Recanting Vice

A reader sent me this link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156593/The-lads-mag-I-edited-turned-generation-porn–Im-father-I-bitterly-regret-A-remarkable-confession-longest-serving-editor-Loaded.html

One of the men who helped the current generation turn into pornography addicts, now that he has a child, remembers his sense of decency and is properly ashamed.

I have two comments:

Such shame is insupportable in the pre-Christian and post-Christian world. Pre-Christians (pagans) would commit suicide after the Roman or Japanese fashion when they discovered that there was no confession, no atonement, and no cure for sin, no way to undo the harm done, no way to clean the stain. Post-Christians (sub-pagans) attempt to medicate or self-medicate the shallow outward manifestation of shame, depression, and sometimes self-medicate themselves to death with bottle or needle. This is the slow suicide of postchristians more craven than noble pagans.

This man’s wakening of his conscience was through the grace of family life. As father he sobered up enormously, and came to this senses. You see, a self centered life is no life at all. Caring for the helpless life of son or daughter, becoming their leader and lawgiver and teacher makes one suddenly and shockingly aware that the laws of one’s life must be just and good and decent.

The obliterating hatred of family life expressed by nearly every antichristian political policy from bribing women to remain unwed via welfare to abolishing the institution of marriage as a legally recognized sacrament via no-fault divorce, to the coarsening loss of respect for women, demoting women in the name of equality and liberty from helpmeets desirable for marriage to silicon sexbots desirable for nothing.

Hell wants to destroy the family because the family often enough matures selfish bachelors to settled and decent men, men who begin to think in the long term and in the wider scope.