** Warning: This episode might not be suitable for young listeners**

Continuing our previous discussion of the imminent return of paganism, we elaborate on the Roman pagan practices of prostitution, slavery, homosexuality and the more disturbing practices of pederasty, abortion and exposure. During our discussion we provide numerous examples of how these practices are emerging in our Western culture today. We highlight how Christianity radically changed the ancient Roman world by drastically curbing these practices and by promoting the idea that all people have equal value and that people can exert self-control and not be slaves to their depraved desires. Join us as we expose the pagan worldviews seeping into our culture, whether growing from within or coming from far off places, such as “the land of sand and sodomy”. Even as Christianity is being pushed ever more into the margins, the Christian message still has the power to free people from slavery to pagan worldviews.

Episode Timeline

0:00:00: Opening

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0:10:19: Prostitution, Slavery and Homosexuality

• YouTube | The Pagan City, the Christian City, and the Secular City | Steven Smith
• YouTube | Culture Wars as Pagan Counterrevolution | Steven Smith 
• YouTube | Coming Home? The Imminent Immanent City | Steven Smith 
• Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.
• Business Insider | Prostitution is legal in countries across Europe, but it's nothing like what you think
• ilo.org (PDF) | Global Estimates of Modern Slavery
• USA TODAY | From harmful fetishes to sex trafficking, Robert Kraft case highlights risks facing Asian women
• USA TODAY | 13 sex trafficking statistics that explain the enormity of the global sex trade
• YouTube | ABC NEWS | Hidden America: Chilling New Look at Sex Trafficking in the US
• YouTube | Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes Australia
• Washington Examiner | Cindy McCain admits ‘we all knew’ about Epstein
• RT | The Vatican invested over $1 million in steamy gay Elton John biopic, ‘Men in Black’
• Wikipedia | The First Temptation of Christ

0:28:35: Pederasty and Pedophelia

• The Atlantic | The Kingdom in the Closet | Sodomy is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, but gay life flourishes there.
• The Jerusalem Post | In wake of Cologne attacks, Germany may be grappling with migrant 'rape game'
• The Washington Post | Justice Department investigates abuse by Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania
• The Guardian | 4,444 victims: extent of abuse in Catholic church in Australia revealed
• Salon.com | I’m a pedophile, but not a monster (404)
• Archive.is (Originally Salon.com) | I’m a pedophile, but not a monster 
• Salon.com | The pedophile I could not help: He was not a monster or a molester. The system destroyed him anyway
• YouTube | Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes 2020 - All of his bits chained
• YouTube | Former Child Star Corey Feldman Talks About His Hollywood Pedophilia Claims | Megyn Kelly TODAY
• YouTube | Elijah Wood Says There is a 'Major' Pedophilia Problem in Hollywood
• tiffanyfitzhenry.com | WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Mother of Sexually Abused Boy Bander Breaks Her Silenc... Oops! That page can’t be found 
• archive.org | WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Mother of Sexually Abused Boy Bander Breaks Her Silence, Implicates Disney, CAA, Hollywood Records, LAPD, DA & Industry Elite in Pedophile Ring & Cover-up
• The Hollywoodreporter | APA Threatens Sanctions in Response to Ricky Garcia's Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
• NBC News | Singer in boy band Forever in Your Mind, Ricky Garcia, accuses ex-manager of sexual assault 
• The Guardian | Child abuse documentary Hollywood 'didn't want you to see' goes viral
• YouTube | Pedophilia Is A Natural Sexual Orientation | Mirjam Heine | TEDxUniversityofWürzburg (#TEDOGATE)
• LifeSite News | TEDx speaker: ‘Pedophilia is an unchangeable sexual orientation,’ ‘anyone’ could be born that way

0:59:13: Abortion and Exposure

• Wikipedia | History of abortion - Greco-Roman world
• CNN | Read Michelle Williams' powerful speech about choice
• Michelle Williams’ Surprisingly Personal Speech About Abortion Was the Golden Globes’ Most Powerful Moment
• YouTube | NBC | Michelle Williams: Best Actress, Lim. Series, TV Movie - Golden Globes
• newsbusters.org | Comedian Michelle Wolf Jokes Abortion Made Her 'Feel Very Powerful,' Like ‘God’
• Paris, Ginette (1998). The Sacrament of Abortion. Spring Publications. 

1:13:23: The Impact of Christianity

• Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.
• Genesis 1:27–28; 2:24-25
• Commandments: Deuteronomy 5:18, 21; Exodus 20:14, 17
• Leviticus 18:22-23; 20:13
• Mark 10:6-9
• Hebrews 13:4
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-20
• Metaxas, Eric (2007). Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. HarperOne.
• Crisis Magazine | Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality | Dennis Prager

1:32:55: Self Control

• Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.
• The Great Courses | Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition
• Romans 6:1-23
• 2 Peter 1:3-11
• Titus 2:11-12

1:42:24: Summary and Conclusion

Bibliography:

Books

• Metaxas, Eric (2007). Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. HarperOne.
• Fox, R.L. (1987). Pagans and Christians. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
• Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.
• Paris, Ginette (1998). The Sacrament of Abortion. Spring Publications.

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