When Government Denies Guns to Citizens

When any nation mistrust its citizens with guns, it is sending a clear message.  It no longer trusts it citizen because such a government has evil plans.

George Washington

The Problem of the Welfare State

Grover Cleveland once asked, “If the government supports the people, who will support the government?”  His meaning was this:  The government is wholly dependent upon tax receipts (or occasionally other types of payments) for its revenues.  It is a nonsensical reversal of roles for the people to be dependent upon the government for their material well-being.  To put it yet another way, the government produces no goods; rather it consumes some portion of the goods taken from the people.  It can only play a larger role by increasing the portion that it takes and thus reducing the amount available to people generally.  Cleveland’s question still wants a satisfactory answer, but a welfare state has been established based upon the premise that government will provide for a vast assortment of material and other needs.

Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States, Volume 5: The Welfare State 1929-1985, pg.1

Good Education!

I find television to be very educational.  Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

Human Laws Best When Reflecting God’s Laws

Limited government and religious liberty are best served when human laws reflect the “laws of nature and of nature’s God,” as the Declaration of Independence puts it.  All men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with a right to life.  Mankind is created male and female, and marriage, by nature, is the union of a man and a woman.  Only by redefining these concepts according to desire rather than nature is it possible to concoct a “right to choose” that extends to the killing of an unborn child or and endlessly malleable concept of “marriage.”

Ryan T. Anderson, “Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom,” pg.199

"Casual Sex" is Immature and Selfish

Casual sex is fundamentally selfish and degrading. Both partners agree to use and be used by the other. The message they send to each other, quite explicitly, is this: “I’m using you for your body, which I value only as a masturbatory object. You are a sex toy with a brain, but I don’t care about your brain and would rather you not use it right now.” . . . 

In marriage, we give ourselves to the other, lifting them and ourselves up in the process. This is why sex ought to wait for marriage, because only after that lifelong oath has been sworn can we hope to use sex in a way that’s truly sacrificial and self-giving. Sex should be enjoyable, but it should also be an expression of love and devotion. If we take the love and devotion out of sex, we’ve turned it into an act of mutual objectification. And eventually, without the love and devotion, we won’t even have the enjoyment anymore.

Matt Walsh, “Millennials, ‘casual’ sex is not casual. It’s immature and selfish”

Men Are Responsible for Abortion

Men—all too frequently seeking to maximize their sexual pleasure at as little cost as possible—found the right to abortion extremely liberating for them; all they risked was having to pay a few hundred dollars to avoid the potential result of their behavior. Meanwhile, women were too often reduced to mere objects for the sexual gratification of their liberated male counterparts. . . .

Rather than liberating women, abortion has rendered women vulnerable to the sexual appetites of unscrupulous men who—freed of society’s expectation that they will care for the mothers of their children—use, abuse, and discard them in assembly-line fashion. 

Brian E. Fisher, “Abortion Widens the Gender Gap and Exploits Women”

No Rights If Not Self-Aware?

If self-awareness is necessary to confer rights upon individuals then rape would be legal provided that the woman was drugged beforehand. Ideas have consequences so think before you decide what makes people valuable.

Mike S. Adams

Tyranny in the Nursery

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education.  It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Benjamin Disraeli

H/T:  J.L. Pattison

Don’t Be A Coward

He who has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men’s opinions.

Daniel Defoe

Bad Logic

The soundest reasoning leads to the wrongest conclusions when the premises are false.

Vilhjahmur Stevansson

The USA is Rotting From Within

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Charles-Louis De Secondat 

H/T J.L. Pattison

An Illiterate Culture

We are a people now illiterate in a way that is unprecedented for the human race. We can decipher linguistic signs on a page, but we have no songs and immemorial stories in our hearts. The pagan Germanic warrior could not read, and where were the books for it anyway? But he had centuries of song in his mind, and he well knew of that specially gifted man, the scop, who could sing by heart many thousands of verses about the old heroes and their adventures, and could even compose new songs of his own: wordum wrixlan, weaving patterns of words that were as intricate as the vermiculate embellishments upon the hilt of a warrior’s sword.

