Hitting the Mark

Sin is a word and concept that is contemptible in our libertine age. The only "sin" is even implying that an action or feeling is not right for someone else to do or feel. According to former President Obama, a sin is to do something against one's principles; there is no external reference for those principles.

Well, the above approaches to sin would be correct if there were no God. As Sartre wrote, we create our own meaning without reference to any god. His entire philosophical matrix would fall apart if God existed-in-fact.

If God existed, He made you and me a certain way to live rightly. What sin really includes is missing the mark of living in the right way.

Think of a bow, arrow, and target. The goal of bow and arrow shooting at the range of life is to get a bullseye. We have to train, practice, and obtain the correct materials/equipment to get the maximum number of bullseyes. We'll more likely hit the mark.

Then we'll be truly happy.

Heaven is Awesome

Is heaven boring? I have a teenager that thought that it was. In heaven, you just sit around for eternity and get bored, bored, bored without end.

Well, I combined something I learned a long time ago from Real Catholic TV (before it changed to Church Militant) and his love of soccer.

When we die, think of it as a snapshot, a moment in time that lasts forever. At the same time, think of how you feel when you play a really important and excruciatingly tough game that you win.

The experience of heaven is like the feeling of winning that game forever. It never goes away like it does on earth with the Church Militant. As a member of the Church Triumphant, we are always in God's presence. We won the game of life through the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus, along with our participation with his work. The game was a killer, but the victory was a miracle beyond understanding. We are teammates of Jesus in His Church. He purchased the grace of forgiveness of our sins through the cross for the heaven win. Heaven is awesome.

Violence is Verboten Except

Yes, violence is verboten. But, as I wrote earlier this week, this does not seem to apply to the left, media, or Democrats.

Antifa violence at the Capitol

 

Mrs. Hughes of MRCTV (Media Research Council TV) had some things to say about this double standard which is maddening. It's worth the listen.

Ihr Kampf of the Left

The left, the legacy media, and big tech all in concert wish half the country into the cornfield.

It reminds me of Keith Olbermann's rant again. It's so telling!

[Trump] and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators and the Mike Lees and the William Bars and the Sean Hannitys and the Mike Pences and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus. Remember it even as we dream of a return to reality and safety and the country for which our Forefathers died that the fight is not just to win an election but to win it by enough to chase at least for a moment Trump and the Maggots off the stage and then try to clean up what they left. [Maggots = MAGA supporters]

They so want people to the right of them to go away to another country or jail. For what? For not going against the current dully-elected President of the United Sates.

They want unity in the 1930 German and the Mohammedan sense: peace through subjugation and seclusion. This will not bring about unity.

As Ben Shapiro said on Jan. 18 (at 27:58),

And then people wonder why the country is so divided. The country is so divided because you have one half of the country that would like to excise the other half of the country. That does tend to create a few divisions.

The left has been struggling (Ihr Kampf = their struggle) for this outcome since Marx was writing poetry.

Mr. D'Souza on Olbermann and 1930 Germany:
"Keith Olbermann’s Latest Rant Against Trump Uses Language From Germany in the 1930s"

Inverting Martin Luther King's Message

What would it sound like to invert Martin Luther King's message? To judge people by their skin color and not their character, right? Well, that's what the Marxist Left wants the world to do with the Marxist Frankfurt School's Critical Race Theory (CRT; no not an old-school clunky monitor, silly).

One of the many things I've been wondering about for a long while now is the double standard between the violence on the left and right. Violent rioting by Black Lives Matter, Inc. (BLM) and Antifa is given a pass, along with the left who excuses them, while rioting by the right at the US Capitol building on 1/6/2021, which is condemned by almost all of the Right (including myself), is an excuse to lump all of the Right into brutes who must be cancelled off the internet, fired from their jobs, and excluded by polite society.

Well, last week, Mrs. Stuckey provided an answer with an interview with, of all people, a person with a PhD in math, Dr. James Lindsay.

CRT posits that all white people are racist no matter what. There is nothing at all white people can do about it except grovel and give people of color everything they want, especially leftist policies (never right policies like school choice).

The interview might be the most important political video of the decade since it explains why we are so divided. It is positive, or willful, division. This is unlike Marx and Hegel's contention that the dialectic between groups naturally cause this division.

If you're unfamiliar with much of the CRT vocabulary, Mrs. Stuckey has a great video on it below.

Dr. King would not be happy with this inversion.

The Olbermann Left

The Left and/or Never-Trumpers have called for the impeachment and/or incarceration of President Trump for his alleged incitement of a riot on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C on January 6, 2021. They have gone the way of Keith Olbermann. Last year, around the time Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court (Sept.-Oct. 2020), he said

 

[Trump] and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators and the Mike Lees and the William Bars and the Sean Hannitys and the Mike Pences and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus. Remember it even as we dream of a return to reality and safety and the country for which our Forefathers died that the fight is not just to win an election but to win it by enough to chase at least for a moment Trump and the Maggots off the stage and then try to clean up what they left.

