gone, all hell will break loose and every perversion imaginable and then some, will be dumped on society.
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