The #1 thing modern men are getting wrong about sex

The red pill vs. reality

The recent video 'Is the Red Pill the SIN PILL?' by Rollo Tomassi compared the red pill view of human nature to the Christian one.

It shows that what’s true in the red pill isn’t new, and what’s new isn’t true. The red pill is a vanilla version of original sin that appeals to boys who can’t fully face reality.

According to Rollo, Evo Psych studies our ‘innate sinful nature.’ The red pill is knowing what this innate nature is. It’s just biological evolutionary facts. Above all, it says men’s sexual nature is to spread their seed.

Promiscuity is the ‘innate nature’ of the human biological ‘machine’. Oddly, however, it admits we have to go against this to ‘get along with other machines.’ In fact, ‘religion works best’. We have to die to our innate natures like the Bible says we have to die to the Flesh.

But this suggests promiscuity DOESN’T fit our innate nature. If it did, what could possibly be the problem with the Sexual Revolution? Why should it have produced social chaos if it’s just our ‘innate nature’?And why has monogamy always produced the most successful societies?

Christianity gives the critical insight the red pill lacks: our fallen nature isn’t natural. St. Augustine described it as ‘the languor of nature,’ describing sin as being almost like a SECOND nature.

Because we are fallen, we are inclined to disorder: virtue is hard, but vice is easy. What’s ‘natural’ isn’t merely whatever happens. Murder happens. Feminism happens. Prevalence isn’t justification.

But to flourish, we must fight our fallen nature. Natural law is about how we flourish according to our nature as rational animals. And this is why even the red pill admits religion ‘works best’.

Our inclination to disorder induces us to sin in three main ways:

1. the disordered desire for bodily delights (especially sex and food, notes Aquinas)

2. the disordered desire for wealth

3. the disordered desire for power.

Together, these are ‘the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life.’ (1 John 2:16).

Concupiscence is the gratification of the senses in a way contrary to reason. And in the Hebraic, Arabic and Greek traditions, sin is understood in terms of archery metaphors. It’s thoughts, words or actions that miss the mark of being rational.

Christianity recognises sin and strengthens man against it. It wants expert archers. But the red pill tells men “it’s up to you” to live however you want. Make your own targets, bro! Hit the bullseye of your own bullshit.

This is a degenerate liberalism that promotes the very problems it pretends to protest.