Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters"
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Christianity at least has, in traditional/orthodox teaching, an actual moral and logical principle behind it. You ask what's wrong with fetishes? I'd say it's what had once been said with SIMPs and THOTs on this podcast. Free will, you're certainly free to your opinions, actions, and thoughts, as well as what you may want to obsess over, but these things have consequences. The traditional/orthodox teaching is two sexes, man and woman, and matrimony is a sacrament around a covenant between a man, woman, and before God. The vows are made before God, and the purpose of marriage is to have children and raise a family. Even before gay marriage was a progressive mantle, traditional marriage had its conflicts with modern secular ideals, which some have wanted to go as far as abolish marriage and break up families. Who would raise children, if they were even allowed to be born? The state, which we used to deride this ideal as the nanny state. Coming from this understanding, and seeing the current state of things, I'd consider that the gay marriage agenda exploited LGBTQ+ for the purposes of breaking down the traditional family and thus subvert the culture.
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@anyanyanyanyanyany3551 - unfortunately, relativism has hit the Church, too. There are the obvious ways, among the liberal Catholics and the progressive mainline Protestant sects, as well as the community churches that at least are honest enough to leave out Christ and the cross from their podiums, and leave up the pride banners of their 'true religion'. But the more subtle relativism is found in the more fundamentalist, personal Jesus sorts. Unfortunate, as the general conservative slant among them makes them allies on many political and social issues with traditionalists and the more orthodox oriented Christians. The main issue is the subjective manner of relating to Jesus, in the manner of 'me and my Jesus'. While we agree for a need to have a relationship with Jesus, the relativistic part comes when a person thinks they always speak for Jesus, that their opinions are the opinions of Jesus as well. To create a god in your head that always agrees with you and always affirms you as right can make it very hard for such a person to admit when they are wrong, or even can be wrong.
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