NATURE.  Human beings have a natural adversity to unnatural behaviors, usually taking the form of disgust or anger.  This is normal and healthy. Disgust recognizes perversion and anger seeks to right an injustice. How one chooses to respond to this natural interior reaction is the ethical question, i.e. productively or destructively.

Every child and every society not infiltrated with secular progressive ideology knows that a woman killing her baby inside is a violation of our nature, as is two people of the same sex ‘being’ together. This is not taught, but is nature’s way of having us avoid disordered and harmful behavior. Some call this moral intuition, others would say human nature includes a ‘compass’ that tells us when we go off track from the natural order that leads to fulfillment.

IDEOLOGY.  In order to normalize unnatural behavior, progressive ideology seeks to re-condition children from an early age, particularly through schools and the media, not to listen to their natural moral compass and accompanying emotion. There are two main motives for this: 1) to ‘normalize’ sin in society, and/or 2) to avoid the sin of violence. The first is simply evil, but the second can be just.

The problem with #2, however, is that by conditioning us to reject our natural revulsion to immoral action we become desensitized to it, making us more vulnerable to fall into sins of passion and violence. It is a way of “throwing away the baby with the bath water,” avoiding one problem but creating a much bigger one

Christ came with the proper answer to #2: virtue. Self-governance is the answer, not truth-denial. We must hate the sin and love the sinner. In fact, one cannot love the sinner without hating the sin. The world tells us to tolerate, Christ tells us to love.  Toleration leads to desensitization, selfish obsession and addiction. Love leads to freedom, true fulfillment and happiness.  That is the difference.

So do not listen to the world when it lies to you that your natural revulsion to immoral acts is narrow or bigoted.  Their inability or unwillingness to govern themselves according to the true and good despite the sacrifice is the real problem.

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