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Another Analysis: Leftist War of Religion

Attributed to Over the Transom: A compilation of the Obvious.

”The left could care less about this issue (Confederate statuary), as they could care less about any of their issues. “The issue is never the issue, the issue is always revolution”. This is why they got gay marriage, then just moved on to Trans rights while shrugging off 50 gays getting killed in Orlando. When the transgender fight is over it’ll be pedo rights or whatever.

… Very soon there will be a push to get rid of the entire American Revolution and all of the founding fathers. Jefferson will be first, but Washington won’t be far behind.

Overriding all of this is the push to declare all of conservatism illegal. All religions not part of the cult of leftism are hate speech. Any support of the USA as a country is hateful, bigoted and evil. You supporting your own existence or political power is racism, nationalism and white supremacy.

The left has no limits. It’s vital to understand that. No battle they pick is over the stated issue. Each is merely a step towards the goal of eradicating Western Civilization. They’ve set up a self reinforcing system of rewards, whereby SJWs out bid each other to come up with new ways to be offended. Thus it’s become an ever more radical movement. It’s not about the monuments. Of course glorifying slavery is bad. But should we not then tear down the Pyramids? Trust me, there is NO vestige of Western Civilization that could not be destroyed on the same premise. Every Castle in Europe occupied by a despot, every Church, every document, every classic of literature, etc. In world where a few degrees of separation join all things, guilt by association can be used to criticize anything, because its all a degree or two away from something that can be demonized. Look what’s happening to Football; to the definition of family and gender, to every holiday. Anything can be destroyed if the standard is that it’s related to something bad. Guess what that includes? Everything. SJWs in South Africa are going after Isaac Newton and Gravity as “western colonial science”. Get it? Nothing is off limits. No. Single. Thing.

This is about enshrining the left as The One True Religion. They will replace everything with their own cultish iconography. They will likewise replace all ideas with their own. The fight over the Google memo is identical to this fight. It’s about declaring all things non-leftist outside the scope of even debate. This is not about the confederacy. That’s yet another in a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long list of fronts. It’s about the existence of anything outside of leftism. It’s about eliminating debate and installing a global Religion of Leftism. And make no mistake, that religion plans on replacing monuments, books, science and facts, liberty, the white population, the concept of natural rights, the rule of law, free speech, Christianity, the USA, Europe and all of Western Civilization. In fact, if you defend any of those things, you are a Nationalist, a white supremacist and a bigot. You must go. You must be replaced.

Many many a totalitarian ideology goes under the banner, “Join or Die”. This is no different. And the left has done this before, many times. Pol Pot, The French Revolution, Mao, Lenin. The push to erase history and start over as a means of revolution is not new by any means. And if you think they have some limit, look to these past revolutions to see that they just don’t. The ideology is self-reinforcing towards runaway radicalism. The only thing that stops it is pushback prior to their take over or burnout after it takes over and fails. It has no internal limits.

So while I agree with the Rabbi and have zero interest in defending Nazis or the Confederacy, I know that this has almost nothing to do with those things to the left. Those just create convenient foils. The left is filled with strawmen – they paint all of us as Nazi, bigoted, white male oppressors. Finding the occasional real life one is great for the left and they will use it to pretend all their other strawmen are likewise real. Understand that Marxism does not study policy and governance the way that conservatives and libertarians do. They study propaganda, power and revolutions. They are masters of it. Which is why repeated failure at governance never deters the next revolution.

Neither Atheism nor Consequentialism is self-limiting: they are self-aggrandizing and self-anointed Moralizing, Elitist support for individual and group self-righteousness. I.e., deeply religious for the intellectually and morally anarchist.

Pre-Frontal Attack?

After WWI, the French built a very long series of fortified bunkers and mounds near the German border in response to the trench warfare that had been so devastating. They had created what was the essence of a huge trench defense which was hundreds of miles long. This major defensive structure was called the Maginot Line, and it was expected to protect France from German invasion.

