The Thought-Provoker
Quotations from conservative or Christian sources, speaking to the conditions of society, and countering the Left's phobia of Christian morality.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Liberty Needs Religion and Morality
Liberty considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Sounds Like Democrats!
The value of hatred is right and good in the Marxist ethical code as long as it is directed toward the property owners, the bourgeoisie. Hatred is needed to fuel the clash between proletariat and the bourgeoisie. To keep their followers in perpetual revolutionary mind-set, Marxist leaders, such as Mao Tse-tung, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, and Kim Jong-Eun, decades after their respective revolutions would down, dressed in military garb and peppered their speeches with revolutionary language. Marxism draws its inspiration from the hope of a more harmonious future but draws its energy from the rehearsal of grievances against the bourgeoisie.
Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.235-236
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Democrat Welfare Has Harmed Blacks
Reams of data have shown how the Johnson administration’s 1964 introduction of new welfare programs, many specifically designed to address black poverty, decimated marriage in the black community. While marriage rates have declined among all ethnicities, black families have been by far the hardest hit. Today, nearly half of black men and women have never married by age forty—the highest percentage of any ethnic group by a full 19 points. Because of that, almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers, and nearly 40 percent of women who get abortions are black, even though African Americans are only 12 percent of the population. Yet more than half of Americans who receive food assistance (SNAP), income supplements (TANF), and rental subsidies are black.
Megan Basham, Shepherds For Sale, pg.54
Friday, October 11, 2024
Rewarding Illegal Immigration?
If we incentivize illegal immigration by rewarding those who ignore our laws and fail to ensure that those to whom we grant citizenship understand and respect the founding ideals that made this nation great, the United States will soon look little different from the countries these immigrants are fleeing. We will no longer have anything good to share.
Megan Basham, Shepherds For Sale, pg.50
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
America’s Founding
Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom?
Thomas Jefferson, cited by Donald Jeffries, Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-up in American Politics, pg.351
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Diversity
Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of “diversity” that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen—written in blood—from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.335
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Apologizing for Slavery?
Among the most absurd apologies have been apologies for slavery by politicians. For one thing, slavery is not something you can apologize for, any more than you can apologize for murder. …
Slavery is too serious for an apology and somebody else being a slaveowner is not something for you to apologize for. When somebody who has never owned a slave apologizes for slavery to somebody who has never been a slave, then what began as mushy thinking has degenerated into theatrical absurdity—or, worse yet, politics.
Slavery has existed all over the planet for thousands of years, with black, white, yellow and other races being both slaves and enslavers. Does that mean that everybody ought to apologize to everybody else for what their ancestors did? Or are the only people who are supposed to feel guilty the ones who have money that others want to talk them out of?
Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.238
Monday, September 30, 2024
These Statements are FINAL
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
President Calvin Coolidge, on 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Elementary School Indoctrination
When we see children in elementary schools out carrying signs in demonstrations, we are seeing the kind of mindless groupthink that causes adults to sign petitions they don’t understand or—worse yet—follow leaders they don’t understand, whether to the White House, the Kremlin or Jonestown.
Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.236
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Orwellian Culture
Our society has come to adopt many of the draconian measures Orwell tried to warn us about. Cameras monitor citizens from nearly every street corner in the United Kingdom, and there are a steadily growing number of them mounted traffic lights in America. The fact that Orwell’s 1984 remains a part of the required reading in many high schools across the country is laughably ironic. What is truly sad is how many readers acknowledge the brilliant foresight of Orwell yet fail to grasp how closely present-day America (and England) resemble Winston Smith’s Oceania.
Donald Jeffries, Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-up in American Politics, pg.337