Thursday, April 27, 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Prominent Evangelical Succumbs To Community Racket
Christian author Chuck Crismier, usually so concerned as to the purity of doctrine as to suggest that divorced people who have remarried should consider divorcing their current spouses in order to remarry their previous mates or face the possibility of eternal damnation, came out on the February 7, 2006 episode of his program“Viewpoint” entitled Restoring Community To The Church” as part of the growing communitarian chorus critical of George Barna’s book Revolution. It is Barna’s hypothesis that those pursuing their Christian faith outside the church institutional are just as devout as those that are in the pew every time the door swings open.
Though Crismier does a good job in pointing out that buildings and programs a good church does not make, in his interview with Tod Bolsinger, the author of It Takes A Church To Raise A Christian, he seems to insinuate that the sincerity of one’s profession of faith is based on to what extent one not so much surrenders to Christ but rather to the will of the group.
For while he encourages the growing house church movement, he turns around and condemns the electronic church such as found through loose-knit Internet associations based on common interests expressed through forums, blogs, podcasts, and message groups. It is Crismier’s contention that these do not meet the requirements of fellowship such as the breaking of bread and the “going from house to house” as described in Scripture. I guess it all comes down to the opportunity to snoop through everybody’s stuff since while one can fellowship with others over the Internet in an exchange of thought, one can’t very well rifle through somebody else’s house in a virtual manner.
The passages referenced on the program also said that the early church lived together and shared their possessions. So what’s next, condemning as “individualists” those refusing to live in Jonestown or Wacoesque communes?
In this confused age, it has now become fashionable to extol the group at the expense of the individual and almost shameful to want even the wholesome for the benefit of you as a person. But in categorizing marriage as a “community”, Crismier shows that he is mistaking the human longing for friendship with the desire to lose oneself in the herd.
The Christian conditioned to dutifully heel to his ecclesiastical masters every time they ring a bell will whine, “But the church is a family.” In a sense, but in this life it is now more LIKE a family than an actual one and even if so, there are varying degrees of relationships within the most basic form of human social organization.
For example, just because I am your brother does not mean I am going to share my wife with you. There are parts of my life and property to which no other human beings are entitled. Just because there is little one should conceal from one’s spouse, that same transparency does not apply to the guy living down the street.
Why can’t the breaking of bread and mutual prayer and care take place within the context of the traditional nuclear family? Is it because there is no way for denominational bigwigs or gadabout missionaries to grow fat off the tithes and offerings in such a close-knit context with the individual families free to best determine how to give to the work of God?
Furthermore, not everyone is going to require the same degree of social interaction. To some, community will require repeated sharings of every last tawdry detail of their life’s testimony; for others an occasional “hello” will suffice.
Nowadays, we are often admonished how we must alter the way we do things to make headbangers and other musically rowdy sorts welcome in the church. Why can’t similar concessions be made to those that simply rather be left alone? One what grounds are we to say those prone towards solitude are not closer to God when they are listening to recorded sermons, reading Christian books or simply reflecting upon the handiwork of the Lord in nature than when they are sitting in some Sunday School classroom as waves of isolation and loneliness sweep over them despite all the yammering socialites gabbing about them saying little of consequence all around them?
Crismier claims that if the Christian is not in community, they will and I do quote “live like hell.” However, from my experience, it is often those that derive their identity from the group that “live like hell” as one PCA church (and that’s the more conservative Presbyterians) I was visiting for a while couldn’t seem to have a young adult fellowship function where it was not alluded to that booze was going to be present.
And as a PCUSA pastor, one would think Rev. Bolsinger would have more fundamental issues facing his denomination such as abortion, the demphasis of the role of Christ in the process of salvation, and chummy relations with terrorists and tyrants such as Hezbollah to occupy his time than Christians in his opinion not outgoing or affable enough. Maybe someone should tell Mr. Crismier how many get remarried in that denomination.
Of course people are going to flee from a haven a perdition such as that as those not going along with the progressive trends are no doubt castigated and ridiculed. Don’t the same New Testament epistles Bolsinger likes to bash everyone over the head with about the need to further communize also instruct the believer to come out and be ye separate?
The problem with Christianity today is not a lack of socialization as it is a basic failure to stand for truth. If anything, failure to make defense of the faith the priority of the day will make this renewed emphasis upon the group a far more dangerous threat to ordered liberty as well as sound doctrine.
