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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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My Biggest Regret.

My biggest regret was not getting married and having children earlier in my life.

I look back, and see that I was brainwashed and hoodwinked.

Let me explain why…

My 20s were almost pointless. I had a few long term relationships, we moved in together, we played house, but these relationships never bore any fruit.

I was uninspired, overemotional, unmotivated and depressed for a large part of my 20s. As I look back, I realize that this was a perfectly normal reaction to my circumstances for any young man. Because, a man I was, full of energy and capable of working long hours and multiple jobs, without sweat. But I wasn’t a man in the way that millions of young men who came before me were.

They married young, had children young. They moved into careers or apprenticeships by the age of 22. They owned their own land by the age of 25. They were beset with responsibilities on all sides, but being young and in their physical and mental prime, they were up to the task.

Fact is, it is a weird cultural tradition we have today, that promotes marriage and child-raising to be put off into our early 30s and late 20s, when evolutionarily-speaking, we were biologically designed to rear children in our late teens through our 20s.

That said, I look at the large numbers of single, unmarried 26 year olds who are prescribed psychotropic drugs and antidepressants, and can’t help but wonder if it is direct result of the aforementioned cultural tradition. Perhaps they are like a fish out of water, outside of their biological directives, and hence–floundering, dejected, and confused.

I look back and think this was the case for me.

When I had children, I had no time for anxiety or depression. There was no time for naval-gazing. There was a life to build, and lives to protect.

And then, one day I realized, that I had been brainwashed, in a way. The question occurred to me–who benefits the most by my remaining single, and extending my childhood well into my adult years?

The businesses and companies that make most of their money off of teenagers and the young. The movie industry. Advertisers. Television networks. Sporting organizations and bars, nightclubs, casinos, and even 8 year universities.

Did they influence me subconsciously by consistently portraying TV shows, one after another, of groups of single 20-35 year olds having a great time with their friends night after night? Did that become my expectation of what being a 26 year old should look like and feel like?

I think that is closer to the truth.

I think that right now, there are a lot of 25-32 year olds alone at home looking back on the anxiety and depression that came from extending their childhood for ten years for no good reason.

Pointless, fruitless relationships. No children. No wife.

This is literally the perfect storm for a societal crash, because of the way they let hollywood and big business brainwash them into remaining a child consumer for another decade after they became men and women.

In the near future, the situation may come to a head in the worst way.

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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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The Violence of the Bible

It strikes me as strange when someone complains about all of the violence in the bible, because it is that one thing that lends the bible, to me, its value and worth to us as believers.

There is war, rape, murder, patricide. There are atrocities, floods, natural disasters and betrayals throughout.

Good.

Such is life. Such is human history. But more importantly, such is man’s story.

The bible, to me, is a perfect representation of the human soul, opened up to us in all of its glory and ugliness. It is the truest and clearest picture of man AS HE IS. It doesn’t hide anything from the reader. It doesn’t turn away from incest, from the horrors of war, from the deep darkness inside the soul of man. Instead, it presents man to us exactly as he is.

This is important. Because in order to fix man, we must first have an honest accounting of the human condition. It cannot be a manipulated narrative, or a distorted assessment, but must be accurate, incisive, and truthful.

If you refuse to accurately diagnose a condition, you have no chance of ever curing it.

The current profile of man given to us by the psychologists is all wrong. Their profile sterilizes man, then assesses him. It ignores his needs, for sex, for blood, for war. They aren’t viewed as part and parcel of who man is: fallen, sinful, hopeless, and in need of salvation.

When a nonbeliever says that the bible is repugnant, violent, and scatological, I proudly affirm his description. The bible is a book about the history of the soul of man. It seeks to diagnose and provide a remedy for the ills of the human heart.

It provides a fix for man, as he really is.

We must not hide from who we are as a species. We must not be unprepared for the horrors to come, or begin to believe that politicians or ideological systems installed by governments are going to fix everything. We cannot allow naiveté to delude us into thinking that we can build a tower that reaches into heaven.

Instead, we have to find hell within ourselves, put out the fire, and then adopt the goodness that is left, and spread it out far and wide.