The Germans did invade, in what became WWII. But they did not attack this French structure head-on. The Germans came at the defenses from the side, starting from near Belgium, and wiped out the Maginot line easily.

Today the culture-driving entities are entrenched. Universities, government, education and much of "big" business are completely controlled by the communist dogs of the Left. There is free speech only for Leftists in the universities, more intrusive regulation from the government, more maleducation from the government-driven education establishment, and Leftist billionaire psychos who got filthy rich from a single program who now control social media and on-line speech with Leftist exclusionary codes. There is tolerance only for themselves; free speech only for themselves; inclusion based on skin color and exclusion based on ideology. Their behavior is totalitarian while pleading anti-fascism (the biggest indicator of ignorance and inverted mentalities of those who think only with their "feelz", and get their information from CNN/NPR). The Leftist path to destruction of all which they hate is well underway.

But those elitist class structures are all vulnerable, like the Maginot Line, from the side.

A great example is the Leftist University of Missouri, which has decreased enrollment in the double digits, and significantly decreased funding from alumni. The government is being re-built from the top-down. Education, at least public education, will likely be rebuilt both top-down and by self-strangulation. Entire Leftist cities will fall further into financial calamity; several have already lost their ability to borrow due to their leftist-drive to use other people's money on Leftist promises which cannot self-sustain. There are now alternative choices for internet structures, such as duckduckgo for honest search, and infogalactic for honest encyclopedic information.

The one aspect of the Leftist hegemony that will not (easily) be defeated is the mind-set in the individual Leftist: the Leftist cannot release the arrogance, the self-derived superiority and deeply held elitist self-image. People who depend on their class to give themselves "meaning" will not have the ability to release their self-indulgence in the face of becoming average, ordinary humans: members of the wrong class. It will require either massive help for these narcissists, or force to deny them power over others.

Until the Left gives up (or is forceably restrained from) Class War and its status as "saviors", "messiahs" of their perpetually designated Victimhood Classes (usually also themselves), there will be no peace.

So the real question is just this: what must be done to regain a sane society, one which is inhabited by those who leave each other alone, except to help when asked?

Pew Poll: Atheists Love Hillary

Atheists all-in on Hillary for president

Evangelicals Rally to Trump, Religious ‘Nones’ Back Clinton

"A Pew Research poll shows that atheists support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by nearly a 3-to-1 margin (67 percent to 23 percent)."

Hillary fits the Atheist moral VOID perfectly.

Major Secular Group Grades Clinton an 'A,' Trump an 'F,' on Issues Atheists Care About

"Donald Trump's flunking grade should serve as a wake up call to his campaign about the political peril of pandering to the religious right. This divisive rhetoric no longer resonates with an American electorate that increasingly accepts science, embraces religious pluralism, and values the separation of church and state."

Pandering to the Atheist Left and total subjective amorality a la Clinton is far preferable, of course, to anyone adhering to an actual, objective moral code. The Atheist VOID destroys all reasoning, including not just moral reasoning but also all vestiges of rationality through Aristotelian deductive objective logic. The rise of the Atheist VOIDists just might be akin to the zombie apocalypse.

Excerpts From Horowitz's "Progressives"

David Horowitz was a "radical leftist" in his early years. He renounced leftism, and has devoted his life to revealing the underlying principles of leftism. The following are quotes taken from a review by Paul Hollander of Horowitz's second book, "Progressives".

