By David Futrelle

As No-Nut November nears its climax, one reactionary Catholic tweeter is asking those who’ve given up nutting to porn whether or not their intentions are pure.

if the only reason you quit porn is because it exploits women and not because it’ll send you to hell for all eternity you’re just a simp — Classical Theist ✠ (@ClassicalTheis) November 21, 2019

Avoiding the lake of fire, if such a thing exists, might seem to be a perfectly valid reason to give up any number of sins, but not everyone seems to agree. Indeed, some of the most contentious challenges to Classical Theist come from fellow reactionary Christians raising thorny theological questions.

https://twitter.com/FrogBaptist/status/1197384326297661440

https://twitter.com/CommunitasRerum/status/1197530772242087937

if the only reason you quit porn is because it sends you to hell for all eternity you don't even have perfect contrition you little bitch — marea Rosa de Lima✌ (@mariafan812) November 21, 2019

I’ll leave the finer points of this discussion to those who have a better understanding of God’s feelings about people wanking it than I do. But I will point out that Classical Theist not only disagrees with these commenters, but also himself, or at least the earlier version of himself that tweeted a somewhat different, and rather less dramatic, version of his argument back in September.

If your principal argument against porn is the exploitation of women who are complicit in it and not the intrinsic immorality of seeking sexual pleasure outside the unitive/procreative context of the marital act we’re not really fighting for the same cause — Classical Theist ✠ (@ClassicalTheis) September 25, 2019

In case you’re wondering, yes, Mr. CT has opinions about all sorts of other things. Like contraception.

Theologically, contraception is a sin of pride, inasmuch as it treats the union of man and woman as if generation of another does not flow necessarily from it, as if it were perfectly complete in itself. This perfection of union is fitting only to God’s own Trinitarian Union. — Classical Theist ✠ (@ClassicalTheis) March 16, 2018

The ordination of women:

there are few things on this planet more repugnant to the eye than a woman wearing a mitre — Classical Theist ✠ (@ClassicalTheis) August 4, 2019

And the proper storage of female intellectuals:

Tbh in a perfect, ideal Christianized society there would be a place uniquely for childless women intellectuals: the convent — Classical Theist ✠ (@ClassicalTheis) December 7, 2017

Well, that’s enough theology for today. Please return to whatever you were doing, or not doing, as the case may be.

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