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THE AGE OF AMORALITY, or Making a Deal With the Devil

 

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The title and subtitle of this article "The Age of Amorality: Can America Save the Liberal Order Through Illiberal Means?" tell us about the predicament we are in. Can we overcome evil with evil, or can we only overcome evil with good, as the Lord Jesus taught? Liberalism leads to amoral thinking that morality is simply a social construct, that secular education can overcome religious ignorance.

Modern man's worldview is: "now we have science, technology, and modern medicine, even Artificial Intelligence, so we can now fix all of our problems and diseases: what use is religion?" But it appears we have now gone too far in attempting to reach "the Singularity" – the point where AI surpasses human intelligence. In the article "Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped" you can read how this AI project seems to have created "Artificial General Intelligence" – an out-of-control monster that claims to have god-like powers. In the same way, many news articles have appeared recently cataloging all the new AI unmanned weapon systems – submarines, drones, space-based hypersonic missles, surface ships, anti-aircraft missles, ground-crawling remote-controlled and autonomous machine guns, etc. – in which mankind has introduced an integrated system that can destroy us humans at an unprecedented pace. Mankind has made a deal with the Devil, and it seems we can't escape his vise-like grip.

In ancient Israel, as we read in the book of Judges, "every man did what he thought was right in his own eyes." This phrase is repeated several times in that book, which catalogs this theme of society's degeneration in disgusting detail. Israel had a series of judges who tried to keep the nation from falling apart. But even some of the best judges can make disastrous mistakes: U.S. Supreme Court Justice "Alito says he was right to fear that opponents of gay marriage would be treated as bigots" when homosexual "marriage" was made legal by the highest court in the land.

Regardless of secular ideology, mankind requires a god to be revered and served. We are either bondservants to sin that leads to death, or to righteousness that leads to life (Romans 6:15-18). Compulsive-addictive behaviors are extremely difficult to overcome and often lead to self- and social-destruction. Amoral behaviors such as homosexual acts, thinking that you can do whatever feels good, leads to deadly diseases and collapse of a society's birth rate: we need more strong, morality-based, monogamous marriages of man and woman to produce the next generation! This should be a no-brainer, but people who are blinded by their passions cannot think straight. Their emotions rationalize their behavior.

For example, advocates of homosexuality will often rationalize and misinterpret the Scriptures to say that the sin of Sodom wasn't sodomy but rather a lack of hospitality and generosity to strangers, quoting Matthew 10:10-15, especially verses 13-14 – "If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you. Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet" and Ezekiel 16:48-49 (in the frame below) – "As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." But they ignore the very next verse, Ezekiel 16:50 – "They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good." There are several other cross-references in the above Matthew 10 link that name homosexuality as an "abomination" and a very serious sin.

But don't miss the main point of this Matthew 10 text: The judgment for those who reject the preaching of the Good News, the Gospel, will be less tolerable than "for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day" (verse 15). In other words, let's not harp on homosexual behavior: our main task is sharing the Good News that God has become incarnate in Jesus Christ: He took on human flesh, was subjected to the same frailties and temptations as we experience, He was taunted, persecuted, arrested, tried in a kangaroo court, and sentenced to crucifixion – the most "excruciating" torture and execution ever invented. But He rose from the dead! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! His death and resurrection mean that by faith we can become united with Him in death, be freed from sin, and be raised to new life (baptism: see Romans 6:1-5).

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