I did not see this coming, but perhaps I should have. After all, they have been telling us that they hate whites, males, and Americans for years.
This has been an ugly month for Democrats and progressives, if anyone is paying attention and not soaked with denial. America’s campuses, after decades of indoctrination, are erupting with open anti-Semitism, and the Left’s captive media has spread terrorist propaganda. The Associated Press told its reporters not to call Hamas killers “terrorists” after they massacred civilians, raped women, and took a couple hundred hostages from Israel on October 7. The Voice of America issued instructions to avoid calling Hamas “terrorists.” On October 12, Yale’s campus newspaper censored what it called “unsubstantiated claims that Hamas raped women and beheaded men” from a pro-Israel article by a student. (Yale professor Nicholas Christakis asked, “Are the hostage-taking, murder of children in their beds, burning of people alive, and parading of nude captive women in the street also ‘unsubstantiated’?”)
After Cornell students posted messages to university websites sewing sentiments like “If i see a pig male jew i will stab you and slit your throat,” “eliminate jewish living from cornell campus,” and an especially ominous, “gonna shoot up 104 west,” the kosher dining hall on campus, the school boldly advised Jewish students to avoid that dining hall.
Silly me: I thought this Babylon Bee story was satire.
Then the Republican majority in the House of Representatives had the audacity and bad taste to elect a devout Christian as Speaker, and apparently a directive went out to the woke enlightened that the way to bring down Mike Johnson and frighten the public is to attack his religious faith. As Count Floyd used to say on “SCTV”: “Oooh, scary!“
On MSNBC Jen Psaki, President Biden’s former spokeswoman, you know, the one who could think and speak coherently, told her audience, “Most Americans might not be able to pick Mike Johnson out of a lineup, but in reality he’s far from benign. It’s not just his political ideology that should scare us. Johnson is basically a Christian fundamentalist.” This is because Johnson told an interviewer, “I am a Bible-believing Christian. Someone asked me today in the media, they said, well, it’s curious. People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun? Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s that’s my world view.”
“You heard that right!” Psaki said in “Ah-HA!” tones. “The Bible doesn’t just inform his worldview, it is his worldview.” Similar progressive outrage was revealed on MSNBC’s “The Katie Phang Show,” and “The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart,” “The ReidOut” and “Morning Joe,”as well as in other articles at the MSNBC website. Particularly frightening to the MSNBC crew (and presumably, its rabidly woke, all-Democrat audience) appears to be Johnson’s assertion that the nation was founded by Christians and that its culture embraces Christian values, which I would describe as “history” and “reality.”
Over at the far-left website Salon, vile fanatic feminist Andrea Marcotte wrote, in a long vilification of Johnson that included describing him as an “incel” based on no evidence at all,
Journalists and Democratic researchers have been carefully compiling a couple decades worth of quotes from Johnson, who flat-out rejects the First Amendment prohibition against government-imposed religion. Instead, he falsely claims the Founders wished to impose his deeply fundamentalist faith on the public on the grounds that we “depend upon religious and moral virtue” to “prevent political corruption and the abuse of power.” Johnson is lying, of course, as demonstrated by the fact that he helped lead the effort to steal an election for Donald Trump, which was a corrupt abuse of power on behalf of a man lacking all moral virtue. As usual with these right-wing freaks, the Jesus chatter is just a thin cover for the real fixation: Fury at other people for having all the sexy fun times….”
This is, of course, pure bigotry, condemning a human being in advance for what he believes (not even accurately characterizing what he believes) without waiting to see what he does. Similar treatment of, say, a Muslim by a conservative journalist would be immediately condemned as racism by these bigots (but remember, theirs is good bigotry, like hating white men).
This is not your father’s Democratic Party—or, in my case, my mother’s.
