Re-Focusing My Energy

During some idle time the other day I was musing about the philosophical distinctions between Judaism and Christianity (yes, I spend my idle time thinking about these things). Obviously there are several such differences, but the source of all of them strikes me as this: Judaism is outwardly focused, while Christianity is inwardly focused. Judaism requires one to follow elaborate rituals and strive to improve the world. Christianity rejects legalism as insufficient to achieving spiritual health; instead, Christianity focuses on overcoming sin in oneself, not removing it from the world, which is fallen and ruled by the prince of darkness.

Surely I'm biased, but I prefer the Christian approach because it does make the world a better place in an indirect manner. The historical record is irrefutable as to the blessings of Christendom, plus I would much rather live in a world filled by people who are internally focused and care about being decent and righteous in their own lives, than to live in a world filled by unreflective busybodies and buttinskies who cannot mind their own affairs. If more people would remove the beam from their own eyes rather than scorn the mote in everyone else's, the world would be a far better place (though I'm fully aware that many people calling themselves Christians do not operate this way.)

With this in mind, I've decided to focus my energy more on my own life and less on the chaos that the world is falling into. The (imminent) publication of my third book Unlawful Government: Societal Collapse will be my last major effort at outward polemics for a while, though I will continue to make occasional commentary here and fight the good fight whenever it comes my way.

The world needs more people of dignity, responsibility, and principle. That is the person I will dedicate myself to being, while also enjoying life as my own boss with many good years still ahead.

From The File Marked "Do Not Get Married"

No deep reflections, just a random collection of news stories shedding light on why growing numbers of men are reluctant to engage in the ritual called "marriage" today.

• A Texas man was ordered to pay $65,000 in backdated child support for a child that is conclusively proven not to be his. 

• A New York man who caught his wife in bed with another man now faces charges for unlawful surveillance. A century ago, the wife and the paramour would be the ones confronting charges (if not an excused execution on the spot).

• A New York woman pled guilty to sabotaging her fiancé’s kayak and pushing his paddle away, which caused him to drown. She (of course) claimed to be the victim of his bizarre sexual demands, though he was unavailable for comment.

• An Ohio woman engaged to be married was caught having a sexual relationship with a thirteen-year-old.

• A married teacher in New Jersey adopted a fifteen-year-old student in order to have sex with him practically every day.

• A British woman banished her husband to the sofa because she was angry at the long shifts he was working as a carpet cleaner. She found him dead on the sofa one morning, later discovering that he had been working so hard to save money to take them on a lavish vacation. Before his body was cold, she began sleeping with his brother, supposedly to help her through her "grief." 

• A North Carolina man was abandoned by his adulterous wife for the doctor who employed her (of course). The man is suing the doctor under the tort theory "alienation of affections," which was once a standard legal tool for punishing conduct that strikes at the core of society, but which today is almost extinct and widely reviled.

• A married teacher in Connecticut was caught having sex in her car multiple times with a special-education student. The woman's husband dutifully showed up in court to help her defend against the criminal charges.

• A Wisconsin mother of two was caught having a sexual relationship with a sixteen-year-old. Apparently, the two had sex in the classroom dozens of times.

• A married teacher in Nebraska was caught having sex with a teenager on his sixteenth birthday.

• A married teacher and mother in Alabama was caught having sex with two different teenagers, sometimes at her family's home, and other times in a cemetery. She taught at a private, Christian school.