In Defense of the Word "Whore"

 It was a word commonly used by the KJV Bible, and therefore, was not a curse word to our general culture. However, some today act like it is. In reality, the word "whore" is seen as a not-so-nice word, so any godly person should simply not use it. Let me push back on that because I use it all of the time, and purposely so.

I don't use it to try and shame the women who have already repented of a lifestyle our wicked culture had convinced them was not as bad as it really is, but rather to show the severity of the crimes committed in the act of having sex with a man who is not your husband, before or after marriage. 

The damage such an act does is overwhelming, and likely has far reaching implications that we have never even thought of before. When someone puts up a fence, only an idiot takes it down before he knows why it was put there. How much more are we the idiots for thinking we know better and taking down a fence God put up?

An example of a possible consequence we have never thought of is the ancient and sometimes modern idea that the children of your husband will never fully be his because you slept with another guy at some point in your life. Ever heard of telegony? It's considered pseudoscience by the mainstream and it may be, but there are a lot of questions surrounding how it exists in other species. Gene drift is certainly a thing, and it would make sense that if the two become one flesh, and the Bible talks about the child and the womb being spoiled when a woman lets another man in it, then there could be something beyond what we even know. I'm not a scientist and I don't frankly know (it could all be garbage science but our culture will never allow it to be anything but that because of their constant need to be an apologetic for the sexual revolution), but what I do know is that this is considered a horrible crime by God against the husband, far more horrible than our culture would ever want to admit or know about. 

Either way, a harsher word is likely needed for a horrible crime, not a softer one.

But there is even more to my use of the word than that, and it is bound up in how translations often translate the Hebrew word זונה and the Greek word πόρνη, often translated as "prostitute." The words actually don't mean "prostitute" in the Bible, although contextually, they can refer to a prostitute. That's a big difference. What they mean divorced of any further referent in the context is far more stripped down than that. They simply refer to a woman who has sex with a man outside of being married to him. This can be a prostitute, but it can also just refer to a woman who does not take money for sex.

This is made clear in a few different passages. The first is Deuteronomy 22:13-21, where the girl is called a זונה for "not being a virgin." And, of course, the common discussion about whether בְּתוּלָה means "virgin" here is obvious as the test is checking whether she has bled or not.

Likewise, God charges Israel with being a זונה in Ezekiel 16, where He does reference the idea that a זונה in the sense of a "prostitute" always takes gifts in exchange for sex, but here, the adulterous wife is called a זונה even though she refused to take gifts, gave herself away for free, and even gave gifts to her lovers instead. 

This is why some translate it as "played the harlot" or "acted like a prostitute," but this softens the blow a bit because it makes the woman "like" something, but not really that thing. Instead, God declares that she is that thing whether she took gifts for it or not. 

It is also interesting that the sacrifice of children is brought up once again in this discussion in Ezekiel 16 because it seems to indicate that the act of זונה is an act that sacrifices a husband's children in some way, as Leviticus 18:20, which reads "You will not lie with the wife of your neighbor for offspring to be defiled in her." 

It's interesting that the prohibition against sacrificing children follows this command in verse 21.

"Prostitute" connotes in our culture the idea that a woman is trading sex for money. That is why so many women don't think they are guilty of this horrible crime. However, if they knew that the Bible was talking about their sexual activity with any guy other than their future/present husband, and that it is labeled with a horrible word so that it is understood as a horrible crime, perhaps it would give at least some pause, and help future generations from casually committing this crime against the husband.

Ergo, I use the word "whore" because it is what we have become, a nation of whores and pimps that receive no money for these crimes, only the fleeting pleasure to be paid for by the pain and loss of the husband.

Catechism through Song

 I’ve been trying to figure out a way to catechize kids with songs that would get stuck in their heads (and some for parents too). Hymns don’t really accomplish this for our generation. Anyway, these two channels are my first attempts at it. The first is for little children and the second for young adults.

KidCat

time4atalk

Be Aware of the Misandric Cult We Are In

 The Brainwashing of Married Women

August Music

 A composer wanted to write a particular song. The problem is that the entire orchestra had damaged their instruments to the point that the notes that those instruments now played were all off. When an A should have been played, a G was played instead. When an E was to be played, a B was played. On top of this, the individuals of the orchestra wanted to play these off notes all day long. 

