Posted on 09/11/2012 7:08:05 AM PDT by WXRGina
We should not be surprised at the evil idiocy that comes from godless people, although their vile words and twisted ideas can sometimes still be stunning. We saw some of this last week at the Democrat convention. We saw those godless fools scream, wail and shake their fists against God and Jerusalem—three times, in fact. We saw them applaud taxpayer funding for killing pre-born babies. We saw them cheer for sodomy and the destruction of the meaning of marriage. We saw them glorify the lawless illegal alien invasion of our nation. We saw their ugly face in prime time high-definition.
That was plenty bad, but on Monday, I read something almost as bad as booing God.
News Busters’ Noel Sheppard featured excerpts of a column from the Gawker website titled, “Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children.” The title alone is enough to make you sick. The piece was posted under Gawker’s “science” section. Yeah.
I went to the Gawker website, and between fits of retching, I managed to read the entire column. It was written by editor Cord Jefferson, who opens the article with a graphic account of an adult man named Terry raping a seven-year-old girl. Jefferson describes Terry as being “deeply religious.”
Jefferson then goes on to point out that pedophiles are some of the most-scorned members of society (ya think?!), how they need protection in prison, and how they have a very hard time finding places to live once they have been convicted of their crimes and then (as I say, stupidly) released back onto the streets after completing their prison term.
Jefferson lays out the case for pedophilia being a “sexual orientation” that these people, mostly men, have no way of changing. He spends a large part of his piece detailing so-called scientific studies of pedophiles, their behavior, bodies and brains. The problem with this is that science does not and cannot provide an answer or an explanation of what is simply sin.
These scientists bend over backward to explain—without addressing the real issue of sin—the horrific behavior of men who prey on children. In doing so, these “scientific men of reason” labor fervently to excuse this diabolical scourge of sin by declaring it to be a mental illness or just another characteristic of one’s birth.
As Jefferson wrote,
But there is a growing number of researchers, many of them out of Canada, whose work suggests that pedophilia is an illness deserving of the public’s sympathy the way any brain disorder is. Some of the scientists say pedophilia is a sexual orientation, meaning that it’s unchangeable, regardless of how much jail time or beatings or therapy someone is dealt.
Deserving of the public’s sympathy? Not according to Jesus. Jesus said that men like these would be better off dead than to have caused a child who believes in Him to stumble.
An argument was also attempted that a pedophile is not necessarily a pedophile. Huh? Yes, Jefferson presented it here,
But a 21-year-old who has intercourse with a 16-year-old, while not a good decision maker, is probably not a pedophile. Nor is someone who, say, exposes himself to a 5-year-old boy necessarily a pedophile. They may have committed a pedophilic act, but unless they have a clear preference for undeveloped children the way heterosexual men have for women, they are not pedophiles.
He later reiterates the point,
Every expert with whom I spoke wanted to get one thing straight: Being a pedophile is different from being a child molester.
What?! This is stunning. Here we have quacks labeled as “experts” doing their best to make a case with minced words, trying to excuse and defend the reprehensible, hell-inspired behavior of pedophiles. They are trying to make a distinction in kind here? Seriously? Yes, I’m afraid so. Call this behavior what you want; it is still purely evil.
The “scientific” portion of Jefferson’s piece kept bringing to my mind that you truly can over-think these things. Some of the purported “findings” in all these pedophile studies Jefferson cites include that a larger percentage of pedophiles are left-handed and smaller in stature than the general population, that many of them had head injuries at a young age, are more likely to have failed grades in school, and have a lower IQ than average—and the younger the pedophile’s victims, the lower the pedophile’s IQ, proportionately.
Naturally, these “scientists” look everywhere but to the spirit of a man for the “reasons” for his aberrant behavior, and the brain is one of their favorite places to look for answers they will never find. Jefferson reported on some brain study results from Dr. James Cantor, a Canadian sex researcher and psychiatry professor. Among the studies, Cantor professed that pedophiles have a problem, not with “gray matter” in the brain, but with “white matter,” the connective tissue within the gray matter, or as Cantor calls it, “cabling,”
“There doesn’t seem to be a pedophilia center in the brain,” says Cantor. “Instead, there’s either not enough of this cabling, not the correct kind of cabling, or it’s wiring the wrong areas together, so instead of the brain evoking protective or parental instincts when these people see children, it’s instead evoking sexual instincts. There’s almost literally a crossed wiring.”
The good news, according to Cantor, is that it if they can figure out how the wiring gets crossed, they might be able to suggest ways pregnant mothers can help ensure their baby is unlikely to be born a pedophile.
This is truly unbelievable. This “doctor” is suggesting that babies are born pedophiles, and that their mothers might be able to prevent it with better prenatal care. I would laugh, but this guy is not joking.
Oh, this column is a piece of work, and Cord Jefferson puts the finishing touches on it by opening his last paragraph with these gems:
The old adage is that the true mark of a society is how it treats the weakest in its ranks. Blacks, women, Latinos, gays and lesbians, and others are still in no way on wholly equal footing in America. But they’re also not nearly as lowly and cursed as men attracted to children. One imagines that if Jesus ever came to Earth, he’d embrace the poor, the blind, the lepers, and, yes, the pedophiles.
Why do these liberal freaks always insist on slandering God in their hell-born attempts to justify sin? Jesus offers freedom from sin, but never, ever, nowhere, no way does Jesus endorse sin.
Let’s look at that first sentence. What immediately jumps to (the rational) mind when you read “the weakest in its ranks”? Next to pre-born babies, it is children, of course. Yet, by this, Jefferson is talking about pedophiles! The weakest in our ranks?! Is Jefferson serious?
