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Censorship and the End of Time

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  1. If I have learned anything in the last 72 hours or so, it is that this nation is doomed. We aren’t going to make it. Jesus said it best that: “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”

    This being the case, it is always best to have an exit plan. In the end, we are all citizens of the earth, and any land mass rising above the ocean is as good as any other.
  2. And sure, there is a lot of blame to go around. But ultimately, what I see, is that the rational and sane segment of society is keeping quiet, or has been shouted down. Extremists speak for us now. They are found with the biggest follower amounts on social media. They are interviewed on the news night after night. And the more extreme elements on the left represent the left to the majority of the right, and vice versa. There is no way this ends well.
  3. Earlier, I said, that this nation appears to be careening toward a doomsday scenario. And this may well be true. But it is interesting to note, that as Christians, we should already be aware of this end. The Bible is very much apocalyptic literature, and the prophets and the inspired authors all to a man predicted death, destruction, annihilation, and an end to this world in a great, incomparable war. They understood back then what was in man, served us an accurate and devastating diagnosis of his true condition, and warned us of what is yet to come.

    As believers, we must always be awares, always be on guard for the signs. It should never come as a shock to any of us that the world is devolving into chaos. It is not like we weren’t told beforehand.
  4. Finally, on the conservative side of things, something must be done about the “alternative journalists” on the right. Their ideas and conspiracy theories are becoming more commonplace. They have one hell of a scam going. Most of them sell herbal cures and doomsday prepper products, then spend their whole show selling their products by promoting fear and hopelessness.

    I don’t mean censorship. I realized the other night that Twitter and Facebook did all of us a great injustice by censoring and banning them. They now have the ability to inject their conspiratorial poisons unfiltered and without challenge. There is no feed left to post in to call out their bullshit. There are no more avenues left to rebut their ideas in. So their followers are now receiving concentrated doses of their venom, and they have upped the ante on their claims by orders of magnitude, emboldened by the lack of any skeptical presence.

    We saw the result of that on the assault on the capital building. There is plenty of blame to go around, left and right.
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Adultery as a Felony

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There is a sin, an offense, that people do that destroys families. It causes untold emotional devastation and injury to young children. It breaks their hearts in half. Gives them anxiety and mental issues at a time when they need peace, stability and a feeling of safety.

That sin is adultery.

There was a time in human history when humans intuitively understood the importance of the nuclear family and protected it at all costs. If you were caught in adultery, you were stoned or punished or ostracized or exiled. They understood that it was an offense that destroyed young lives and caused social rot in communities and tribes.

Maybe it is time we rethink our attitudes on it. As a trenchant moral decay sets in and corrupts our inner cities and suburbs, maybe it is time to enforce adultery violations once again.

And begin to treat them as the destructive and radioactive moral felonies that they are.

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Some Thoughts on the 2020 Election

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  1. The election panned out pretty much the way I thought it would. I couldn’t see a path for victory for Trump due to him having to overcome the introduction of a large amount of mail-in votes. It certainly looked like Trump had it wrapped up until these mail-in dumps happened.

    Too many casuals voted, people who usually won’t take the time to visit a voting booth.

    The low-information voter bloc decided our election.

    It is what it is.

  2. Don’t underestimate how much that story about Trump calling fallen soldiers “losers” and “suckers” might have harmed him in rust-belt states.

    Like anybody sane, I didn’t want to believe the story. But a part of me could believe it.

    Trump has never been a true conservative, and is probably not a Christian. He is a lifelong liberal who partied and socialized in elite, Hollywood liberal circles. He has always been anti-war, for the most part, and like most liberals, holds a disdain for military types.

    I don’t think it is outrageous to believe that he made those statements when viewed within the context of who he has been most of his life.

  3. I don’t think Trump was a bad President, policy-wise. He didn’t get us into any wars. The economy, under his watch, was booming before the pandemic hit. He put America first (is that a bad thing now?)

    In all, he didn’t deserve to lose the election. But he did, nonetheless.

    Most valid criticisms of Trump are aimed at comments he made or his character. But not policy.

    This is important. In many other timelines, Trump cruises to a reelection victory.

    But when he needed to just tone it down, and act ‘Presidential,’ he just couldn’t pull it off. His first debate performance was so cringe-worthy that I couldn’t watch more than a few minutes of it. He came off as super-angry, close to being unhinged, and a loud-mouthed bully.

    Not a good look for a President, honestly.

  4. I don’t think Joe Biden is an evil man, but couldn’t bring myself to vote for him. I watched his supporters in our major American cities riot, loot, vandalize and terrorize the good citizens of this country for almost the whole of the summer. I saw people being killed in the street, cops being murdered, and recognized it all for what it truly was: domestic terrorism.