So the composer decided to write his song by including the off notes of the ruined instruments, not by forcing the instruments to play the notes he wanted them to play but rather to restrict when the notes were played in the song. In this way, those with the off instruments would play a G when an A was called for but the composer had written the A into the music, so that even though a G was required, he knew an A would be played and he composed his music in such a way so that the A would make the music he had now written. 

He then decided to give a portion of the orchestra new instruments so that they would play the right notes at the right time. Sometimes the orchestra would return to their broken instruments and play the wrong notes but he had also anticipated when this would happen and incorporated those notes into his music as well.

In this way, all played the notes that they wanted and the notes that the composer wanted, even though the composer did not force anyone to play a particular note at all. One could see that his act to replace the broken instruments for some of the orchestra had a direct impact on what notes were played, but the incorporation of the off notes could not be said to be directly impacted by any actions of the composer. Yet, the music he wrote has been written.

The music was played. It was tragic but ultimately beautiful. 

Crocodile Tears

Crocodiles can't chew up their victims. They have to tear off chunks from their prey and this is hard to do unless the prey is somehow stationary. The croc can do a death roll and take off limbs here and there because the body provides a counterweight but most often what is needed is other crocs to grab onto the victim in order to position the prey in a way so that they can be fully devoured.

We have a contagion in this culture where we have become apologists for people who do evil rather than a defenders of the innocent where empathy is for the victim or victims. I've seen this in and outside the church. Those who do the evil are constantly excused under the guise of forgiveness and grace, and then the victims are often blamed or dismissed as bitter obstacles of Christlikeness, as though Jesus would justify the perpetrator and condemn the victim.

Let us be clear, Christ condemns the perpetrator and vindicates the victim. The perpetrator is condemned and must repent, not just say sorry, but cease from his evil and make amends in whatever way he can. If he has committed a violent crime, amends means execution, even if he is forgiven. If it's a pastor who has committed an equivalent spiritual crime, amends means being removed from his position, even if he is forgiven. 

There aren't a lot of people with whom Christ interacts in the Gospels who we see as repenting from a particular sin where restitution is needed but a huge example comes to us in the form of Zachaeus. It is interesting to note here that Christ does not pronounce salvation has come to Zachaeus and his household when he believes and asks Christ to dinner. He does not pronounce it as He walks through the door. He announces it only after Zachaeus promises to return what he has stolen from others sevenfold and to sell his securities and give the money to the poor. That is when Christ says that salvation has come to his household. Until then, Zachaeus was damned even though he had Christ in his house because his repentance needed to include amends.

But why amends? Because Christ is on the side of the victim, not the perpetrator. Until the perpetrator of an evil makes amends, Christ is against him. Grace and forgiveness do not remove the need to make amends, they come as a response to it. 

But this isn't merely a literary speculation. Christ actually says it outright. In Matthew 5:21-26, Christ states that unless amends is made with a brother against whom an individual has committed an evil, specifically here, the evil of attacking him even verbally in anger, no forgiveness will be offered by God and his worship is in vain.

Why? Because God is on the side of the victim, not the perpetrator.

So why are we defense attorneys for the perpetrators rather than prosecutors for victims like God and His Christ are? Because we're criminals trying to justify ourselves by turning grace into a license to excuse evil. We see ourselves as sinners so we don't want to condemn others who are sinners (as long as we aren't the victims of course--then we're all about the victims). That's where you get all the pronouncements, "I am Lindsay Clancy." 

Others do so out of partiality because the perpetrators are liked by them better than the victims. Hence, the perpetrators, their family or friends, must have had some good reason to do what they did, and even if not, they should just be forgiven without a repentance that makes amends. 

But both of these are actually the sin of partiality because both emphathize with the perpetrator due to some personal connection rather than seeking righteous judgment, which is the judgment of God upon the perpetrator for the vindication and restoration of the victim.

But only God can justify, so self-justification is the path to Hell for both those who do evil against the innocent and those who justify the wicked and condemn the innocent or those who represent them for daring to pursue amends from those who have harmed them. 

In other words, it is not merely those who do the evil who are damned without true repentance but also those who would proclaim them innocent or forgiven when no true repentance with amends has been made. These are they who "loose" the Law and the Prophets for others whether they do these things themselves or not (Matt 5:17-20). 

It is true. They are Lindsay Clancy. They are the murderers who justify other murderers, and they shall share her condemnation. They also forge a path for other murderers since now murder has been excused. As it is here, so also in the church. Those who excuse the unrepentant guilty because of partiality have joined them in their damnable sins and shall share in their judgment.

