Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Years ago, before Epstein, before the Me Too movement, even before same-sex marriage,

talk show host and Jewish theologian Dennis Prager wrote a fascinating article entitled

Judaism's Sexual Revolution, in it he described how the

pagan world was a sexual free-for-all that debased women and children in the service of male lust.

Nearly every aspect of life was sexualized. The pagan gods engaged in no-holds-barred sex,

and so did the people. As philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who was quoted by Preggert,

wrote, children and women were, quote, very often treated interchangeably as simple objects of

male desire, end quote. The very same awful treatment of God's image bearers is on display again

in the revelations emerging from the Epstein files. An incredible number of victims

were trafficked and abused. An incredible number of evildoers were involved, and a bunch of powerful

people worked to keep it all hidden. That so much evil could have continued for so long,

simply staggers the imagination. However, a remarkable difference today is that, unlike

pre-Christian pagan societies, such behavior is considered evil instead of normal. And that's because

the claim that God created sex only for a man and a woman in marriage was so revolutionary.

As Preger wrote, quote, this revolution forced the sexual genie into the marital

bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society. It heightened male-female love and sexuality,

and thereby almost alone created the possibility of love and eroticism within marriage,

and it began the arduous task of elevating the status of women, end quote.

As Christianity, which shared that Genesis' account of creation, grew and expanded an influence,

it collided with Roman paganism, a paganism which also victimized women and children.

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