The Rhetorical “Why Not?”
January 19, 2017
A RECENT college graduate writes:
On the transgender post:
I began to read the LifeSiteNews article and after reading the common sense comments by Mat Staver I couldn’t help but cry out that this is so insane. The world is SO INSANE today!
It reminds me of being in a university philosophy class on ethics. We were having debates in the class between select groups for and against a certain topic. I voluntarily argued against three topics because I wanted the truth to be heard (abortion, homosexuality and contraception, and cloning/embryonic stem cell research/genetic engineering).
Anyway, during the homosexuality debate, insanity prevailed. A young man and I were stating the obvious. Only men and women should have physical relations. (And within marriage alone, without contraception, I argued). Their union is fruitful.
My professor was disgustingly biased, whereas the debates were supposed to be neutral. She basically set the stage for our group to be attacked and the question to be, “WHY NOT?” And of course our stance was labeled as bigotry.
So she answered, effectively, Nope. It’s not evident. There’s no reason men shouldn’t have sex with men.
The young man said, “A man and a woman fit like a puzzle.”
And yet they continued to deny that any of this was obvious, that this meant anything, or that it was even true.
And I said it to them, “Listen to him, he’s bringing up the most self-evident, simplest truths in desperation because you are denying what is so obvious in life.”
As St. Anthony of Egypt prophesied:
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.'”
I was also thinking yesterday, we live in 2017. Imagine what our ancestors, say in the Middle Ages, thought of this time to come, if they even thought it would pass. In a sense it’s an exciting time to be alive.
