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The normal room temperature state of fallen man\u2019s social relationships with one another are master\/slave. This was true for the entire history of the human race absolutely everywhere, until well into the Christian era. Christianity\u00a0only managed to extirpate slavery with a centuries-long effort, full of fits, starts, and backward steps and the victory has always been tenuous at best. \u00a0Get rid of Christ and slavery will return very swiftly, as indeed it already is. \u00a0Incest will not be the bottom of our slide. \u00a0The question \u201cWhat\u2019s so sacrosanct about consent?\u201d will be the bottom. \u00a0And a civilization that \u00a0has carefully scrubbed from its mind and heart the concept that a victim under the jackboot of a master is made in the image and likeness of God will be a civilization ill-prepared to reply when the man in the jackboot spits out that question before grinding the face of his victim with his boot.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026is met with, \u201cYeah? \u00a0So What?\u201d by his readers. I hate being right all the time. Let\u2019s review, in order to prepare for the future, where making consent the sole criterion of the good will lead (here, here, and here). It will lead, not to the triumph of personal autonomy and a golden age of […]<\/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-55109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consent-is-not-the-sole-criterion-of-the-good"],"yoast_head":"\n
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