Before Christianity came on the scene, ancient Greek and Roman pagans did not consider children to be fully human persons like adults. Indeed, it is not too strong to say that Christianity introduced the concept of children that we have today, in which we give children more concern than adults owing to their vulnerability. This was truly a revolutionary concept.
Such a view comes directly from the commands of Christ, whose very strong view was also extremely counter-cultural. When the disciples tried to stop children from engaging with Jesus, he sternly rebuked them saying that the Kingdom of God belonged to the little children. Indeed, our Lord reverses the adult-versus-child priority, saying directly that adults must become like little children. And he reserves the harshest language of all for those who harm children: saying that it would be better if they were drowned in the sea with a millstone hung around their neck.
It is from this vision of little children that the Church had and continues to have its strong response to abortion and infanticide. It is this vision that makes the sex abuse crisis so reprehensible and the Church’s aggressive reaction to it in the last two decades an imperative. It is also from this vision that the Church criticizes the brutal manipulation of children when it comes to sex and gender.
Perhaps it should not come as a surprise that as the voice of Christianity fades from the public sphere, we see a repaganized culture using children as experimental subjects – poisoning them with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and mutilating them with ghastly surgeries that forever alter their bodies.
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