I disagree that people became “bored” with Christianity and its “goodness”. It may be that what I had thought the overwhelming number of sexual scandals, especially those to do with the abuse of children, along with the abusive overreach of societal power and the consequent hyepocritisation of doctrine and practice may have been more likely causes of the turning away from Christian churches. As for the notion that God invented the sexes… But I do agree the backlash against Pride is coming, including from gay people who feel ostracised from what had been’their’ movement and previously tolerant people turned off by the increasingly overt and fetishised sexuality on open display.
The abuses of Christianity (or by professing Christians) are not examples of Christian goodness, of course. Pride was not a reaction to abuses of professed holiness, it was a revolution *away* from the previously accepted sexual norms, boundaries, and authorities. It is a latter inevitable product of the sexual revolution.
The abuses were so widespread I’d suggest they called the entire concept of “Christian goodness” into question. How Ireland went from being almost a theocracy to an absolutely mainstream European state in two decades surely illustrates the point.
Pride cometh before a fall…
Indeed.
I disagree that people became “bored” with Christianity and its “goodness”. It may be that what I had thought the overwhelming number of sexual scandals, especially those to do with the abuse of children, along with the abusive overreach of societal power and the consequent hyepocritisation of doctrine and practice may have been more likely causes of the turning away from Christian churches. As for the notion that God invented the sexes… But I do agree the backlash against Pride is coming, including from gay people who feel ostracised from what had been’their’ movement and previously tolerant people turned off by the increasingly overt and fetishised sexuality on open display.
The abuses of Christianity (or by professing Christians) are not examples of Christian goodness, of course. Pride was not a reaction to abuses of professed holiness, it was a revolution *away* from the previously accepted sexual norms, boundaries, and authorities. It is a latter inevitable product of the sexual revolution.
The abuses were so widespread I’d suggest they called the entire concept of “Christian goodness” into question. How Ireland went from being almost a theocracy to an absolutely mainstream European state in two decades surely illustrates the point.