Anthony Esolen, After Exile: Poetry and the Death of Culture

College "Education"

College education is less about the pursuit of truth and more about imparting a carefully guarded, often forcefully imposed narrative of economic socialism, political globalism, moral relativism, militant secularism, and personal meaning through hedonism.

Alex McFarland, “Higher Education: ‘A Four-Year Attack on America and God’”

Proper Education

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

Building on Sand

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.  There are lots of nice things you can do with sand: but do not try building a house on it.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, chapter 7

Tyranny

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want, merely because you think it would be good for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

We CAN Control Our Thoughts

Judeo-Christian principles insist that people have the ability to control not only their actions but even their thoughts.  And that, therefore, people are (and must be) accountable for their actions and thoughts. ...  While the modernist, particularly in the field of art, may consider unfettered and undisciplined thought to be just one step removed from genius, the Bible directs us to rein in our minds.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin, "America's Real War," pg.253

How Revolutionaries Play Victim

It is well to note in connection with the crackdown of revolutionaries of the appearance of a tactic that has often been used since by Communists, their sympathizers and fellow-travelers.  It is the device of taking attention away from Communist methods and violence by focusing attention on real or imagined wrongs done by those who oppose them.  To put it more bluntly, it is the device of turning revolutionaries into the victims and the prosecutors into aggressors.  This is accomplished by downplaying the purposes and methods of revolutionaries and focusing upon the allegedly unsavory tactics of those who act to contain and restrain them. Revolutionaries are portrayed as innocent advocates of unpopular ideas, beset by heavy-handed Yahoos. 

Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 4: The Growth of America 1878-1928, pg.224-225

And Yet They Still Believe It!

In biology, evolution is largely a mental construct built on imagination, because the time scale of animal evolution is immense relative to the time available to us for observations.  We cannot witness animal evolution, and this places the biology argument for evolution at a disadvantage.

Adrian Bejan

[Notice the admission that there is no science behind the religion of evolutionism.]

Talking With Liberals

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Thomas Sowell

Homosexual “Rights” Fight Not Comparable with Blacks’ Civil Rights Fight

Those who promote what they call marriage equality have unjustly appropriated the language and mantle of the black struggle in the United States, the civil rights movement.  But there can be no equivalence between blacks’ experience of slavery and oppression and the circumstances of homosexuals.

Jackie Rivers, Ph.D., Cited by Ryan T. Anderson, “Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom,” pg.186

How to Destroy the USA

America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.  If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.

Joseph Stalin

[The LEFTISTS/Liberals in the USA are following Stalin’s thoughts.]

The “Virtue” of Tolerance

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don’t believe anything.

G.K. Chesterton

When the Only Allegiance Allowed is to Government

The worst indecency of the totalitarian mind is that it wants to wipe out all special ties of emotion or allegiance such as might exist between husband and wife or parent and child.  These kinds of loyalties threaten the only allegiance considered important, the one owed to Big Brother.  It is in this atmosphere, of course, that children willingly denounce their parents to the secret police.

 William K. Kilpatrick, Psychological Seduction: The Failure of Modern Psychology, pg.127

Reverence for the Laws

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling-books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.  And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Abraham Lincoln, Address before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, IL, 27 January 1838

Be Careful of Even Little Decisions

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.  That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.  The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.  An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, chapter 9

A Root of the Collapse of the Family

The family ceases to be necessary.  It is not necessary to the state because domestic economy is no longer advantageous to the state, it needlessly distracts women workers from more useful productive labor.  It is not necessary to member of the family themselves because the other task of the family—the bringing up of children—is gradually taken over by society.

Alexander Kollontai, Bolshevik. cited by Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 4: The Growth of America 1878-1928, pg.219

[This ideology built into the Communist system in Russia spread to the “progressives” of the mid-to-late 20th century in the USA, leading to the collapse of the family in the 21st century]

Think About It

It is magnificently better to have a Jewish state that is hated by the whole world than an Auschwitz that’s loved by it.

Rabbi Meir Kahan