Episode 18: Sexual Regress

** Warning: This episode might not be suitable for young listeners**

Continuing our previous discussion of the imminent return of paganism, we elaborate on the Roman pagan practices of prostitution, slavery, homosexuality and the more disturbing practices of pederasty, abortion and exposure. During our discussion we provide numerous examples of how these practices are emerging in our Western culture today. We highlight how Christianity radically changed the ancient Roman world by drastically curbing these practices and by promoting the idea that all people have equal value and that people can exert self-control and not be slaves to their depraved desires. Join us as we expose the pagan worldviews seeping into our culture, whether growing from within or coming from far off places, such as “the land of sand and sodomy”. Even as Christianity is being pushed ever more into the margins, the Christian message still has the power to free people from slavery to pagan worldviews.

Episode Timeline

0:00:00: Opening

Overcast (iOS)Podcast Insights | Best Podcast Listening Apps (For iOS & Android)Android Central | Best Podcast Apps for Android in 2020Android Authority | 10 best podcast apps for Android!

0:10:19: Prostitution, Slavery and Homosexuality

YouTube | The Pagan City, the Christian City, and the Secular City | Steven SmithYouTube | Culture Wars as Pagan Counterrevolution | Steven Smith YouTube | Coming Home? The Imminent Immanent City | Steven Smith Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.Business Insider | Prostitution is legal in countries across Europe, but it's nothing like what you thinkilo.org (PDF) | Global Estimates of Modern SlaveryUSA TODAY | From harmful fetishes to sex trafficking, Robert Kraft case highlights risks facing Asian womenUSA TODAY | 13 sex trafficking statistics that explain the enormity of the global sex tradeYouTube | ABC NEWS | Hidden America: Chilling New Look at Sex Trafficking in the USYouTube | Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes AustraliaWashington Examiner | Cindy McCain admits ‘we all knew’ about EpsteinRT | The Vatican invested over $1 million in steamy gay Elton John biopic, ‘Men in Black’Wikipedia | The First Temptation of Christ

0:28:35: Pederasty and Pedophelia

The Atlantic | The Kingdom in the Closet | Sodomy is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, but gay life flourishes there.The Jerusalem Post | In wake of Cologne attacks, Germany may be grappling with migrant 'rape game'The Washington Post | Justice Department investigates abuse by Catholic clergy in PennsylvaniaThe Guardian | 4,444 victims: extent of abuse in Catholic church in Australia revealedSalon.com | I’m a pedophile, but not a monster (404)Archive.is (Originally Salon.com) | I’m a pedophile, but not a monster Salon.com | The pedophile I could not help: He was not a monster or a molester. The system destroyed him anywayYouTube | Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes 2020 - All of his bits chainedYouTube | Former Child Star Corey Feldman Talks About His Hollywood Pedophilia Claims | Megyn Kelly TODAYYouTube | Elijah Wood Says There is a 'Major' Pedophilia Problem in Hollywoodtiffanyfitzhenry.com | WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Mother of Sexually Abused Boy Bander Breaks Her Silenc... Oops! That page can’t be found archive.org | WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Mother of Sexually Abused Boy Bander Breaks Her Silence, Implicates Disney, CAA, Hollywood Records, LAPD, DA & Industry Elite in Pedophile Ring & Cover-upThe Hollywoodreporter | APA Threatens Sanctions in Response to Ricky Garcia's Sexual Abuse LawsuitNBC News | Singer in boy band Forever in Your Mind, Ricky Garcia, accuses ex-manager of sexual assault The Guardian | Child abuse documentary Hollywood 'didn't want you to see' goes viralYouTube | Pedophilia Is A Natural Sexual Orientation | Mirjam Heine | TEDxUniversityofWürzburg (#TEDOGATE)LifeSite News | TEDx speaker: ‘Pedophilia is an unchangeable sexual orientation,’ ‘anyone’ could be born that way

0:59:13: Abortion and Exposure

Wikipedia | History of abortion - Greco-Roman worldCNN | Read Michelle Williams' powerful speech about choiceMichelle Williams’ Surprisingly Personal Speech About Abortion Was the Golden Globes’ Most Powerful MomentYouTube | NBC | Michelle Williams: Best Actress, Lim. Series, TV Movie - Golden Globesnewsbusters.org | Comedian Michelle Wolf Jokes Abortion Made Her 'Feel Very Powerful,' Like ‘God’Paris, Ginette (1998). The Sacrament of Abortion. Spring Publications. 

1:13:23: The Impact of Christianity

Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.Genesis 1:27–28; 2:24-25Commandments: Deuteronomy 5:18, 21; Exodus 20:14, 17Leviticus 18:22-23; 20:13Mark 10:6-9Hebrews 13:41 Corinthians 6:9-20Metaxas, Eric (2007). Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. HarperOne.Crisis Magazine | Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality | Dennis Prager

1:32:55: Self Control

Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.The Great Courses | Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western TraditionRomans 6:1-232 Peter 1:3-11Titus 2:11-12

1:42:24: Summary and Conclusion

Bibliography:

Books

Metaxas, Eric (2007). Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. HarperOne.Fox, R.L. (1987). Pagans and Christians. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.Paris, Ginette (1998). The Sacrament of Abortion. Spring Publications.

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