"[T]he community of the left is a community of meaning, and is bound by ties that are fundamentally religious. For the non-religious, politics is the art of managing the possible. For the left, it is the path to social and personal redemption…For the left, politics is ultimately not about practical options on which reasonable people may reasonably differ. It is about moral choices that define us as human. It is about taking sides in a war that will decide the future of mankind… "[159]

Horowitz correctly observes that,

"Our century was a stage for the destructive drama of a secular religious faith called socialism, inspired by dreams of a social redemption that would be achieved by human agency, through the force of politics and the state." [189]
[Emphasis added]

The specific reason that AtheoLeftists cannot be persuaded by logic, by empirical data regarding the hundreds of millions callously killed by Leftism, or by the obvious failures of every socialist state to provide for its people, is that Leftism is a religion, fervently believed despite all evidence to the contrary. Today's evidence is Venezuela; ignoring that evidence are the millions of "free stuff" Bernie Sanders Leftists. It will never stop; it never has. The war will proceed forever and must always be fought, at every level - from local SJWs to Congressional, Supreme Court and bureaucratic proto-dictators. It is a perpetual civil war and no one is exempt.

There is only one question: what tactics are required in order to prevail.

Professor Bainbridge on Trump, Atheism and the Elites

Donald Trump is the beta test of a cure for The Revolt of the Elites

"Like most of us, I suppose, I've been thinking a lot about Donald Trump's rise to being the front runner for the GOP nomination. Watching the primary season has called to mind one of the best books on American politics and culture I've ever read: The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. If you want to understand what's going on in our politics and the rise of Trump (and, to some extent, Bernie Sanders), it is a book you need to read.

Lasch powerfully and persuasively contends that that the values and attitudes of professional and managerial elites and those of the working classes have dramatically diverged. Although the claim is controverted, many of us on the right (especially social conservatives) agree with the quasi-populist/communitarian notion that democracy works best when all members of society can participate in a world of upward mobility and of achievable status. In such a world, members of society will perceive themselves as belonging to the same team and care about ensuring that that team succeeds. But how can society achieve this sort of mutual interdependence if its members are not part of a community of shared values?

The core problem is thus the revolt of the elites against the values of the wider community: "[T]he new elites, the professional classes in particular, regard the masses with mingled scorn and apprehension." For too many of these elites, the values of "Middle America" - a/k/a "fly-over country" - are mindless patriotism, religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, and retrograde views of women. "Middle Americans, as they appear to the makers of educated opinion, are hopelessly shabby, unfashionable, and provincial, ill informed about changes in taste or intellectual trends, addicted to trashy novels of romance and adventure, and stupefied by prolonged exposure to television. They are at once absurd and vaguely menacing." (28)

The tension between elite and non-elite attitudes is most pronounced with respect to religious belief. While our society admittedly is increasingly pluralistic, "the democratic reality, even, if you will, the raw demographic reality," as Father Neuhaus has observed, "is that most Americans derive their values and visions from the biblical tradition." Yet, Lasch points out, elite attitudes towards religion are increasingly hostile: "A skeptical, iconoclastic state of mind is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the knowledge classes. ... The elites' attitude to religion ranges from indifference to active hostility."

Read it all, THERE.

While it is obvious that it is possible to be an Atheist and NOT be a Leftist-totalitarian, the opposite is much more common. And the inverse - being a Leftist who is NOT an Atheist, regardless of claims to the contrary, is a vanishingly small population. The obvious reason is that of the three Abrahamic religions, only Islam is totalitarian. But Islam hates Atheists, and hence Leftists, with great vigor in the Islamic texts. So, it is not that common for Islamists, Christians and non-secular Jews to be Morally elitist-Leftist-utopian-totalitarian in the same sense that the Atheist Leftists are. It is obvious in the European immigration crisis that the Islamist flood is using the Leftist Islamophile ideologues against themselves.

It's the old snake carrying the mouse across the river story: as the "friendly" snake eats the mouse in the process, the snake says, "You knew I was a snake from the beginning; why are you surprised?"

That Lasch book which the professor mentioned, and another Lasch book, are both in the mail.

The "Friendly Atheist" Tells Us Why Most Atheists Are Democrats

Democrats don't have to reach out to Atheists; they already have their votes.

