Volume 27, Issue 3
WisconsinChristianNews.com
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Satan is Winning the Battle for Porn
By Lynn Fredrick Summer 2026
spend eternity in Hell?” He broke and sobbed uncontrollably, confessing all of the sins and atrocities he had committed, ask- ing God to forgive him. For years, his room-mate had been praying for him and telling him how much God loved him and that he should ask for forgiveness and reconcile with God. As he did just that, he felt a warmth flow through him and he knew that God did not reject him, but had forgiven him. Tears of joy flowed freely. Not everyone has this story of redemption. He and his room-mate pray together and study the Scriptures every day. They are on their 4th time reading trough the New Testament and every afternoon they read from the Old. His testimony is; “If God can forgive someone as vile and degenerate as me and restore me to a right relationship with Him by transforming me to His likeness, He can forgive, restore and trans- form anyone.”
Several months ago, I wrote about the dilemma of incarcer- ated men, who are released from prison, after they have served their sentence. A cur- rent example is a man who was given temporary housing with the parole requirement to
find a job and be in his own apartment by July 1, 2026. He has been out about 5 weeks. Remarkably, he has found a job. The company will hire him, for a warehouse job, but he has to apply online. He can’t, he is forbidden internet access, along with 4 pages of other restrictions. His parole officer can’t apply for him and recommended the job service do it for him. That process is seen as fraudulent by the employer. His hands are tied while the Department of Correc- tions supervisors all point fingers at someone else.
A person recently asked me, “where are the parents?” According to the Barna group’s recent study, “The Church’s Silent Struggle,” 54% of self-identified practicing Christians admit to using porn, closely mirroring the 68% of non-Christians who do the same. Even more startling, 75% of Christian men and 40% of Christian women report porn consumption, a habit with profound implica- tions on personal, relational and spiritual well-being. Where are the parents? Many are watching porn; totally unaware their chil- dren are as well. Satan is destroying lives, young and old and al- most no one wants to talk about it. Thank you, Rob Pue and WCN — that not only lets me write about it, but invites me to talk about it at WCN Ministry Conferences and on WCN TV. At a bare min- imum, all parental controls to stop access to porn sites should be turned on in all internet access devices. Porn blockers, like Canopy, should be installed on all internet access devices. Where does early childhood exposure to porn lead? The worst- case scenario is the story of a man I know, who has been in prison for the last 36 years, starting with his sentence at the age of 33. The man had a brutally abusive childhood. He spent 4 years as a whipping boy and then dumped on the steps of Social Services. He spent 6 months in foster care and was then adopted just be- fore his 6th birthday by a loving and dedicated couple. He de- scribed himself as a neurotic, nail-biting, bed wetting child with night terrors and a debilitating fear of the dark. This couple, along with the help and support of their church family, poured their all into this little boy and they won the battle. After 2 years, the boy felt loved, like the very brief care his grandmother had given him. He finally believed he was living a normal life. At a Bible camp at age 12, he gave his life to Jesus and was baptized. At age 13, his mother developed breast cancer and the elders of the church came and anointed her with oil and prayed for her complete healing. The young lad believed all that was said and done. When his mother died that same year, he viewed God as a liar and prayed to and gave his life to Satan. Crushed emotionally, he believed he deserved nothing good in this life and vowed to live only what brought himself pleasure, with no regard for anyone else. He violated women and children sex- ually. He was fine with the fact that his actions wound place him in Hell for eternity, and he did not care. He went to prison for his crimes. He believed himself to be reprobate, that not even God wanted anything to do with him. Two years ago, at age 67, he was put into transport to go to a medical facility. Handcuffed and shackled in the back, an over- whelming realization occurred to him: “if we get into an accident, there is no way I will live through it.” He describes it as being shaken to the core. It was as if he was shaken awake and the words were in his mind. “If you die today, do you really want to
