There is a sin against the Holy Spirit that cannot be forgiven. And when I type that, though I am paraphrasing Jesus, I fear. The context here is that of Paul, who opposed the church, to the point of Jailing them and advocating for their death. Who then served the Gentiles by preaching the gospel. So it is not mere opposition and being an enemy.

We should pray for our enemies. They can be saved, and when they are saved, heaven rejoices.

I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

(1 Timothy 1:12-16 ESV)

Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, “Can this be the Son of David?” But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.” Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or how can someone enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

(Matthew 12:22-32 ESV)

What the Pharisees did was foolish. Calling the Messiah a minion of Satan. Denying that he is of God: and it is worth noting that Jesus taught that the Pharisees sat of the seat of Moses. That they held the Law, and that the Law mattered[1].

The people he said could not be forgiven were not merely religious. They were religious leaders. There is a particular temptation for the scholar, and that is finding that his theory does not fit God, and choosing his theory over God.

We must pray for such. Most of us live by habit and practice: we do the same things most day at the same time, because it is efficient and saves our cognitive reserve for when we need it. We don’t fight nature, and call it queer phenomenology.

When I saw the headline on a Think Progress tweet — “It takes a village to bully a transgender kindergartner” — my left eyebrow arched. This is an autonomic reflex, I think, although academic experts might theorize that arching an eyebrow in profound skepticism is socially constructed along with the gender binary and the heterosexual matrix. Professors get paid to overthink everything, and after two years of researching radical feminism, I’ve come to realize how this hyper-intellectual tendency makes it impossible for some people to live a happy, normal existence. When you need a theory to explain everything, especially if you are the kind of “progressive” who sees oppression all around you, the ordinary tasks of daily life become unnecessarily complicated.

We are not otherkin. We are not in the wrong body. We know we are not perfect. There is evil in this world. We have to do, each day, what is our duty, and trust God for the rest. We cannot by act of will or by ideology make the world what it is not.

Yes, there is much evil in this world. There are people who rejoice in the destruction of others and want all to praise them bringing young people into corruption. Who have destroyed nunneries with psychotherapy, and cause despair by claiming that illnesses can be treated by vitamins and Scientology.

But they can become like Paul. Or St. Augustine.

But those who call Christ and his church evil have a risk that they sin against the Spirit. Let us pray that our darkest enemies do not fall there. For then, one loses sorrow, and without sorrow one cannot repent. Without repentance the spirit cannot draw you to the cross.

And without the cross, and Christ paying our due penalty, regardless of how deep our sins, there is no reconciliation with God, and we are building a hell of our own making.
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1. The Pharisees, after the destruction of the temple, began to write down the oral teaching of their leaders: this made up the Talmud. So, yes, Judaism has some validity if anyone can keep it and gain mercy without access to the temple and sacrifice and a priesthood. For God is merciful, and before the temple was destroyed Christ came. Christ is greater than the temple.