Sexual "Freedom" Doesn't Satisfy

If there was one thing the sexual revolution was supposed to deliver, it was lots of great sex. Yet it is failing to do so, in part because the casual sexual encounters it encourages are not conducive to satisfying sex. Hookups are a bad sexual teacher. They provide little opportunity or incentive to become a good lover, in large part because strangers don’t know how to please each other and aren’t going to stick around long enough to learn. And pornography is training people, especially young men, to be bad in bed.

Nathanael Blake, False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All

Sex and the LEFT

Sexual liberalism produces unhappiness because it is inimical to relationships and practices that offer us profound meaning and joy in life. Deep relationships require deep commitments, but sexual liberation requires that every romantic relationship (and therefore also every parental relationship) be severable. Thus, the sexual revolution doubly cheats its disciples. Not only does its ethos of pursuing immediate pleasure injure the commitment that is needed for lasting and fulfilling relationships, but it also provides far less sexual gratification than promised.

Nathanael Blake, False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All

Double Standards in Sympathy

Here’s the hard truth: The world has largely ignored the Jewish refugees because their story doesn’t fit the convenient narrative of Israel as the villain. This is especially glaring in the global context of World War II, when 30-40 million people were displaced or expelled across Europe and Asia. While the international community worked to resettle these refugees, it became obsessed with the Palestinian refugee issue.

Palestinian refugees were place in camps in Jordan Lebanon, and Syria and denied citizenship by Arab countries—a policy designed to keep the conflict alive. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees were welcomed and absorbed by Israel, where they rebuilt their lives and contributed to the nation’s success.

O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.56

Israel's Detractors

There is something grotesque about people living thousands of miles away, in safety and comfort, loftily second-guessing and trying to micro-manage what the Israelis are doing in a matter of life and death.

Thomas Sowell

We Have Reached This Point

Destruction of Family

In America today, to object to sexually immoral activity and lifestyles is, culturally speaking, to engage in evil. Failure to affirm sexual immorality, such as homosexuality or “transgenderism,” as legitimate and wholly appropriate expressions of human sexuality is seen as “hate.”

Making matters even more convoluted was the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling redefining marriage to include homosexual relationships. This fundamental redefining of what constitutes a nuclear family has only fueled social confusion and moral rot. Now, even recognizing the basic binary nature of sex is controversial.

Thomas Gallatin, The Moral Erosion of the Nuclear Family.

Christian Foundations of Our Law

One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations. I verily believe that Christianity is necessary to the support of civil society.

Joseph Story

Fools

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.

Erasmus, 1509

The REAL LGBTQ+++ Agenda

Many Americans have come to see in recent years that the LGBT agenda was never about love and tolerance, but about forcing every imaginable type of perversity and debauchery in our faces.

Even children have not been exempt from this. In fact, a strong argument could be made that they were the ultimate target of that perversity and debauchery.

After the LGBT movement gained cultural acceptance and even dominance, it redoubled its efforts to evangelize children. Paul Lynde’s Uncle Arthur from “Bewitched” might have been a modest early attempt to win innocent youth, but as time passed the movement got more creative and aggressive, eventually booting up events specifically targeting the family.

Josh Manning, Graphic: Pro-Family Org Infiltrates 'All Ages' 'Pride' Event, Captures Sick Things Really Going on Inside

Read the whole article if you have courage enough to see the example. Disgusting is too weak of a word for this.

It’s the People Who Advance Civilization

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader.

Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing "compassion" for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.

Thomas Sowell

College Educated?

There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitude.

Thomas Sowell

"Social Problems"

Much of what are called “social problems” consists of the fact that intellectuals have theories that do not fit the real world. From this they conclude that it is the real world which is wrong and needs changing.

Thomas Sowell

Do You Consent to Evil?

Consent to evil a little, and a great evil will overwhelm us, till no tongue crying out against it will be heard any more. That of which we should have been master will be the master of us. No shame or remorse will save us then. Therefore consent not to this evil at all.

Alan Paton, cited by Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Two: 1933-1951, pg.772

Beware of Indoctrination

When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side, and you will not get me on your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to me already. A people lives forever. What are you? You will pass on. You descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”

Adolf Hitler, 11/6/33, Elbing, East Prussia.

Doesn’t this sound like LEFTISTS and Democrats today? Public schools and colleges have been indoctrinating our children to their side.

Wokeness

Wokeness largely arises from unmarried, childless young women creating and self-selecting into psychosocial environments that validate their heightened tendencies toward guilt, shame, and altruism, while offering a channel to fulfill their otherwise unmet  nurturing needs."

