Reducing troth to physical sex is to reduce human sexual intercourse to animal copulation. Physical intercourse is a good gift of the Lord which ought to stay in the marriage-room of the creation. If sex in principle can be had with anyone—so-called free love—without exception elements of selfishness, exploitation and insecurity enter in.
James H. Olthus, Wycliffe Dictionary of Christian Ethics, Carl F.H. Henry editor, pg.408
Human beings are obviously unequal in numberless ways, including: health, opportunities, abilities, energy, moral character, and contribution to society. It is essential, therefore, in asserting the equality of all men to delineate the nature and the source of that equality. In Christian ethics the nature of equality is that all men are equally to be loved — not equally admired, or emulated, or praised; but equally loved.
Calvin D. Linton, Wycliffe Dictionary of Christian Ethics, Carl F.H. Henry editor, pg.213-214.
Marriage was ordained by God and it is clear in the Genesis account that woman was not create solely for the purpose of propagation of the race but for the outworking of man’s social relationship in companionship and love. …
The Bible clearly teaches that sexual union has purposes other than procreation. Indeed, Paul implies that frequent sexual intercourse in marriage is natural and indeed, advisable.
C. Everett Koop, Birth control and the Christian: A Protestant Symposium on the Control of Human Reproduction; cited in Wycliffe Dictionary of Christian Ethics, Carl F.H. Henry editor, pg.137.
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child—miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
P.J. O’Rourke.
Where does the U.S. Government spend some of the budget? A few years back, it gave an $856,000 grant to scientists to study how three captive mountain lions would perform on a treadmill. It took eight months before the animals were even "comfortable on the treadmill," followed by more research to determine that mountain lions "do not have the aerobic capacity for sustained high-energy activity."
You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don’t. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
Charlton Heston
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened ─ but no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
C. S. Lewis
The fashion industry caters to pride, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, not purity and holiness. Its purpose is not covering the body; but sensually packaging or uncovering it. The world does not deny this; why then do so many modern Christians.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.65
It is often stated that the U.S. government is always prepared to fight the last war. In fact, our preparedness is worse than that. We are not prepared to fight even the last war. The U.S. government is prepared to fight only a World War II-style conflict.
Colonel Gerald Schumacher, Army Special Forces (Retired), A Bloody Business: America’s War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq, pg.26
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
Heinrich Heine, born 1797
Being drawn to a person’s God-given beauty is one thing; having one’s eyes directed to another’s body by a sensually designed garment is another. While clothing does not have to smother one’s gender, any apparel designed to draw the eye to the erotic zones of the body cannot fill the requirements for Biblical decency.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.65
When we expose ourselves to one another in garments designed for sexual attraction, are we honestly preserving chastity in body, mind, and affections in ourselves and other? Are we avoiding provocations to sin? Does this really qualify as watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses?
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.60
The fashion industry does not believe that the principle purpose of clothing is to cover the body; it believes that the principle purpose of clothing is sexual attraction. This is the very opposite of Christian modesty.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.53
To believe that a garment designed to eroticize various parts of the body is a thing indifferent manifests the dichotomy of thought…. Here’s what the dichotomy produces: men and women who would never dream of walking out the front door in their undergarments will parade their newly naked bodies publicly in swimwear.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.47
Like the Democratic Party historically, the left is racist. And it is so in precisely the way the word was always used — the Left believes in black inferiority. That is why leftists advocate lowering standards for blacks. That is why they advocate policies that always result in more blacks dying at the hands of other blacks. That is why they believe the state must take care of blacks more than any other group. That is why left-wing policies, from the Great Society to today, have destroyed so much of black life, especially its family life — and they don’t care.
Dennis Prager, A Brief Guide to Leftist Destruction.
Clearly the purpose underlying swimwear design was exposing human anatomy in a more sensual package. This could not be successfully achieved on the streets of the city. But in the name of recreation and especially sports, an amazing dichotomy of thought began to permeate our society. At the turn of the century, what was naked and lewd in the city was suddenly perfectly justifiable at the beach.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.41
Fashion designers did not view swimwear as simply functional garments with a specific use like overalls. They envisioned their creations as highly fashionable garments, and therefore designed them both to reveal and arouse. What they clearly understood is that this new aquatic garment was merely a symbol of dress. This is why swimwear ultimately evolved into a form of nakedness thinly disguised as dress.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.38
In place of real democracy American totalitarians in the Democrat party and the technocratic elite in the Republican party want a managed society headed by bureaucrats and a bureaucracy whose universal vision of societal governance and order is disseminated to the local apparatuses of the government writ small: school boards, universities, businesses, etc. Hence the strong-arm tactics to get local municipalities, businesses, and schools across the country to comply with new federal and state government dictates. Any holdouts will be penalized into conformity. So much for democracy.
