Our Culture Is Not Being Corrupted, It's Normalizing
As our powerful political, business, and cultural leaders spent the last month sending the world the clear message that America is a nation of pride, an inevitable reaction began brewing. Self-proclaimed “normies,” fed up with the nonstop sexualization of children, are longing for a return to normalcy. The problem with that wish is that normal is exactly what we are now getting, good and hard.
Remember your history, and your Bible: idol-worshipping, sin-enslaved child-sacrificers are the normies. The Israelites might have been the chosen people, but they weren’t the only people. There have been far more Sodoms, far more Gomorrahs in the history of the world than there have been Jerusalems – and even Jerusalem has had more than its fair share of Pride-worthy content over the years. That it is becoming harder and harder to tell the difference between Old Testament prophets and the latest Libs of Tik Tok updates shows humanity is not heading towards some new degenerate frontier, but simply back to our old stomping grounds.
The most successful ancient cultures were so unspeakably degenerate by Christian standards that the 19th century archaeologists who dug them up had to shovel that dirt right back to avoid corrupting any tourists. It was not until the 21st century, for instance, that the full extent of Pompeii’s perpetual Pride festivities was finally made public – a reflection not of our era’s openminded dedication to scientific inquiry, but of the sad fact that after a century of secular humanism there was nobody left to shock. In Pompeii, depictions of pedophilia, rape, and bestiality were a part of daily life, and their art celebrated the “blurred boundaries” between genders (and species). As The Smithsonian puts it, graphic depictions of sex were not sequestered in red light districts but celebrated by the culture at large: “at a time when polytheism, not Christianity, was the norm, sexual pleasure—embraced proudly by the very gods the Romans worshipped—was cause for celebration.” I bet they even had parades.
If all this grooming is starting to sound more like your local public school than an ancient ruin, you are starting to get the picture. If it’s a picture you don’t like, it is imperative to understand how your elevated morality emerged from the debased practices of the ancient world. There is only one answer, and it involves the displacement of those polytheistic perverts by radical Christian revolutionaries. Yes, today we have Epstein Island. Before the spread of Christianity, however, the world was a veritable Epstein Archipelago. And until God humbled Himself on the cross, every month was Pride month.
The first step to defeating the pedagogical porn peddlers and the gender bending doctors lies in understanding precisely where your own revulsion at them comes from. Tom Holland’s work is a good place to start. Here’s a representative sample:
Many, many martyrs had to die horrible deaths before the world started getting second thoughts about pedophilia; many more died to make a world with the Christian confidence to outlaw and punish child abuse. If family drag brunch disturbs you, remember: there but for the grace of God go I. It is only thanks to His grace that you’re not out there in your own pair of fishnets, twerking away.
Why does this matter? Why play into the hands of the queer theorists and rebrand sex criminals as the normies? Well, for roughly the same reason it’s important for a military commander to know whether he’s encircled the enemy or they’ve encircled him. If you view child sacrifice as a self-limiting anomaly, the trans craze as a phase, and identity politics as a passing fancy, you’ll be tempted to sit back, relax, mind your own business, and wait for the madness to subside. Those tactics will get you nothing but a nonbinary grandchild. I am imploring you to realize that, in the absence of God, the madness is the norm. You cannot wait-and-see your way out of it, you can only repent-and-revival your way out of it. Our godless elite are not leading us into brave new worlds of depravity, they’re taking us back to where we started. If we do not want America to be ‘normal’ again, if we do not want to revert to the monstrous mean, we must turn to Christ instead – He is the only way out of the very normal chaos of life.
Let last month be a teaching moment for you. We are getting an up close and personal encounter of a world without Christ. Are you liking what you see? Do you want to do something about it?
Picture a missionary stepping foot for the first time in a native settlement. He looks up and sees the blood of children running down the steps of its golden temple, hears the terrified screams of the sacrificial victims, smells the rot of death in the streets. He has not come to offer a return to normalcy. He has come to turn normal on its head.
Go and do likewise.
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Dr. Adrian Gaty is a pediatrician in Round Rock, Texas.
He was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Just when he was facing the prospect of a lifetime without a tan, God intervened, calling him to dedicate his life to serving others. His beautiful bride claims he moved to Texas because of her, a native Austinite. Dr. Gaty, however, finds this reasoning quite suspect, as one hardly needs a reason to move to the greatest state on Earth. In his free time, he enjoys playing tennis, exploring nature, Bible study, and planning the ideal homeschool curriculum.
This article appears on the July 6 Unofficial Pediatrics substack.
