Once again: moral appeal…

Originally posted on February 02, 2008 – by Andre Piet

Not everyone was able to appreciate the previous weblog. One of the responses read: is it not to be applauded if Minister Rouvoet tries to protect the people from harmful influences? My answer is: yes, the good intentions need not be questioned. The point, however, is that the general public is allergic to patronizing behavior from Christians. If ministers such as Wouter Bos or Ronald Plasterk had issued a similar warning against the broadcasting of ‘Deep Throat’, they might well have been able to count on approval. But from a minister of Christian background, people simply do not accept this. Christians have history against them. For from ancient times the church, in relation to sex, has stood as water to fire. For centuries the church has preached fear of the sinful body, on pain of hell and damnation. The reputation of hypocrisy that it has built up thereby is proverbial to this day. Now that Christians have become a minority in society, there is one thing above all they must not want, and that is: to tell others how things “should” be done and what is and is not allowed. Even where this is done in a playful and jolly (?) manner, as in the current EO series ‘40 days without sex’, still “the world” does not take kindly to it. At least, not from them. Anyone who has followed the secular media a little in recent times has been able to observe this for themselves.

In addition to this, the orthodox-Christian segment of the population is currently in great embarrassment regarding homosexuality. At times the discussion about this even makes the front pages of the newspapers. Instead of “Christianizing” the world, Christians themselves have become a successful mission field for a club like the COC! You do not have to be a great mind to foresee that before too long the first homosexuals will take up positions within the EO and the CU. While a committee within their own ranks examines the delicate issue from all sides, the practical outcome of the investigation is, of course, already largely determined.

It is, moreover, deeply distressing to see how orthodox Christians are currently adrift. And disoriented. The present confusion surrounding “homosexuality” (also a form of disorientation!) is merely symptomatic. Whereas more than 25 years ago the EO still combatively broadcast a series such as ‘Adam or ape’ and confidently sought the debate about it, now it retreats into its shell and various EO spokespersons even champion the theory of evolution… But well, that is yet another subject.
Or is it?

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