Those Frog People Eggs

 I think there’s a solid defense to be made, from a Christian perspective, as to why the storywriters’ having Baby Yoda eat those eggs in the Mandalorian was a bad thing. And it aligns from one angle with a criticism from outside the narrative of the Stormtroopers’ treatment of Baby Yoda in the last episode of season one - that is, it’s a criticism of the script writers, not of the Stormtroopers. I don’t plan on writing that criticism anytime soon myself. But take into consideration C.S. Lewis’ treatment of animals that have taken on human characteristics in his writings. And then reflect on the reality of pagan cynicism in modern art, and I think you’ve arrived at the truth of the matter.

The Great Globalist Enslavement

 The Great Reset is just a newer, more aggressive version of the same globalism we’ve been having forced on us for a long time now. The destruction of local and folk culture, traditions, history, and the finding of identity in familial connections (through aggressive forced immigration) has been a part of the same end goal. And that end goal is the replacing of these things with globalist corporatist interests, for the reducing of power and money into the hands of a select limited ultra-wealthy few. They want to kill your identity and everything valuable to you that keeps you from being malleable and a moneymaking tool for them. As a recent media release by the World Economic Forum stated, “you’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.”

Our Statist Moment in History

 Another trip to the grocery store, and another experience of people staring quixotically at me, as I was the only one not wearing a mask. I don’t care in the least. But I realized in a fresh way with a science-fiction dystopian narrative we’re in. It’s absolutely bizarre. Nobody can see anybody else’s face. But it’s as if it doesn’t phase anyone. There’s no reflection, no sense of how wrong the whole thing is, no sense of how controlled they are. How many billions of dollars have been spent on science fiction movies, books , TV shows? It’s as if people haven’t been paying any attention at all.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C. S. Lewis

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If you aren’t already, you should begin praying imprecatory Psalms against not only our wicked politicians, but also against all those who would take away your freedom - corporations, especially the tech companies, and the relevant international organizations. Ask for God to tear down those wicked people and replace them instead with godly people, who would walk in fear of and obedience to Him.

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Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves. -- John Calvin

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Friendship is a fifth column against the State. The State doesn’t even want you to have friends. -- Rod Rosenbladt

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When the police knock down your door on Thanksgiving Day because you have too many people in your house, just tell them you have Anne Frank and her family hiding in a closet in your bedroom. You know, just to keep things interesting.

Collective Narcissistic Abuse

 The narrative du jour that Leftists are repeating on social media is apparently that Trump supporters owe them an apology for all the emotional trauma that those Trump supporters have allegedly caused them over the past four years. Now we can all say that we aren’t apologizing for something we didn’t do, that their own ignorance and foolishness caused their trauma, and so on. But note that if you were in a relationship with someone who was pulling this on you, it would be “I’m in a relationship with a psychopath/narcissistic abuser and I’m out of here” level stuff. Now consider that this thinking is widespread throughout the country, by people who have been carrying out their revenge for months. They have been abusers, and that for a long time. Now tell me: how can anybody believe we have a country left? What possible hope for unity remains? And then consider that even much of the Right supports things that God abhors, most notably sodomy and the murder of unborn children. God can do anything He wants, and we should pray for national repentance. But barring the mighty intervention of the Spirit of God, there is no chance of survival. This country will soon be no more. And as we continue to speed toward our demise, if they are able, the Left will crush you. And just like in the abusive relationship, they will make it as personal as possible.

Pessimillennialism and the Success of the Gospel

Pessimillennialism gets exactly what expects, in its unbelief. If you expect the Spirit of God working through the Gospel to accomplish little, it will affect your sharing of the Gospel, your prayer, and all your conduct in every aspect of your life. “And He did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.” But if the Spirit of God has the power to change individuals, He has the power to change countries, cultures, and the world. No individual Christian achieves perfect sanctification in this life. But the direction of his life is one way, the path of holiness that leads to perfection. And he is mostly characterized by his obedience to the commandments of God (Romans 8:1-17). This exactly what we should expect the Gospel to achieve for the whole world. Jesus tells us to pray “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”, as if we should expect that prayer to be answered. This side of the return of Christ, the world will not be sinless, as the people that make it up will not be sinless. But no reading of the Gospel as Scripture presents it can possibly see it as weak or unsuccessful. When all is said and done, the whole cosmos will be saved.

One point to be seen in all of this is that there is no divide between soteriology and eschatology. To believe that there is is to have an incomplete understanding of both. Eschatology is the working out of, and the complete success of, the Gospel in Creation and in history.

So what did Jesus mean when He said “My kingdom is not of this world”(Jn. 18:36)? He meant the world as it existed before His death, resurrection, and ascension to heaven, the world under the Old Covenant. That He was referring to that world only is evident by His statement “If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews.” The statement was time specific, referring to that moment. Christ’s death and resurrection were necessary and the point of His incarnation. The Old Covenant world, the one where Israel alone were God’s people, apart from the Gentiles, was temporary and to be done away with in Christ’s work. The fact that His reign as King began after His resurrection, bringing in a new world, is clear from His words in Matthew 28:18, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

Atomism, Politics, and Salvation In Time

 It’s only political idolatry when Conservatives do it, apparently. Or, actually, the Left pretends to not be acting politically while being political. Or, even better, let’s stop pretending that morality and ethics - rather, righteousness and the Law of God - can be detached in one sphere of life from how it exists in any other sphere of life/reality. This attempt at Atomism is a denial of the unity of the created order under the One Who created it.

