Quotations from conservative or Christian sources, speaking to the conditions of society, and countering the Left's phobia of Christian morality.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Saturday, February 25, 2023
The LEFTIST Desire to Destroy Marriage and Family
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 Kirk Kilpatrick, Psychological Seduction: The Failure of Modern Psychology, pg.127
Monday, February 20, 2023
Self-Actualizing?
You will find very few people who can pursue self-actualization without devaluing other selves. One of the marks of the man who concentrates on himself is a withdrawal of interest in other people and objects. Finally he comes to view outside concerns as interesting only insofar as they serve his own self-realization. They become merely means to an end. Tools. Throw-aways. This kind of attitude, of course, actually tends to subvert one’s chances for actualization. The self does tend to become more interesting as the world becomes less interesting, only more demanding and restless. Before long, the man who started off pursuing self finds it such a burden that he will make any kind of desperate attempt to get rid of it. He turns to drugs or alcohol, or to some other anesthetic.
William Kirk Kilpatrick, Psychological Seduction: The Failure of Modern Psychology, pg.63.
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Think About It
"WHEN AN OLD MAN DIES, A LIBRARY BURNS TO THE GROUND."
Sent to me by a fellow believer.
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Dignity NEEDS Responsibility
Half of popular psychology is devoted to praising human dignity and the other half to excusing us from responsibility. But what kind of dignity is that? It’s no good to tell a man he’s fully human in one breath, and then with the next suggest he’s no more accountable than a vegetable. These contradictions in theory eventually do show up in practice. … The reluctance to convict, the backlog of court cases, and the increase in criminal behavior are due at least in part to the new notion that right and wrong are to be measured by psychological rather than legal and moral criteria, and to the equally dubious notion that judges and juries should play the role of therapists.
William Kirk Kilpatrick, Psychological Seduction: The Failure of Modern Psychology, pg.84
Sunday, February 12, 2023
What Would You Do?
Many in the United States assume something like the Holocaust could never happen here because our human nature is above all that. Well, think again. Throughout history, human nature has remained the same no matter where you live. Would your moral foundation enable you to give up your job, wealth, family, and life to oppose evil? Or would you succumb to silence by the immediate need for self-preservation?
Jeff Lukens, The Church Must Speak Out
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Sexual Liberation?
Then there is the obvious irony that the more liberated society becomes in regard to sex, the more obsessed it becomes with sexual bondage.
William Kirk Kilpatrick, Psychological Seduction: The Failure of Modern Psychology, pg.82
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
“Mental Illness” or Narcissism?
Extreme forms of mental illness are always extreme cases of self-absorption.
William Kirk Kilpatrick, Psychological Seduction: The Failure of Modern Psychology, pg.67
Friday, February 3, 2023
America--A Nation of Victims
America has become a nation of ‘victims’ and ‘survivors’. Everyone is getting over a ‘trauma’ or ‘processing’. They demand special privileges because of the suffering of their ancestors. They trot out studies which prove that they are somehow disadvantaged. They gorge on self-help books and deploy therapy terminology to accuse everyone else of mistreating them.
Our society has turned into a cross between a Marxist academic conference and therapy session where Marxist terminology like “systemic racism” and therapy talk like “gaslighting narcissist” form key parts of the grammar of perpetual victimhood.
Politics has been reduced to victimhood advocacy and we are worse off for it.
Daniel Greenfield, A Nation of Victims is Doomed to Fail.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
A Problem With Sex Education
And common sense observation tells us that the introduction of widespread public sex education has done nothing to check the increase of unwanted pregnancies, promiscuity, and venereal disease. There is evidence, rather, that such programs encourage premature sexuality with its attendant problems.
William Kirk Kilpatrick, Psychological Seduction: The Failure of Modern Psychology, pg.33