A War Thought Won Heats Up Again

Perhaps after the Hobby Lobby win in the US Supreme Court, you thought that religious freedom was a legally recognized part of the American's rights under the First Amendment. Guess again:

Circuit Courts Strike Blows Against Religious Liberty

"On Tuesday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Notre Dame could not reject healthcare coverage of contraception under the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. In fact, the court went further, ruling that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) could not shield Notre Dame because contraceptive use was a “compelling state interest” overcoming the burden placed on religious Americans."

In other words, things sexual are now more important to the court than religious convictions.

"Meanwhile, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied an appeal from Priests for Life and other Catholic educational institutions a rehearing on a similar case. The religious groups said that by being forced to sign an exemption, and therefore causing the government to provide contraceptive coverage, their religious liberty had been violated. Like the Seventh Circuit, the DC Circuit rejected that argument, arguing, “In the case of women who get their insurance coverage through an accommodated employer, the law requires insurers to offer the women contraception under a separate plan–completely segregated from the objecting employer’s plan and its payments.”"

So neither a law, such as RFRA, nor the Constitution itself can protect the religious from another law - Obamacare. Thus Obamacare supercedes both law and constitutional rights defining religious protection. But it's worse than that: it is federal judges who control the rights of American citizens. And the federal judges are corrupt:

"In other words, federal judges trump religious beliefs, which cuts against the entire purpose of the RFRA and the First Amendment. The dissent concluded, “Make no mistake: the harm Plaintiffs complain of–and the harm this Court therefore is called to assess–is from their inability to conform their own actions and inactions to their religious beliefs without facing massive penalties from the government.”"

The courts are completely corrupt, matching the Department of Justice and the entire Obama Administration as well as the entire Democrat Party which supports this denial of rights. This will end up in the US Supreme Court, obviously, and the legal/constitutional guarantee of religious liberty is again in peril.

The AtheoLeft is actually only a small part of the USA. But it has infiltrated the castles of power and is determined to destroy the Other. They won't stop... until they are stopped powerfully and with finality.

Oregon Bakers, Aaron and Melissa Klein, Guilty of Religious Expression

Dessert Storm: Oregon Bakers Found Guilty

"In the first of what will almost certainly be several rulings, the Kleins were found guilty of violating state law for politely declining an order for a same-sex “wedding” cake. As part of his 52-page order, Judge Alan McCullough claims that “requiring them to provide a wedding cake for Complainants does not constitute compelled speech.” Aaron Klein disagrees. “First Amendment, Constitution. Freedom of religion. I’m free to exercise my religion however I see fit. If I’m told to make a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage, I feel that I’m violating my beliefs. I don’t think I should have to do that.”"

Moral principle has no weight in a society which has neither morals nor principles. They are tolerant of everything except dissent due to actual moral expression of religious principles.

This sort of persecution by the homosexual bullies should be taken to the US Supreme Court. It should be decided once and for all whether America has religious freedom and rights, or whether the US Constitution is merely Leftist toilet paper.

In China, Communism Depends On Atheism

Without Atheism, Communism collapses:

China’s Communist Party Reaffirms Marxism, Maoism, Atheism

" This prohibition against religion has been a “consistently upheld principle” since Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, declared Zhou. “It’s impossible to have another choice besides the dialectical materialist worldview.”

Zhou warned that if CPC members were allowed to have beliefs in various religions, the Party “would become a loosely bound group that can be broken down due to individual gain.” Consequently, he wrote, members must have “a united worldview.”

Zhou noted: "Without the foundation of the worldview, the mansion of the Party's ideologies, theories and organizations will all collapse. We could no longer be called the 'Chinese Communist Party.'"

Faced with rampant corruption by top Communist Party officials and billionaire princelings who run many of China’s largest corporations, CPC leaders have been investigating and prosecuting some high-profile offenders and making examples of them (see here and here).

Some Communist Party critics have suggested that the spiritual values imparted by religion might help reduce the immorality and corruption that is now so widespread amongst the CPC leadership. Zhou avoided directly confronting the issue of rampant corruption among the CPC’s officials, but declared that “blaming atheism for moral decline is an old absurdity.”