Following the same disgusting script was David Corn, who trolls for “The Nation” and “Mother Jones” among other homes on the range where the Left’s lunatics play. He wrote, his metaphorical pen dripping with contempt,
Rep. Mike Johnson, the newly elected Republican House speaker, used to conduct a seminar in churches premised on the idea that the United States is a “Christian nation.” This ministry, as he has referred to it, is yet more evidence that Johnson is committed to a hardcore Christian fundamentalism that shapes his views of politics and government.The seminar, titled “Answers for Our Times: Government, Culture, and Christianity,” was organized by Onward Christian Education Services, Inc., a company owned by his wife, Kelly Johnson, a Christian counselor and anti-abortion activist who calls herself a “leader in the pro-family movement.” The website for her counseling service—which was taken down shortly after Johnson became speaker—described the seminar, which featured both her and Johnson, as exploring several questions, such as, “What is happening in America and how do we fix it?” The list includes this query: “Can our heritage as a Christian nation be preserved?” There were different versions of the seminar running from two-hour-long lectures to retreats lasting two days.
The Horror!
The devolution of the Left into a mindset that has them supporting the pro-Palestinian and Hamas “Squad” members—-as well as the male Squad member who displays total cynical disregard for ethical values generally, like telling the truth, being accountable, and obeying laws—-while treating Jews and Christians as if they are members of a mad cult, should be disturbing to rational citizens, even those who are in the habit of voting blue. In a hilarious bit of delayed awareness that demands the “Die Hard” clip…
…Erwin Chemerinsky, the overtly political and far-left dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law announced that “Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now.” Is he kidding? He and his fellow travelers in academia prepared those students to take this ominous route, by beating into their skulls the world view that life is a struggle between the oppressors and their victims, while that the dissatisfied can do no wrong, just as whites, males, Christians, Jews, heterosexuals and Americans can do no right.
You know, some of my favorite leaders and elected officials have been Democrats; most of my friends, past and present, were or are Democrats. I must conclude that this terrible mutation has been progressing for a long time, but I sure didn’t see it coming.
This month has been a real eye-opener for me. I wonder how much of the public is opening its eyes.
Ethics Alarms 
Like simplifying complex fractions, Jack’s post can be expressed as, Christianity/Judaism = bad and subversive.
Wokeism = good and holy.
For me, the only real surprise is that the popular culture’s overt contempt for Christians has not already grown into outright persecution. A likely reason for that is the lukewarm Christian faith demonstrated by the mainstream church. The church as it is commonly experienced by our society isn’t all that much of a threat to the decadence and moral rot that surround us. Churches stand silent when they should speak out and sit on their hands when they should act. The popular culture and political radicals don’t fear the church’s condemnation because there isn’t much condemnation to be heard. Many churches have strayed far from Biblical doctrine and far into woke acceptance of all kinds of immorality. Some are indistinguishable from a Sunday morning feel-good coffee klatsch. So, unless your expressed Christian faith is basic and strong enough to get you classified as a “fundamentalist,” you aren’t worthy of direct opposition. Count me in that category.
Yesterday, while walking Spuds, I discovered that the church three blocks away has put up Halloween decorations. The one across the street has no service on Christmas Day. I don’t understand what churches think their mission is anymore. I wonder if churches do.
Sadly, a lot, and I wonder that it’s most of them have lost what the message is.
Reading through the new testament, you can see that tickling of the ears, shady activity and profiteering has been going on since Christ was crucified, and the Pharisees and Sadducees screwing up God’s intent before that.
Nevermind fools like me, so we can really screw it up three ways from Sunday. But I try, and when I live in faith and heed the spirit, life is better. But I’m in good company, most of our biblical heros screwed up something.
Once again proving out the truth that there’s nothing new under the sun.
Jack, I think you just hit center mass with your observations.
We don’t have all that many churches in American any longer, but we have a lot of really expensive buildings on well-manicured lawns where people can go on Sundays and be entertained for ninety minutes. They sit there, in the center of all the multimedia, the rock-concert-esque flashing lights, the theater – really, the spectacle of it all – where there’s not much worship but a whole lot of noise. Then someone gets up – maybe it’s Joel Osteen (yeah, I’ll say names) – and speaks for half an hour without talking about hard things like…maybe…sin, judgement, wrath, substitutionary atonement, grace, and mercy…but instead focuses on how your words can alter your life and if you say the right ones, you can have your best life now. And the Bible – in just four short verses that start the fourth chapter of Second Timothy – told us this would happen.
Yeah, that’s not church, that’s (as one pastor has put it) Six Flags over Jesus. And somewhere in the midst of all that rot, there is a subset of attenders that simply want to worship God through Christ and they are starving. And pastors are going to pay for what they’ve done when they stand before the One that loves those people.
We’ve talked a lot about what’s gone wrong in America, and there are many places to look for culprits. The general decay of society, the destruction of the family and our education system, and the roots of Communism and Socialism that are creeping into all facets of government. But the biggest problem?…it’s pastors in America, who are way too comfortable and for whatever reasons –
cowardice, the desire for popularity, the need for another Mercedes – will NOT speak the truth.
Persecution against Christians and Jews? It’s already here (to a small degree in America), but it’s going to get a LOT worse. And you’ll very quickly weed out the churches that dumb down their message and compromise the truth to stay on friendly terms with their potential persecutors.
“…Six Flags over Jesus…”
I hadn’t heard that one, but it is very apt, and descriptive of the four or five largest churches in my county, for sure. There will indeed be much to answer for.
My church, a little country Baptist church with about 200 members, isn’t much on bling, but we like it and our ministry to our community.
We are big on outreach to other churches as well. A contemporary case in point: There is a congregation of Messianic Jews about five miles from us, and our Security Team (most are retired law enforcement) helped train theirs a few years ago. That also involved performing a site security survey to help spot weaknesses in their physical security procedures in their buildings and on their grounds. We reached out to them this week in the aftermath of the recent anti-Jewish demonstrations across the country, to see if we could be of further assistance in upgrading their security, and we have another training event scheduled soon to show them our radio communications setup and procedures. We will also be offering their members the “Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events” training course. There have been no reported security threats in our area, but we believe in the “ounce of prevention” approach.
We know what is coming, sooner or later. But we have read the last chapter, and know how the story ends.
“…Six Flags over Jesus…”
I hadn’t heard that one, but it is very apt, and descriptive of the four or five largest churches in my county, for sure. There will indeed be much to answer for.
My church, a little country Baptist church with about 200 members, isn’t much on bling, but we like it and our ministry to our community.
We are big on outreach to other churches as well. A contemporary case in point: There is a congregation of Messianic Jews about five miles from us, and our Security Team (most are retired law enforcement) helped train theirs a few years ago. That also involved performing a site security survey to help spot weaknesses in their physical security procedures in their buildings and on their grounds. We reached out to them this week in the aftermath of the recent anti-Jewish demonstrations across the country, to see if we could be of further assistance in upgrading their security, and we have another training event scheduled soon to show them our radio communications setup and procedures. We will also be offering their members the “Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events” training course. There have been no reported security threats in our area, but we believe in the “ounce of prevention” approach.
We know what is coming, sooner or later. But we have read the last chapter, and know how the story ends.
Joel,
You can find excellent preachers on Bott radio network. Many of them are also on YouTube if you want the visual sermon as well. Obviously no human church family this way but Jesus’ hand is always outstretched.
https://bottradionetwork.com/
I would like to believe I’m in the category, as well.
> Churches stand silent when they should speak out and sit on their hands when they should act.
Don’t expect any changes here until the courts recognize the prior restraint violations of the First Amendment in the current tax code.
”Politics from the pulpit? Gee, that’s a nice tax exemption ya got there…”
I noticed it start with the whole ‘offensive’ thing came in. You shouldn’t offend the ‘insert racial or religious minority’ because they aren’t mature enough to take criticism, was the enforced doctrine in society and it entered the Christian church. Well, what could be wrong about trying not to ‘offend’ people? Then it was tolerance. We should tolerate people with different views. Of course, they didn’t have to tolerate your views, but you are supposed to be a better person than that because you are an American/White/Christian/etc and ‘those people’ can’t handle tolerating other people’s views. Although you are supposed to be the better person, you are told you are a worse person because you aren’t like them.
Tolerance was great, because it meant people didn’t have to follow the Gospels, didn’t have to try not to sin, didn’t have to try to live the example of Christ. If you complained that the worship director was ‘shacking up’ with his girlfriend publicly, if you complained that the church shouldn’t be celebrating the baby shower for an unmarried couple having their third child, it was YOUR problem because you weren’t tolerant. This seems to be basically what happened to Pelagius. He came to a VERY tolerant Rome, full of all kings of sin. When he complained about it, HE was labelled the heretic.
It came to a point that you really couldn’t do evangelism anymore. I mean, how do you try to convert Muslims without offending Muslims? What about Jews? What about Mormons? If it is wrong to try to talk to people about why Christianity is the way and other religions aren’t, are you really a Christian?
As usual with these right-wing freaks, the Jesus chatter is just a thin cover for the real fixation: Fury at other people for having all the sexy fun times….
There are so many things I could say in response to this comment. Studies have shown that conservative Christians as a whole have more sex and more satisfying sex than secular liberals. The accusation of “fury at other people” rings of projection. The ability to discern that “the Jesus chatter is just a thin cover” requires some sort of mind-reading ability.
In general, it seems to me that the entire progressive agenda is so unworkable that they are furious at everything because they are not getting what they want. Free sex isn’t working out because no matter how hard they try, “free” sex keeps coming with inescapable realities like unplanned pregnancies, STDs, unwanted emotional bonding with partners that are supposed to just be flings, and unwanted emotional pain from partners that are supposed to be simultaneously emotionally committed and somehow okay with open sexual arrangements.
Economics isn’t working because socialism necessarily leads to shortages, printing and spending money like drunken sailors causes huge amounts of inflation, policies that make it hard to fire people lead to unproductive work forces, and running businesses as giant activist conglomerates leads to dramatic losses in revenue.
Racial issues continue to worsen because there is no means to escape hypocrisy and resent by treating certain types of racism as “bad” and other types as “good”.
As far as climate initiatives go, those damned islands refuse to be submerged, the polar bears refuse to die off, the hurricanes refuse to come more frequently, and the global “average” temperatures refuse to increase commensurately with carbon dioxide missions, and everywhere that green initiatives take hold, energy costs balloon, the grid destabilizes, and all those vaunted green jobs vanish like a fart in the wind. Oh, and EV sales are so lagging and pathetic that manufacturers are placing entire new lines on hold, reducing their production rates, and returning at least some focus on the standard IC engines.
Crime is through the roof where liberal policies refuse to punish crime. Gun violence is greatest where gun controls are the strictest. Education is through the floor, especially in districts where students are not required to meet any benchmarks. And the tighter the progressives try to enforce mandates and censorship “for the public good,” the more star systems slip through their… That is, the lower their approval ratings and the lower they rank on the scale of trust.
This has to be unbelievable frustrating for them. They are promised everything, they are told their worldview will lead to a utopia, and not only is that never realized, but that utopia keeps receding further and further out of reach. Their fury has to have an outlet, and if it can’t be directed inwardly or at least at their failed worldview, it must mean everyone else is the enemy, everyone else is blocking their dreams from reaching fruition, everyone else needs to be crushed, ground down, made to offer reparations and provisions from now until eternity, and even then that will not suffice. It will never suffice.
So their hatred pours out especially on those who are suitable scapegoats. I’m not entirely sure why the Jews are such scapegoats, other than their calling as God’s chosen people, and the fact that it seems (in the popular view) that everywhere they go, they prosper. But they aren’t called to evangelize and convert the way Christians are, and it makes sense that Christians would be the perfect scapegoats. After all, it is Christianity that condemns adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. It seems that everything the progressives desire stands in stark contrast to Christian teaching and moral theology.
Jack, here’s your comment of the day. Right on the money.
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Absolutely.
Nicely done, Ryan.
jvb
These people have the same mentality as Elliott Rodger and Dylann Roof!
I believe that’s Amanda Marcotte.
Right. Fixed. Thanks.
And boy, is “vile fanatic feminist” ever spot on.
I don’t really see how anyone with a brain couldn’t see this coming. The left has hated Christianity with a passion for decades now. The churches Democratic candidates went to were thin facades to hide racial hate politics. The phrase ‘fundamentalist’ was laid on anyone who even tried to follow the Bible. ‘Good’ Christians publicly demonstrated how good they were by standing with other faiths against Christianity. As an undergraduate, my state university explained that their ‘winter break’ wasn’t close to Easter because they didn’t want to suggest that Christianity was a valid religion. At the same time, the administration promoted the PLO student affiliate on campus. Now, you can’t say there wasn’t any hint that Judaism would be treated the same as Christianity. The ‘good’ Jews were ones who claimed to be ‘culturally Jewish’ without being religious, mirroring the ‘good’ Christians. Those evil ‘Zionists’ (the Jewish equivalent of ‘fundamentalists’) were treated a little differently. At one point, Hillel built a wooden schoolbus to remember a group of schoolchildren killed in a PLO attack on a schoolbus. The student PLO affiliate firebombed it. No one was punished for the firebombing. This happened in the late 80’s.
Since then, the attacks on ‘zionists’ morphed into the BDS movement. Just about every major university in the US has passed BDS resolutions. Many universities went so far as to publicly divest anything remotely tied to Israel from their endowments. With incidents like that piling up over the decades and more and more Muslim extremists being imported into this country, how could you not see this coming?
The left has been cozying up to Islam for decades. Islam has a built-in burning hatred for Jews. Democrats continually gloss over anti-Semitic acts by their Muslim contingent, but they happen continually. No one is ever really punished for those acts, so you know they are actually accepted and tolerated, just not publicly. The Democratic Party, however, is a cult, and it is hard to break away from that cult. The Jewish community in the US has thought that by staying part of the Democratic Party, the Party would protect them from the Muslim part of the Party that wants them all dead. They also seem to like being able to bash White America without being considered part of it. They never seemed to think that some day, that hatred they participated in would be turned on them. Cue Gomer Pyle saying Surprise! Surprise!
Erwin Chemerinsky defended most of his law school student groups passing resolutions to bar all ‘zionists’ from speaking at HIS law school. Of course ‘zionism’ seems to have originated with the Soviet Union as a way to persecute Jews without being accused of persecuting Jews. Chemerinsky defended this and now has the gall to claim he didn’t see this Jew-hatred coming. Either he is lying or he drank the Kool-Aid so much that his brain fell out.
As for importing Muslim extremists, why is it that only Christian countries have to take in all the Muslim ‘refugees’ from the wars in the Middle East and Africa? I mean, we keep being told of the culture of hospitality in Muslim culture and the strong charitable edicts of the Koran to take care of the less fortunate that are far superior to the culture of the West. Why is it that these Muslim countries, many like Saudi Arabia and UAE that have vast, vast fortunes, can never seem to find any room or money for their less fortunate Muslim neighbors? Instead, these refugees have to be flown halfway around the world for Christians to take care of them. Remember, when the PLO was kicked out of Jordan, it was only Christian Lebanon who would take them in.
What happened to the Christians of Lebanon?
They fled the country or disappeared into the Fog of History. I had a Pizza Parlor owner that was previously a Hotel Owner in Beirut on the beach.
A lot of them went to Detroit. They called themselves the Chaldean community. When we started getting a lot of Muslim ‘refugees’ we sent them to the same area because they are both Arabic. They pretty much were then run out of there as well.
I have written I am not particularly religious but if I compare Judeo-Christian values and edicts as written in the New Testament to the demands that followers of Mohammed find in the Koran I think the Bible is far more tolerant of different beliefs than the Koran.
I would challenge all those college students to justify their support of a religion that is totally misogynistic, willing to allow the beating of women for violating some religious edict or that would exhale those who kill infidels and gays.
“I would challenge all those college students to justify their support of a religion that is totally misogynistic, willing to allow the beating of women for violating some religious edict or that would exhale those who kill infidels and gays.”
Rewind about nine hundred years and that would describe Christianity more than Islam. I don’t think anything has changed about either the Bible or the Quran since then. The Christians and Muslims who are more tolerant of different ways of life tend to be the ones who, knowingly or not, derive some of their ethics from secular reasoning rather than from religious scripture and the associated dogma.
You’re right about the irony of liberals knee-jerk siding with Muslims, though. There are no principles in play here. There are only the eternal victims, the eternal oppressors, and the mandate of the former to do as they wish with the latter.
For double the irony, the liberals have reinvented Original Sin, with victims in the role of the deity.
Lefties hate America. Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Stephen Cohen. Steve Cohen. Bernie Sanders. Noam Chomsky. Erwin Chermerinsky. Adam Schiff. The Squad. Barack and Michelle Obama. Saul Alinsky. The entire left is intent on destroying America. They’re nuts, but it’s been obvious since the 1920s.
Lawrence Tribe. All of the Academy.
That’s because a lot of the left extended their student deferments to stay out of Vietnam and eventually graduated multiple Ph.Ds, many more than the right, and they just took over, that is, we’re allowed to take over. There were always a few wacky Ivory Tower academics like Noam Chomsky, who has never been anything other than an academic his entire life.
He never served in the military, never ran a business, never did anything other than teach to kids who found the best way to do well was to give him his own words back. Then he decided that he knew all the most puzzling secrets that existence and became a public intellectual. I still never figured that out. The man is not even a political scientist, he is a linguist. What linguistics have to do with public policy is unknown to me.
Chomsky is the archetype of the self-hating Jew. He is Jewish enough to distinguish himself from the rest of White America, but he wouldn’t know a yeshiva from a yad. And of course he, as idiotic disciples pull the line of they aren’t anti-jewish, they are only anti-zionist. They are very much in love with the idea of Jewish people being and oppressed minority who can cry oppressor every time someone does something they don’t like, but the idea of them as a strong name ation that punches well above its weight class is something horrifying to them.
The writers who spoke out above are absolutely right that the left hates pretty much any religion that imposes standards. That’s because, at its heart, left is in is the worship of self. How many activists have said they recognize no authority but that within themselves? The idea of a god to whom everyone is answerable kind of tends to get in the way of recognizing no authority but that within yourself. That’s part of why the Soviet Union and it’s satellites pushed the idea of atheism, although in that case it was to transfer ultimately allegiance from God to the state. Ultimately, the state would become God. That’s why they blew up a cathedral in Moscow to make way for a Palace of the Soviets that never materialized.
In America the self worshiping tyrants I’ve never achieved the level of power they did in the Soviet Union. So instead they usually have hidden behind rhetoric that sounds good. They think if they drape their hatred in diversity, equity, inclusion, and so forth no one will fall for it. Unfortunately, they got a little too much power too soon and moved too soon. At this point they have become ideological streakers, where their hatred is raw, real and exposed for all to see.
When magazine writers don’t say a word about Iran sponsoring State terrorism throughout the Middle East in the hopes of the coming the power in the region, but suddenly leap to demanding immediate ceasefires the minute Israel takes action to defend itself, that’s bias and ultimately hatred. When newspapers and networks persistently say that accounts of Hamas atrocities are lies or unproven and not only leap to blame Israel but support lies designed to make Israel look bad without looking for even the slightest factual support, that’s bias and hatred. And when celebrities and academics post that they wish Israel would be wiped off the map and college students make posts that they will stab the first Jewish pig they see, that’s hatred.
Somehow, we tolerate it though. If some honest guy loads his pistol and says he’ll shoot the first punk in a black mask who comes near his property, he’s going to be the one who goes to jail. If an honest white guy brandishes his shotgun and says it’s going to mow down the first black thug who comes near him, he’s a racist and he deserves to go to jail for life. And if after a terror attack somebody says he’ll kill the first Muslim terrorist he sees, the left races to defend their poor misunderstood brown brothers. But somehow it is okay to say that you will stab the first Jewish person you see.
Think about that for a minute. You probably don’t even know the first Jewish person you see. Maybe you don’t know any Jewish people except by the fact that they exist. There’s a good chance that the first Jewish person you see wants nothing to do with any of this mess. Or maybe they have family over there and they are worried about their family because of what we just saw Hamas is capable of doing, but that’s the extent of it. Maybe they’re even Jewish by heritage only and otherwise fairly liberal. None of that matters, they’re Jewish pigs and you’re going to kill them in the name of supporting those poor oppressed Palestinians, no questions asked. I’ve said time and again that evil will always rear its ugly head again, although the names and faces change. I’ve also said, paraphrasing CS Lewis, but evil wants the same thing in every age, but it just has a different plan for getting it each time it reappears. Evil also won’t hesitate to use raw force when it feels strong enough.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a Bolshevik in an Ushanka hat with a red star carting some poor Kulak who refused to give up his land off to the gulag, or a Gestapo officer in a long green coat grabbing a Jew as an enemy of the State shipping him off somewhere where he will be liquidated, or a Klansman in white stringing up the first black guy he can get his hands on because someone says a black guy looked the wrong way at a white woman, or hippie activists proclaiming peace and love with one hand while they throw fire bombs with the other, or the John Brown gun club enforcing the separation of a few blocks of the city from all authority except that of the rabble rouser and the thug, or students who don’t have the first clue about the Arab Israeli conflict stabbing someone simply for his ethnicity, it’s all the same thing: evil.
All too often, also those vested with the authority to stop this evil are the ones who get the hatred. The left has no time for the military who stands up to the Soviets or who step in to stop the Nazis (if you don’t believe me on that score check out the leftists who say that passive resistance would have stopped the nazis, but was never given a chance to work), nor the police who step in to restore order from chaos and stop these instacommunes from becoming havens for robbers and rapists.
Not for nothing does the Bible, that book the left says is just a collection of myths, legends, and pseudohistory and a manual for oppressing women that got the most basic moral question of slavery wrong, say that “woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” Putting aside the question of any end times, we are seeing exactly what happens when you do that right now.
“[W]oe to those who call evil good and good evil.” Would that were the case, Steve. We can only hope it will be in the long run. It certainly describes what’s going on right now.
” I must conclude that this terrible mutation has been progressing for a long time, but I sure didn’t see it coming.”
I’ve been preaching to anyone who would listen that this has been the case since roughly the Clinton years.
It’s a shame that people have only awakened to it now that it’s reached absurd levels of mockery and hostility to anything “normal”.
“This is, of course, pure bigotry, condemning a human being in advance for what he believes (not even accurately characterizing what he believes) without waiting to see what he does.”
I concur. “Christian is as Christian does.” However, a politician should describe his principles in secular terms. If he doesn’t do that, I consider it a bad idea to elect him and hope that what he does next is aligned with secular ethics.
If Johnson is not able to articulate a functional set of ethical principles and instead refers us to the Christian Bible–as if the Bible, taken as a whole, represents any sort of coherent ethos–that tells me I don’t trust this person in public office. That means his sole criterion for a good decision is “I have come to assume that my deity wants me to do it.” Or, depending on how cynical you are about his sincerity, “whatever I can get away with by persuading enough people that my deity wants me to do it.” I don’t trust him either way.
The people who say the United States is founded on Christian values need to consider this: One of the founding principles of the United States is democracy. Is democracy a Christian value? Where in the Bible does it say anything about democracy? Jesus of Nazareth may have preached about the equality of all people in the eyes of his deity, but that doesn’t ever seem to have been interpreted as a recommendation for letting people vote for leaders or policies.
Out of all the Christian nations that existed through human history up until the founding of the United States, I’m not aware any of them were democracies. If democracy were a Christian value, I’d have thought we’d see fewer monarchies in post-Roman European history. Instead, we see royal families claiming the mandate of heaven, that their deity wants them to rule over their fellows. It seems clear that the United States Founders and all who care about power derived from the consent of the governed drew from some source of values outside of Christianity.