Sanctimony is a form of degeneracy. Thinking too highly of oneself is a strong indicator of a degenerate heart and mind. It is perhaps the last line of defense of degeneracy. Or maybe the first. Or maybe the only.
Who ever heard of sanctimonious degenerates? Look around. Catholic priests, money-grubbing televangelists, Antifa/BLM terror cells, most Democrats, all Marxists, the modern gay movement... all of them are sanctimonious, and all of them use this sanctimony to defend their own degeneracy. "You can't question me, I speak for God," or, "I have my political/financial greed cloaked in moral superiority therefore I am incapable of being challenged," or, "it is our right to engage in degenerate behaviours," and on and on and on. And indeed, the last case is true, as long as children and animals aren't involved, and everything is consensual. But the need to impose one's will on people, often with violence, indicates something much deeper than a sexual preference or a political leaning.
It indicates degeneracy.
It isn't enough to bilk widows out of millions, or commit pedophilia with the protection of one of the most powerful organizations in world history, or engage in LGBT sex; it is apparently necessary to buy yet another private jet, to cover the legal fees of criminal pedophiles and move them to other parts of the world, to insist that innocent children question their own sexuality, which they have (and should have) no concept of whatsoever.
Why? Especially in the case of LGBT sex, which in most cases is engaged in by consenting adults. Why? Why isn't it enough to simply do what you want? I was born in the early 1970s, and when I was in my teens and 20s, nobody cared about the gay guy. Nobody. He wasn't oppressed in any sense of the word by any segment of society, and if he minded his own business (which was almost always the case), nobody bothered him. He might have been a co-worker, or in a circle of friends, and it was enough. It never came up, except possibly as a joke, or an afterthought. "Yeah he's gay, we know," or maybe the joke was at the expense of the straight guy, for inadvertently "doing something gay." Everybody laughed, and we all went about our own, personal business, and didn't bother anyone.
And if the gay guy wanted to be dropped off in Boys' Town at the end of the night, somebody dropped him off. Or we waited with him while he hailed a cab, and said goodnight and seeya later. Nobody had a second thought about any of it.
So why is it coming up now? Why the sudden sanctimony of the mainstream (mainstream) gay crowd? Why the sudden need to impose a self-righteous, furiously-defensive will on everybody else? Why isn't it enough to simply live-and-let-live?
In a word: Degeneracy.
The other examples, the Catholic priest, the money-grubbing televangelist, the BLM/Antifa member who is doing nothing less than the work of his self-righteous and demonic god, the falsely-enlightened New-Age cult member who thinks him-or-herself superior to the base imbeciles in "organized religion," people who call themselves good and avoid the possibility of sin by using the phrase "organized religion," the environmentalist who thinks they're going to save the world by bringing it back into the Dark Ages, the KKK member who is the member of a church, who might even be a part of the church leadership, and who has a holier-than-thou attitude, all have one thing in common: They are making the world a better place. Ask them, they will tell you. Making the world a better place, all of them. Sanctimony incarnate.
The list of amoral archetypes is endless, like the eternal fires of hell.
"There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not,
It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not
filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough."
Proverbs 30:15-16
"Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they
are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their
own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter."
Isaiah 56:11
In addition to being morally superior to people who simply disagree with them, or who challenge their superiority, they are also incapable of seeing the paradox inherent in mixing this sense of superiority with moral relativism. To put it simply: They always believe that everything should be illegal, but nothing is a sin. They are hardcore legalists for whom everything is, paradoxically, permissible.
In addition to being a clear indicator of a sanctimoniously-degenerate society, "everything is illegal, but nothing is a sin" is also a line from this song from 2009:
It's possible that a society that is more interested in its warriors and the sexual preferences of its children than the livelihood of its artists is already doomed, that a society that looks sideways and with programmed disdain at its independent writers while paradoxically wondering where "all the good music has gone," while simultaneously giving no material support to anyone other than industry shills is already beyond hope, but if you aren't to be counted among those paradoxical, sanctimonious degenerates, to you I say:
Thanks for listening. And God bless the warriors.
