The Re-Imaging of Humanity – Part 5 – Where Are We Heading?

This is the final part of my talk given to the Solas conference on Society and Sexuality.

Where are we going?

 If we take away humanity made in the image of God, if we try to re-image according to our own imaginations, then we will continue to go down this road to hell. CS Lewis saw this decades ago. The third part of his sci-fi trilogy, That Hideous Strength, described with eerie precision where we are going.

What’s the next cause celebre for those who are seeking to unmake humanity?  I suspect it will be trans-human. In terms of the continuing attack on marriage it will be polyamory and polygamy. At a hustings in St Peters, the SNP candidate who eventually became our MP stated that he could see circumstances in which polygamy should be acceptable. It was intriguing that when the press contacted SNP HQ about this, they flat out denied that he had said it!

I also suspect that incest will become increasing acceptable, with sympathetic depictions in the media being followed by some celebrity cases and justified by the ‘love means love’ tag. A while ago I spoke at a debate in Aberdeen. The older people present including a gay couple who I got on really well with, agreed with my statement that polygamy and incest would be a step too far. But what astounded me was that a significant number of the under thirties could not see a problem. And indeed given the criteria for SSM (why stop people who love one another from marrying) there is actually no logical reason to prevent that.

What about paedophilia? This is different. This is the big one. For some reason after the 1970’s paedophilia became the great sin – only to be overtaken in recent years by homophobia. I thought this would remain the case but I have now changed my mind. In my view within the next decade some forms of paedophilia will become acceptable. Already the first steps are being made.

It’s a sexuality. In July 2010, the Harvard Mental Health Letter of July 2010 stated that “paedophilia is a sexual orientation and unlikely to change. Treatment aims to enable someone to resist acting on his sexual urges”.

In 2015 the American psychiatric Association classified paedophilia as a sexual orientation.   It is now described as being ‘minor attracted persons’.

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