Europe will be majority foreign born and Muslim in a generation if they don’t do something now. They are not your friends and want to tear down your churches and instate shariah law. Look at crime and sexual assault stats in the most heavily affected countries.
Fr. Stephen De Young gives an Orthodox perspective that is informed by church fathers. There’s a lot you can dig into but this is a succinct (~1hr) explanation of the story of Lot and it’s relevance to the scripture you quoted.
In my experience this is not the platform for debate but I’m happy to provide a high-level rationalization for my disagreement. I will read (but may not respond) to your thoughts.
None of the things you mentioned will ever be fixed in any meaningful way without spiritual renewal in Christ. Porn is filth and it distorts reality. It degrades the souls of all involved. Human passion, vitality and, frankly, love is destroyed by this corrosive, shameful business which should be made illegal. There is no moral compass when the population is addicted to such exploitation.
That people get so defensive over pornography says a lot about the culture we live in. Culture is downstream of spirituality and this culture is spiritually nihilistic and self-serving at it’s core. Christ is self-sacrificial and all-loving. He is also paternalistic and all-powerful. None of these adjectives describe the state of society today. We are weak, vindictive, effeminate and emotional. The eternal victims.
This pathetic fatalism manifests itself in the form of lower birthrates, unemployment, self-hatred, smearing of the past, sexual confusion, doom-scrolling, yielding to our enemies etc. Ultimately a weak, atomized version of self that is easily manipulated towards whatever can be adequately marketed as “meaningful”.
This is why Western Christendom has all but fallen. It gave in to the individualism of the enlightenment and modernity. As a result the last large Protestant communion has fractured. Eastern Orthodoxy is growing despite the rebellious anti-Christian sentiment precisely because it offers the fullness of the ancient faith. A faith in which salvation is corporate and tradition unyielding. Without Christ all is nihilism. Nihilist society simply degrades because there is no purpose in any of it.
Representatives have long since stopped caring about their constituents. Wages are being undercut at home and abroad. Foreign countries get money while benefits are cut at home. The population is fed porn, junk food and drugs. America isn’t America anymore. It’s a military-industrial golem.
Here you go. He describes in even more detail Lot and his daughters addiction to the transgressive cultures (e.g. sexual perversion, violence, selfishness) of Sodom and Zoar culminating in incest with his daughters whom earlier he offered to the brutes who wished to rape and kill his visitors.
The entire point of this story is that the daughters fall into old sins after the destruction of Sodom. They were reared in a culture of excess and sexual degeneracy and thus rely on faithless utilitarian logic to continue their family line. It’s seen as an abomination in the bible. Exposure to such things causes people to perform heinous sins. So, ironically, this passage totally supports the subject of the video.
He has a video talking about how awesome a town is in China and how there’s nothing as nice in America because of old infrastructure and homeless/drug addicts everywhere. He’s just a dude with a travel YouTube channel. I’m sorry China isn’t perfect.
The other guy speaks fluent Mandarin. There’s more of what I mentioned in the rest of his Uyghur videos. Plus he was detained by police and told not to film anything or talk to anyone lol. That’s totally normal I guess.
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