Nihilism In Practice

 

Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>,
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 You can shout "Hail Satan" all day long, and it would look nothing but ridiculous. You can try to put a statue of Baphomet in the lawn of the official buildings of your State, and really it says nothing. It just offends people, is all, and there are worse things than being offended. Much worse things than that. In fact, most of us could benefit from being a little more offended in the RIGHT ways, though statues of devils would not be that way.

No, Nihilism in practice, Satanism in practice, is what has an impact. And there are many forms of putting it into practice, but one of the most effective, and I imagine most pleasing to the Evil One, is perversion. Sexual immorality.

You see, the secular materialists say we are nothing but monkeys with a genital fixation. And sexual immorality says "yes, I am a monkey with a genital fixation. That is all I am."

Of course the next step is to for them to say you are not even a monkey. Monkeys after all have rights of a sort. You are just robotic meat in motion, just tissue, a mote dancing in the sunbeam of material determinism. Just a bit of protoplasm that can be rearranged however the State and Science wants to, since rights and souls are an artifact of a bygone superstition. We will rearrange you to suit ourselves (ourselves being the new secular god of sciencism and the State.) You are nothing.

And from a certain point of view, you ARE nothing of yourself. You are only something if G-d says you are. And the "something" you were intended to be, is made in the image of G-d. To be Children of God. Not because you are so great. Because He is.

Sexual immorality is throwing feces on the image of G-d. That's why I would imagine the Evil One would like it so much. It is Satan yelling at G-d saying, "look at what I can do to Your image! Look at these innocent babies, I am going to get their own parents to murder them! Look at this human made in your image, I will drag him into the dirt and slime and make him deny everything of You. I will make him lower than a beast. He will grovel in degradation and like it! He will glory in his own rot!"

Well I am a human. I sin, I am not perfect, but I am not a monkey or an automaton either. I was made in the image of G-d and I am going to do all I can to bring that image to fruition in me. Not because I am so great, but because I am loved and I am going to respond to that love by becoming more and more like the One who loves me. His love makes me live, and gives that life meaning.

Sexual immorality is far more eloquent than any rhetoric could ever be. It is someone nailing themselves to the inverted cross of degradation, disease and decay and smiling and inviting you to join them there. They aren't just saying stuff. They are sacrificing their very soul to convey the message.