day no. 17,375: the immoral high ground

“We live in a time when progressives can sport bumper stickers that will tout the ticket of Shagrat/Slubgob 2024, and still manage to look down on you and your kind as ethical retards.” — Douglas Wilson, No Such Thing As Bad Words

The demonic have always called evil "good" and good "evil." The degree to which something is demonic is the degree to which it embraces this standard. The troubling nature of our current dilemma is not that some are willing to call evil things "good," that much has always been true, what is most troubling is that many actually believe that evil is "good." As Pastor Wilson points out, someone could sport a bumper sticker promoting satanism and still believe they have the moral high ground in a conversation with a Christian. They do not just call Christianity "evil," they believe that Christianity is evil. They do not just call their demonic worship "good," they believe that the demonic is good. They have the immoral high ground which turns out to be the slough of despond.

“‘Have you ever noticed,’ said Dimble, ‘that the universe, and every bit of the universe is always hardening and narrowing and coming to a point?’ His wife waited as those wait who know by long experience the mental processes of the person who is talking to them. ‘I mean this,’ said Dimble in answer to the question she had not asked. ‘If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family – anything you like – at a given point in its history, you always find that there was a time before that point when there was more elbow room and contrasts weren’t quite so sharp; and that there’s going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing. The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a point, getting sharper and harder.’” — C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

As a result of our current condition, there is less hypocrisy, but there is more blatant heresy. No one has to pretend to be orthodox in an environment that throws shade at orthodoxy. The dark is getting darker and more comfortable being dark in broad daylight. The light then must get brighter and more comfortable with making other people squint.