William Meijer

Very Important Advice

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant

"Pride" Month

What started out decades ago as the statement, “What we do in our bedrooms is our own business,” has now morphed into, “Celebrate the many ways we indoctrinate and transform your children into our own image and devious lifestyle.”

Albin Sadar, Can the ‘Pride’ flag celebrate other ‘deadly sins,’ as well?

The Abnormal Cannot Be Normal

The abnormal is not the normal just because it is prevalent. For example, the mutilation of children is not “gender-affirming care.” Anti-white racism is not “anti-racism.” Illegal migrants are not “undocumented ‘new neighbors.’” A bisected cow in a tank of formaldehyde is not an important work of art.

Restoring American Culture

Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College

The Lack of Common Sense in Today's Culture

Is it common sense to open the borders of your country and then to spend truckloads of taxpayer dollars to feed, house, and nurture the millions of illegal migrants who have poured in? Is it common sense to sacrifice competence on the altar of so-called diversity? To allow politicians to bankrupt the country by incontinent overspending? That’s the start of a list one could easily enlarge.

In the cultural realm, is it common sense to celebrate art that is indistinguishable from pornography or some other form of psychopathology? Is it common sense to rewrite history in an effort to soothe the wounded feelings of people who crave victimhood? Is it common sense to transform higher education from an institution dedicated to the preservation and transmission of the highest values of our civilization into a wrecking ball aimed at destroying that civilization?

Restoring American Culture

Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College

What Is Common Sense?

At the beginning of his Discourse on Method, René Descartes said that common sense was “the most widely distributed thing in the world.” Is it? Much as I admire Descartes, I have to note that he was imperfectly acquainted with the realities of 21st century America. If he were with us today, I am sure he would emend his opinion.

After all, is it common sense to pretend that men can be women? Or to pretend that you do not know what a woman is?

Restoring American Culture

Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College

There Are Things You Just Can't Pick

How the Ancient World Knew There is a God

A century before Christ, the great Roman writer Cicero said, "When we see something moved by machinery, like an orrery [mechanical model of the planets] or clock or many other such things, we do not doubt that these contrivances are the work of reason; when therefore we behold the whole compass of heaven moving with revolutions of marvelous velocity and ... perfect regularity ... how can we doubt that all this is effected not merely by reason, but by a reason that is transcendent and divine?"

So when Paul wrote the book of Romans, his audience knew as well as we do that the cosmos gives evidence of a mind that is "transcendent and divine."

Cicero concludes, "You see not the Deity," yet "by the contemplation of his works you are led to acknowledge a God."

Nancy Pearcey

How Comes Tyranny

If you demand that a man betray his conscience, you have eliminated the only moral basis for his fidelity to the rule of law, and have destroyed the moral foundation for democracy.

President James Madison

How Communism Takes Over

I suspect that we are all familiar with what the “long march through the institutions” wrought in American culture. The phrase is a bit of Marxist jargon popularized in the early part of the last century. Its basic idea is that the best way to achieve the longed-for revolution is through a process of co-option. Take over a society’s schools, churches, and other cultural institutions, marinate them in a broth of liberationist ideas drawn from Marx and other left-wing intellectuals, and pretty soon you have taken over the commanding social, moral, and political heights of that society.

Restoring American Culture

Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College

Don't Be a Hyphenated American

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American….There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1/3/1919.

The Needed Basis For Laws

The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws…. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Noah Webster, cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.357.

Abortion is NEVER Necessary!

In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I've never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life.

C. Everett Koop, US Surgeon General, 1982-1989.

Liberty Needs God

God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson, cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.358.

Beware of Islam

If Islam continues to grow at its present rate, critical mass will be achieve by 2020 and the eventual Muslim transformation of America will become a statistical possibility. This is not to say that sharia will be the law of the land, but it is to affirm that the religion of the prophet will be a force that cannot be denied by our elected officials. Demands will be met; concessions granted.

Paul Williams, Crescent Moon Rising, pg.25-26. Cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.354.

Mr. Williams was right on target. Just look at how Islam has been taking over the USA—and Europe!  

Laws Are Discovered, Not Developed

By securing liberty, the Constitution assumes that laws are discovered, not developed; found, not created. Most of the founders believed this is so because everyone can observe God’s revelation in nature if they have not suppressed their ability to observe it by other commitments. On this basis, it is possible to establish a body of laws to remove barriers to economic arrangements, create a framework for resolving disputes, establish accountability that restrains evil, and provide a better environment in which everyone is allowed to flourish if they choose to do so.

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.341.

Liberty Lies in the Hearts of Men and Women

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, not law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Judge Learned Hand, “The Spirit of Liberty Speech.” Cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.339.

