Dose Of Truth: Abortion Is Killing

A great deal of debate swirls around exactly when a fetus may be considered a human life, but it is impossible to deny that a fetus is alive. It follows that aborting a fetus is an act of killing. People who call themselves "pro-choice" might respond with indifference, yet they are the same ones who scream bloody murder whenever someone merely mistreats an animal, let alone kills one. Once again, this has to do with feelings rather than facts. Taking responsibility for sexual conduct and its consequences is hard; posturing in favor of animals is easy.

On a hypothetical note, if a woman may abort a fetus she is carrying without committing a killing (or a murder of an arguable human), then there is also no killing or murder if someone else terminates the fetus against the woman's wishes. The fetus is either alive or not, and terminating it is either killing/murder or not. Feelings once again do not change facts. To argue that they do is to play God and presume the ability to determine what is life worth preserving versus what is an inconvenience to be eliminated.  

Dose Of Truth: Being A Leftist Does Not Make You Intelligent

Leftists often crow that they are more intelligent or "educated" than the unwashed masses who cling to God and guns. Leaving aside for the moment that virtually no one in America can accurately be described as educated anymore, leftism is a mark of conformity and/or emotion-based thinking that is nothing to brag about. The desire to forcibly re-distribute wealth, make everyone "equal," and generally enhance government power has a name: Third-Worldism. It is a juvenile set of impulses that produces poverty and misery wherever it's tried. Despite the irrefutable historical record showing that robust governments make for anemic societies, leftists continue migrating from country to country (and from state to state) to escape the consequences of their idiotic beliefs, whereupon they leech off a new population and repeat the cycle. Moreover, leftists are unwilling and unable to debate their pathetic ideology, preferring instead to attack and silence anyone who questions them. This is not a mark of intelligence. Grow up, put away childish things, and learn to think rather than simply feel.

Dose Of Truth: Bruce Jenner

"Caitlyn" Jenner is not a woman nor a hero. He is a self-mutilated man pretending to be a woman. A healthy society would feel a mixture of pity and disgust for him, not admiration.

Small Doses Of Truth, Starting With Slavery

My posts make sense to a small percentage of people -- i.e., the remnant -- but frighten or confuse the rest. This is because most people today have been force-fed lies practically since birth, the unfortunate side effect of a culture so prosperous as to become decadent and divorced from reality. Reality is ugly, unpleasant, and demands tough choices. Prosperity fosters (at least for a while) delusions such as that the purpose of life is sheer enjoyment; that feelings are more important than facts; and that pain, suffering, and want are terrible anomalies to be avoided or eliminated.

Because of this fundamental disconnect between my perspective (grounded in knowledge and reality) and that of most of my lurkers (grounded in ignorance and fantasy), I will begin offering some shorter posts that deliver small "doses" of truth rather than longer posts that take all such truths as a given. A mind saturated with lies is naturally repulsed by exposure to too much truth, like an addict confronted with the dread prospect of going cold turkey.

Today's small dose of truth concerns slavery. Slavery has existed since the dawn of recorded history. Blacks enslaved blacks; blacks enslaved whites; whites enslaved blacks; whites enslaved whites . . . and insert all other colors of the rainbow. Whites do not have any reason to bear unique blame or feel unique guilt for enslaving blacks. Blacks unsentimentally enslaved each other and sold each other to whites. The only thing that makes whites unique is that they eventually perceived a moral problem with slavery and fought to end it. This warrants praise, not criticism. As for whites living in America today, none of them ever have bought, sold, or owned a slave, and they have no possible duty to make atonement for slavery. As for blacks living in America today, they are far better off than if the trans-Atlantic slave trade never had happened.     

A Short Musing On The Fourteenth Amendment

Isn't it curious how federal courts find no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when a state actively persecutes families and businesses for exercising their rights (such as the bakers in my previous post), yet federal courts leap at the opportunity to find a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when a state merely refrains from endorsing homosexual relationships and leaves homosexuals free to do as they wish?  

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

Time To Separate The Wheat From The Chaff

Christianity was born in struggle against the powers of this world, which always have reacted with extreme hostility to the mildest expression of a belief in absolute truth. The very notion of truth shakes the artifice of lies upon which worldly power is built, so much so that a shoeless beggar riding a donkey presented a mortal threat to a vast empire. His struggle set an example for countless others to follow over centuries of persecution, until they ultimately won the heart of the West and built the most prosperous and just civilization the world has ever seen. Government was limited due to a recognition of the absolute truth that humans have inherent, God-given rights that no worldly power may encroach upon, and the mind of man was liberated to work wonders.