“Whether the general moral level of Chinese improved or declined since the reform and opening up needs to be specifically analyzed,” he said, referring to the policies initiated by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping in 1978 that introduced elements of a “socialist market system.”

As we have reported recently, Chinese authorities have been accelerating their attacks on religious believers, imprisoning Christian leaders and demolishing churches, even though China’s top leaders continue to insist that the Communist regime allows complete religious freedom."
[emphasis added]

Note the rationalizations and lies which are necessary to maintain Atheism as the lynchpin supporting the deadly Leftist totalitarianism.

Atheist Criminal Gets Rich On California Taxpayers

California to Pay Atheist Parolee $1.95 Million

" The California government will pay $1.95 million to an atheist and former parolee who went back to prison after refusing to participate in a religiously tinged inpatient treatment program.

The Record Searchlight reports ( http://bit.ly/1o9NaPg ) Barry Hazle Jr. of Redding and his attorney announced the settlement Tuesday in San Francisco.

A federal court ruled last year that forced participation in a religious program had violated Hazle's constitutional rights.

The 46-year-old Hazle served a year in prison on a drug charge and after being released in 2007 was ordered to take part in a rehab program.

His parole agent arrested him on parole violation after he refused to participate in the program. After serving three more months, Hazle sued the state corrections department."

Can't make this stuff up.

Interesting

I received an inquiry this week from a blog called "Atheist Analysis", wanting to know if I would contribute to their site as one of their bloggers. They wanted a weekly article, promised full access to the blog site and back references to this site. I finally went over and took a look at their site. Wow.

Atheist Analysis is a dumping ground for Atheist hate speech, written in the most hateful and intolerant fashion possible. I can only imagine what they would have tried to do with me. Here's an example which I came across immediately, where "Jordan" explains global warming:

"The conservative U.S. Christian right-wing seem to have no care for conserving anything but their bank balance, if only they followed some of Jesus’ teaching, maybe we would be in a better place, yes I did just write that. Do you think the fictional character who hung out with whores and fed homeless would deny climate science? Don’t be so bloody stupid."

Ah yes. The uber-tolerant Leftist Atheist at work. And here is their mission statement:

...we desire to inspire the next generation of skeptics and freethinkers that will enact policies, laws, and help develop an atmosphere that promotes equality and the embetterment of life. As we grow we will stimulate conversation and help enlighten current and future generations of atheists, agnostics, humanists, feminists, critical thinkers, skeptics, LGTBQ Rights Supporters, and above all activists.

As for enlightening anybody, what they are actually doing is pure hate dumping. And in the process, oozing with self-presumed intellectual and moral superiority which they do not in any manner demonstrate.

Needless to actually say, I declined to be a part of their self-righteous, arrogant, yet juvenile party.

FFRF Slinks Away When Confronted Forcefully

Headline:

Militant Atheists Give up on Forcing IRS to Censor Sermons

"On Friday a federal judge in Wisconsin dismissed the Freedom from Religion Foundation's (FFRF) attempt to use the Internal Revenue Service as a weapon to censor houses of worship that preach on moral issues having political implications.

After almost two years of litigation, FFRF asked the court to dismiss its own lawsuit once the Becket Fund stepped in to defend the rights of a small Wisconsin church and its pastor. FFRF had relied on the so-called Johnson Amendment, a law that politicians use to restrict what some private groups can say about them, and which—by an accident of history—caught houses of worship in its web when it was passed 60 years ago.

"This lawsuit was a bad idea from the beginning. Who thinks the IRS should be deciding what a preacher says in a sermon?" said Daniel Blomberg, legal counsel for the Becket Fund. 

"Fortunately for the First Amendment, once FFRF encountered an actual opponent they—as Monty Python might say—gallantly chickened out. Today's win shuts down FFRF's first-of-its-kind attempt to make the tax man into a sermon-censorship board. Whatever people think about religion or politics, we all can agree that deciding what clergy say to their congregations should be a private religious decision, not one for bureaucrats or militant atheists."