Paul Krause, Destroying Democracy by ‘Saving Democracy’
Some forms of public nakedness are shameful and/or explicit sinful since the Fall of Adam. Exposing the male or female body, which should be covered, is out of harmony with the Biblical model. Moreover, since exposing the privates is shameful, it seems obvious that clothing which emphasizes or purposely draws attention to these areas of the body is likewise shameful and immodest. And modern swimwear is the epitome of these things—by design.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg.34
…led me to examine modesty in general and then swimwear in particular. Why swimwear? Because Scriptural evidence convinced me that modern swimwear is immodest nakedness; and historical evidence convinced me that was designed to be so. After a good bit of research I discovered that the fashion industry employed swimwear to change public opinion about modesty. In other words, fashion designers used swimwear to undress America. And this is diametrically opposed to Christian modesty.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg. 18
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie
In past centuries, Christian peoples were often noted for their modesty, and heathen peoples for their immodesty. Today, the line between the professing Christian and the savage tribesman has become increasingly blurred, as more and more “Christian” people resort not only to the pagan practices of scarification, tattoos and body mutilation, but have thrown off the “restraints’ of modest dress in favor of the trendy and physically revealing. The result is that modern America has been publicly undressed. What is worse, Americans have come to think of nakedness as normal and acceptable, even preferable.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg. 13
Cultures that worship nature and treasure sensuality tend to dress immodestly. Those which make an idolatry out of material possessions, often fall prey to a foppish enslavement to high fashion. On the other hand, cultures which embrace true Christian piety will seek to make personal holiness the driving standard for their dress codes. They will develop clothing which emphasizes biblical principles like distinction, functionality and modesty. In short, dress is not neutral.
Jeff Pollard, Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America, pg. 11
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire
Though defensive violence will always be a sad necessity in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
Augustine of Hippo (commonly known as Saint Augustine)
Atheism is an appealing, consoling delusion which includes the delusion of absolute autonomy, the delusion of lack of ultimate accountability, the consoling delusion of subjective meaning in an objectively meaningless existence, and the delusion of being more erudite than thou. (Atheists are the smartest, they are “right” and everyone else is ‘wrong.”)
Mariano Grinbank, "The New (Emergent) Atheists," M.C.O.I. Journal, Vol.15/No.1, Winter/Spring 2009.
Education, the great mumbo-jumbo and fraud of the ages, purports to equip us to live, and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility. For the most part, it only serves to enlarge stupidity, inflate conceit, enhance credulity and put those subjected to it at the mercy of brainwashers with printing presses, radio and television at their disposal.
Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered, pg.11
So why all the fear of climate change spreading throughout the world’s religions? One cause is the disappearance of old-fashioned investigative journalism that keeps the public scientifically naïve. Scary headlines sell. Another cause is the globalist ideology that increasingly dominates climate science leadership. One prominent authority wrote: “The function of climate change [science] … really is not about stopping climate chaos. Instead, we need to see how we can use the idea of climate change … to rethink how we take forward our political, social, economic and personal projects over the decades to come.”
Charles Clough, “Religions Spread Fear of Climate Change—For No Good Reason.”
America is fast mutating from a republic, in which individual liberty is paramount, into an oligarchy, in which conformity is increasingly demanded and enforced.
Roger Kimball, The January 6 Insurrection Hoax, Imprimis, September 2001
Research confirms that homosexuals molest children at a rate much higher than heterosexuals, and the mainstream homosexual culture commonly promotes sex with children. Homosexual leaders repeatedly argue for the freedom to engage in consensual sex with children, and blind surveys reveal a shockingly high number of homosexuals admit contact with minors. Indeed, the homosexual community is driving the world-wide campaign to lower the legal age of consent.
Steve Baldwin, "Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement," Whistleblower, Vol.11/No.7 (July 7, 2002), pg.5
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
Herbert Hoover
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
If your cause is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts.