I probably will never see this man on the outside of a secure fa- cility, but I know I will see him free, when we both see Jesus, face to face. I know a 19-year-old serving a 7-year sentence for possession of child pornography — pictures his 16-year-old girlfriend had sent to his cell phone. He will carry the title of “sex offender” also. I know a man who lost his highly professional career because his porn consumption drove him to hire two people so he could make and film his own porn video. It was later discovered one of the actors was under age 18. Now, he not only possesses child porn but he is charged with sex trafficking. He is in prison for 27 years. The majority population in a major Wisconsin Federal prison are classified as sex offenders whose beginnings are likely rooted in porn consumption. I know many people whose marriages ended in divorce because of the use of porn and its destruction to relationship and spiritual- ity. These stories could go on and on and most all of them begin with early childhood exposure to porn and sexuality. I believe it is time that lay people do something. Enough is Enough, ( Enough.org ), has an outline of how the church can, Biblically, address this issue in regard to children, under Recov- ering Hearts. Relentlessly ask your pastor and church leaders as to why, in the light of the overwhelming evidence, is the church staying silent and not confronting Satan head on, in regard to pornography. If your pastor is afraid, have someone like me come and start things off. The use of porn by Christians has tripled in the last 30 years. In the ‘90s it was 25% of Christian men used porn. Now its 75%. The average exposure of porn to children is age 7. Satan is winning this battle, while the church remains silent. Doing nothing is not an option. Go on the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, go to Enough is Enough, Enough.org , the Barna Group’s “The Church’s Silent Struggle,” and arm yourself with the pages of statistics. Put up posters, write letters to your local paper. Then demand that something be done — by your church — at least for the sake of our children. If the church does not confront Satan on this issue, no one else will. I have been talking and writing on this subject for 10 years. You, the lay per- son, the readers of WCN, please help me. We have to turn this around. Lynn Fredrick is the author of “Stand Firm, From the Darkness of Pornography and Sexual Sin into the Light of God’s Grace,” a Bible based recovery program for addiction and habitual sin. LynnFredrick.com
He will be homeless by July 1, because he is limited in where he is allowed to live and the only apartment he has located requires two paycheck stubs in hand prior to signing a lease. This scenario is so common to me and other volunteers it makes us sick to our stomach. Add the catch all title “sex offender” to the situation and the problems intensify immensely. A title that tells nothing and punishes for life. You have that title if you commit ag- gravated assault and rape. You have the same title if you are 18 years old and have a nude picture of your 16-year-old girlfriend, that she sent you, on your cell phone. That’s possession of child pornography. Prison officials wonder what can be done to help these people when they are released. I do, and other counselors and volunteers wonder too. I asked for feedback from WCN readers. I got only one response, from a professional counselor. “The DOC has to stop their detrimental process for treating sex offenders which is more intended to send them back to prison, not because they re- offend, but because they cannot navigate all the restrictions and requirements of parole.” The counselor is correct, but how does that happen? What can the church do in the mean time? I suggest the church go back to where this begins and attempt to prevent it from ever happening. The amount of pornography being consumed by children is staggering. Children under the age of 10 account for 22% of online porn consumption by those under the age of 18. 10-14 year-olds account for 36% of minor consump- tion. Torture, incest, group sex, bestiality, choking, and excretion are among the acts common in obscenity today. This obscene content, otherwise known as “hard-core-pornography,” is not pro- tected under the first amendment. Read this next statement several times and let it sink in. “Ex- treme pornography has become the de facto sex educator of many children, conditioning them into believing that violence, degradation and humiliation are all forms of acceptable sexual ex- periences.” (Donna Rice Hughes, “Enough is Enough”). One in 5 girls and one in 10 boys agreed that they have shared their own nude photos. 40% agreed that “it’s normal for people my age to share nudes with each other.” Self-generated imagery now accounts for nearly 1/3 of web pages featuring sexual images of children actioned by the Internet Watch Foundation. More than three quarters of the self-generated material, be it images or videos, feature 11-to-13-year-old children, of which the majority are girls. This exposes these children to pimps and pornographers for exploitation of which in 2020, 21.7 million reports of child sex- ual exploitation were reported to NCMEC’s Cyber Tip line. Over half of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the U.S. were sex trafficking cases involving children.
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