Chains

Celestial had a series of prophecies relating to how many Americans will find themselves enslaved by their enemies, particularly as a comeuppance for flaunting their bodies a lot that they will be made to do these things against their will. It’s the dictum of people like Christina Aguilera given logical consequences in that the tendency to flaunt their bodies as to empower themselves sexually is something that one would ever do in spiritual bondage, somebody who’s actually free wouldn’t do those things anymore though they may struggle and stumble from time to time. Celestial said that America was like a bride or wife to the Lord, but over the years it turned out to be a massive cheater.

Being the mother of all abominations, God will get rid of the nation when he sees fit. Some of the things that are truly abominable to the Lord do have their origins in America, words like polyamory originated in America and polyamory is this practise where somebody can be in more than one sexual/romantic relationship despite being married, especially when there’s another romantic partner in the house. People could easily do that without doing polyamory, but that would mean it’s adultery. David learnt his lesson the hard way when he did this, no wonder he had to own up his actions and ask for repentance. In all honesty, I prayed to God to help a writer stop their character from committing adultery.

It’s not always easy being honest to God at times but at least when you talk to him with a sincere heart, he could give you the desires of the heart or something greater than you imagined. Said character would end up married with a husband, having learnt her lesson on cheating before. But for every author who has the audacity to stop their characters from living in sin, even if it’s not the word that usually comes to their minds, there are those that kind of glorify sin (including sexual sin) in that the actions the characters do leave no negative consequences. The characters don’t learn from it, so they don’t grow and mature. It could be almost any book that’s like this.

But if America is Mystery Babylon, mother of all abominations, then it exports a lot of its filth to the world and even to countries that should know better like the Philippines, then it’s on us for following America’s dark path a lot. Even if Saudi Arabia isn’t any better in some regards, it’s not as immensely influential as America is. Which is the bad part about America because as a superpower, this only magnifies its ability to corrupt everything and everybody else. It is utterly and irredeemably corrupt, the way God would see it as it really is. It’s home to almost anything that’s abominable to him, whether if it’s ‘flaunting’ oneself sexually in order to be empowering, erotica books, so on and so forth.

Even if countries like Britain and Canada may have their own whorish celebrities every now and then, but America is far more influential in this day and age with more well-known whorish celebrities. These women think they’re empowering themselves by whoring themselves a lot, not knowing that one day they’ll end up as actual prostitutes who’ll be made to do sex acts that they will never enjoy nor consent to. Which is the gist of her prophecy because many Americans believe in a form of female empowerment that involves being female chauvinist pigs (which is the name of a real book), instead of being godly and holy women for the Lord. Pardon if I’m slut-shaming, but it really has to be said.

It’s not wrong to be into female empowerment, however in theory and practise, but the way Americans do it is the wrong way. This involves feeling the need to sexually express themselves in whatever way is possible, not just dressing sexily but also indulging in sex acts outside of marriage. One day these same Americans will be put into a situation where they’ll do sex acts against their volition, I even imagine this would also be true for men who resort to sexting and the like that they will become gigolos who don’t even enjoy the sex they’re made to do. I guess if God’s not fine with immodesty, especially if done for the sake of sexually attracting somebody, then he’s not fine with sexting.

I don’t think skintight clothing is necessarily bad in and of itself, especially if it’s something some people wear to do things like diving, swimming, sprinting or ice skating and I even think these are the things God would be fine with since they’re not done to seduce people with. Though at times one would still have to draw the line between this and doing it to be sexually attractive, the latter is where God’s not okay with in any way. People like Christina Aguilera and her ilk would not like this advice, if because it points out how whorish they really are even in the name of ’empowerment’. While it’s not wrong to dress skimpily, sometimes it might be condoned in things like sprinting, it’s another to deliberately seduce somebody.

Especially when outside of marriage that at any point, even celebrities who when they do these things they’ll be in a position where they’ll be prostituted to people they don’t even like. If there’s a line between athletic justification and sexual attention, then one would really know what the latter’s like to the Lord.

My Secret Love’s No Secret Anymore

Celestial doesn’t mince God’s words when it comes to the subject matter of adultery and any other sexual perversion in marriage and to some extent, dating for as long as there’s no premarital sex involved. No masturbation and reading or consuming pornographic materials whatsoever, that people who indulge in disturbing sexual fantasies will be punished a lot for defiling God’s plan for marriage. This includes rape fantasies, which is present in some stories. Including those that are bestsellers that I think a number of Colleen Hoover fans will not be pleased to hear, if because the things the characters indulge in are against the Lord.