Copyright 2006 by Frederick Meekins
Teacher Of The Year Selected For Pandering To Immigrants
If immigrants are no different than the rest of us, then why should this prestigious award go to a teacher noted for teaching students from immigrant backgrounds and 90% of whom are on public assistance (apparently the parents are not so ignorant of American ways that they've never heard of welfare)?
If we are suppose to be color blind, why does it even come up in the story where these pupils hail from?
Thus the key to winning this honor is not so much about perfecting one's skills and expertise as a teacher but rather about rendering such skills in the service of the ongoing social revolution seeking to transform the fundamental nature of American society.
Last year's winner, Jason Kamras (a District of Columbia Math teacher who selected pedagogy as his life’s work because he thinks "high quality schools for economically disadvantaged students is the greatest social injustice facing America today") is quoted on the National Teacher of the Year website as saying, "My intense desire to see my school excel comes not only from an unwavering belief that all students deserve an excellent education, but also the unique role Sousa played in the civil rights movement...To honor the school’s unique role in the movement, I feel compelled to guarantee that it serves as an agent of social change, advancing those who have been ignored or constrained."
What business is this of a math teacher? It is his job to teach students how to add and subtract, not to indoctrinate them in utopian theory. After all, even these students need to know basic arithmetic to determine whether they have gotten the right amount of government cheese or that their food stamps have been tabulated correctly.
Had this teacher seen his students as individuals to be taught career skills rather than as components of some demographic shift to be channeled for the benefit of the elite, I doubt his name would have never come up for consideration. And the same goes for the 2006 winner as she makes a big to-do about teaching minority children rather than children as children.
Sadly, as with most other aspects of the education system, it seems the Teacher of the Year award is not about encouraging people to stand on their own two feet but rather about fostering dependency upon the COMMUNITY.
By Frederick Meekins
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Friday, April 21, 2006
The Predetermined Outcomes Of Public Meetings
Freedom 21 Santa Cruz examines how most public meetings are designed to manipulate residents into predetermined outcomes.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
It's Not How You Hit The Ball But The Color Of The Bat That Counts
Contemporary American athletics has been a success story in that those on the field have embodied the dream Martin Luther King professed at least public ally where achievement would be measured not by the color of one's skin but rather by the content of one's character and ability.
Washington's racist mayor Anthony Williams thinks he knows more than both historical wisdom and the invisible hand of economic forces in that he believes the city's new baseball franchise, the National's, should not be sold to the most competent managers but rather to ones whose primary qualifications are the pigmentation of their skin in that this whiney politician insists minorities need to be given portion of this lucrative prize.
In the running for ownership is one group of investors with former Secretary of State Colin Powell and another featuring retired Redskins Art Monk and Charles Mann. Since Monk and Mann have darker complexions than Powell, does that mean they are more deserving of the team than Powell?
If you turn and say, well skin color does not matter, then on what ground can you then turn and denounce the impropriety of the team predominately being owned by Whites? After all, since Caucasians are the minority in DC anyway, shouldn't they be the ones granted special status?
Why should White folks be penalized if Black people don't exhibit financial acumen? Should we take away set asides for Asians when they rise to the top despite being fewer in number? Better yet, perhaps we should set aside a number of starter positions on each sports team for short, dumpy Jews.
It's high time some referee stepped up to the plate and called foul on these minority supremacists that constantly police White Americans for the slightest hint of ethnocentrism yet go out of their way to accrue benefits and privileges for their own little specialized tribe.
by Frederick Meekins
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
National Treasures Recall Historic Event
Many are taking the time to reflect upon the massive earthquake that struck San Francisco 100 years ago.
Even more amazing and touching about this news item is that there are some still alive that can recall this event.
Featured in this MSNBC article is a gentleman of 103 that still works two days per week in a grocery store .
From the photo, he looks remarkably well. Hope when I am that age I am still able to be the bane of mankind and scourge of linerals everywhere.
Monday, April 17, 2006
School Locks Students Out Of Restrooms
According to this story, one school locked down the restrooms to prevent students from participating in immigration riots. Instead, pupils were, for the most part, compelled to relive themselves in buckets.
This might sound like a "back in my day response", but they should be glad to have had the buckets.
