Posted on 03/19/2017 8:33:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 1993 I was studying law at Cambridge University in England. Of course, we visited the Inns of Court in London, power-central for British jurisprudence. At lunchtime, a bit heady from the obligatory sherry-for-ladies-pre-prandial, I wandered a bit and came upon, of all things, the sepulcher of a Crusader.
I knew what it was immediately. I am Catholic, and although quite unregenerate at that time, still, the old stories and pictures were there. Besides, you couldn't mistake it; the period was right: a knight in stone effigy, on the grave, decked out in the very latest warrior garb of the (circa 1100 AD) time; and anyway, the knight still clutched, in death, his shield across his chest, emblazoned upon which was that big, red Cross.
Of a sudden the din of outside London was stilled. This place was holy, myself notwithstanding; and I knew "holy" because I'd just visited Rome over our class break and, there, I had visited the Catacombs. The Catacombs are “holy” whether you want them to be or not.
And so was the grave of this knight, killed fighting the Saracen hordes all those centuries ago. I surprised myself by instinctively doing something I hadn't done for years. I knelt at this man's gravesite and, from the depths, quite unbidden, came a prayer: “Make me courageous, like you.”
Last week, Alvernia University, an ostensibly Catholic university in Reading, Pennsylvania, announced it had scuttled its teams’ “Crusader” mascot and removed the name and image of “Crusaders” from its various team and university logos. More than just the most recent casualty in the Islamic war against the West, this strikes at the very heart of Judeo-Christian culture, namely, the Crusaders!
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The West will be a cakewalk for the Islamist hordes.
We are to far removed from the struggle to survive.
I’ve NEVER heard of this school before. Don’t colleges of all levels of prestige have more important things to worry about than this type of nonsense?
We are to far removed from the struggle to survive.
People learn quickly.
The old courage and call to arms are not so far below the surface.
The best strategy for the Islamics is there current long term one. Immigrate, use the welfare of the west to breed prolifically, then vote Islam into ascendancy, and enforce Sharia law.
Never heard of the Fighting Jahadis?
Yep... that’s exactly the plan they have for us. Our younger generation is refusing to have children while the horde is popping out 5 - 8 kids per family.
No, but we will someday!
They are not the first so- called catholic college to drop the name Crusaders. Clarke University in Dubuque Iowa did the same thing about a month ago. The are now the Clarke University “ Pride”. It’s laughable. The AD claimed the name Crusader was negatively viewed by “ others”. I guess you can no longer be a Crusader for Christ in a catholic college. What a joke!!!
PCdiots are too far removed from sanity to survive.
Consider: when crime or what have you overtook yesterday’s liberals they might occasionally become Neocons but with political correctness progressives have found a way to protect themselves from reality. Rapeings, murders, child molestations? We’re bigots to even talk about such things!
This is what happens when your idea of society centers on going along to get along....
I guess you can no longer be a Crusader for Christ in a catholic college
in the modern Catholic world, mention of Christ is a microaggression...
What a joke!!!
nope, ‘fraid not; it’s all too real...courtesy of Vatican II...
Trump’s a kink in that slick strategy. Pray there are more.
And you are right about the instinctive need to defend being right below the surface. It is a human species thing. We might have to kick aside a few useless, kool-aid sots to get to it, though.
Someone should remind the young skulls full of mush that it's one way or the other: Crusader or crucified.
It’ll be interesting to see how long Holy Cross (Bob Cousy’s alma mater) holds out.
I'm in my early 20s. I'd love to have a big batch of kids. It isn't that easy to find a mate. They don't want to marry, or they don't "believe in" it. Well, I don't believe in playing house.
Stick to your guns. You will find a good spouse.
Six more deadly sins out there for the taking. Who will grab Envy? Who will grab Greed? Who will grab Lust?
The word pride is used so much by gay activists that Clarke University may find that some potential students will write it off, assuming that heterosexuals are not welcome there.
Schools have been emasculating boys and de-feminizing women to make them fixated in puerile states of L-A-Z-Y so they are devoid of virtue for life. (Virtue formation is crucial for freedom—Socrates/Founders).
The skool “system” has been destroying Western Civilization since the communists/Marxists took over the universities in 30s and John Dewey destroyed the Classical Christian curricula which created the Age of Reason, The Renaissance and the US Constitution. Without the “education” and wisdom of the ages-—and with the warped programming of lies and disinformation for almost 100 years, there will be no Western Civilization left.
Everything that created it-—particularly the Catholic Scholastic period and then the Protestant Work Ethic, is being destroyed....literally.
They are doing it by demonizing all our Traditions, all our history and demonizing all white moral males ——to create H-A-T-E for the Western culture. They glorify vice and puerile behaviors to destroy virtue in children. GET YOUR CHILDREN OUT of these sodomite training skools-—operant conditioning will destroy their brains and make them incapable of Reason and Logic (like snowflakes and the Afghanis and Saudis who love the pretty little boys for their occult rituals of sodomy).
Fichte created the concept and Wundt and Pavlov and Skinner perfected it-—how to destroy free will and morality in little children and make them so ignorant and stupid that they will believe Boys can be Girls and Up is Down and Sodomy is a Virtue. That is Common Core for you and NCLB and Goals 2000, New Math, etc etc.——all to destroy the minds of our children ON PURPOSE!!!!!
Promotion and glorifying Vice (and sodomy and baby-killing is always an evil, vile vice and is unconstitutional since Justice is a Virtue), will corrupt little children and warp their WHOLE worldview of male and female and God’s Design (SCIENCE and LOGIC).
We need to return to Rule of Law (God’s Laws) and get rid of the sodomite psychopath’s Rule of Man/oligarchy which is always irrational so Vice is Virtue and Boys are Girls. Right Reason according to Natural Laws has to be contained in EVERY “Just” Law or else it is “null and void” like Justice Marshall stated. Laws can NEVER be antithetical to the Supreme Law of the Land (the Constitution-—not SCOTUS and five should be put in prison for Treason).
Lame
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark
https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Battalions-Crusades-Rodney-Stark/dp/0061582603/ref=pd_cp_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YCP10R3FMXM6D44W13G0
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