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Sometimes a half-truth is worse than a falsehood. This article contains much truth, but has got it all backward. Porn does not close the windows of wonder: the Windows of Wonder are closed first, then porn arrives as a false consolation. Porn is the consolation of the man whose soul is dead. Open the Windows of Wonder in the soul of a man, bring his soul back to life, and he will recoil away from porn in disgust. Leave them closed, and his dead soul will turn back to porn again and again.
I don’t know why people write foolish articles like these. Looking for shortcuts? It may seem easier to cure a filthy habit than to cure the soul of a filthy man, but it is wiser to take on the difficult task of curing his soul than the impossible one of separating him from his filthy habits.
Perhaps if he’d have used the simile of a door his thoughts would have taken a different turn.
Thank you for this, was such an eye opener
Great article, but 200,000 addicts? This number is laughably low. It understates the reality by several orders of magnitude — every one of us personally knows several porn addicts (i.e. consumers of porn who can’t stop even though they want to). Simple analysis would lead to reckoning the number nationally to be several million.
As is the idea that there a mere 30,000 people looking at pornography right now — there are many times that number on a single site (Pornhub) as we speak.
Some rudimentary fact checking would bolster the good points made here. The 200,000 number in particular is an absolute howler.
I remember once how I was scheduled to be on a show to be interviewed about my testimony and to educate youth on the dangers of pornography. Beforehand, there were kids doing “comedy sports,” a type of improv. They were incredibly creative, thinking very quickly on their feet, as they used different objects differently, as quick as they could in a scene. I thought to myself, “My, aren’t these kids crazy inventive.”
The more I reflected on it, the more I realized how much porn had sapped my creativity, and that it is innocence that provokes wonder and gives birth to something truly new. With God, all things are possible, and thus there has been continuous healing.
This theme presented in this article is crucially important, and how we need to help the youth seek means of wondering and to plunge into beauty, because it is from here that genuine culture is created. I’m thankful for this work, and will definitely be incorporating it in my work of Freedom Coaching.