Something I’m fond of saying is that we live in reality, and we ought to act like it.
The moral decline of our culture happened so quickly and severely that our society would be unimaginable to someone from only 10 years ago. I never would have believed that in 10 years time, a large swath of our once-great nation would not be able to grasp one of the most fundamental truths in reality – the difference between a boy and a girl.
Case in point. This just happened this week in my own braindead backyard. At a school.
Didn’t schools used to be places where students go to learn? Now they’re places where they go to unlearn.
But that’s neither here nor there.
I hold, like everyone should hold, to a presuppositional view of reality. Many things, you just don’t need to prove because they’re baked into our DNA. They’re written on our hearts. They’re so evidently true, that to deny them means there’s something seriously wrong with you.
To deny them is to deny reality itself. And the outright denial of the exclusive existence and immutability of male and female is one of those things.
So, because we live in reality, we need to understand that there are boys and there are girls. Boys can’t wake up one day, wish they were a girl.
No amount of cheap makeup, larger-than-average-dresses, genital mutilation, or hormones pumped into a body, can perfectly cover up the Adam’s apple, the big hands, the broad shoulders, or the strong jawline. At least that’s true in the gentleman’s case in the photos above. And no amount of any kind of surgery or chemicals can change an XY chromosome.
Denying these things means you’re terribly mentally ill.
Because we live in reality, and not a fantasy world where boys can magically turn themselves into girls, we ought not to let ourselves get desensitized to this filth. These people are hideous mutants and the people who affirm them and stand beside them hugging them in photos are cultists. The dark temples (read: public schools) that foster this kind of inhuman behavior are filled with priests offering up all of the humanity these poor kids used to have to Mammon.
We ought to have a visceral repulsion to these things.
If we don’t, there’s something wrong with us too.
That’s not to say we should hate the poor deceived people who fall for this stuff. Though I’m not sure anyone falls for it at all. I think it’s more realistic that they’re purposefully buying into it because they love sin and hate truth. But we ought to love and pray for our enemies. And we should be praying for them all to come to repentance.
This passage in Romans often comes to mind.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Romans 1:18-23
But we should bear in mind that some of us were once just like some of them. Just because they have disfigured bodies and spirits doesn’t mean we should despise them. We can, and should, be disgusted. But we should love them and want God to save them from their grievous sins and give them mercy, just like he did for us.
I think we can try to hold onto a visceral disgust at the putrid rot that’s infecting our culture, and live our lives joyfully with our chins held high at the same time, grateful that God has given to us the truth, and calling those without the truth to repentance and belief in Jesus. And I think we have an obligation to do both of those things, unless we would deny reality also.
