30 March 2019 I’m keen on pointing out that politics and religion mix; they have mixed, will mix and cannot be unmixed. Efforts to segregate “religious” ideas from moral and legal ideas are efforts to excise specific kinds of ideas (such as the Ten Commandments). It is sophistry, not rationality. Fallen man, like Satan, seeks legal and moral autonomy. The literature from which a Christian’s ideas emerge ought to be the Hebrew Scriptures — the books of Moses. The Creator…
In the long run of things, “Truth” is a narrative. We live in a bubble of words, thoughts and ideas and, because we are not God, we assume, perhaps mistakenly, that what we see, hear, touch and feel connect us to truth. Except that is not necessarily true; the narrative in which we find ourselves determines what we think is “true.” This is basic linguistic theory. The sea of words we swim in (intellectually) controls our thoughts. We ought to…
I’ve written elsewhere of Truth. I don’t know it perfectly, but I know the Source of that Truth — it’s the Creator who expresses himself through the Word of God, which is also Jesus Christ. From that, here’s what’s going on. Satan has power. The world is controlled by him to the extent the world rejects Jesus Christ. Satan isn’t very creative, but what he knows tends to work. His tricks aren’t new, they are consistent from Genesis on. 1)…
I have friends. (Really, I do. Not many. Maybe from a long time ago. We lost touch. But, I used to know them, so that counts, right?). We used to go to the same church. Heard the same preaching, good preaching. Know the Bible as the Word of God. But a couple of decades on and we are very very different people. They call me a “racist” because of a political opinion I hold: I oppose open borders. So what…
I can’t emphasize this enough. When someone calls you (or your ideas, or someone you agree with) a racist or a nazi or a fascits, that IS hate speech. They are dehumanizing you, and laying the moral argument for your destruction. Do you realize that? When Congressmen and national level politicians call you, your ideas, or people you support “racist,” they are justifying violence against you. They will attack you By Any Means Necessary — slander is just the warm…
I’m not a conservative because conserving what is almost totally lost is no path to victory. I’m not a conservative because the “conservative” movement accepts Christianity in passing, as in “Judeo-Christian values” are a good thing! I’m not a conservative because it pretends to defend vague ideas of traditional values and limited government. And this is good — I’m not kicking anything back to them — it’s just not enough. They want the product of a Christian civilization without it’s…
Coming back to this trope, I have a few ideas to add, some of which have come from AOC’s “Green” agenda. I would have no objection to abandon the idea of a “corporate person.” These “persons” operate beyond local control and act as a law unto themselves imposing upon others that to which others have not consented. Some are larger than nation states. Some run nation states from the shadows. It was an American President who warned of the military-industrial…
It was not an obvious move, for me, to strike out into dangerous territory, which is to mix religion and politics. There are a lot of conservative writers and libertarian, and right wing thinkers and communicators. On the other hand, there are a lot of “Christian” writers and podcasts. And there is, to be fair, some overlap. There are a couple of bloggers and podcasters that I follow that are political, conservative, and Christian, and are open about advocating for…
We are lectured constantly on the need to “compromise” in our politics in order to get along because it is “bad” to be so “divisive.” It’s funny, though, how that compromise is and always will be a compromise toward the Left. The Left calls for compromise on gun control, alien amnesty, gay marriage, social services, student aid and more money for education. It is never a compromise to move the agenda to the Right (less gun control, less money for…
There is no such thing as a non-religious order. The current religious order is a secular and atheistic order that, as a matter of dogma, asserts that this is not “religious.” Attached to this assertion of irreligiousity is a presumption (ingrained in the masses by our public school system) that the non-religions order is superior to and above that of the religious order. But if religion is understood as a system of beliefs and a faith, then there is no…