What the left seem do want is chains, and disability. They don’t want to be healthy, for it does not fit into queer theory. Now, of course, queer theory is bad for you, and claiming that your sins and weaknesses can just go away is equally bad. We all have to make choices.

Every day. You. Must. Choose. Not. To. Eat. The Cinnabon. Matt Forney once described (in a now dead blog) the fatal attraction of that place, where mastodons stalk the high fructose syrup of the pastry. There is a reason I try to stay Paleo.

But that means I will never win the Victim Olympics.

The “victim olympics” is a contest for a better position in the “progressive stack” of “intersectional feminism.”

This never-ending game is highly competitive, its rules are constantly in flux, and many of the contestants have a tenuous grip on reality in the first place, so it should come as no surprise that some people cheat. Perhaps ironically, such cheating (e.g. Munchausen syndrome) is itself disordered, and would thus grant some “victim points” even if discovered; less amusingly, it can have victims beyond the perpetrator, as with Munchausen by proxy (e.g. baby poisoning or childhood gender identity disorder).

We are not playing in the Victim Olympics. We were not called by God to glory in our disabilities, but to do what we can to help others, for the glory of God. We are free not to sin, so let us do good.

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

(Romans 6:1-11 ESV)

What do we do? We account ourselves dead to sin. We work it out in our lives. We are not sinless: anyone who believes that is the case has not read the letter from James. We need to be aware of the memes in this world and the risks of this world. We are not immune to the problems that affect the mass of humanity.

At times, we will have to confess our sins to one another.

But this is important. If we live for Christ, we will be like Christ. What we do here, therefore, matters. It is done for Christ: and for good or for ill, we are his witnesses in this world.

Let the elite rage and the world stand against us. We are his witnesses. And our witness should offend queer theology, and make us fail at the virtue olympics.