Mr. Jonathon Van Maren wrote an excellent article on this topic. That is why it is reprinted here on ACP.

There is a serious problem prevalent among those known or calling themselves Christians, conservatives, or people of principles and morals. Using improper words and worldy definitions.

Mr. Van Maren writes in his excellent commentary below:

“Pornography is a drug, and it is one of the key aspects of our exploding sex abuse crisis.”

No, Mr. Van Maren, pornography is NOT a drug. Nor is it an addiction, something caused by some chemical or electrical activity in the human brain. Something an individual has no power of controlling on their own as advertised by the world as an illness. No, the illness is a heart and mind given over to sin and evil turned from God. By sheer individual choice. That’s the reality.

IT’S A SIN MADE OF A WILLFUL CHOICE. Every person can either partake or refuse to partake. Every person makes individual choices whether to indulge in pornography, psychotropic drug use, alcohol abuse, or any carnally that the individual chooses to make their obsession and where they place their mind, their lives.

Yes, even children!

Stop deluding yourselves that somehow children spring from the womb pure and sinless without the proclivity for evil within them. All human beings are born with inherent evil in them. Sin in them. They are born darkness and in darkness. Stop being deluded about the purity of children. And if only we could rid the world of all these things people would somehow become good.

As the article below attests, when all things sinful are available to a man, a woman, and even a child the likelihood is those men, women, and children will gravitate to those sinful and evil things and not turn to God or doing the righteous thing. This isn’t new. This isn’t due to the Internet.

That is just a tool used by evil to keep an enslaving hold over the minds of hundreds of millions of people. A majority of today’s professed Christian men and women partake in pornography.

68% of Christian Men View Pornography Regularly – Believers Portal

They have no qualms in stating they view pornography.

This is the seething, writhing evil world we all inhabit daily. The Great Falling Away. Those calling themselves Christians which have no real clue as to what that means to live as a Christan. To be a Christian. One either is or they are not. There is no middle ground, no gray area.

Pornography isn’t a drug. It’s a sin of choice. Made out of an individual’s free will. No one is forcing a person to take this path or become enslaved to their carnal desires.

Let’s stop making excuses and blaming things rather than individuals. Let’s stop using the wrong words to describe what is reality. The evidence is how taking the willful path of this evil leads to pedophilia, numerous perversities and abominations, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, rape, and every sexual immorality under the sun. But no one has their will, their mind removed, and is forced to take this path, nor is it a drug ingested. It’s a sin and evil willfully pursued.

Anyone write of or mention mortifying sin? No, instead we talk and write of winning an election, getting a certain person in a political office, or changing a manmade law being naive and deluded that no law ever enacted has ever made people moral or good. No, we speak and write that it’s the Internet’s fault, governments fault, institution’s fault, and if only we change this or that we can make things better.

Things NEVER have been or gotten better since Adam and Eve disobeyed God and obeyed the devil! Wake up! Everything only erodes and declines and the people rush to sin and evil. Always have. Always will. Until it all comes to an end. Which it will. Which we are now closer to than ever before.

One clear indication of the Great Falling Away, of becoming lukewarm, of being false and not true, of abiding in the world rather than in God is the failure and refusal of Christians, true Christians to use the words mortify sin — KILL SIN — in the body, in the life of a Christian. Thinking instead we can hold an election, put someone in an office, change a law, or make a law rather than confronting and discussing the fact of every person’s sinful nature, sinful hearts, and their being, our being natural enemies of God!

Call me old-fashioned and I’ll rejoice! I don’t live to be accepted, hip, cool, or current. I’ll use words out of fashion or use, and not comply with how the world, and most professed Christians adhere to the world in perverting and corrupting language.

God is old-fashioned and that is good enough for me. Too bad it isn’t good enough for more folks these days. Especially those calling themselves Christians!

No, today we embrace, invite and rush to ingest sin in our lives rather mortifying, living to kill sin in our lives.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Sunday, August 7, 2022

Law Enforcement Facing Surge in Porn-Made Pedophiles: Males Who Watch Rape and Sexual Abuse Videos Since 8 or 9 Years Old

APOCALYPTIC ATMOSPHERE, BARBARISM, Chaos, Evil, EVOLUTION, IDOLATRY, NIHILISM, Other Writers, RELATIVISM, VOID

August 7, 2022

Reprinted from PatriotandLiberty

Western pagan schools teach youth to believe they are products of nature, meaning chance plus evolution and void. Thus there is no higher source of right and wrong, or rhyme or reason for their existence. They don’t really know just what they are so they invent increasingly weird identities. They came from an amoral void by chance, will exist in a chaotic meaningless world for a while, then die and disintegrate into the dirt. So since this is all there is, then let’s eat, party, do drugs, drink, gamble, porn, and have carnal knowledge of other bodies, from babies to toddlers, to young children and teens, and on to whatever appeals to their appetites. 

The void plus chance and evolution equals nihilism (meaninglessness) and lawless barbarism. Nihilism and lawlessness are the constant drum beats that products of evolution march to.

Linda Kimball

Law enforcement is facing a surge in porn-made pedophiles—men who have been watching digital porn since eight or nine and were weaned on rape and sexual abuse videos.