(This led to a petition on change dot org against Olbermann for inciting violence here.)

Mr. Olbermann de-personified Trump enablers (Maggots = MAGA supporters), among whom I count myself since I think Trump is better than any radical Democratic candidate. He called for the arbitrary arrest of approximately half of the U.S. voting population. (Hello, Marxist countries!)

Tech giants Google (Alphabet), Facebook, Apple, and Amazon have already placed into virtual jail Parler, the neutral/libertarian alternative to Leftist Twitter. Twitter and Facebook both banned Trump from their platforms. Financial institutions have banned anything associated with Trump.

And for what?

According to the House Resolution for Trump’s second impeachment, the President incited the violence at the Capitol building on Jan. 6. However, at the rally, Trump explicitly said that everyone should “peacefully” protest. He said that he won the 2020 presidential race by a landslide; the protest was titled “Stop the Steal.” This does not in itself incite violence. The GA Governor was supposedly told to commit fraud and was threatened by the president. This did not incite violence on the capitol. Telling the protestors to “march on the capitol” and “fight” is general political speech that is well known to mean to stand up for your rights and protest along with persuading peacefully.

Further, Trump’s tweets were not incendiary. Calling people patriots and asking them to fight for their rights is not inciting violence.

What it really comes down to is that the protestors are responsible for their actions. Many protestors attempted to stop the destruction and vandalism of the Capitol by other protestors (or Antifa?).

Pres. Trump not being responsible for the violent protestors is similar to not holding Al Sharpton, Pres. Obama, or Bernie Sanders responsible for the action of their violent/riotous supporters.

In 1995, Al Sharpton was accused of starting a riot against Jews.
https://www.newsweek.com/james-hodgkinson-shooting-sanders-supporter-625792
https://lidblog.com/sharpton-incited-freddys-massacre/
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/01/10/cnn-commentator-steps-in-it-big-time-with-al-sharpton-comparison-to-u-s-capitol-riot-1014546/

During Obama’s reign, he was accused of inspiring BLM protestors to shoot police for being police.

Bernie Sanders was accused of inspiring a Leftist to shoot Republicans at a congressional baseball game for taking away healthcare from the elderly. (ht Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire:
24:47 Sanders incited violence against Republicans.
25:26 Obama incited violence against cops
26:21 Sharpton incited violence against Jews.)

However, Sharpton, Obama, and Sanders are still outstanding examples of citizenry to Big Tech and the Left. Their speech was not construed out of context to be inciting violence. They were not banned from society and threatened to be jailed as Olbermann demanded of Trump.

What it comes down to is the double standard that is applied to the Left, Right, and those that support either side. Social Media and the Legacy Media have made the double standard worse by withholding information that negatively effects the Left and exaggerating the information that negatively effects the Right and Trump. Plus, dividing and raising the temperature of political discourse helps their bottom line to the detriment of the entire country they have a responsibility to serve.

I pray that the cancel culture, unhinged rhetoric, and biased interpretation of the Left and/or Never-Trumpers are deescalated so that more widespread violence is not inspired, if not cause a Civil War. China and Russia would be pleased if that happened.

 

(More left-inspired violence by left politicians.)

Old Meme - New Time

There is an old meme below about the US, before memes were as big as they are now in certain circles.

The northern part of the US and Canada are the United States of Canada and the southern part is Jesusland.

This says so much. This was originally made by those who prefer to be in the red, northern part of the map above. (How unjust is it that Jesus is treated like a shunned man? It reminds me of something...)

The enlightened U.S. Canadians believe that Jesus lovers are freaks, rubes, and backward. In reality it is the reverse. It is the north that want us to progress backward to the time of oligarchs, dependency, and decay (sort of like in Russia, come to think of it).

What I now see on the map above is the Church of Rome and Constantinople on a mission to the hordes of the barbarian North.

(BTW, most of these map memes of Jesusland have PA in the north. This is one of the few that doesn't.)

My Wife Versus the Current Dark Age

What signifies a dark age? An age in which the barbarians overrun a civilization. We are now suffering in such an age in the West. I believe historians will not label our epoch as the information age or space age; this is the real Dark Age.

We have abandoned our Western heritage for Sartreland. We no longer look outside ourselves for Truth that saves but look inward for our little truth that decays, withers, and dies.

My wife has taken this on with most of her time. She is a classical school teacher. Truth, beauty, and goodness through Jesus and His Church are her weapons against the barbarians.

Please consider enrolling in an online classical school or in-person classical school for this or next year. You can join my wife in saving the West.