I have several related posts today to bring to gentle readers' attention. The first is by Kurt Schlichter over at Townhall.com entitled Inoculate Yourself Against Manipulation.
There’s one vaccine you should want – it’s an injection of basedness that renders you immune to bogus heartstring-tugging designed to get you to agree first to the massacre of others, then of yourself. Take a full dose and get the booster – it’s not MRNA and not a Pfizer product. It promotes your intellectual immune systems by allowing you to understand your enemy as well as he/she/they/xir understands you.
These creatures, be they Palesimpians, bizarre perverts, race hustlers, or some other variety of commie bastard, understand that you are kind and nice and fair and that you live in a generally peaceful society and are therefore soft. They believe that you cannot conceive of evil because you are not evil, and to accept it requires that you confront it, and that would interfere with your life of Netflix viewing and Door Dash deliveries. They think you don’t want people to think that you are mean or harsh or any of the ridiculous epithets they toss around to silence the weak. Racist, sexist, Islamophobic, fatphobic.
This is how people with no power get power. They get you to hand it over to them.
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Once you are inoculated with Vitamin Truth, you see that this stuff is all one and the same, all moral nonsense designed to by immoral people to leverage your morality for the benefit of their power and your serfdom.
Here’s a little diagnostic test – what command, edict, or order do these people ever issue that increases your wealth, safety, or freedom? None, ever. Every single thing they insist you are somehow required to do, say, or accept makes you poorer, weaker, and less free. But that’s no surprise. The whole purpose of this grotesque exercise in manipulation is to do that.
They want you disarmed, disenfranchised, and deceased. That’s the goal. And all you need to do to stop them is to stop giving them what they want. Gobble down a red pill and vaccinate yourself against the social pathology of woke Marxism.
As Schlichter is wont to tell us, he has experience with these people, and he is correct as far as he goes. We learn from reading the Psalms that our God hates evil. As loyal soldiers in His army, don't you think we should hate what God hates? That God both loves and hates the Devil is for an infinite and all powerful God. We are more limited, so we should hate him too. There, I've said what Schlichter could not, or would not say.
Along Schlichter's line of thinking however, is the notion that once we free ourselves to think clearly by abandoning any notion that Christianity means being nice or giving in to the madness, then we must begin to think like warriors. There is an old Roman maxim that If You Want Peace, Prepare For War. The surest way to not have to fight is to be prepared to fight.
That is the idea surrounding Tom Knighton's piece at Bearing Arms where he discusses the way that Jacob approaches what may lead to his family facing off againsts his brother Esau's family. That it didn't come to war, brother against brother, is not the point. By preparing for war, he prevented actually going to war. He has this to say about the armed life:
Look, I’d love to live in a world where there was absolutely zero chance I’d ever need my gun for anything but recreational shooting. We don’t live in that world, we live in this one.
As such, I can and should take all the steps one can think of to prevent myself from becoming a victim and, as a society, we should take all the steps we can to make it so crime disappears forever.
Those of us who are the praying sort should do that as well, pray that those who would become violent criminals and those who already have find another way forward with their lives.
But we shouldn’t rest exclusively on those.
We should want peace, but we should prepare for war. At least in a manner of speaking, anyway.
Violence can and will come for some of us. We can and should do everything we can to mitigate the risk of that, but some of us won’t be fortunate enough to escape that.
So, we should be prepared to meet that violence with the threat of force and a willingness to use violence in the defense of ourselves or others if need be.
I pray as I take up my gun that I will not be forced to use it, but that if I am forced, that my aim be true. Christ did not promise us a peaceful life. Indeed, he promised us just the opposite. Get used to it.
Next is Andrea Widburg, at the American Thinker where she has a post entitled Americais experiencing its own Babylonian Captivity. Unlike Schlichter and Knighton, Widburg is not explicitly a warrior, but warriors come in many shapes and sizes. Some are literal warriors, some are intellectual warriors. Widburg is the latter variety. We need both. She notes:
Not long ago, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy posted a video of himself saying that “America is an idea.” That is a fatuous statement because America is, in fact, a country, not an idea. However, McCarthy was edging close to something important, which is that America, unlike all other countries, is built primarily around an idea or, actually, a collection of ideas. It’s those ideas that Marxists have been attacking with stellar success, and it’s why we are more wobbly even than other countries when pushing back.
My point has its genesis in Max I. Dimont’s marvelous and very readable Jews, God, and History. He argues that Jews have defied history by being the oldest continuously surviving coherent people in the world, who still hew to an identity and a belief system stretching back to the Bronze Age. No other people can make that claim. This isn’t how it’s supposed to work.
Dimont explains that Oswald Spengler, one of the great early 20th-century historians, argued that nations have a lifespan, just as people do:
In Spengler’s view, civilizations are foredoomed to death. Civilizations go through the spring of early origins, mature into the summer of their greatest physical achievement, grow into the autumn of great intellectual heights, decline into the winter of their civilization, and finally die.
The problem for Spengler was that the Jews refused to fit into his thesis. He responded by ignoring them.
What Spenglerites don’t understand is that Jewish nationhood revolved around ideas rather than geography or genetics. In the ancient animist world, when gods were tied to locations or objects, the Jews had an abstract, omnipresent God. That’s why, during the Babylonian captivity, they maintained their beliefs and the memory of an affiliated geographic location (“If I forget you, O Jerusalem…”) without the Temple itself.
The Jews eventually returned to Jerusalem, only to be ousted 500 years later with the Roman conquest. But again, they were held together by the Torah…an idea about God, morality, rules of conduct, and their portable identity as a distinct people. Not only were they Jews wherever they went, but they were also able to welcome into this portable nation any other people who chose to embrace the same ideas.
So, what do these three somewhat disparate pieces have in common, and what does it mean for us? The piece that they all have in common is that we have forgotten just who we are. In attempting not to offend the perpetually offended, we have allowed the scum of the earth to overwhelm us. Widburg is correct that the thing that has held the Jews together through all these years and being dispersed to the nations was an idea of who they were, what their mission in life was and remains. They are the chosen people of God. But as Christians, we are adopted into the family and have similarly become His chosen, grafted into Israelite family. We are a people with certain morality, certain rules of conduct. We just have to shake off the nonsense and the madness and remember those things, remember who we are. We need to repent.
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