Jonathon Van Maren, Lifesite News, 12/21/20

(LifeSiteNews) – As the fallout from the revelations that Pornhub has regularly hosted videos of sex trafficking and rape continues, more evidence that pornography is fueling the victimization of minors is emerging. According to an extensive report in The Guardian—the U.K.’s left-wing standard-bearer—pornography has “become a gateway drug into child abuse.”

The report cites the observations of counselor Michael Sheath, a principal practitioner at the Lucy Faithful Foundation who has worked with men arrested for looking at child pornography for decades. “I have been working with men who abuse children for 33 years,” he told The Guardian. “For the first 15 years I worked with child molesters and I still do that, but now I also work with downloaders of child abuse imagery and online groomers.”

For years, experts have been warning that sustained porn use warps the mind and triggers interest in increasingly deviant material. Rates of child porn use have been consistently spiking, as have arrests for child abuse. Law enforcement is facing a surge in porn-made pedophiles—men who have been watching digital porn since eight or nine and were weaned on rape and sexual abuse videos.

“With our cohort of men there are two groups,” Sheath explained. “The first is older men whose sexual education and awakening came before the internet. They will have in the main learned about sex with another person who gives feedback, resistance, encouragement. Before the internet there was a ceiling on how much porn you could consume, maybe your dad had some; you had to go to a sex cinema to watch a film. It was limited in scope and there was a stigma on consumption. For the younger men who had their adolescence after about 2000, men up to 40, they will have watched a huge amount of online pornography before they have sex with a human being. And in my personal view that makes an absolutely enormous difference.”

In fact, criminal sexual behavior is mainstream in porn themes found on any mainstream smut site. “Anything you want to find you can Google,” Sheath told The Guardian. “If you look at the videos on mainstream porn sites you can see ‘teen’ themes, ‘mom and dad’ themes, lots of incestuous porn. It’s pretty deviant stuff. To watch this you have already lowered your threshold of what is acceptable. Porn is an entry drug for a lot of them. There is a school of thought that these men we work with were already interested in children and went off to look for it – that they are born paedophiles. But that’s not my thoughts. I think a lot of the men we work with go down what I call a potentially escalating pathway.”

Those of us who have been tracking the escalating porn crisis for several years will find nothing surprising in Sheath’s report, but there has been resistance to accepting the reality that several generations have now had their sexuality shaped by pornography.

“Mainstream pornography sites are changing the thresholds of what is normal and I think it’s dangerous,” Sheath noted. “Of course most people can watch extreme porn and walk away but I don’t see those people. What we are seeing on a daily basis is the conflation of easy access to hardcore and deviant pornography and an interest in child molestation. The link is unambiguous. Think of young women emerging into the sexual world and meeting men who are into strangulation and anal sex. It’s not criminal, it’s not being reported, but as a social and cultural experience it’s really significant. Is incest porn chipping away at a protective taboo around incest? Probably it is.”

The simple fact is that pornography is mainstreaming dangerous behaviors and pumping poison into our cultural groundwater—and we’ve been ignoring the issue. In the process, we’ve been creating an entirely new category of pedophiles and child abusers by creating widely available sexual material that serves as sex education for young people.

“My earliest clients were child molesters,” Sheath observed. “They tended to have been beaten, abused or have some sort of dysfunction. I’ve found in the last 10 years that increasingly people who view child sex abuse material don’t seem to have that history. They are mundane, ordinary people from all walks of life. They start saying, ‘oh I just clicked, I don’t know why, I don’t fancy kids’, or ‘the children seem to be smiling’.”

“One of the exercises we do is I ask the men to tell me about an image they look at, I ask the girl’s age, I say what do you reckon her name is, what does she like doing at school? They look absolutely horrified. They have never considered it. They are objectifying this child seeing them just as a mouth, or a body part. When I make them think this is a kid who goes to school and has a hamster, has a mum and dad, they don’t like that, it’s painful for them. We can see a huge improvement in insight. They can reach a point where they have more empathy for the child. We have evidence that our work not only reduces reoffending but brings about changes in empathy levels.”

The spike in porn-made pedophiles has created law enforcement problems, as well—Sheath says that police forces have trouble retaining officers to work on the issue due to its fundamentally horrifying nature. “I’m counselling 10 men at a time – and the police are arresting 500 men a month. If they quadrupled the number of police looking at online abuse the number of images found would quadruple. The only limits are the number of officers put on it. Men can reach us by calling our helpline Stop It Now! and they mostly do that after they have been arrested. Our aim is to go upstream to reach out to the population before they get arrested.”

Pornography is a drug, and it is one of the key aspects of our exploding sex abuse crisis. Before we can truly deal with the results of the poisoning, we must shut off the tap. If we are truly committed to protecting children, combatting the porn industry must be the first step.

Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. His commentary has been translated into more than eight languages and published widely online as well as print newspapers such as the Jewish Independent, the National Post, the Hamilton Spectator and others. He has received an award for combating anti-Semitism in print from the Jewish organization B’nai Brith. His commentary has been featured on CTV Primetime, Global News, EWTN, and the CBC as well as dozens of radio stations and news outlets in Canada and the United States.

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