Yeah, I know. A vanity.
I certainly think THAT AT LEAST, the 'vanity' label should be removed--it is a crucial bit of facts and suggestions about our survival as a people, a culture and a Republic. Certainly prayer is increasingly in order and emphatically so. The call to fasting is also wise. I find myself doing more and more of it.
And it is a crucial reminder that God Almighty sooner or later always weighs in on the side of the righteous.
Thanks for posting it.
Amen!
Awesome vanity!! God bless and may the Almighty do to the evil liberal vomits what he did to those who were ready to annihilate the Jewish folks.
“however “absent” G-d may appear”
Good post. I pray and fast regularly, and am prepared for end times. That said, the phrase above reminded me of a joke, which might lift your melancholy for a while.
Two young Jewish boys were always getting into trouble. One parent asked their rabbi to speak to them. The rabbi agreed, and he thought he would approach them from the angle that even though they think they may get away with mischief, God is always watching them.
He thought he would ask them “where is God?”, to kickoff the discussion.
So after school he sees one boy and brings him to his office.
“Where is God?” he says in a loud voice.
The kid was frozen, not speaking.
“Where is God?” he said louder.
The boy was immobile.
“WHERE IS GOD?” the rabbi boomed.
The boy took off and ran home, jumped in bed and hid under the covers.
His friend found him in bed and asked why he was cowering in fear.
“We’re really in trouble now. God is missing and rabbi thinks we did it!”
I was rolling with you until you turned it into an anti-gay essay.
Gays aren’t the problem.
I know that makes cracks in Free Republics underpinnings, and even tempts many to hit the zot button, but it’s true - and I’ll prove it to you, right now.
Gays aren’t the problem, because the problem is actually what gays are being used as an excuse to do. And what is that? Impose administrative laws where they don’t belong.
Would you care if no restrictive laws were being issued with gays as their cover? No, of course not. You’d still feel whatever you feel towards homosexuality, but they wouldn’t be a threat to the country.
To paraphrase Clinton, “it’s the administrative laws, stupid.”
And those laws have grown out of control. Gays, Feminists, the war on drugs, the war on terror, immigration, taxation, travel, ID, you name it - all excuses to impose administrative laws in place of the common law of the original Constitution.
Those operating this legal attack understand this clearly. Even the stupidest liberal isn’t all that attached to any particular “cause,” even though they scream, yell, throw tantrums and use vicious dirty tricks on their behalf - they don’t really care.
What they care about is obeying the group instructions. And those instructions say: 1) learn they techniques;, and 2) apply them to the causes we tell you.
So they do. And when the cover-stories shift, they shrug and apply their techniques to the next cover story. And they laugh - literally laugh - at anyone who actually believes in any particular position on any particular issue. They see that as literal stupidity. Because once you sell your soul, like they have, group obedience, and efficiency in group obedience, becomes your truth, your philosophy, and your life. And to those people, you’re either in, or you’re out - and there’s only on thing to decide. Not multiple issues.
This is what empowers the evil of the world. A very well thought out group organization plan based on creating utter moral cowardice in its members - and rewarding it.
So despite the issues, and despite the groups, what we are really looking at is a battle for souls - between those who refuse to lose their humanity, and those who laugh out loud at the very notion of hanging on to it.
And in that, it is indeed a global Biblical-level battle of the End TImes, a purification by self-selection, in an environment that God has allowed to exist, so as to make these personal choices possible.
That God allows to exist - until he doesn’t anymore, because everyone has chosen.
God is not mocked, no matter how evil may laugh.
To paraphrase the Tao Te Ching, “if fools did not laugh aloud when confronted with God’s Command, it would not be God’s Command.”
Ah Freilichin Purim, ZC. Have an easy fast.
thank you for posting this, may you have a blessed Purim and may our enemies hang out to dry, high.
Our Father is on His throne and is indeed in charge. Thank you for the powerful essay to help us frame current events in a better Light!
Blessings this Purim on you.
From the article..””I’ve long believed that one reason political correctness now rules with an iron hand is because we have been spineless cowards. Right now PC seems like an unstoppable, omnipotent dreadnaught. But if only one person will refuse to be silenced then it will spread””
Actually,ZC, there is much more of an agenda of political correctness than most people realize
Here is some excerpts of a spot on article from academia.org regarding PC
The Origins of Political Correctness
Bill Lind, February 5, 2000
http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
Excerpts
It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.
If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.
First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted “victims” groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.
Indeed, all ideologies are totalitarian because the essence of an ideology (I would note that conservatism correctly understood is not an ideology) is to take some philosophy and say on the basis of this philosophy certain things must be true – such as the whole of the history of our culture is the history of the oppression of women. Since reality contradicts that, reality must be forbidden. It must become forbidden to acknowledge the reality of our history. People must be forced to live a lie, and since people are naturally reluctant to live a lie, they naturally use their ears and eyes to look out and say, “Wait a minute. This isn’t true. I can see it isn’t true,” the power of the state must be put behind the demand to live a lie. That is why ideology invariably creates a totalitarian state.
Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness, like economic Marxism, has a single factor explanation of history. Economic Marxism says that all of history is determined by ownership of means of production. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, says that all history is determined by power, by which groups defined in terms of race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups. Nothing else matters. All literature, indeed, is about that. Everything in the past is about that one thing.
Third, just as in classical economic Marxism certain groups, i.e. workers and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness certain groups are good – feminist women, (only feminist women, non-feminist women are deemed not to exist) blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups are determined to be “victims,” and therefore automatically good regardless of what any of them do. Similarly, white males are determined automatically to be evil, thereby becoming the equivalent of the bourgeoisie in economic Marxism.
Fourth, both economic and cultural Marxism rely on expropriation. When the classical Marxists, the communists, took over a country like Russia, they expropriated the bourgeoisie, they took away their property. Similarly, when the cultural Marxists take over a university campus, they expropriate through things like quotas for admissions. When a white student with superior qualifications is denied admittance to a college in favor of a black or Hispanic who isn’t as well qualified, the white student is expropriated. And indeed, affirmative action, in our whole society today, is a system of expropriation. White owned companies don’t get a contract because the contract is reserved for a company owned by, say, Hispanics or women. So expropriation is a principle tool for both forms of Marxism.
And finally, both have a method of analysis that automatically gives the answers they want. For the classical Marxist, it’s Marxist economics. For the cultural Marxist, it’s deconstruction. Deconstruction essentially takes any text, removes all meaning from it and re-inserts any meaning desired. So we find, for example, that all of Shakespeare is about the suppression of women, or the Bible is really about race and gender. All of these texts simply become grist for the mill, which proves that “all history is about which groups have power over which other groups.” So the parallels are very evident between the classical Marxism that we’re familiar with in the old Soviet Union and the cultural Marxism that we see today as Political Correctness.
Great line!
And I agree with you - each person who speaks out against the propagation of evil makes an impact, if only pour encourager les autres. We can all be Breitbart, if we just steel ourselves!