There’s this passage of a presumably male character who indulges in voyeurism when fantasising about a woman, while being sexually attracted to women when male (or vice versa) isn’t necessarily bad in and of itself but if lust is a sin then voyeurism/scopophilia is one of them. Then we get to another book of hers where another character indulges in adultery, another sex act forbidden by the Lord that it’s horrifying her own books have outsold the Bible! This is symptomatic of a fallen society where stories that glorify sexual sins without having the characters face consequences for their actions (or made ashamed of them at the very least).

It’s not hard to see where criticisms of Hoover’s works are coming from, though not necessarily in ways they’re aware of or think. Fornicators/perverts, cheaters and their ilk aren’t going to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven unless if they repent and change their ways from following God or at least doing their best in doing so, but the problem is a good number of stories that America churns out encourages or glorifies these acts. Not just blatant pornography but also books that are widely consumed and enjoyed by those at a formative age that it will give them the wrong impression of what it’s like to be in a loving, mature relationship.

I feel a number of romance books and the like are prone to this in some way or another, like there’s a tendency to see M/M romance stories as liberating even though the Lord and the Bible both look down on homosexuality. It’s as if many of the things these women find sexually liberating actually enslave them to sin, far more than they should be doing that they could risk defiling the marriage bed not just with their husbands, but also their boyfriends if they’re going to marry them at all. For those who don’t want to be married, don’t read these books at all and don’t indulge in any sinful sex act and fantasy either.

Then we get to the subject of affairs which appear in whatever form and are called by whatever people feel like describing and naming those, though I feel a number of celebrities and the like might indulge in some form of adultery. Well not publicised and reported in any way at least for now, but I have the nagging feeling that one of the Backstreet Boys will be outed for having an affair with a fan or younger woman that he’s going to beat up his wife when she finds this out. Then we get to luminaries condoning forms of non-consensual monogamy like polyamory and swinging, which will become more public and commonplace.

Even supposedly wholesome celebrities will be outed for this, be it a secret affair as it will be with Nick Carter, polyamory with other celebrities or how Taylor Swift stole another woman’s boyfriend and why she never seems to settle with any one man in her life. Pardon if it seems like I’m slutshaming Swift but I don’t think Katy Perry has scored that many men in her life, despite her more sexualised public image that one would wonder if Swift might be less vanilla in person. If this is true, then she embodies the phrase ‘lady in the streets, freak in the sheets’. Pretty contrary to her wholesome public persona, when you consider her love life.

This gets me into considering what I should do with my own characters, especially when lust gets brought up in some way that while they struggle with it, somebody tells them not to give into it anymore and/or face the consequences of their actions. Or with those characters who lust that their actions are clearly bad and reflect badly on them, especially if others find out about what they’re up to and it’s not going to be pretty. Perhaps I use depict them in ways that uphold Christian values and beliefs, even if they sin and/or stumble from time to time. It’s one thing to have a character lust, it’s another to have a character struggle with lust and eventually unlearning it if they’re shamed for doing it.

But I feel it’s not something a lot of writers are capable of depicting, even if it upholds Christian values better in the sense that humans always struggle with the flesh due to original sin. I also feel these kinds of characters and stories are needed in a world of ever-growing immorality because it seems the way some authors write their stories glorify or romanticise sexual sin a lot, especially if characters are neither shamed for doing it nor do they face consequences for their actions. Nor if their actions are shown reflecting badly on them, especially if they seem to be good and trusted by the public. This is another way of knowing how bad things are going.

I’m afraid there might be a rise in romance stories and the like where not only rape fantasies are paraded but also sex with demons, more sadistic sex acts, polyamory, swinging and so on and so forth that Colleen Hoover’s own works being popular with young girls is a worrying sign of where things are heading. It would give them the wrong idea of sex when they do get into romantic and marital relationships with men, that it seems the depraved sex acts give them a glimpse into a rather sinful world. That she portrayed a character fantasising about seeing a woman naked feels like she’s glorifying voyeurism instead of a loving relationship between servant and leader.

The more the world glorifies sinful sex acts and lust, the worst these stories will get where it’s not enough to have rape fantasies. We’ll eventually get to things that the Marquis de Sade would have easily cooked up and it will be enjoyed by teenage girls, Colleen Hoover’s a sign of worse things to come because of her stories’ popularity with those people.