Yippee. Just in time for Valentines’ Day, Hollywood tosses another million dollar piece of trash out into theaters across the country, one that’s guaranteed to further degrade the institution of holy matrimony in America.
In case your don’t know, Fifty Shades of Grey – the movie and the book it’s based on – is soft pornography aimed primarily at women. It’s the sordid tale of a wealthy playboy would seduces a young woman. Their relationship rapidly devolves into a sadomasochistic one; which like all sick fantasies, really turns them both on.
Owen Strachan (asst prof of Christian theology & church history at Boyce College), writing in the Baptist Press, explains how detrimental this film will be to a culture already awash in moral relativity: How ’50 Shades of Grey’ harms women & Jesus saves them ~
(In the film) A man who sexually uses and abuses women is cool, mysterious and compelling.
Let me speak as strongly as I should here: 50 Shades of Grey is disgusting, despicable and unerringly awful for women. Don’t view this film as just a film. Know that it is much more. It is representative of the new sexual progressivism and its amoral worldview. 50 Shades of Grey speaks to where things are headed in our culture.
We should not expect that postmodernism will protect women. It will do no such thing. We should not expect that it will ennoble men and call them to self-sacrificial responsibility. It will do no such thing. We should not expect that postmodernism will bless children and strengthen the family. It will do no such thing.
Those who work against biblical manhood and womanhood, who fight the Scripture’s teaching as marginalizing are in fact undermining the last cultural defense that still stands against male predation and sexual suffering.
50 Shades of Grey may seem exciting, enticing and alluring. It is in truth nihilistic, degrading and devastating. Any woman who has been sexually abused will be very clear that there is nothing romantic, fun and satisfying in the experience. It’s unthinkable — but true — that this is the vision of the good life being offered to and received by many, many women today.
Abuse of women is evil to the very core of what evil represents. Yet our double-minded culture decries “rape culture” and then — in a spasm of confusion — turns around and extols what it just condemned.
Think about how confusing sexual mores are today for young men and women. There is effectively no standard of sexual conduct on many secular college campuses, for example, outside of mutual consent. But media like 50 Shades of Grey entice young men to sexually abuse women while exhorting young women to engage in harmful sexual practices.
Honestly, what kind of twisted, deviant culture is this?
Traditionally Valentine’s Day has been a celebration of love and romance. Ultimately, a film like Fifty Shades of Grey will help pervert and destroy both.
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