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I have been thinking to myself, “well, if Biden wins, I suppose a lot of us will have to learn from our foolishness the hard way, again.” But that’s exactly the problem - we keep not learning, not gaining wisdom or discernment. We keep suffering the greatest judgment, that of being given over to our foolishness. This is Biblically the act of God forsaking a people, leaving them to sink deeper and deeper, to a place with no hope of salvation, a place where He will no longer save them. And to think that this is somehow a misapplication of Scripture as it relates to politics, or a confusing of politics and soteriology, reveals a failure to understand what salvation really is.

The Racist Affordable Care Act

 The Affordable Care Act was a large wealth transfer from the “haves” to the “have nots”. It was racist in nature by design, intended to disenfranchise the majority, being white Americans. And when coupled with unrestricted immigration, the plan was to replace them with non-white peoples as the majority in power. It was simply Cultural Marxism at work. And the same ideology continues. It’s the exact same thing as has been done in South Africa in recent years, as white individuals and families find themselves in poverty due to “affirmative action”. The turn to violence has occurred as white farmers have been murdered alongside of their wives and children on land their ancestors purchased legally. And now in the U.S. we’ve seen innocent store owners beaten in the streets by BLM and Antifa as they try to defend their businesses. It’s the same ideology and the same anti-white racism.

What No One Else Will Say

 Look, if we ever do elect a woman president, can it at least be a Southern woman with a nice lilting voice we can tolerate for four years, instead of one of these Yankee women with their nasally tone that sounds like a cat crying as it’s being dangled over a full bath tub?

The Inevitable Trump

Luxury makes men idiots. Case in point: the past four years of GOP who are scholars or who otherwise live comfortable lives who have groused endlessly about Trump’s character flaws.

Is President Trump the strong populist traditionalist leader who shows up late in a republic as it’s about to meet its demise? Of course he is. But I consider that as inevitable as the rising and the setting of the sun everyday. And to start fretting about the possibility of centralization and totalitarianism at this point is like waiting until the last lap of the race to complain about the fumes from the cars.

It’s 2020, and President Trump is the late 20th century man. In times of vast rapid change men will always seek out the safety, stability, and familiarity of the recent past. If it wasn’t going to be Trump, it would have been somebody else very much the same.

Fear As God’s Judgment

This sort of fear that controls people today, especially on the Left, is just bizarre to me. What are people doing, or not doing, that has led so many to such a place? Fear over the virus, fear over Trump. And how can people so misread the president over the past four years as to think he’s some kind of tyrant and white supremacist? This isn’t just about him, either. This is about a basic ability or inability to read people. No doubt sin and unbelief, a lack of knowing, trusting, and obeying God, lies at the heart of it. But if that’s the case, then that renders judgment on a lot of reputable men. And that is a frightening thing.

The President’s “Lack of Dignity”

The same people who have been critical of Trump’s “lack of dignity” over the past four years still think that’s the major problem today. And they’re still clueless as to where we are as a country, and what our real needs are. The dignity we’ve had for a long time has been that of whitewashed tombs housing dead men’s bones, among which are the bodies of millions of unborn babies. Our dignity has been a sham, a facade, behind which we’ve tried to hide our sin and shame. What we’re seeing now is merely the tearing down the facade to show who we really are. Don’t blame Trump. Any lack of decorum comes from our failures.

ACB

 I’ll believe ACB’s ascension to the Supreme Court will make a difference when I see it. Throw a case dealing with abortion or gender issues up there and let’s see what she does. For now I’m skeptical. Meanwhile the real need is to somehow eliminate the court’s power to legislate, and move power away from DC and back to the states. The sort of celebration we’ve seen the past couple of days on the Republican side seems to me to reveal what short memories we have, and how little we understand the matters surrounding this. Plus she still praised RBG, a fact that can’t be ignored.

In the Pantheon of the Gods

The late Justice Ginsburg’s body is lying in state in the Capitol building, beneath the dome and the painting of the Apotheosis of Washington, that is, of Washington ascending to the pantheon of gods, and becoming a god himself. Which is more blasphemous, and more a mark of an America in defiance of the one true God? Is it the painting? Or is it Ginsburg’s body, being worshiped as if she were a deity or a savior? Or is it the building itself, or the rest of DC’s high holy temples to men long dead, designed after the patterns of Greek and Roman temples? It’s hard to say. But the past few months Yahweh has sent His plagues and hordes of barbarians to awaken His people from their slumbers, with little more than a sleepy stirring. And the temples of the idols still stand, on every high hill and under every green tree.

9/11 Was the Just Judgment of God

Just like with the chaos this year, 9/11 was God’s judgment on a wicked nation guilty of, among other things, the daily ritual slaughter of the unborn. We didn’t learn then, and so far we don’t seem to be learning now. As long as mass repentance does not arise in this country, we will continue down the path toward complete dissolution.

