Can this porn-addicted superhero save Christians from their own internet usage?
Author: Greg Owen
On the occasion of a new ad campaign promoting the “accountability” app Covenant Eyes, founder Ronald DeHaas is warning fellow Christians about the evils of online erotica — with some help from a pornography-addicted superhero.
“💪 Ability = Super strength,” in the Covenant Eyes calculation. “Weakness = Pornography.”
And for some receptive viewers, Colossal Man = homoerotic.
In DeHaas’s conception, however, the ad is all about the work because gooning is epidemic.
Boys as young as six years old are “marinating” in pornography, DeHaas claims, and widespread online addiction is “a civilizational crisis” rendering young men incapable of maintaining a relationship with “a real woman.”
“If men can’t have kids, it’s a civilizational problem,” he told The Christian Post.
Pointing to a 2016 study called “The Porn Phenomenon,” which found online addiction is rampant among his fellow Christians, DeHaas said 57% of pastors and 64% of youth pastors have personally struggled with it, either currently or in the past.
Of the pastors who were still “using,” 87% said they felt great shame about it, and 55% said they lived in constant fear of being discovered.
DeHaas points out that 70 percent of the youth pastors who participated in the study had at least one teenager come to them about their addiction in the past year. The majority were high school or middle school boys.
“We’re talking about, by and large, Christian families and 12-year-old kids who are struggling with pornography,” the CEO said. “This has become their sex training.”
But DeHaas also says there is hope: the Covenant Eyes app has helped more than 1.5 million users in their quest for “victory over porn,” he claims.
Soon after his election as speaker of the House in November, Republican Mike Johnson of Louisiana was revealed in a resurfaced video to be a Covenant Eyes client, along with his teenage son.
“It sends a report to your accountability partner,” Johnson says in the clip.
“My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week,” he continued. “If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”
Anti-LGBTQ+ activist Josh Duggar of the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting also used the Covenant Eyes software to monitor his internet use. He is currently in prison for possession of child sex abuse pictures after he found a technical workaround to bypass the software’s reporting. His wife was his accountability partner.
DeHaas said that “there is no doubt in my mind” that demons are associated with pornography addiction and says spiritual attacks have even afflicted his team.
“They’ve been demonic attacks, they really have.”
“I don’t know whether Satan has control over servers,” he said. “I have trouble thinking that he does, but sometimes I think, ‘Boy, there are just issues.’”
Colossal Man understands.
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