Honor and Shame

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Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

Woe

aka Eschatologuy

@treblewoe

Honor was once something that was taken deadly seriously in the West. It was not a matter about which one joked. A man would go to great lengths to maintain his honor, and a woman would go to great lengths to defend hers. In our modern culture, honor has been all but forgotten by the bulk of the population — it has become something so foreign, so alien that most men no longer even know what the word means.

But honor is necessary to maintain civilization, and so are shame and guilt. Unto the one who conducts himself according to the Moral Law and conforms his behavior to the norms of his civilization we bestow honor, and upon the one who falls short of these standards we heap shame to add to the guilt of his conscience. Together, honor, shame, and guilt form part of the foundation upon which society and civilization rest; without these, no civilization can long endure. As Christian men, we must endeavor to restore these things to our society, before it is too late and we have fallen too far.

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Show Notes

• Bible Hub: kalós
• Bible Hub: timé
• Bible Hub: kalós
• OpenBible: Honor
• OpenBible: Shame

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There is some discussion of chastity, et cetera, but nothing explicit.

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