Seppi Blog: Emotional Pornography

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Emotional Pornography

“Why should an unreal female be exciting, and a far better and real woman not be so? The key is the essence of imagination: the fantasy woman is totally the creation and creature of man, whereas the real woman is God’s creation and creature. It is essential to imagination to create a man-made world and a man-ordained decree of predestination. It is the essence of sin to demand such a world.” R.J. Rushdoony

What is emotional porn and how do we protect our young people?

R.J. Rushdoony points out, “Because ours is an age with a will to fiction, the role of imagination is extremely important. Men who will not be governed by God’s word will not be governed by reality, because reality is not of their making. God having created all things, reality reflects the mind of God, not man. Hence, it is the essence of sin to resort to imagination to escape God’s law world.”

Here is the ultimate question for those of us who delight in being titillated by unbiblical violence, unbiblical death, unbiblical spiritualism, and unbiblical romance – even when it’s “just pretend”: Are we are of the spirit, or still of the flesh?

Pornography is not simply about pictures. At its core, pornography starts with,

1. A desire to use people as self-gratification machines, and

2. A preference for man-made reality and man-made people over the real thing. These hold as much temptation for women as for men, though romance novels often ...

http://visionarydaughters.com/2009/11/how-twilight-is-re-vamping-romance#footnote10

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The bride was a princess, the favorite daughter of the warrior chieftain, “Powhatan.”

The groom, a young widower and farmer, had recently landed in Virginia.

John Rolfe, along with the governor, discipled Pocahontas, read to her from the Bible, and taught her to read and memorize scripture. She professed faith in Christ and was baptized, renouncing her former paganism – a demonic worship that included child sacrifice.

Their wedding, blessed by her father, brought peace between the settlers and Indians, called “the Peace of Pocahontas.”

Both bride and groom were used by God to establish a colony based on Christianity. Virginia Governor, John Smith, said that, “God made Pocahontas” and credited her with saving the settlement. “[S]he next, under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion.”

John Rolfe would save the colony economically by developing the major cash crop, tobacco. Through difficulty starting a new colony he refused to be discouraged calling Virginia the new “promised land” and wrote that like Caleb and Joshua, he would stand for the Lord’s cause, bringing a good report. Rolfe served as one of the first representatives in the House of Burgess – a system based on the Hebrew practice of representative elders.

Theirs is one of America’s first Christian weddings and one of our first recorded “interracial” marriages. John Rolfe wrote a passionate, Biblically reasoned appeal to the governor, asking permission to marry the Indian princess on the basis of her conversion to Christianity. He wrote in 1614 that their union would be, “for the good of this plantation, for the honor of our country, for the glory of God.” John Rolfe then journeyed to visit her father and received the Powhatan’s blessing. The Rolfe’s example of marriage based on their unity of faith, regardless of ethnic origin, stood as legal precedent for over 50 years.