If Paul walked through Chicago
If Paul walked through Chicago:
Men of Chicago, I see that in every way you are very pluralistic. As I was walking I noticed the objects of your spiritual affection. I found an abortion clinic with the inscription 'Be yourself'.
What therefore you worship as expressive individualism, this I proclaim to you: the God who made the world and all individuals within it, being Lord over both body and soul, does not encourage the promotion of fleshly vice, nor finding one's true identity apart from Him, nor is He pleased with worldly schemes and the shedding of innocent blood by human abortion, since He made man in His own image.
And He came to earth to proclaim the denial of oneself, stating "Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."
Yet He deigns to forgive our idolatry and give true meaning and absolutes, for He said "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly" and “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me" as even as some of your own philosophers have said, "Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves."1
Being then separate from the only true God, we should not think that God can be found in ourselves, or His goodness found in following our hearts.
God now commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge (yes, He does judge...) the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation