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"Fearful lest it be relegated to the position of an isolated sect, Christianity seems to be making frenzied efforts at mimicry in order to escape being devoured by its enemies--a reaction that seems defensive, but is in fact self-destructive. In the hope of saving itself, it seems to be assuming the colors of its environment, but the result is that it loses its identity. . . ."
--Leszek Kolakowski, from Modernity on Endless Trial

 

 

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Thursday, September 8, 2005

A HIDING PLACE FROM THE WIND

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.  The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.  The vile person shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful.  For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.  The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.” -- Isaiah 32:1-7

LOSING PRECIOUS TIME

“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.” -- Horace Mann

“Lost time was never found again.” -- Ben Franklin

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A NEW DEFINITION OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

In my study of totalitarian societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” -- Anthony Daniels
 
LIBERALS SHOWING DEEP INSENSITIVITY TO THE PAIN OF SOCIETY

Once again, newspapers in Maine are leveling the charge that The RECORD was being insensitive by saying Hurricane Katrina was the wrath of God. Yet a careful rereading of The RECORD will show that no such claim was ever made. In a piece published on September 6th, The RECORD mentioned Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans on the same day the “Southern Decadence” celebration was scheduled, and then concluded that this was no more than an odd coincidence. But this was not good enough for those in the liberal mass media who have certain preconceived biases against the type of people who belong to the League.

But no matter -  in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a growing number of people are beginning to ask some extremely hard questions about the liberal establishment. No one is much concerned about Conservative Christians, since they are about the only part of American society which has not been blamed for the hurricane.  On the contrary, Conservative Christians have been praised for their compassion and hard work in the aftermath of the hurricane. In any case, does anyone imagine that a city government run by Christians would leave the dams and levees of a city unprotected, while drunken revelers rampaged through the streets? 

Liberals are increasingly being taken to task for a society which is starting to sway like a house of cards. Since our modern society was constructed according to their blueprint, liberals are ultimately to blame if the structure gives way and collapses. Sexual permissiveness, divorce, abortion, and the chaos in New Orleans can be laid at their door-step. America is awakening to the fact that the false ideology of liberalism has caused an enormous amount of pain. The pain is deepening and intensifying; and our society, like the levees in New Orleans is stressed to the breaking point. Yet liberals remain absolutely oblivious to the pain they have caused. At the same time, they criticize the League for being insensitive, over a remark it never made.

There is one thing which liberals do par excellence, and that is to explain away the obvious. Yesterday The RECORD described how gay activists reveled in the streets of New Orleans this past Sunday while untold thousands of bodies remained beneath the flood waters.  Some gay apologists are now saying that this was not really decadence, but was only decadent in the sense of a “decadent” chocolate cake or a “decadent” pleasure.  They are also saying that the “Southern Decadence” celebration, although “outlandish” was only typical of a few gays in New Orleans. Oh, really? Then what about the bizarre photos from the San Diego parade? Or the bizarrely-clad marchers in New York City’s annual Gay Pride Parade?  Their costumes – if they bothered to wear any at all - are too vile to be mentioned here.

No one outside the cultural sphere of influence of the United States believes that marching down the street naked is something to be proud of. Outside of America, people see it for what it is – a society corrupted by wealth and luxury flaunting its depravity. That leaves only about ten percent of the world’s population who are snookered by liberals. But the supporters of gay rights are desperate to have us believe otherwise. They must at all costs conceal the truth that this sort of depraved behavior at gay pride events is not an exception, but the norm. All the public will see on pro-gay rights websites are smiling faces of “monogamous” couples. The sight of those who marched in the devastated city of New Orleans and in other gay pride parades is kept carefully out of sight – and with good reason.

 

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