John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
It is in the man of piety and inward principle that we may expect to find the uncorrupted patriot, the useful citizen, and the invincible soldier.
John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Duty fulfilled brings its own rewards. Expressions of appreciation and gratitude from people served are refreshing and encouraging. But the popularity of soldiers passes quickly when peril passes.
Paul B. Long, Citizen Soldiers of World War II, pg.158
In a society where philosophers and “ethicists” decide what is right or wrong, anything is possible. Their intellect will justify robbery, murder, and adultery, albeit under different names and definitions. No matter how refined such people appear, they can never be trusted. No matter how refined such a society appears, it is capable of the greatest evils.
There is only one force that can be trusted to steer a person away from sin: fear of God. Those who are guided by fear of God, who know that God is watching them at all times and knows their innermost thoughts, will not easily fall prey to sin. They will not find it easy to rationalize evil. They may succumb to their temptations at times, but fear of God is the ultimate emergency brake. Those who lack fear of God have no boundaries. If they cannot cross a red line they will simply redefine it as green.
It is no coincidence that the greatest evils are once again being perpetrated by those who are educated, intellectual, sophisticated, and genteel. They speak in highfalutin terms about saving the planet and all those who roam it, though they will need to eliminate many of the latter (themselves excluded) for the sake of the rest. You go first.
Chananya Weissman, “Vax-crazed elites aren’t that different from the depraved inhabitants of the Biblical city of Sodom”
It is easier to fight for freedom than to preserve it, and the children of World War II vets passed judgment on their fathers during the 1960s and 1970s.
Somehow I feel my generation is responsible for the children of the lost decades who rejected most of the values and liberties we fought for and many died to preserve. Blood-bought freedoms are seldom cherished by those who have not suffered or fought to preserve them.
Paul B. Long, Citizen Soldiers of World War II, pg.155
Getting back to the southern border, it perfectly symbolizes the bifurcation of our society. We’re told there’s a health emergency. We’re told we can’t open our businesses or attend weddings or funerals. Yet at the same time, every day, thousands of people pour across the southern border, test positive for COVID, and are then driven to a nice hotel and put up there at taxpayers’ expense.
Mark Steyn, Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.
Margaret Thatcher
Humanity sees abortion as an advancement of women’s rights, but in actuality, it ultimately leads to the devaluation of both women and human life by eliminating the true philosophical foundation of where our equality comes from Scripture, specifically, the Trinity. While men, women, and children may not be positionally equal they are by nature equal. Just as the Father occupies a greater position than the Son, and the Father and Son occupy a greater position than the Holy Spirit, they possess the same nature and are co-equal, co-eternal and co-powerful by nature. Humanity’s attempt at creating an egalitarian society – as now defined by progressives – will only lead to tyranny. Again, if our rights and laws are not determined by God they will be arbitrarily determined by man.
Stephanie A. Potts, “How Do We Enslave Ourselves to the Law?”
School districts in America are talking about revising their curricula to cover transgender issues from grade school on. Now, I went to an English boys’ school, and we were expected to pick up sexuality on our own time. In those days people would have looked puzzled if you had said, “We’re going to have to cancel geography or Latin, because we need to put gay studies in there.” These days, instead of going off behind the bike shed during recess to learn about sex, kids need to sneak behind the bike shed to do a little bit of closeted geography or closeted Latin. It’s completely backwards. And yet what do we hear from most conservative politicians? That it would be nice to offer people a tax cut!
Mark Steyn, Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization
The Nazis decreed theories and creative works off limits because they believed that ideas could not be separated from the race of their creators. Critical race activists agree that theories and works carry the race of their creators in their intellectual DNA. The Nazis banned some works over ‘Jewishness’ while critical race theory activists seek to ban them over their ‘whiteness’.
Daniel Greenfield, How Civil Rights Made America A Critical Race Theocracy.
Critical race theory’s defenders insist that it’s an academic movement, that its proponents are experts, and that it just wants to discuss its ideas, but it operates like a theocracy, silencing and suppressing opponents, critics, and even insufficiently radical supporters. Its entire rationale is built on denying that anyone can legitimately disagree with it or that debate is even possible. A movement that dismisses reason and objectivity as forms of oppressive whiteness has no interest in dialogue, only in terrorizing its way to power as racial nationalists seek to do.
