The rebellion we have was demonstrated first by the Corinthians. The cause was that they (living in a city where ritual prostitution was honoured) considered that they could continue to live as they would, and love whom they wanted. That love was love.
But they forgot that even the pagans have taboos and limits, for the sake of families and society. That disgust is built within us so that we remain faithful, and for the sake of our children.
And we should be ashamed of what we tolerate. Toleration does not need to be official doctrine, it creeps in and corrupts because the official doctrine is not followed. Many Catholics are noting this and protesting, and even our pet Arian comments correctly.
I don’t pay much attention to Catholic theology or politics, but I will say that the Church has survived worse popes and worse leaders, so I expect it will survive this one too. That being said, I think Catholics would be wise to purge their SJWs and throw out all of the changes since Vatican II. It’s been pretty much straight downhill since that pernicious council took place.
When such happens, you have to remove that person, and those teaching such from the congregation. The Unitarians will take them, but the unitarians are hellbound.
1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father’s wife. 2And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?
3For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present I have already pronounced judgment 4in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
6Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. 8Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
When Paul told the church to hand this person over to Satan for the protection of this soul he was telling them to shun him. To remove him from their fellowship (man and woman: note the woman was married and this was adulterous and incestuous). It is easy to fulminate. But this I know: given our own desires, we will all build not Jerusalem, but a hell of our making.
A law professor, speaking yesterday on the regulation of the internet, discussed how the enlightenment/modernism believed in the perfectability of man. He is wrong: the left believe in that, and that I do not hold to. For we are broken.
What people forget is that immorality bites. It destroys the person doing these things as surely as a diet of McDonalds (or cinnabons) will make you fat. A fair number of the more sensitive songwriters are not writing about how much they want to act like a lemur, but that they feel broken. Most of these are not living that dissolute a lifestyle: they learned from the music stars of my youth, who destroyed themselves rapidly, thoroughly (and those who survived are now being prosecuted for sleeping with groupies).
For you cannot legislate away the conscience with any court.
Lorde – Liability (Live @ Saturday Night HD 720p) from Ramon Floriano on Vimeo.
Within the church we can discipline. We do not need to let such be among us. In the world this is not the case: the spirit of the world rules (we pray for our rulers, that they do not converge with this, and find themselves damned). If we were not to deal with the adulterer or hater or greedy or untruthful, we would be living the life of an anchorite.
We should teach self control, for the sake of the happiness and peace of all. But the Buddhists know that. What we need to preach is Christ. Do not let anything dilute that. For he alone can save us from those sins that beset us, one of the more hidden being our boasting of our spirituality.