For when I was in school, usually towards the end of the school year when students and teachers got tired of looking at each other, there would be an incident of some sort or the other such as graffiti in one of the restrooms and one year even a smoke bomb (the perpetrator of which was never revealed to the student body, thus possibly pointing to one of the teacher's kids as the culprit) that would grant the administration an excuse to justifying the suspension of normal restroom "privileges".
This would mean students would only be allowed to use the restrooms at certain times of the day, mostly right before lunch.
"Sounds better than the bucket to me,” some might respond. Don't make such a hasty conclusion.
The bucket might have actually been preferable as where I went to school during those times of year when staff and faculty would get their butts up on their shoulders either the principal or some other teacher would be stationed at the back of the restroom watching students as they went to and fro for this brief five minute period, acting as if they were doing students a favor at all by allowing us to use the toilet.
If one was able to rush into the closed stall, one was OK, but if one came in as second runners-up and channeled towards one of the urinals before the tardy bell rang, it would mean almost an entire school day without emptying the bladder since it is a tad difficult to turn on the waterworks with an authority figure just about breathing down one's neck.
Would have been glad to have a bucket with a bit of privacy.
It would have been rather pointless for parents to have complained about these conditions as in a private school, anytime you went against the directives of the academic and ecclesiastical elites, you usually got a lecture on how good Christians are submissive to those in authority and that little things like rights and such were actually inventions of the devil. Furthermore, if you or your parents said too much, they could simply have you expelled and this was in the days when homeschooling was not as widespread as it is now and there were not that many other Protestant high schools to pick from.
While overall public schools are inferior to the private alternative, at least these parents in this California incident are able to publicly air their grievances without fear of the retaliation that might befall their offspring.
Reflecting on this article and my own experience, something tells me the infringement of this fundamental biological necessity is more widespread than most Americans are willing to admit as educators like nothing more to set themselves up as petty tyrants. Things have gotten so far out of line that we can't even wiz or take a dump without permission or apply for a license.
by Frederick Meekins
So-Called Evangelicals Denounce The Atonement As "Too Individualistic"
In an interesting article posted a Christianity Today, Mark Dever examines growing opposition within the Evangelical community to the substitionary atonement, meaning the death of Christ upon the cross for the fulfillment of our sins.
Thinking they know more than God now, a number of theologians oppose the Atonement as a barbaric holdover from less enlightened times that fosters a sense of individuality among believers. Heaven forbid anything that hinders our sublimation into members the COMMUNITY.
Frankly though, if Christ did not die for our sins and rise from the dead, why bother being a Christian at all? 1 Corinthians 15:19 says, "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable."
Furthermore, what's the point of forgiveness and eternal life if it means the obliteration of our individuality in a manner akin to Brahmin in Hinduism or the Nirvana of Buddhism?
Also, the observant might note that, if these theological babblers have constructed elaborate arguments to convince themselves they are without sin, the last thing they want to confront is the most jarring reminder of all that the bad in humanity outweighs the good.
The word sin is simply retained as a convenient tool with which to prod the masses when the uneducated clods drag their feet in implementing the agenda of the elite and hindering the revolution rather than to convict any one person of individual wrongdoing.
For the offenses of materialism, racism, and nationalism mentioned are so broad that they are more interpretations than specific misdeeds.
In the eyes of our social and ecclesiastical overlords, materialism is not so much the Saganist philosophy that the universe all the was, is, or ever will be but rather the failure to relinquish one's property to the state or other institutions of authority. Racism is not so much the mistreatment of a particular individual and thus covered under more traditional ethical codes but rather failure to support undue concessions or favors for protected groups. Nationalism is not so much the elevation of the state above God or even the individual but rather the failure to embrace the headlong rush towards global government.
As all powerful as the Communitarians would like their collective to be, it's not going to do one bit to keep you out of Hell or launch you into a happy afterlife. And if there is no hope beyond the grave, why shouldn't we party like a bunch of Epicureans, maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain as each of us sees fit if death is nothing but the ultimate get out of jail free card as the cold end of it all with neither the guilty being punished or the righteous rewarded?
by Frederick Meekins
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Friday, April 14, 2006
Keep Telling Yourself That & You Might Believe It: Quack Says Fetuses Can't Feel Pain
This same thing use to be said of Blacks and Jews, did it not?
A Psychologist says laws enacted to protect the unborn from undue pain are irrational and might end up harming the woman.
Me wonders if this shrink is concerned about the physical health of woman or the guilty consciences of the mass murderers.