Daniel Greenfield, How Civil Rights Made America A Critical Race Theocracy.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover
Socialism rewards laziness, stifles competition, and restricts individual liberties. Under socialism, the corruption remains largely unchecked because it is more difficult to discover and uproot; it is next to impossible to prosecute. The bureaucrats who dictate where the money goes are the ones who make the laws and reward themselves. No wonder even the poor under capitalism fare much better than most of the poor in socialist countries.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg. 200
It is dangerous to place our lambs in public schools if they are being indoctrinated into pagan sexuality, the normalcy of deviant behavior, and the mockery of God’s intention for men and women.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.170
The cellphone in a teenager’s hand is doing more to shape their worldview that one hour of Sunday school or the admonition of parents. We are failing to pass our faith on to the next generation because they are captives to the culture, social media, their peers, and the indoctrination by the public schools. Parents clothe their children, feed them, and send them to school, but the hearts of their kids are being stolen and molded by a world that many of us don’t understand.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.156
In Eden, the devil sold slavery to Adam and Eve, but called it independence; he sold them wisdom, but it turned out to be mental darkness; he put forth a beautiful vision of who they could become, but his offer was sweetly poisoned. He promised them fulfillment and gave them guilt. He appealed to their pride and gave them despair and an empty life. He promised like a god but paid them like the devil he was.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.144
Clearly, the radical left despises liberty. The possibility that they might hear something that is offensive or that does not conform to their cherished beliefs makes them retreat into “safe spaces” where they can deal with what they view as their marginalization and unappreciated victimhood. They long for an echo chamber where they hear only the sound of their own voices and grievances.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.120
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton
If a person is being held down by a problem that can only be fixed by taking responsibility, it is time for that person to stop blaming others for the problem.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.94
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.
Herbert Hoover
CRT teaches that a person’s identity cannot be separated from the group to which they belong. If you are born white, you are labeled an oppressor regardless of your character or personal attitude; individuality is lot within the group you belong to. And if you are born white and you choose to defend yourself against the charge of racism, this only proves that indeed you are racist! Wealthy black Americans are not considered persons of privilege, but a white person born into abject poverty is considered a person of privilege. There is no room for individuality, kindness, forgiveness, or meaningful reconciliation.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.85
Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
Herbert Hoover
In the world of political correctness, arguments are resolved by social force and shaming, not by discussion, evaluating evidence, or civility.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.84
The single best thing Americans can do to counter the left-wing attack on America — against its freedoms, its schools, its families, its children, its governmental institutions, its sports, its news and entertainment media, its medical establishment, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department and the military — is to take their children out of America’s schools.
Other than in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), the vast majority of America’s elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities teach your child or grandchild almost nothing important; prematurely sexualize them, thereby robbing them of their innocence; and harm them intellectually and morally. They rarely teach them, for example, art or music because they are too busy teaching them race-centered hatred of whites, of America and of America’s values. Sending your child(ren) to most American schools is playing Russian roulette with their values — but unlike the gun in Russian roulette, which has a bullet in only one of its six chambers, the schools’ guns hold four or five bullets.
In many elementary schools, your child is taught that gender is chosen and that there is no difference between boys and girls (in a growing number of schools, the teachers are told not to call their students “boys and girls”); they are taught about masturbation; and many children from first grade on attend “Drag Queen Story Hour,” wherein an obvious man wearing women’s clothing, garish makeup and a wig entertains them.
Given that all this is well-known, why do any nonleft — meaning, liberal or conservative — parents send their children to an American school? ….
The single best thing Americans can do to fight the left-wing destruction of the country is to withdraw from the “educational” system that is actively, deliberately miseducating them by the tens of millions. If millions of American parents did so, the country would turn around as fast as you could say “teachers unions.” If they don’t, their children will continue being used as guinea pigs in the left’s sick and dystopian experiment.
Dennis Prager, The Single Best Thing Americans Can Do to Retake America
In CRT, people are classified by groups with little or no distinction between individuals. If one group underachieves, it’s the fault of the achievers; if one group is poor, it’s the fault of the wealthy. Remember, the goal is not to foster unity or common ground but to assign blame and ensure people will be put into categories so that tensions between the groups will be enflamed and maintained.
Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.80
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D.H. Lawrence, cited by Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.62
Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams, 1798, Cited by Erwin W. Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced, pg.61
