Liberal Morality's Pagan Roots

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Sexual progressives claim to be ushering in a "brave new world" of freedom. But their "new" morality is as old as the hills.

How often have you heard sexual progressives claim that those of us who hold to traditional sexual morality and marriage are "on the wrong side of history?"

But as one new book points out, it's the proponents of the sexual revolution who are embracing a sexual morality that history left behind millennia ago — in the dusty ruins of the Roman Forum.

Yes, today Western civilization is undergoing a dramatic cultural shift. In just a few short years our society has fundamentally altered the meaning of marriage, embraced the notion that men can become women, and is now promoting the idea that grown men should be welcome to share a bathroom with women and young girls.

Not unexpectedly, we're also seeing movement toward the normalization of polygamy, pedophilia, and incest.
It's precisely in times like this that we need some historical perspective. Which is why Lutheran pastor Matthew Rueger's new book, Sexual Morality in a Christless World, is a timely godsend. In it, Rueger shows how Christian sexual morality rocked the pagan world of ancient Rome. The notions of self-giving love, sexual chastity, and marital fidelity were foreign, even shocking to the people of that time.