This story goes on to point out that pain has been redefined in such a way that even new borns are incapable of feeling it.
Bet before long neither will the elderly, the insane, the handicapped, and eventually anymore not going along with the New World Order.
by Frederick Meekins
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Mormon Brainwashing Techniques
This article examines a number of Mormon outreach efforts.
Foremost among those examined is the practice where young adults are expected to donate two years of their lives in missionary service to the church.
Frankly, any religious organization --- either hetero or orthodox --- that stipulates the extent of contact that someone may have with their family (as the story points out missionaries are only permitted to phone home on Christmas or Mother's Day, I notice Father's don't count even though they've done just as much for their children as Mothers)should be considered suspect to begin with.
by Frederick Meekins
Russian Piglets On The March Cuter Than Commie Pigs At The Immigration March
Just something cute to ease the mind in a troubled world.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Communists & Jihadists Back Open Borders
Michelle Malkin does an excellent job exposing the dangers of this movement the media refuses to admit.
State Of The Border
To counterbalance all the ecstasy over the disillusion of the United States this week as media sycophants snuggle up to their immigrant overlords, this link provides another perspective of the crisis on the border.
This interview takes a look at incursions of the Mexican military into the United States and how Americans living along the border live in fear and are forced to arm themselves against rapacious transborder vagrants.
But I guess some liberal is going to tell us we have an obligation to have our property pillaged and our women ravished in the name of tolerance and diversity.
Gaze Upon The Ghettoized Future --- If You Dare
I tried to watch some of it myself as C-Span's coverage of these Communist powwows is quite enlightening as they usually take a hands-off approach and allow the coverage speak for itself. At one ant-war rally a while back, they showed some rock band whose most memorable lyric was "F-Dick Cheney", something the American people were not told about on the collaborationist evening news as socialist sympathizers in the mainstream media usually paint such gatherings as wholesome and all American.
However, since the rally was primarily in Spanish, I did not have the stomach to sit there and watch this human bilge dance upon the grave of my country.
Frankly, if these activists are not going to use English at such gatherings, they should be put under surveillance for subversion since the average America does not know what is being said. For all we know, they could be speaking about putting the Anglos in relocation camps.
Yet, I did hear a few such as Virginia Congressman Jim Moran extol illegals as "the hardest working Americans" in what amounted to his exhortation of the glories of retaining a slave race in our midst for the purposes of doing work he himself is too good to do and noticed from one woman masquerading at being an Indian how she purposefully left out Caucasians and White folks in her enumeration of the various people groups within out borders.
Those favoring an immigration policy that does not take into account the ethnicity and linguistic backgrounds of those coming here should be compelled to watch all four hours of this Marxist filth and then turn to their children and tell them this is the ghettoized future mommy and daddy want for you.
by Frederick Meekins
Papists Grant Blessing To Alien Hordes
Since these conclaves represent the death knell of America and thus the Protestant Reformation, wonder how long until the Papists reinstitute burning at the stake to put down dissidents since the heavily Catholic countries the illegals come from aren't exactly known for protecting civil liberties.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Reds Poised To Take Latin America
Chuck Bates of Unraveling The New World Order analyzes the rise of Marxist movements south of the border. According to the program, even Daniel Ortega is conspiring to resize power.
Words "Mother" & "Father" Barred From Spanish Birth Certificates
There was once a Greek philosopher named Cratylus that refused to speak but rather wiggled his finger in response to a question because he believed things were in such a state of change and flux that by the time he responded the answer would be linguistically meaningless.
In the postmodernist rush to abolish all traditional values, Spain's socialist government is removing the terms "Mother" and "Father" from birth certificates and replacing these titles with "Progenitor A" and "Progenitor B" in order to accommodate the legalization of gay marriage in that European nation.
How they plan to circumvent biology, they have not yet announced.
Surprisingly, lesbians are among the first to balk at the administrative change on the grounds that in Spanish the term for "progenitor" is inherently male in nature.
I guess won't be long until those sensitive to the implications of hierarchy will be offended to the labeling of "A" and "B" since one would be listed before and thus above the other.
If things continue down this path, eventually no one will be permitted to speak at all since to translate thought into words and speech is itself a form of auditory rape since the act of communication puts the recipient of the message in a submissive position as the recipient (can't use the word person since that would be speciesist) is then bound by semiotic conformity through such cognitive intrusion.
