Tuesday, April 15, 2025

How Pornography Ravaged American Culture

 From Mark Judge at The Washington Examiner:

In his 2005 encyclical God is Love, Pope Benedict defended the Christian view of sexual love. Despite those who claimed that Christians were killjoys when it comes to sex, Benedict offered a correction. Christianity “in no way rejected eros as such; rather, it declared war on a warped and destructive form of it, because this counterfeit divinization of eros actually strips it of its dignity and dehumanizes it.”

As Benedict explained, “The prostitutes in the [Greek] temple, who had to bestow this divine intoxication, were not treated as human beings and persons, but simply used as a means of arousing ‘divine madness’: far from being goddesses, they were human persons being exploited.”

Reclaiming genuine eros is at the heart of a brilliant new bookGirl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert. Gilbert is not a religious scholar but a liberal journalist. Even so, it is a profound work, beautifully written and deeply researched. (Read more.)

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