Pedophiles are not weak, but they are certainly cowardly, as they choose, stalk and groom their half-pint prey—innocent children, who are truly the weakest among us. This piece of perverse propaganda is not fit for trampling by filthy pigs in a sty.
The fact is that there are hardly any more wicked sins than those that hurt children. Jesus singled out such sins for the strongest condemnation: you’re better of dead than doing such things. Jesus never said that about any other sins. Homosexuality and other sexual sins are labeled by God as abominations, but there is something particularly evil about those who prey on children.
This Gawker piece’s contention that pedophilia is a “sexual orientation” that cannot be changed is simply a lie from the pit of Hell. It is an attempt to justify horrible behavior by claiming it is innate. The homosexual activist movement is feverishly trying the same, lying tactic.
The truth is found in God’s Word. When we surrender our lives to God the Father through Christ the Son, we are made new creatures—new! As it is written, the old is passed away, and all things have become new. What this means, in part, is that Jesus has forgiven us and freed us from the bondage of sin. It does not mean we will never sin again or that we will not be tempted to sin, but it means we are no longer slaves to sin. We now have the power, through Christ, to say “no” to sin—every sin.
But, without God’s Holy Spirit living in us and guiding us, there is certainly no “cure” for pedophilia, or any other sin for that matter, and a thousand years of brain study will never reveal to these “enlightened” men of “science” that the wicked behavior of the pedophile is born, not in his brain, but in his blackened, spiritual heart.
If you could prove to me that an arsonist was born with the desire to set fires - I still wouldn't want them free to roam the streets; I would want them locked up for their crimes.
We are all born with certain inborn inclinations; as just one example - men are much more likely to commit violent crimes. Some people are born without a discernible conscience (sociopaths). They should still pay for their crimes. Nothing would embolden a sociopath more than being told that because ‘they cannot help it’ they face reduced or no punishment.
They no more want to be "cured" than do homosexuals.
HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.
For secular humanists, if someone has a alternative lifestyle that has been scientifically proven that it was a biologically determined lifestyle from birth, that means that it is a legitimate lifestyle. It should not be considered evil, and one should be allowed to pursue it as they see fit,in the name of self-actualization. For them, first it was homosexuality, now pedophilia. Next is incest. This has been their plan for decades.
I find myself increasingly sympathetic toward that solution.
We either treat it like a disease and find a cure, or we treat it like a psychological disorder and we use it to discriminate in matters of parenting, employment, and security.
I’m talking about BOTH homosexuality AND pedophilia. If its a disease, let’s put on a telethon and look for a cure. If it isn’t - if they idea that pedophilia is somehow normal, simply because the case for homosexuality and pedophilia are the exact same (I can’t help it), then the rest of us should be allowed to take evasive action from people with those disorders.
I say that because as soon as you split procreation away from sex, you've shriveled its meaning. It's small. It reduces the meaning of sex to "I wanna." And if "I wanna" is the meaning, the object of "I wanna" can be, basically, anything you want.
“Both homosexuality and pedophilia are SINS, period!”
That’s been established. The condition whereupon a man gazes upon a child with lust isn’t something that happens naturally. There are a great many homosexuals that want very much not to be, for example.
There is a causation for that type of reaction. For the spiritual, partial possession may be the cause.
For the secular, the fact that they are ‘sins’ has no relevance. The fact that they cost society money, breach the peace, and pose public health risks are relevant enough to investigate scientifically. That they do not is purely political.
You’re right that those in the secular world do not give a rip that the “cause” is sin, grown from the heart. It’s too bad for them.
Then there's that.
They used to think leprosy was caused by sin too. After a while, we studied it, then we cured it.
That was a different time though.
You’re not actually defending child rapists, are you?
The last I checked, a skin disease does not lead to people acting on their impulse to sin, as in raping children.
I once watched a client of mine walk out of her appartment toward me naked, swearing she had defused six bombs in her apartment placed there by demons coming from the clock.
To stop the fire that could have started from the bombs, she flooded her bathroom.
After she was restrained and taken to a hospital, I retrieved some of her clothes and effects and brought them to her. She had become paranoid-schizophrenic. Fortunately, they can treat that with meds, and she has been able to retain her job. Those meds wouldn’t exist without research.
Now, were her issues moral, or were they medical?
Since there is exactly dick for research on the neurochemical causes of either pedophilia or homosexuality, we’re not going to be able to find out for a while.
See, on the right, its a sin and on the left its a choice and it is normal. Here in rational world, if you choose to be a pedophile because you’ve tried everything else, THAT’s a sin. If you’d rather cut your own dick off than hurt a child, you might have a neuromedical issue (that’s happened too - self castration and penile mutilation or dismemberment).
You think there’s some room between sin and choice for some sort of medical research to determine whether there’s something we can do for those afflicted, INNOCENT, and desirous of care?
I’d reserve judgement, or you just might smell your own genitals roasting over some hot coals someday. Satan loves nothing more than a sanctimonious, judgemental asshat driving the truly agnostic away from Christ. Another saved person confusing salvation for perfection and the right to sit in judgement.
You are as screwed up now as the day before you were saved - the only difference between now and then is that you’re forgiven.
Christ even came for the pedophiles, should they seek Him. In any case you’re not in possession of a tenth of the facts about any of His flawed creations to comment on their state of grace.
Demon possession is grossly under-diagnosed nowadays.
Whose “state of grace” am I commenting on? My column addresses the lunacy of the Gawker piece.
Sin is sin, and if you want to study the “causes” of sin, go right ahead and knock yourself out. You will never find the answers in a CT scan.
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