After all, it takes a group of crocodiles to rip apart the prey caught by the jaws of only one of them. They have all taken a piece out of the victims. They shall all share the same end.

A Serious Note on Post-Partum Depression

 Having joked obviously in my last post, I want to say that this is a real concern. Postpartum is an issue for a variety of reasons. I'm sure the fluctuation of hormones is a nightmare to deal with and it messes with the mind like crazy. What does not help, however, is the plethora of false views concerning children, life, unbiblical religious beliefs, etc. that now work in the woman with postpartum to cause her to think even for a moment that killing her children is desirable.

Andrea Yates is a good example of this. She murdered five of her children by drowning them in a bathtub and blamed it on postpartum. What you don't often hear is that she was also taught the false doctrine of the age of accountability and believed that if she killed her children they were all guaranteed to go to heaven, so yes, murder is bad, but if her children grow up and don't accept Christ in her baptist view then they would be eternally murdered. Such nonsense works on the fragile mind.

But it causes us to wonder if all of the feminist rhetoric of the past 100 years that has painted staying at home and having children as something that causes women to miss out on a better life, and to be degraded from humans to incubators, plays both a role in the depression itself as well as working with the depression to turn the woman against her very children. 

Intoxication tends to collapse inhibitions in areas toward which the person has temptations. If there are no temptations that would tempt someone to remove their children from their lives, one would have to wonder why any sort of emotional state would lead one to do it.

Now, of course, there are mental illness of delusion where one hallucinates, so this would not cover all mental illness.

At the end of the day, however, I would hope any one of our women would seek out help from us as elders if they are struggling as we would not seek to judge them over it but to help in whatever we can. That is what love looks like. No one should be embarrassed at asking for help. These struggles are real and these cultural deceptions are sinister.

But it should be noted that the Bible does not care why someone murders another person. It side-steps the mental illness issue because it views murderers as needing to be removed because of their threat to humanity. Hence, even an ox that gores must be removed, not because it is necessarily some homicidal force, but because anything that kills another human, and it is not an accident, must be removed from the created order. 

Time to Re-evaluate All Murderers

 Guys, here's the thing. Everyone is talking about the Lindsay Clancy case but since it's being argued that mental health should cause us to identify any crime committed as a no-fault crime, I'd like to advocate for a couple innocent boys who were traumatized in their youth and ended up committing acts of violence due to their mental health conditions.

One boy was actually bullied and set on fire by the neighborhood kids and suffered horrific burns as a result, and only through some supernatural miracle did he survive it. He ended up forging some knives as weapons and putting them on his hands just to defend himself. Can we really blame him if anything bad happened from that point on?  The other boy drowned in a lake when at camp one summer with no one to help due to the negligence of the camp counselors. Luckily, he was able to survive only to be taunted by the lives of camp counselors who kept coming back to the site and reminding him of his trauma. He was so disturbed by what happened that he couldn't even show his face and had to wear a hockey mask. 

Did they kill people? Yes. Was it really their fault? How can we blame the mentally ill for anything they do? Is it not really the fault of bullies? Is it not really the fault of camp counselors? Is it not really the fault of the water and the fire that traumatized these poor, innocent boys who were really the victims of carelessness and malice?

Maybe it's time to blame the negligent people at Camp Crystal Lake or the bullies who lived on Elm Street. It's time to stop blaming monsters and to start blaming the monsters of circumstance, hormonal imbalances, inanimate substances, and especially husbands since we know that no husband is a good husband unless he's a feminist simp. Of course, these two didn't have husbands, so we'll blame the next best thing: bad experiences, which apparently are unique to murderers.

I mean, haven't we all had those bad days where we feel like hacking up a few annoying college kids? 

Maybe instead of being so judgmental we should be starting GoFundMe accounts for the poor Vorhees and Kruger families, You Judgmental Judgers Who Are Judgie. 

Well, that's just my two cents. May we all grab our machetes and forge a new path through the younger generation that is more tolerant and understanding of those who lash out, not because they're bad people, but because bad things have happened to them (in Lindsay's case having the blessing of a child) and because hurt people hurt people. Let us all remember the immortal words of Jack the Ripper to his many victims, who said, and I quote, "It is not I who kill you, but my mental illness."