The heirs of that civilization have taken its blessings for granted and now seek to root out any expression of the beliefs that fathered it. Lest there be any doubt about this, consider that a Christian family is being persecuted by governmental authorities for exercising the right not to provide labor to others, in this instance baking a cake for a lesbian "wedding." It makes no difference that the customers were deprived of no rights; it makes no difference that the customers went on to find a better deal; it makes no difference that the family harmed their own material interests in passing up the extra business; it makes no difference that the family politely explained their reasons despite having no obligation to do so; and it makes no difference that the forced provision of labor amounts to slavery outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment. The mere expression of a belief in an absolute truth that requires the family's obedience has provoked the powers of this world to lash out in response. Thoughts and deeds of this sort -- now matter how meek -- cannot be allowed to proliferate because they threaten the modern artifice of totalitarian control over our lives.

But this challenge is a good thing that will force Christians back to their roots. Christians ruled the roost for so long that they forgot what their faith is about. They dressed ostentatiously, attended church, and snoozed through sermons on the belief this would save their souls, yet the early Christians understood that such open and shallow displays of piety accomplish nothing toward salvation. With government at their throats again, they will have to choose whether to obey God or the world, since their civilization now has been lost. Many, probably most, will fail this test and blow away from the wheat like chaff. However, the wheat that remains will be strong, pure, and ready to feed civilization again.

Christianity is about obeying God's authority as taught by Jesus Christ. When the powers of this world declare war on that authority, every true Christian has a duty to stand firm and refuse to cooperate. No matter what the world might do in retaliation, it cannot prevail because a Christian's kingdom is not of this world. For a powerful expression of this sort of belief -- by a man who was Christian in spirit if not in name -- take a look at Ben Kingsley's portrayal of Gandhi:

 

That Didn't Take Long

As I predicted, a legal challenge is already brewing to legitimize polygamy in the wake of the Supreme Court's lunatic decision, and it's happening in my own state. From the article:

Nathan Collier said he was inspired by the recent Supreme Court decision that made marriage equal. He said he was particularly struck by the words of dissenting Chief Justice John Roberts who claimed giving gay couples the right to marry, might inspire polygamy.

And so this week, Mr Collier and his two wives, Victoria and Christine, entered a courthouse in Billings, Montana, and sought an application to legalise the trio’s polygamous union.

“Right now we're waiting for an answer," Mr Collier told The Independent. “I have two wives because I love two women and I want my second wife to have the same legal rights and protection as my first.”

He added: "Most people are not us. I am not trying to define what marriage means for anybody else - I am trying to define what marriage means for us."

Note how he makes the same self-contradicting argument as the proponents of gay marriage: we just want society to leave us alone, but we will file a lawsuit to compel society to endorse our lifestyle. There is no indication that society is interfering in what he is doing; under the old common law, he could be charged with the crimes of fornication and adultery (he's officially married to one person already), but those are extinct along with any other prohibitions on sexual conduct that "doesn't harm anyone."

The problem is that modern, neo-pagan minds cannot conceive of "harm" as being anything other than immediate, visible, or tangible. The people in this news story may not be physically harming or restraining anyone, but they are indeed attacking what little remains of the fabric of civilization, and they are encouraging others to do so as well. One must consider the consequences of multiplying a given activity many times over, not merely focus on the isolated instance, and it is a mortal threat to civilization to treat marriage as a product to be tailor-made for voracious, shallow consumers like these. If people are not required to live up to marriage, but rather may pull it down into the pit of lust and avarice where they naturally prefer to remain, civilization cannot endure.

When America was strong, robust, and had its shit together, it would lock away these narcissists for being a clear and present danger to society. Now, with everyone being his own god, and with courts poised to ignore the Constitution and compel society to indulge every anti-social activity, our time grows very short.

But perhaps the only solution is to accelerate what's happening and plunge over the cliff. This would allow for the destruction of what is to make room for what will be, just as with old trees that have become infested with vermin and sickness and must burn to the ground so that saplings may grow unhindered. And few things will accelerate societal collapse more than leaving the majority of young men unable to find a wife. Let's push on with polygamy and feed the flames of male aimlessness and discontent, by all means.