FFRF filed the lawsuit in an attempt to force the IRS to enforce the ban, something the IRS has for decades been reluctant to do. The Becket Fund successfully intervened in the suit on behalf of Milwaukee-based Holy Cross Anglican Church and its vicar, Father Patrick Malone, a Benedictine abbot. The church argued that FFRF's suit must fail because enforcing the Johnson Amendment against its internal religious speech would violate federal constitutional and statutory law.

"The IRS has long threatened churches with speech restrictions but hasn't been willing to do much more for fear of losing in court. But FFRF's suit, which tried to force the IRS to make good on its threats, gave houses of worship a chance to fight back. Once FFRF realized its error, it packed up shop quickly," Blomberg said.

"It's remarkable to see the collusive way that FFRF and the IRS orchestrated getting out of this suit as fast as they could. From hiding documents to falsely promising to provide information, they did whatever they could to run away quickly," he added."

FFRF always picks on much smaller quarry to bully; many small entities cave in when confronted with an expensive lawsuit by the deep pockets of FFRF. When their victims do take them on in court, FFRF almost always loses (maybe always loses, as far as I know). They are bully/cowards who run away rather than lose another actual battle. I hope they are counter-sued for lawyer fees, harrassment and other expenses.

Hemant Mehta Tells Us What Atheist Values Are, and They Are NOT Republican

Hemant Mehta who self-appellates as the "Friendly Atheist", lets Atheists know how to vote, based on Atheist/Humanist principles. If you thought that Atheism is without any principles other than "not having any theist beliefs", Mehta will set you straight on that.



Mehta makes clear what I have said all along: Atheists trend heavily into the Leftist, messiahist, elitist ideology. Thanks for your support on that, Hemant!

But unfortuneately Hemant goes on to babble forth on the moral failures of Republicans, most of which are false claims but only false in reality; they are not false to AtheoLeftists. That's how Relativism works, right Hemant? Right.

How Absurd Can This Government Get?

Headline:

EXCLUSIVE: TSA Allowing Illegals to Fly Without Verifiable ID, Says Border Patrol Union

If this is not treason, then what is?

Religion vs. Model Trains

Megan McArdle, on the Hobby Lobby case:

"I think a few things are going on here. The first is that while the religious right views religion as a fundamental, and indeed essential, part of the human experience, the secular left views it as something more like a hobby, so for them it’s as if a major administrative rule was struck down because it unduly burdened model-train enthusiasts. That emotional disconnect makes it hard for the two sides to even debate; the emotional tenor quickly spirals into hysteria as one side says “Sacred!” and the other side says, essentially, “Seriously? Model trains?” That shows in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent, where it seems to me that she takes a very narrow view of what role religious groups play in the lives of believers and society as a whole.

The second, and probably more important, problem is that the long compromise worked out between the state and religious groups -- do what you want within very broad limits, but don’t expect the state to promote it -- is breaking down in the face of a shift in the way we view rights and the role of the government in public life.

To see what I mean, consider an argument I have now heard hundreds of times -- on Facebook, in my e-mail, in comment threads here and elsewhere: “Hobby Lobby’s owners have a right to their own religious views, but they don’t have a right to impose them on others.” As I wrote the day the decision came out, the statement itself is laudable, yet it rings strange when it’s applied to this particular circumstance. How is not buying you something equivalent to “imposing” on you?"

This is interesting, but it misses the Leftist point: As a Leftist, I demand that you do what I want you to do. Period. I, as a Leftist, am so far superior to you that what you think or want is inconsequential compared to what I think and want from you. You may be either a Victim or an Oppressor; that is your only choice. I will decide everything else.

An insight from Ravi Zacharias...

