{"id":38128,"date":"2012-09-11T00:35:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T07:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=38128"},"modified":"2014-12-30T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:55:44","slug":"jeepers-who-could-possibly-have-foreseen-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/09\/jeepers-who-could-possibly-have-foreseen-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Jeepers! Who Could Possibly Have Foreseen This?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Director Nick Cassavetes makes the case for incest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should judge a brother and sister being with each other if they are in love\u2026if you\u2019re not having kids \u2013 who gives a damn?\u201d \u201cLove who you want. Isn\u2019t that what we say? Gay marriage \u2013 love who you want?\u201d<\/strong> \u201cYou\u2019re not hurting anybody\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0at another front of the Great Spiritual War of\u00a0our time in the Land Where Consent is the Sole Criterion of the Good, Gawker makes the case for pedophilia.\u00a0 Building upon the solid scientific and psychological insights of Lady Gaga, this article <\/a>argues that pedophiles are born that way and that therefore this \u201corientation\u201d deserves sympathy.<\/p>\n

If by \u201csympathy\u201d one means the sort of sympathy one has for a raging drunk in his wretchedness and ruin as a result of his capitulation to his fallen human nature, that\u2019s one thing.\u00a0 All sinners deserve sympathy, even the most wretched.\u00a0God sympathizes with us\u00a0 in our abysmal sinful wretchedness and sent his Son to die for the worst of us\u2013even Hitler.\u00a0But if by \u201csympathy\u201d you mean \u201cWhatever inclination you happen to feel deserves to be indulged because you feel it\u201d then you are a fool and an enabler of monstrous evil.<\/p>\n

The article wants to make the case that the orientation is inborn with some or is the result of some developmental trauma over which they have no control.\u00a0 Fair enough, that may be so.\u00a0 I suspect the same is true with incest.\u00a0 But as Cassavetes demonstrates, in the Land Where Feeling is King and Consent is the Sole Criterion of the Good<\/a>, we have no capacity for telling the difference between what is actually natural (i.e., in accord with nature and the dignity of the human person) and what is simply the outworking of the Fall through disordered human appetite.\u00a0 So when Cassavetes and those like him meet perverts who want to screw their sister or their daughter or both, they are defenseless before the logic of our sexually deranged culture.\u00a0 And so are most of the rest of Americans who\u2013lacking any knowledge of natural law, human dignity, or the common good\u2013have only custom to fall back on and the exclamation \u201cEwww!\u201d to counter Cassavetes\u2019 \u201cGo for it!\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cEwww\u201d was what they fell back on 40 year ago when gay sex was being proposed as a normal, healthy and good desire.\u00a0 Do you seriously believe \u201cEwww!\u201d will stand up to the concerted effort of our elites to destroy these next \u201ctaboos\u201d?<\/p>\n

Until we return to a healthy Catholic understanding of the fall and of mercy, we will continue to be helpless to face the increasing push toward radical perversion.\u00a0 We will excuse and excuse till we hit the point where somebody does something we can\u2019t excuse.\u00a0 Then we will whipsaw to merciless condemnation without any possibility of redemption.\u00a0 In contrast, the Catholic tradition calls us to recognized that all sin, that sin is really destructive and must be acknowledge and repented, and that Jesus has mercy on even the worst sinners if they will but repent.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Nick Cassavetes makes the case for incest: \u201cNo one should judge a brother and sister being with each other if they are in love\u2026if you\u2019re not having kids \u2013 who gives a damn?\u201d \u201cLove who you want. Isn\u2019t that what we say? Gay marriage \u2013 love who you want?\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re not hurting anybody\u2026\u201d Meanwhile,\u00a0at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-38128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consent-is-not-the-sole-criterion-of-the-good"],"yoast_head":"\nJeepers! 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