Typically, the folks at Family Research Council are railing against modernity and seeking society backward in time. Now, one of their dubiously titled "scholars" is whining that the nation and society have gone too far back in time to the age of pagan sexuality. Apparently, FRC only wants to go back to the days of slavery - or at least segregation - women not having the vote and being treated as chattel, gays being invisible if not executed, and Christian theocracy. BuzzFeed looks at this latest hate group batshitery. Here are some highlights:
[T]he Family Research Council said Wednesday that America has entered the age of pagan sexuality. Dr. Patrick F. Fagan, director at the Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute, made the comparison a policy lecture titled “Porn in the Dorm.”
“Basically porn is now everywhere,” Fagan said.
“Particular for Christians, Catholic, evangelicals, and for Jews and Muslims too, the same thing holds. This is almost like our times are a time a bit analogous to pagan Rome, where Christianity first grew up,” Fagan continued. “The sexuality of pagan Rome was pretty similar to what we restored here. So, what we really have outside is a pagan sexuality which is totally different from a Christian sexuality. And I don’t think enough Christians have yet put that way starkly enough to themselves. What you’re really being invited with all this is entry into pagan sexuality.”
Fagan continued, linking homosexuality, abortion, infidelity, pornography, euthanasia to ancient Rome.
“There’s a pagan sexuality which is a pan-sexuality which is the erotic. Abortion, homosexuality, infidelity, pornography, euthanasia, infanticide all of those things were just the common sexual practice of pagan Rome and Christians were not for being very different. Monogamous, faithful, struggling, etc…you know the chastity, purity.”
No one is more obsessed with sex than the "godly Christian" folk - e.g, online porn sites receive high traffic from evangelical Christians in the Bible Belt ; evangelical Christian have the highest divorce rate. Perhaps rather than trying to police the sex lives of everyone else, this nut cases ought to worry about their own psychoses and, of course, hypocrisy.
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If one listens carefully to what he's explaining...Roman times, one will note that Rome was doing perfectly fine until it became a "Christian" nation, and my friends, it was only then that the decline began.
Now, I can't say that being Christian was the cause of the decline of the Roman Empire, but obviously, becoming Christian didn't prevent it.
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