...which I will paraphrase considerably and add to as well:

Atheists want to have it both ways. In terms of existence they assert absolutely that there can be no exceptions to natural law; i.e. there can be no singularities which are "miracles". This is asserted to be absolutely the case, of course, despite the demurral of Hume and philosophers of science, including Quantum Mechanics physicists. Natural law is deterministic, and thus, so are we.

But in terms of ethics and morality, there are no longer any absolutes, no rules, no Atheist Moral Principles. And this is asserted to be absolutely true in the Atheist universe, despite the contrary assertion of natural absolutes which define the universe totally.

The purpose of both contradictory denials is specifically to enable the progression (by "progressives" of course) into contradictory and non-coherent paths by eliminating any deity or principles from the social and moral landscape. If there are no absolutes then there is no coherence issue; if there are absolutes, then they cohere. So coherence is not a consideration any more.

The consequence of this goes directly to releasing mankind, at least the elites, from personal responsibility as well as any overarching meaning. Aside from the obvious nihilist turn, this ultimately results in moral chaos and intellectual turpitude.

This chaos is no longer hypothetical nor is it based on observations of the Atheist calamities of the 20th century Europe, Russia, China, and Asia tyrannies. it is quite observable in the USA today (especially in government, education and mass media) and is known empirically in our own society which has experimented for 40 years with AtheoLeftist control of the minds of children who became maleducated; control of federal and some state governments (California's moral and governmental collapse is a poster-child); control of psychology and most of university professoriates; control of the national media and Hollywood.

The intellectually chaotic Atheist mind seeks only that which supports the fawning elitism which Atheists bestow upon themselves. This goes back at least to Comte who attempted to create a New Man society which was to be dominated by brilliant elites, intellectual engineers who would design society to fit their uber-rational divinations. The Other would be subject to the intellectualisms which floated down from the elitist overlords. This occurred in the 19th century, and Comte was influenced by Darwinian selection.

Darwinian selection is no longer the mantra of evolutionists, but it still is on the minds of those who think themselves to be evolved beyond the state of the Other, who they despise. Elitism, with all its perceived perquisites is the goal, and it is an emergence of the Nietzschean Will To Power. Elites, by their very nature, deserve power.

I'm ashamed that this happened on my watch, while I was minding my own business. We must take back what has been lost to the western moral null and the false Scientism; the task seems impossible at this point, and certainly it's impossible without considerable disruption to an ignorant, and self-involved populace. It is the nature of the disruption which remains to be... designed and implemented.

Obama's and the Left's War On Women

Obama and the Left are specifically ignoring an American's wife in Sudan, who will be flogged 100 times for being Christian. The Left constantly demonstrates its Atheism and anti-Christianity even though it cynically doesn't claim it, and it demonstrates its Leftist overt war on women by treating them like dirt while blaming it on every one else. The Democrat reduced pay scale for women vs pay for men plainly shows that. But this is one woman, arguably an American, definitely in danger of barbarian torture due to her religious conviction. And there is no concern, no outcry from the "empathetic Left". From the FRC:

"Yet while liberals drone on about the "war on women" and the President trades five terrorists for an Army deserter, this small family continues to hit brick wall after brick wall in their appeals for diplomatic help. The situation is even more desperate now, as some British papers report that the 27-year-old wife of American Daniel Wani could be flogged in days if her appeal is thrown out. The stomach-churning ordeal is getting plenty of coverage overseas, as locals describe what 100 lashes means.

A barbaric practice that leaves its victims screaming and pleading for their lives, a man with a whip begins swinging -- and female prisoners, who start off wearing clothes, soon watch the layers disintegrate, "leaving the women bare-backed as the whip 'takes skin' off." Daniel's brother Gabriel says the 100 lashes can kill, "while others hover 'in bad condition' until they are executed."

This is the fate of an innocent wife and mother, married to a U.S. citizen from New Hampshire. Still, the President, who has never needed a shot of positive PR more, sits on his hands -- refusing even to release a simple statement condemning the Sudanese government or to leverage its hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid. The President needs to find his voice for two American children who will die in a prison with an infant mortality rate of one per day.