    I began to realize that a vote for Biden/Harris was the same as bending a knee before the domestic terrorism we had been exposed to, for months.

    I felt like America was better than that, that they wouldn’t cower in the face of this political violence.

    But they did. And apparently America is not what I thought it was.

    Perhaps the culture war is over. Perhaps fear really is the strongest motivator of men.

    This is a sad reflection on our society. We all need to pray. We all need to rethink and revisit the role of the breakaway protestant church in all of this, as well. (I will write about this in depth another time.)

  5. Finally, I think everything that has happened in the last 6 months set up the democrats for success based purely on the fact that the pandemic made people more open than usual to large-scale government intervention in their daily lives.

    While Trump and republicans were talking about re-opening the economy, having faith, overcoming hardship through personal responsibility, the news media was promoting the idea that we need to be fearful, scared, at home, masked up, and faithless. Stay home. You have good reason to be scared. Let the government take care of everything. This is out of your hands, and only we can save you.

    This obviously favored the party of big government.

    And fear really is the greatest motivator.

    If anything is to be learned from all of this, it is that the messaging of the democrats suited the fears of the people more so than the optimistic, more traditionally-American messaging of the republicans.

    Some might even lament that fear and cowardice has won, in the end. Or that the people willingly submitted to an all-out assault on their peace of mind.

    Maybe those are valid diagnoses. Maybe not.

    But the virus is and was real. The fears we all experienced were and are real.

    But faith and hope in the face of fear and loss is real, also. Faith serves goodness the way that electricity serves a machine.

    So the question becomes: how are we going to fare now, without faith?
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Where does Your Morals Come From?

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I was thinking about where I derive my values from, compared to where I derived my values from 15 years ago. The answer was revealing of a serious issue affecting the social fabric of our country today.

Namely said, most people, when asked, probably couldn’t tell you where and how they devised or received their moral positions.

100 years ago, you might have received the same answer across a wide spectrum of society, people saying that they derived their morals from religion or church. But what about today? Where did you first receive your current value system?

If you can’t answer the question, or no answer appears obvious, perhaps you have absorbed your values subconsciously through the media, through Hollywood cinema and network television shows. Perhaps leftist politicians and civil rights leaders have heavily influenced you. Perhaps not.

Either way, the thought occurred to me that most people are probably not aware of the evolution of metaphysics and the philosophy of religion that has taken place over the last few hundred years. Maybe they are not aware that religion is treated as an academic and scientific discipline by a majority of religious and biblical scholars. Most are well-versed in philosophy, Greek mythology and the humanities. Peer-reviewed journals thrive. Degrees in these fields are are of estimable value. The work is painstaking and rigorous.

Religion is literally an academic, scientific and philosophical discipline. It is not merely a coven of bearded men in long robes smoking pipes in a musty parlor.

And this brings us to the modern-day dilemma. There is a vast moral repository of learning about religion and morality stretching back thousands of years. One thinker has built upon the ideas and work of forebears in generation after generation. There was, for example, Abraham, then Moses, then John the Baptist, then Jesus, then Saul of Tarsus.

And yet people today do not go this valuable store of wisdom for their moral values, but instead turn to politicians, scientists, educators, journalists and celebrities.

I’m also not sure that the average American is aware of the multitude of organizations whose sole objective is to contact and establish relationships with movie studios and media giants, with the express stated intention on influencing their programming. For example, there are more than a few gay-rights organizations that have regular meetings and close, working relationships with top Hollywood and television producers and executives, urging them to include gay family units and characters on their shows and in their movies.

These organized influencers understand that the best way to normalize the acceptance of alternative lifestyles is to repeatedly expose the viewing public to these artificial demonstrations which are played out by actors on the screen.

But back to the point, imagine turning to Barack Obama for moral direction, instead of Pope John Paul. Imagine turning to Taylor Swift for moral instruction instead of Saint Augustine…

This seems foolhardy, absurd on the face of it. But this is where we stand today.

Perhaps, on the edge of a moral apocalypse that the human race is never going to recover from.

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Why Politics makes you Blind

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I had a thought last night about politics and religion and the difference between them. I have always thought of politics as a kind of secular religion. People become committed and passionate adherents of one political doctrine or another. They will even make war and commit violence to attain political means.

But even more than that, partisan politics makes you narrow minded in a different way.

In politics, people focus on the evil in particular groups.

In religion, people focus on evil itself.

The truth is that politics gives you one blind eye.