Once Again, the Catholic Church Is Right

Many of you are aware that the Catholic Church (pre-Franny1) held an absolutist line on pre-marital sex (NO!!!) and serial marriage a/k/a divorce and re-"marriage" (NO!!!).   

Actual Catholics (not Franny1) still hold to those positions.

Along comes a sociological researcher whose work is noticed by Surber.

...One of my readers is an Orthodox priest and he forwarded a link to an article by Kirk Dunston about anthropologist J.D. Unwin, who studied 86 cultures: “Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought.”

Dunston said:
 

Effect of sexual constraints: Increased sexual constraints, either pre- or post-nuptial, always led to increased flourishing of a culture. Conversely, increased sexual freedom always led to the collapse of a culture three generations later. 

Single most influential factor: Surprisingly, the data revealed that the single most important correlation with the flourishing of a culture was whether pre-nuptial chastity was required or not. It had a very significant effect either way.

 Highest flourishing of culture: The most powerful combination was pre-nuptial chastity coupled with “absolute monogamy.” Rationalist cultures that retained this combination for at least three generations exceeded all other cultures in every area, including literature, art, science, furniture, architecture, engineering, and agriculture. Only three out of the eighty-six cultures studied ever attained this level.

 Effect of abandoning prenuptial chastity: When strict prenuptial chastity was no longer the norm, absolute monogamy, deism, and rational thinking also disappeared within three generations.

 Total sexual freedom: If total sexual freedom was embraced by a culture, that culture collapsed within three generations to the lowest state of flourishing — which Unwin describes as “inert” and at a “dead level of conception” and is characterized by people who have little interest in much else other than their own wants and needs. At this level, the culture is usually conquered or taken over by another culture with greater social energy....

Read the red-highlighted text again, and weep for your country.

Think that's over the top?  Yah, well, the latest US egghead fad is cannibalism.

We'll give Franny1 the benefit of the doubt here; perhaps he never read Unwin's work while he was rummaging through Protestant theological works for his 'moral' theology blathers.

After all, he's a Jesuit.