The Left will not benefit by saving a Christian, and being purely Consequentialist utilitarians they care only about what benefits them immediately. Obama, who believes that with his voice he can change the world, speaks not a single word in her defense. Her crime is also a crime to the Left: she is Christian.

Headline of the Day

From the Herald:

Former MP says it is easier to be a Nazi or a Communist than a Christian thanks to militant atheism

"It is “very difficult” to be an active Christian in modern Britain, former government minister Ann Widdecombe, who lives in Dartmoor, has claimed.

The ex-MP blamed “quite militant secularism” and equality legislation for people feeling they could not express their faith.

She claimed that respect for people’s personal views meant people could have been a fascist in post-1945 Britain or a Communist during the Cold War but Christians now had started “suppressing the expression of conscience”.

Ms Widdecombe, who converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1993, said: “Christians now have quite a lot of problems, whether it’s that you can’t display even very discreet small symbols of your faith at work, that you can’t say ‘God bless you’, you can’t offer to pray for somebody, if it’s an even bigger stance on conscience that you’re taking, some of the equality laws can actually bring you to the attention of the police themselves.

“So I think it is a very difficult country now, unlike when I was growing up, in which to be a Christian, an active Christian at any rate.”

In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live’s Stephen Nolan, the Conservative former politician who lives on Dartmoor said a concern about “political correctness” meant people were reluctant to express their faith to others because “they think strong belief offends them”.

Christians also faced a “sort of atheism” that “wouldn’t once have been said”.

There used to be a view that “we’ve all got freedom of conscience, we’ve all got freedom of expression”, she said.

“In the 1950s when plenty of people had lost lives and limbs and loved ones to the Nazis, it was still possible to be a Nazi in this country.

“When we were engaged in the height of the Cold War, when there were all those weapons lined up on the borders of the Warsaw Pact countries pointing straight at us, you could still, in this country, proclaim yourself as a Communist, you could still stand for Parliament for that matter as a Communist.

“You wouldn’t get in but you could stand. You could sell the Morning Star on street corners.

“We have always respected, no matter how strongly we felt as a nation at the time, we’ve always respected the right of people to their own views and I do feel nowadays as a combination of political correctness and equality law and all the rest of it, we’ve started suppressing the expression of conscience.”

Of course they have; when the Left rules, only the opinions of the Left matter. All else is sedition.

Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens sub-titled his last book, "How Religion Poisons Everything". This astonishingly naive claim now has an official echo, from an Atheist tyrant and mass murder, Kim Jong Un.

From the Christian Post:

The North Korean government has been hitting back against international criticism by accusing the U.S. of rampant human rights abuses and claiming that Christian missionaries are responsible for human trafficking and even terrorism in its country.

"The significance of North Korea's comments cannot be overstated. North Korea is choosing to publicly blame Christian missionaries for its human rights problems and internal difficulties," said the Rev. Eric Foley of Seoul USA, a US/Korean NGO that operates a number of discipleship bases reaching North Koreans across Asia.

Foley's comments are in response to those made by So Se Pyong, North Korea's ambassador in a debate before the Council in Geneva, where he stated: "There are in the northeastern area of China so-called churches and priests exclusively engaged in hostile acts against the DPRK. They indoctrinate the illegal border crossers with anti-DPRK ideology and send them back to the DPRK with assignments of subversion, destruction, human trafficking and even terrorist acts."

The comments follow an official report released by Kim Jong Un's government last week, which called the U.S. a "living hell" where "elementary rights to existence are ruthlessly violated."

"Such poor human right records in the U.S. are an inevitable product of the ruling quarters' policy against humanity," the report continued.

"Its chief executive, Obama, indulges himself in luxury almost every day, squandering hundred millions of dollars on his foreign trip in disregard of his people's wretched life."