26 October 2023
So, children can be steered into falsehoods such that their moral development goes poorly. While you might try to take a different path, it's already been adjudicated repeatedly that you will not be allowed to keep your children from the hellish nonsense promoted by our society. Even a Red State will simply take your children away from you, on the grounds that you are "depriving" them of "normal" childhood.
On top of that, the siren song of self-indulgence is awfully loud in children's ears. It is possible to instill in them the truth despite social conditioning, but it's a lot of work. I've seen it done; it's a monumental task and can be quite expensive (isolation isn't cheap these days). I don't have any good answers for more ordinary people. America stinks.
As bad as it is, it's getting worse. There have long been moves to make child-rearing a matter of federal policy, taking away what little freedom exists by ripping the policy away from the states' control. The leverage for this should be obvious: It's the tranny movement and the lie that you can choose whatever gender suits your mood. It's asserted as a right that children should have.
This is also the leverage to legalize child molesting in all its various forms. This has been the sledge hammer used to polarize the US population. Raising the specter of your poor little innocent children being molested is the biggest boogeyman we have among Americans who aren't true believers in wokism. The word "pedophilia" is still the biggest red flag used to provoke the righties. It's particularly strong among American church folk.
The problem here is the extreme polarization. Children engaging in sex is either wonderful or its hell on earth. Adding adult involvement to the question only pushes the boundaries farther. The manure to be shoveled out here is the polarization.
Let's back off a bit here. Stop and consider: On the one hand, adults having sex with children is as old as the expulsion from the Garden. So far as anyone can tell, it's always been around. On the other hand, it is almost unique to Western Civilization as being such a big deal. Again, so far as anyone can tell, it was rather rare in every previous civilization, but in the West, it's a major preoccupation both for and against. That is, westerners are more likely to want it than any previous civilization, and at the same time, more panicky about it.
It would take at least a book-length study to break it all down, but previous civilizations didn't regard it as special either way. In the Bible, it's never even mentioned. The Hebrew people didn't worship youth and didn't fear death. Westerners do. It's not hard to understand that, if a given society is fearful of aging and death, then idolizing youth is unavoidable. And as part of the broad idolatry of youth, sex with a youth becomes very valuable, highly prized and sought after. It becomes sacred. See how it links with the myth of childhood "innocence"? Who is worthy to take such a prize? The thinking that no one is worthy is just a step away from making it a high privilege. That's why it's such a big problem here in America.
In the biblical Hebrew mind, the whole question is silly and childish in itself. It would take a significant amount of conditioning and training for a child to participate in any emotionally meaningful way. In their undeveloped state, that would be wholly artificial, and frankly no fun. Take away the worship of youthfulness, and the whole thing dies.
Instead, the Hebrew mind is obsessed with building something that will outlive you. Anything that distracts from that project is a frivolous waste of time and resources. Every drop of a man's sexual energy needs to be directed toward building his personal domain. His unconditioned reflex is to spread it around, but with just a very little moral conditioning, he will see the critical importance of having children with his own spouse, and lots of them. He will want them in one place where he can take care of them more efficiently and build up a strong household.
And the Hebrew women were naturally motivated to contribute by seeking to get pregnant. A small part of the cultural repugnance for sex with a menstruating woman was that she was sterile during that time. Do you recognize the biblical attitude of sorrow over a woman's sterility? It's all tied together.
There is a sense in which pedophilia (the desire, not the sex act) is not in itself a sin, but a symptom of something seriously broken. It does not defile, but is a defilement -- rooted in some other moral failure. It's also not some uniquely special failure among other sexual perversions. It's destructive, for sure, and certainly no good for the children to be the subject of sexual lust. However, the cure is not simply punishing the desire. The cure requires changing the culture itself, because the culture is what causes this problem. For example, the advertising industry has turned children into sex objects, even while denying it.
From reading clinical literature, I can assure you that child molesters can never get enough, because they are forever seeking an experience that does not exist, cannot happen. They can seduce children; it's not that hard. Kids are entirely too wide open to manipulation, but they don't bond emotionally the way adults do. Deep inside, the pedophile is forever frustrated because no child can give them the experience their wiring seeks. It's more like a drug that burns you out, making the high harder and harder to get. There are few people in this world more frustrated than child molesters (and they are just as likely to lie to themselves as any drug addict).
If you really want to see inside their heads for yourself, I can honestly recommend that highly vilified novel, Lolita by Nabokov. What most people (who haven't read it) really don't understand is that it's a long, sad tale of child abuse by a man who can never gets what he really wants, and his life ends up in the toilet, as does the poor girl he abuses. The book is actually a study in the fantasy that fails. There are no graphic sex scenes. The book does not in any way glorify the abuse, but dramatically condemns it. I believe the movies made from that book miss that point.
Folks, in our culture, too many adults do sex all wrong in the first place. From pastoral counseling, I can tell you that married people who truly bond in sex are satisfied. Should one spouse die, the other doesn't run out to find a successor because of their sexual urges. It's always the bonding itself that they miss; the sex was just a manifestation of it.
We cannot help our children by panicking about adults lusting for them. We must let go of the pagan obsession with youth. Then we will see clearly to bless our children with God's gifts. Only then can we stand in the place to see clearly what God offers and what He demands.
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