Secular Hypocrisy

Something came to my mind today and it started with a conversation. A conversation I had with a friend of mine caused me to think about sex offenders in our country. they are regarded with disdain and considered outcast, mentally ill, and unwelcome people. Somehow most Americans think rapists or perverts are special case, messed up people ... diseased. I don't contradict that these people need help or that they have done something despicable and deserving of punishment.

Here's my issue though. Most Americans, including myself, believe sex offenders should control their desires because they are most likely unwelcome. When they cave in, we curse them for it - and rightly so. But flip the coin and you find most Americans condoning sex outside of marriage, even for teens. In my experience, most sexually active individuals, when asked why they didn't wait for marriage, said they simply couldn't help it. A typical response goes like this: "It's the way we are. We are sexually charged creatures and to not have sex would cause us to probably explode in agony." So what about the people who can't get laid and are forced, by their sexual nature, to engage in unwelcome sexual acts. they too are sexual, but maybe nobody will sleep with them. We accept two people who mutually can't control their sexual desires, but we condemn the one who cannot when he takes advantage of one who can. There's a duality here in our culture.

To be clear, I don't condone any sort of sexual deviancy. I believe we all have the ability to control our desires, but that ability comes from Christ through discipline and sound decision making. My opinion on mutual sex outside of marriage is also that we should control our desires. If we force sex offenders to control their desires (whether natural or perverse), we must also be able to control ours ... and that's what I believe. So enough calling Christians hypocrites, we're all hypocrites - get over it and start relying on the Truth for help.