Modern man flatters himself that he is freer, wiser, and more moral than his ancestors. He points to the Enlightenment that supposed dawning of reason, as the pivot that lifted man out of “superstition” into rationality, rights, and “humanist progress.” Yet what has this new morality produced? A society that blesses sodomy, mutilates children in the name of gender ideology, and despises the very fecundity God planted into creation. Meanwhile, the same society invents new taboos, branding as monstrous what was once ordinary, even sanctified under the law of God and the customs of Christendom.
One of those modern inventions is the blanket demonization of attraction to those in their adolescent years, what the psychiatrists now label “hebephilia”, and twitter troons label as "pedophilia". Rarely do they admit this framing is a product of Enlightenment moral engineering, not eternal truth.
Scripture never speaks of an “18-year boundary.” Such numbers are the tools of bureaucrats. Biblical anthropology understood three stages: childhood, adulthood, and the transitions of youth. In Christian tradition, adolescence was precisely when men and women came into their natural roles marriage, family, fruitfulness. To deny that is to deny both history and creation.
Our ancestors did not confuse a child dependent, unformed, with a girl ready for marriage. They saw clearly what modern laws pretend not to see: that adolescence is not perpetual childhood. Thus, early marriages were not aberrations but bulwarks of order. Girls became wives and mothers while their womanhood was fresh, preserving that delicate femininity God designed before it was corroded by careerism, barren hedonism, the neuroses of late modern feminism, and all products of the Enlightment values created by freemasons and jews, that was later spread across all western countries.
What did the Enlightenment bring, if not a reversal of morality itself? Humanity was taught that what is natural may be criminal, while what is unnatural must be celebrated. The sodomite is paraded as a hero; the sterile feminist, as the “liberated woman.” Yet the man who honors the beauty of youth, as reflected in Scripture, art, and the lives of the saints, is branded a villain. This is not righteousness but satanic inversion—calling evil good, and good evil (Isaiah 5:20).
Even within the camp of “conservatism,” many fall prey to this poisoned thinking. They rail against homosexuality, abortion, or transgenderism, but in the same breath adopt the liberal framework of Enlightenment morality in condemning traditional age norms. By doing so, they prove themselves captives of modernity.
God ordained family as the first institution of society. In older Christian cultures, the early establishment of marriage ensured that men and women were locked into their proper roles early before vice and vanity could fester. A young man married, worked, procreated, and became a patriarch. A young woman preserved her purity, married, and submitted to godly order. This was not oppression; this was God’s providential design to prevent the chaos of atomized desire.
Modernity has overthrown this. Women now age into hysteria and sterility, men into weakness and addiction. The family collapses, the Church empties, and the nation rots. Satan laughs, for the pillars God set in place have been dynamited by humanist dogmas packaged as “progress.”
Today, even the appreciation of youthful beauty in art on which Christian Europe built countless frescoes, sculptures, and icons must be hidden lest the satanist jewish cult of “human rights” denounce it. In truth, this shame reveals less about the so-called “sin” and more about the corrupted optic of the modern man who cannot look upon God’s creation without suspicion. His conscience has been trained, not by the Word of God, but by Enlightenment lawyers and secular psychiatrists.
A Christian conscience must be formed by Scripture and tradition, not by the arbitrary constructs of modern states that sanction sodomy while forbidding the natural order that stood for millennia. The soul’s anchor must be divine law, not liberal legislation.
The current age is built upon sand. Human rights, secular humanism, feminist liberation, sexual revolutions. All these modern projects collapse under their contradictions. They celebrate the barren while scorning the fruitful, protect the perverse while criminalizing the natural.
True conservatism, true Christianity, must tear away this fachade of Enlightenment morality and return to the older ways: an order where youth was not wasted in sterile indulgence, but offered into early marriage, family, and faith. Anything less is capitulation to the Satanic reversal of the modern age.
As Christ warned, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Look at the fruit of modernity: litigious hysteria, sexual inversion, infertility, loneliness, collapse. By contrast, the fruit of tradition was healthy families, obedience to God, and continuity of Christian civilization. Which tree, then, will Shartycucks choose to graft onto?