Shout out to Stephen King (and Main Street Democrats) for proving that I was right. There really are people who do NOT believe children should be protected from ANY literature.
A lot of commenters assured me that I was ‘making up stuff to be upset about.’ They said, “John, you jerk! Nobody thinks kids should have access to all books! NOBODY!! You right-wing, religious ding-bats are hilarious!!”
So I said, “What about porn? Should we keep porn away from kids?”
Instantly, these same commenters responded, “OMG!! YOU FASCIST!!! You want to ban books!!! YOU WANT TO KEEP KIDS IGNORANT!!!! YOU RIGHT WING CRISTO-FASCISTS ARE DANGEROUS!!!!!”
To which I responded, “So…it sounds like you believe children should have access to ANY literature which contradicts y….”
“OMG!!! MOST PEDOPHILES ARE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE!!!! THE CHURCH IS FULL OF CHILD MOLESTORS!!!!! YOU SUPPORT PEDOPHILIA AND WORSHIP DONALD TRUMP!!!!”
There is no point responding any further.
If you’re having trouble understanding why so many people are saying insane things, let me unpack it for you.
Our culture hates Jesus. When a Christian says something like, “We should keep porn away from kids,” it creates an unsolvable problem for Jesus-haters. They KNOW that children shouldn’t be exposed to sexually explicit material but they CAN’T agree with anything that a religious person says. So when a Christian says something that is so obviously true that even a pagan recognizes it, the pagan’s only possible course of action is to change the subject. That is why everything a Secularist says sounds like ‘crazy talk.’
Hating Jesus destroys human minds. A person simply can’t reject the source of all good things and hang on to stuff like rationality, graciousness, or love.
(John 15:23) “He who hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’”
