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Herman Bavinck Chimes In: How We Got Here

Currently, I am working through reading Reformed Ethics: Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity by Herman Bavinck for a course at NSA.  It is proving to be a very helpful and informative read, and if you have $30 dollars to doll out, I would recommend this book.  Anyway, I came across this quote, and found that it proved to be very insightful as to how we got to where we are now in our cultural landscape:

"In principle, adultery is revolution and makes society impossible ... But even here sin does not standstill.  Eventually it leads to unnatural sins such as practices associated with pedophilia and homosexuality, common especially in the Greek world, where they were not condemned, even by Socrates and Plato, and later also in Roman culture."

It makes you scratch your head when you look around yourself in the culture, but this slide started decades ago with men being unfaithful to their wives because the "heart wants what it wants."  It all began with the individuals who decided to place themselves over others.  

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