CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick, June 29, 2023 – The devil works hard to convince people he doesn’t exist. He does this because if people don’t believe he exists, then morals are relative rather than absolute, which means there can be no such thing as sin.

And if sin doesn’t exist, then people don’t have a moral compass to guide them when they’re tempted. Not having a moral compass, they fall prey to any kind of persuasion, including being convinced that what was once considered sinful is now just a personal preference for those who were “born that way”.

In other words, sin is rebranded as natural, normal, and healthy.

The normalization of sin is a process that begins with eliminating the devil, which the devil himself is only too happy to initiate. Each soul he convinces that he doesn’t exist becomes his by default, because a soul that doesn’t believe the devil exists is a soul that doesn’t believe God exists, and anyone who doesn’t believe in God is by default the spiritual real estate of Satan. That the captured soul doesn’t believe Satan exists is just icing on the cake for the old snake, who finds the irony delicious.

The image above is from a “pride” parade in Toronto a few days ago. It doesn’t need commentary but it does stand as a fitting representation of the fallen spiritual state of what used to be known as “Toronto the Good”. The devil’s obviously been busy in Toronto to bring it to the point where middle-aged men can, not only metaphorically but literally, parade down a street to the cheers of hundreds of thousands of onlookers. Yes, public nudity is still illegal in Toronto, but it seems that laws only apply to those who won’t comply with the global agenda to normalize sin.

Men who exposed themselves in public, especially to women and children, used to be promptly arrested and then named and shamed to deter other men from doing the same. Yet here we are, supposedly on our way to peak social progress, and Torontonians have less decorum or motivation to protect their women and children than primitive jungle tribes, who at least have enough self-respect and respect for their fellow tribespeople to wear a loincloth when they’re out in public.

The rebranding of pride has turned it into something we’re supposed to admire and celebrate rather than avoid and shun. Until just a few decades ago, pride in anything but your country or in the hard-earned accomplishments of yourself or your loved ones was considered vanity and the mark of an immature mind. Pride was not admired. In fact, pride was not only not admired, it was considered a sin, and a deadly one at that: one that presaged a great fall. Only vain and frivolous people paraded their pride and they were justly ostracized and condemned for it.

The rebranding of pride has turned the notion of pride into something else altogether. This is the devil’s doing, and the general public is lapping it up. If you’re reading this, you know what “pride” now stands for; there’s no point in my going into details. Let me just say that “pride” as it’s understood and used today is just as sinful as pride always was. That aspect of pride has not changed.

“Pride” was the sin that got Sodom obliterated. And if you think history isn’t repeating itself, think again. Former Christian nations are being set up for annihilation through the overspreading of “pride”, especially among children through the educational system (which includes story hour at public libraries). A whole generation is being brainwashed and groomed into accepting “pride” as natural, normal, and healthy. If you wonder how Sodom could have devolved to the point where Lot’s house was surrounded by locals banging on the door and demanding that Lot hand over his guests for, well, “Sodom-izing”, you have your answer. To the people of Sodom, who were raised believing that what they were doing was natural, normal, and healthy, Lot was the one who was perverse and out of line.

Sound familiar?

God gives the devil permission to turn everything upside-down because testing is required for his good purposes. God needs to see whether you want what he’s offering or what the devil’s offering, whether you embrace his version of reality or the devil’s. The majority, unfortunately, are choosing the devil’s version, as is witnessed by the nearly wholesale support of “pride” across former Christian nations.

I had a discussion earlier today with a self-identified Christian woman who’s allegedly against men exposing themselves to women and children but has no problem otherwise with “pride”. She didn’t see the connection between her support of “pride” and the consequence of men being empowered to expose themselves in public or dress up as caricatures of women to read lasciviously to children. She seemed to think these were two different kinds of “pride”, but really there is only one “pride”, and it’s the same “pride” that got Sodom wiped off the map.

Pride in all its forms and guises needs to be outed for what it is, not sugar-coated and heavily made up to pretend it’s something it’s not. Rebranded sin is still sin. Sin cannot be virtue. The devil cannot be God.

As born-again believers, we are obliged to pray for those who are bound by sin, but we cannot in any way align ourselves with their sin. We can’t support their expression of sin, which means we cannot support or participate in “pride”. We cannot rebrand sin as natural, normal, or healthy because it’s none of those things. Sin is today what it always has been – a fast track to death and a sure way to separate yourself from God.

And as a former “pride” supporter turned born-again believer, I can tell you there is no worse state of being than separated from God.