The Unsettling Logic: If Suicide is the Key, Which Doors Can’t It Unlock?

 Parents today are navigating a minefield of cultural pressures and emotional challenges. One of the most harrowing scenarios a parent can face occurs when their child experiences deep distress often related to gender identity. The child might suggest that if their desire for transition isn’t affirmed, they might resort to suicide. This places a parent in an agonizing position, caught between profound love for their child and deeply held convictions.

But let’s pause and examine the underlying logic that unfolds if a parent concedes to such a demand, specifically because of the threat of self-harm. If the argument “You must agree to X (e.g., gender transition), or I will kill myself” becomes the determining factor for a parent’s decision, what principle has been established in the parent-child relationship?

The Logic of Emotional Coercion

We must carefully consider the precedent set. If a parent agrees to a significant, life-altering, and potentially irreversible decision like biological sex alteration based on the threat of suicide, a powerful and dangerous lesson is inadvertently taught: that the threat of self-harm is a valid and effective means to achieve one’s desires, regardless of their nature.

This scenario can be examined through the lens of a fundamental logical principle, often discussed in terms of Modus Ponens (If P, then Q. P; therefore Q). Let’s see how this could be distorted in this context:

• Premise 1 (P): “If I (the child) threaten self-harm…”
• Consequence (Q): “…then my parent will concede to my demand (Demand A: e.g., gender transition) to prevent that harm.”

If the parent acts on this and concedes, the child observes that P indeed leads to Q. Demand A is met.

Now, what happens when the child has another significant desire (Demand B, C, D, etc.) that the parent might otherwise refuse?

• Could this not become: “If I threaten self-harm, my parent will give me a car at 16”?
• Or: “If I threaten self-harm, my parent will let me drop out of school”?
• Or: “If I threaten self-harm, my parent will allow [any other behavior or demand they would typically guide against]”?

The logical conclusion is stark: if the threat of suicide is the ultimate trump card that overrides parental judgment, wisdom, and values for one major life decision, there is no logical stopping point. The same reasoning – “If I don’t get X, I will harm myself” – could be applied to virtually any demand. The parent, having already yielded to this form of emotional coercion once, would find it increasingly difficult to resist it again without appearing inconsistent in their “commitment” to preventing their child’s self-harm by any means necessary.

This is not to diminish the reality of a child’s pain or confusion. Such feelings are real and must be met with compassion, professional help, and deep spiritual guidance. However, true compassion does not mean abandoning discernment. It does not enable a dynamic where decisions are made under the most extreme duress. This sets a pattern for future interactions.

God’s Unchanging Design

As believers, our ultimate guide in these complex situations is the unchanging Word of God. Scripture is clear about God’s foundational design for humanity. From the very beginning, He established two distinct and complementary sexes: male and female.

“So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.”

(Genesis 1:27, ESV)1

This divine order is reaffirmed by Jesus Christ Himself in the New Testament:

“He answered, ‘Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female…'”

(Matthew 19:4, ESV)

Our identity as male or female is a gift from God, an integral part of His creative purpose. While we must always approach those who struggle with love, patience, and a listening ear, we cannot endorse or facilitate actions that contradict God’s clear and loving design for our lives. True help involves guiding our children towards an acceptance of God’s truth and finding peace within His framework, not capitulating to demands that can lead to further brokenness and deviate from His ordained path.

We must pray for wisdom. We must pray for courage. We also need an abundance of God’s love to navigate these challenges. We should hold fast to the truth that He has revealed.

All Girl Boy Scout Troop???

All Girl Boyscout Troup?????

Is anyone finding this funny? Who can see the corrosive nature in this? How does this make any sense? The answer, unfortunately is the cancel culture of the American left, specifically new-wave feminism. It is dangerous, unbiblical, and anti-men. I would like to say that I feel sorry for the Boyscouts of America but they had given up the fight decades ago. This was just a matter of time.

Instead of re-shaping the Girl Scouts to cater to the needs of a more aggressive outdoor itinerary, they have attacked the BCA (Boy Scouts of America) and invaded it. This is so typical of the feminist left. The article opens with: "Anything boys can do, girls can do, too;" as if that is what men are debating these days. Men have surrendered that ground decades ago and continue to be culturally pummeled by aggressive feminism everywhere. It has turned the average male into a whiney, controlled, yes-man; eagerly to please any female within ear-shot in fear of being called a misogynist. We can partly thank the #MeToo movement for only exacerbating this issue [see our earlier post that tackles this issue: https://rratedreligion.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/im-a-hypocrite-me-too-exposing-the-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-me-too-contradiction/].

The logic behind this should be offensive to women who care about cultivating their own identity separate from men. Why not re-cast the girl scouts to offer more historically masculine badgework? No, that doesn't go far enough. They have to actually transmogrify the Boy Scouts to fit their narratives. This troop is a troop of all girls wearing Boy Scout uniforms; how asinine is that? Think about the pure idiocy of this: Girls wanting to be scouts, but not girls scouts, they want to be boy scouts,  still as girls, but as boy scouts, still as girls! What?????? It is almost too stupid to write.

This has Romans 1 written all over it and is what happens when we give up our Christian prerogatives to please the secular world; "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness" (Romans 1:28 ESV). Can you really blame feminism for this? I think not entirely. The BSA ushered this in years ago when they allowed mission drift in the organization and slowly, over time, stepped further and further away from their Christian roots. This is what happens when you allow the pressures of secular social change to strip away Christlike discipleship in your organization. This may seem harsh but the truth is so often harsher than can be realized, it is why people are so averse to it.

Pray for these girls, their parents, the troop leaders, and the Boy Scouts of America. But most of all, pray for radical feminism in America, and on a global scale, it is deconstructing the family while attacking biblical family doctrine worldwide.

An attack on the Christian Family

Click on the link, then read the article:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/ellen-degeneres-parents-who-oppose-kids-sex-transition-dont-love-unconditionally

Here is the reality: the family is now, has been, and will always be a focal point for spiritual warfare. If the enemy can breakdown the family its triumphs; “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand" (Matthew 12:25 NRSV). If those that oppose God can breakdown the family, confuse genders, and make parents feel as if they do not love their children because they believe in God's order, civilization will crumble. Look at the fall of Ancient Rome and Greece. Their fundamental family structures were in shambles. We now see (and have seen for the past 50 years) this same ideology of subjective truth without condemnation slowly chip away at the fabric of our families, here in America (and across the globe).

Beware of celebrities championing this as heroic or loving. This is not loving at all but tantamount to child abuse. These such cases showcase how "Hollywood" and the media manipulate society's view on what is right and wrong and what is loving and what is bigotry. This is so much more dangerous than most people realize. This is society choosing the wants and desires of "man" over the natural order of God. It is man-centered worship; elevating what we want over what God decrees. Endorsing these situations, as Ellen did, is a dangerous and very serious path that civilization seems to be headed toward with little, to no, rebuttal from the Church. In some instances, the Church is heralding this as loving or gracious.

Paul warns us of this in Romans:
"So they are without excuse; for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools; and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles" (Romans 1:20-23 ESV).

We (the Christian Community) must fight against these ideas and (subjective) truths before we find ourselves persecuted for not allowing our children to run free, unchallenged, and unafraid of the wrath of God.