I have to disagree with many of my fellow Christians who believe the normalization of pedophilia is on its way. If anything, it seems to me like it's being more stigmatized these days. The French writer Gabriel Matzneff, who wrote for decades in open site about having sex with children abroad, is finally being "canceled" in culture at large and facing legal consequences. Part of his excuse was based on nihilistic philosophical defenses then-popular in academia, which apparently no longer fly. Border authorities are no longer looking the other way at people flying to Thailand or Vietnam for child sex tourism, whereas this sort of thing was previously an open secret that nobody did much about. And if society didn't take pedophilia seriously, then why would Catholics have cause to complain that society is too hard on them for the sex abuse scandal?
French society is one of the most atheistic on earth, and even without objective moral values, they have managed to ostracize Matzneff from their culture.
French society is one of the most atheistic on earth, and even without objective moral values, they have managed to ostracize Matzneff from their culture.
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