Trans Visibility Day

The espoused goal of the LGBTQ community is tolerance. Tolerance means “to put up with.” That may have been the initial goal, but after having achieved it, they upped the ante, seeking affirmation. Are they entitled to tolerance? Yes. But they are not entitled to affirmation—we are not obliged to affirm behavior we find offensive. 

LGBTQ activists, seeking affirmation, have become among the most intolerant people in the nation….These LGBTQ zealots disdain tolerance: their goal is to shove their radical agenda down the throats of Americans, forcing everyone to bow to their demands. They are a threat to religious liberty and to democracy, in general. So, too, are organizations like the Human Rights Campaign and the ACLU which support these efforts.

Bill Donohue, Underside of Trans Visibility Day

A Human Paradox

It is a human paradox that to be free we must abide by laws that constrain our freedom. Either we must discipline ourselves to submit to an orderly way of life, or we will be forced to submit to tyranny. As Edmund Burke said, “Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.339.

The Danger of Sociology

Sociology is a pillow carefully embroidered to suffocate religious impulses while they doze.

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.311.

The Barbarians Are Closer Than You Think

Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord…. We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some people may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.308.

Marriage Solves Many Social Problems

And, of course, strong families are the real solution to a multitude of social evils, from crime to education to poverty. Men and women getting and staying married and raising their children together are far more effective at ameliorating these evils than any government program.

The complementary union of men and women in marriage is the basis of civilization, not only in the obvious sense of providing for its continuation but also because it unites the two halves of the human race in solidarity and love. In this, we fulfill the vocations of marriage and parenthood that most of us are called to and in which we find deep joy.

Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage

Abortion Needed for Sexual Immorality

The sexual revolution required abortion to get rid of human beings whose conception is unwelcome, and this violent rejection of parental responsibility is self-perpetuating. By eliminating the reproductive consequences of sex, abortion encourages more casual sex, which then leads to more abortions. Thus, even though the sexual revolution has resulted in less sex overall, it has led to more sex in circumstances where a pregnancy will likely end in abortion. And as the fundamental solidarity of mother, father, and child is replaced with a selfish clash of competing interests, hearts are hardened as the most dependent humans are met with violence, rather than love.

Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage

The Problem of Cultural Promiscuity

A culture of promiscuity makes it more difficult to establish and maintain stable romantic relationships, and this then further entrenches a culture of promiscuity as people settle for hookups or open-ended relationships without commitment. This has decreased overall sexual satisfaction because people are most likely to have regular, pleasurable sex in committed relationships. Men may fantasize about bedding a new woman each night, but the truth is that very few have the status, wealth, or charisma to actually do so. For most of us, monogamous marriage is the best sexual deal we are going to get.

Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage

How to Pay for Charity

There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one’s own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else’s pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

Walter E. Williams

It's True

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Patrick Henry.

Women: Stop Showing Everything!

There’s a clear Christian case for decency in how men and women dress, but lest you think our societal need for slut shaming is driven by “purity culture” prudes, jealous ladies, or misogynist men, it isn’t. Modest may or may not be hottest, but that’s not the issue. When women perpetually give away the goods under the guise of “empowerment,” they give away the real sexual power of women everywhere — and make no mistake, women have sexual power men just don’t. Thanks to unlimited supply, value is in freefall.

Kylee Griswold, Bring Back Slut Shaming.

Before we were all “bootied out,” a woman’s sexuality was not just mysterious and proactive, but the most powerful force on the planet. It drove men to face great risks, cross oceans, write ballads, and even start wars just for the chance to gaze at a woman’s booty. Women held all the cards in intimate relationships.

Madeline Osburn, This Man Is All Of Us: America Is ‘Bootied Out’ And It’s A Shame

I just thought these two quotes belonged together.

Making Men and Women Unsuitable For Each Other

Because men and women are different, the current cultural and relational wasteland will play out differently for each, often in ways that make men and women even less suited for each other, thereby establishing a relational doom loop in which cultural corruption encourages individual dysfunction that damages and destroys relationships — thereby further entrenching both the cultural and individual problems. 

Pornography is an obvious example. It may be especially appealing to men who have not, as a nature documentary might put it, been able to find a mate, but it encourages habits that make it harder for them to establish and sustain a relationship with a woman. For example, porn has taught a generation of young men to be aroused by degrading and dangerous kinks, such as sexual strangulation. The result is further alienation and enmity between the sexes.

Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage

If Christianity Collapses, So Will Civilization

There is simply no other religion, political philosophy, or human framework that has brought more freedom and more prosperity to more people than Christianity. As Christianity collapses throughout the West, civilization will necessarily follow. We already see it. From economic freedom to freedom of speech and much in between, the religious fictions embodied in the anti-western and anti-white philosophy are sowing social and economic ruin across the West.

Vince Coyner, “As Christianity Dies In The West, The West Dies, Too”