A Third World Revolution

https://americanmind.org/essays/the-coming-coup/

An important and concerning article. Imagine Trump winning in November, but the ruling elite along with the military forcing Trump to leave the White House. It sounds like that may be what we should expect.

Assorted Fascistbook Thoughts

You know, given the past few months, the Obamas’ move out to safe Martha’s Vineyard was rather interesting. I’m sure it was just a coincidence.

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“America will never become a socialist country,” the president said. Not only have the Left pushed us into socialism, they’ve managed to make the president an active party in it.

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You know how that hair salon lured Pelosi into their trap? With wine and ice cream. True story.

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At what point is a government negligent to the point of illegitimacy? At what point have they ceased fulfilling their part of the contract such that the contract is no longer valid?

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As the k*y*l*e situation is proving once again, there is no difference between Fascistbook and the National Socialists when it comes to the communication of inconvenient truths.

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“Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips“ - Proverbs 27:2. Let the memers of their own tweets understand.

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Has President Trump had a mini stroke or transischemic attack somewhere along in his life? It’s possible. I think there are many, more than we would expect, that occur in people and are never detected, especially as we get older, and in times of high amounts of stress. Stress itself is a bigger contributor to aging, sickness, and death than it’s given credit for.

The Business of America is Idolatry

I’m currently listening to the president’s RNC address. He has accomplished alot, far more than most presidents. But this claim of ”saving American jobs” is, at least in part, disingenuous. When you are regularly bringing in new “Americans” to please corporations, who are forcing already existing American employees to train their more cheaply paid replacements before they find themselves unemployed, then you aren’t saving American jobs. You‘re simply creating more unemployed Americans and shifting more money back into billionaires’ pockets. You’re just bringing in the foreigners to do the job here rather than overseas. You are moreso increasing the American welfare system and destroying American lives.

The shallow response at this point is that this is “racist”. But in a country this mixed, that accusation of racism doesn’t fly anymore. Your black or Asian neighbor is as likely to lose his job to a foreign replacement as your white neighbor is.

The one thing Republicans can’t understand is that money and business alone make no country great, least of all America. Scripture makes it clear that business apart from obeying the commands of God is death. The requirement to love the people near you, your neighbors in the truest sense, is chief among those commands, with regard to our duties to each other. And what corporations that replace their workers with cheap labor are doing isn’t love. The Epistle of James echoes loudly here. It is the “interests” of big business who have been looting and burning cities the past few months, those trained by the education system ordered by global corporate entities. Big business has supported and encouraged the rioters in their destruction. And in the end the wealthy will weather this and continue to prosper, while the common man is the one who will suffer. They care nothing for your wellbeing, your local businesses, your heritage, or your culture. If anything, those get in their way. Their goal is to bring in cheap labor and appease investors, while throwing in some absurd Leftist ideologically-shaped regulations while they’re at it, the kind that kill off small businesses. What they want are slaves; in fact, they want a slave class, entirely subservient to them.

Without a godliness that does not bow to whatever big business demands, any words about our worshipping Almighty God alone are dishonest and a violation of the first two commandments. Taking this into account, along with the big business that abortion is, it’s impossible to say God’s wrath toward America is undeserved.

Saving Authority

Those who hold positions of power and authority are in the place of bestowing and restoring dignity and honor, particularly to those who have found themselves to have become undignified and dishonored. They can equally take them away or refuse to bestow them, these things that a person naturally longs for, and crush the needy soul in the process. This is true first of all of fathers, and follows out to all those who “father” society. Woe to those fathers who fail to appreciate the power to kill or make alive that they hold, or even worse, those who abuse that power. They condemn men to Hell, whether they know it or not.

Postmillennial Judgments

I’m a postmillennialist. And I believe fully in the sovereignty of God, the complete triumph of the work of Christ, and the victory of His kingdom over all. But any application of postmillennialism that tries to treat tragedies as if they aren’t tragic isn’t Biblical or Christian. Jesus really wept over Jerusalem, and He wasn’t faking His sorrow.

The Bible talks about real loss, and things that in themselves are irrecoverable. Otherwise the warnings of Scripture are sapped of any meaning.

Conservative Statism

Governor Cooper wants to keep government schools closed for now or at reduced capacity. Some conservatives are arguing that we should be opening them, because single parent families need them to babysit their kids. The quote from Dabney about American conservatism that I posted this morning screams out here. Why are Christians arguing for more Statism, and for more opportunities for reprobates to catechize their children? Do we need more occasion for unbelievers to draw them into immorality and godlessness? Haven’t they already led enough into Hell as it is? Are we so clueless about what brought about the chaos of the past two months? This is why the Church is so impotent in America today. We fail in knowing Scripture, and we fail in applying Scripture. Government schools exist to turn your children into worshippers of the idol of the State, and to raise up mindless workers for the corporations who pay off the politicians we so obediently vote into office. Do you want to raise men and women who are free in Christ? Do not turn them over to the State to be “educated”.