Degeneracy Is Normality

Adrian Gaty at The Federalist has an eye opening article today that explains Our Cultural Degeneracy Is Actually A Return To Normalcy. Your first reaction might be "What? That can't be right." But if we look at the long history of civilization, we see that this is truly what we are. What changed, 2000 years ago was God humbled himself and agreed to die on a cross because only He could be the perfect spotless lamb sacrificed for our many and manifest sins. 

The ancient demons, who went by many names, were worshipped by the ancients, and even though the Israelites had the God of creation revealed to them, even they succumbed. The demons, who still live today and still tempt people are Baal, Ishtar (or Astarte) and Molech. Ishtar is today working to spread her poison through drag queens, through transgenderism, through pedophilia, through pornography and other sexual perversions. People used to sacrifice to Molech by feeding their first born sons into the fire burning in his belly. It sounds horrible because it is!  Today, it is done through abortion.

If you listen to the advocates of, for example, abortion, and you have a Christian view of killing innocent unborn children, you have to wonder if these people can hear themselves. They talk as if it were a necessity: as if it was a required sacrifice. But in fact, they are speaking as if the demon Moleck were speaking through them. No, read the Psalms. God does not demand sacrifices, but rather a clean and contrite heart. But if you are going to sacrifice to God, other than repenting and doing what is right, it should be something pleasing to Him. And killing your children, whom God gave you, does not please Him.

As our leaders send the world the clear message that America is a nation of pride, a conservative reaction is brewing. Self-proclaimed “normies,” fed up with the nonstop sexualization of children, the identity politics obsessions of our elite, and the corruption of our institutions, are longing for a Hardingesque return to normalcy. The problem with that wish is that normal is exactly what we are now getting, good and hard.

Remember your history and your Bible: Idol-worshipping, sin-enslaved child sacrificers are the normies. The Israelites might have been the chosen people, but they weren’t the only people. There have been far more Sodoms and far more Gomorrahs in the history of the world than there have been Jerusalems — and even Jerusalem has had more than its fair share of pride-worthy content over the years. That it is becoming harder and harder to tell the difference between Old Testament prophets and the latest Libs of TikTok updates shows humanity is not heading toward some new degenerate frontier, but simply back to our old stomping grounds.

Consider that the most successful ancient cultures were so unspeakably degenerate by Christian standards that the 19th-century archaeologists who dug them up had to shovel that dirt right back and cover up their discoveries to avoid corrupting any tourists. It was not until the 21st century, for instance, that the full extent of Pompeii’s perpetual pride festivities was finally made public — a reflection not of our era’s open-minded dedication to scientific inquiry but of the sad fact that after a century of secular humanism, there was nobody left to shock.

In Pompeii, depictions of pedophilia, rape, and bestiality were a part of daily life, and its art celebrated the “blurred boundaries” between sexes and species. As the Smithsonian puts it, graphic depictions of sex were not sequestered in red light districts but celebrated by the culture at large: “At a time when polytheism, not Christianity, was the norm, sexual pleasure — embraced proudly by the very gods the Romans worshipped — was cause for celebration.” I bet they even had parades.

The Apostle Paul was the Apostle to the gentiles. But he did not go to a city and proclaim the Good News of the Gospel in the town square. He would have been instantly arrested, and beheaded, most likely. No, he was instructed to go to each of the cities and regions and preach in the synagogue. Christianity spread because the Jews were already spread throughout the known world. But gentiles often attended services at the synagogues as well. They then took Christianity to their friends and neighbors, which is how it spread from a few thousand in Jerusalem to the entire world. And as it did, the laws and culture began to change for the better. Our heritage, Western Civilization, is Christian culture. We often don't see it because we have known nothing else. But we are seeing now what we really are, and it is not pretty.

If this depravity sounds more like your local public school than an ancient ruin, you are starting to get the picture. If it’s a picture you don’t like, then it is imperative to understand how your elevated morality emerged from the debased practices of the ancient world. There is only one answer, and it involves the displacement of those polytheistic perverts by radical Christian revolutionaries. Yes, today we have Epstein Island. Before the spread of Christianity, however, the world was a veritable Epstein Archipelago. And until God humbled Himself on the cross, every month was pride month.

The first step to defeating the pedagogical porn peddlers and the gender-bending doctors lies in understanding precisely where your own revulsion at them comes from. Tom Holland’s work is a good place to start. Many, many martyrs had to die horrible deaths before the world started getting second thoughts about pedophilia; many more died to make a world with the Christian confidence to outlaw and punish child abuse. If family drag brunch disturbs you, remember: There but for the grace of God go I. It is only thanks to His grace that you’re not out there in your own pair of fishnets, twerking away.

Why does this matter? Why play into the hands of the queer theorists and rebrand sex criminals as the normies? Well, for roughly the same reason that it is important for a military commander to know whether he has encircled the enemies or they have encircled him. If you view child sacrifice as a self-limiting anomaly, the trans craze as a phase, and identity politics as a passing fancy, you’ll be tempted to sit back, relax, mind your own business, and wait for the madness to subside. Those tactics will get you nothing but a nonbinary grandchild.

The first thing you must do is speak reality, the truth. But if you have not read the Bible, you don't know the truth. You don't have to read the whole thing in one sitting. Rather read it day by day using a lexionary to read the whole thing in one year.