Jenner: Pity Not Praise
The long awaited interview of decathlon-winner Bruce Jenner ‘coming out’ as a woman has inspired nothing but adulation in the media; our local editorialist fawned over him as ‘a superhero’, his decision (to identify as a woman) driven by ‘Olympian strength.’
Nonsense. His decision is nothing less than a grotesque expression of narcissism. Anyone who seeks to resolve such a profound identity conflict by assuming the other gender has dissociated from reality. Gender reassignment is based on a fault-line; it is a diabolical effort to repair a fractured soul that sends fissures throughout the whole of that person’s influence. I do not buy for a second his children lauding their father’s fantasy ‘self.’
Like the American public, his kids have been well-trained to bless every bizarre gender declaration as ‘justice’ and ‘authenticity’ instead of the selfish, senseless ‘solutions’ that they are. Ask any doctor who performs gender reassignment surgery. Studies show that mental imbalances surrounding the gender-conflicted are worsened, not improved, by taking on a new gender ‘self.’
Furthermore, Jenner is committing an act of supreme idolatry. Playing God, he now fashions a self in his pathetic image, not the Creator’s. He lives in darkness and leeches the light from us all by insisting that we enter his confusing universe. How fitting that he and the Kardashian-driven E! Channel will make millions as he submits every nip and tuck and new dress for public consumption.
Reflecting on the holy nature of gendered humanity, Karl Barth wrote: ‘A flight from one’s gender is a flight into inhumanity. It is a flight from God.’
More than the meltdown of a fragile opportunist, Jenner represents the meltdown of a nation. We have no fear of God, only a superficial assent to people’s bad decisions packaged as ‘freedom.’ Our freedoms are destroying good people who need truth-in-love. God gave Jenner a gender; God in His mercy can restore him. Pray for Jenner and all who are subject to the false light of his delusion.
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