Fantasy and Homosexuality

You seemed to be making a connection between C. S. Lewis/J. R. R. Tolkein’s works and the rise in homosexual mania. Would you mind filling me in a little more on that connection? It is not as clear to me, although having noticed the “mania”, I do wonder about possible causal influences.

Romans 1:22-32 says:

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”

The idea being expressed here (and maybe I should expand the explanation in the review some) is that Paul is drawing a direct link between the entertainment of pagan ideas and the fact (according to God’s Word) that such entertainment eventually leads to the spreading of homosexuality. I use the word “entertainment” here sort of tongue-in-cheek, as ancient pagans often seriously entertained these ideas, yet many in this day do so as a form of entertainment. However, the central issue is that when an author glorifies a man, animal, insect, or some mutant combination of the above with mystical powers, this is changing “the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible.” This is the essence of paganism. Lewis and Tolkein were openly dedicated students of ancient paganism. When we deify imaginary beings based on lower life forms (lower than God) with powers (call them supernatural, occult, mystical, or any other name) greater than those given to earthly beings by God, we practice paganism. When we indulge ourselves in the exultant feelings engendered by participating in the imaginary necromancy of the author, whether as reader or voyeur, we also participate in his paganism.

We must remember that all sin originates in paganism by whatever name it is called: voodoo, Islam, Buddhism, atheism, agnosticism, and even sometimes Christianity. It all comes from the aspiration of man to take God’s place. It started with the devil. He then convinced Eve to try. The ancient gods of the Greeks and Romans were manlike (men who were super-powered). Animal gods simply diminish the true Deity as man has conquered all animals. The sin nature in the heart of man is an aspiration to be higher than he is, even to be a god. That is why the first commandment is: “I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:” —Exodus 20:2-4. All the other commandments deal with self-centeredness and selfishness. When we indulge in the idea of beings other than God with powers like His, we are indulging that same old lust. The verses above from Romans describe many other behaviors that are related to, and stem from, that lust. Those verses also say that to indulge in that way will lead to homosexuality. Thus, I cannot but question, Is it coincidence that the exponential rise of Lewis/Tolkein has paralleled a similar rise in homosexuality, even as the Bible has predicted?