By Frederick Meekins
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Friday, April 07, 2006
Bombers Disguise Themselves As Women
I’ve discussed this before among colleagues and associates as to the propriety of Muslims retaining the trappings of their traditional garb and head-coverings.
Suicide bombers disguised as women have blown up an Iraqi mosque, killing 79 and wounding over 100.
While Muslim women are to be commended for dressing modestly as modernized women continue to dress sluttier and sluttier with piercings through their navels and tattoos scrawled across their backs jiggling out there in the open for all the world to see, Western societies need to think long and hard about allowing additional immigrants from lands where this mode of dress is prevalent to settle in industrialized nations.
At the very least, bans on face veils should be considered because when their mugs are concealed you don’t know whether there’s a good looking dame under there or a pile of whiskers out to blow you up.
Americans would not tolerant Klansmen going about unimpeded with their faces concealed. Then why allow it by those practicing an interpretation of a particular world faith just as dedicated to implementing their pernicious ideology through any means necessary?
by Frederick Meekins
Star Wars TV Series To Be Over 100 Hours
Let's just hope they are more like the originals than the newer ones.
The Red Chinese/Mexican Alliance
Maj. James Linzey argues that the Chinese army is training Mexicans to conduct revolution in the United States and are on the verge of taking over Panama.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
American Idol To Take On Queen
It was announced on this week's American Idol results show that on the next episode the contestants would be taking on Queen.
I wonder if any of them will tackle the theme from the Flash Gordon film.
"FLASH!!! Ahhh!! Save everyone of us."
Or at least maybe take on the theme from the Highlander TV series.
Tax Returns Outsourced To India
Seems Americans aren't even good enough to process our own tax returns anymore.
What's next, farming out police operations?
Don't dismiss it; some thoughtful conspiracy theorists have hypothesized that one day foreign troops will be brought in to keep order in the United States as our own forces continue to be deployed overseas.
by Frederick Meekins
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Beauty Wins Out Over Brains For CBS Anchorship
It has been reported that Katie Couric of the Today Show has been selected to assume anchor responsibilities on the CBS Evening News.
The position is currently filled by broadcast news fixture Bob Schieffer.
Is Couric really all that more qualified than a journalist whose career spans back before the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy or is it that Bob doesn’t look as good in heels and a miniskirt?
by Frederick Meekins
Camouflage Deemed Racist
A Colorado school has banned camouflage as well as other assorted patriotic paraphernalia on the grounds that such raiment represents a divisive brand of patriotism (meaning any that does not support the sublimation of the United States into the New World Order) and thus presents a potential threat to public safety. In a similar decision in San Diego, a school there has banned the flag as well as red, white, and blue clothing.
It is about time people remembered just what country this is. If old glory offends you that much, you should have never come here in the first place. Maybe students can find happiness and prosperity back in the geographic trashpiles they fled from but from which they continue to derive their sense of pride and identity.
Just how far does promulgating regulations about clothing in the name of harmony at the expense of individuality extend? If skinheads don't like the Jewish kids wearing yarmulkes, are school administrators going to make students remove those?
And what about the towel heads; technically, some will argue, there is nothing in Koranic Islam compelling women to wear headscarves. If these immigrants are to be granted a cultural, non-religious exception, what if another student’s cultural expression supports the wearing of camouflage as is the custom for young males in certain Southern and conservative areas?
And though we are now heading into spring, what if a student's winter coat was camouflage as is the case of one of my own? Is the school going to provide an alternative of the pupils choosing since school authorities should not have that much say over non-obscene items.
In this era claiming to value racial intermingling and cohabitation above all else, one would think camouflage would represent the perfect coming together of the various shades of brown and other tones of the earth to represent a purposeful pattern. But no doubt the manly strength and independence alluded to by such garments is something the communalists running the nation's schools simply cannot countenance.
I guess educators are going to have to find another mode of dress more in keeping with the worldview to which students are expected to aspire. Perhaps those little Mao suits once worn by the Chinese would be more appropriate.
Better yet, maybe students should be forced to not wear anything at all since this would be in keeping with the notion prevalent throughout the organs of the totalist state that nothing is to be hidden from the COMMUNITY.
I went to a private school where there were all kinds of silly rules about uniform and dress that were, to use a pun, far from uniformly enforced (especially if you happened to be one of the teacher's kids or from a family favored by the school administration). And even though the school was run by a church part of a denomination somewhat pacifist in nature, nothing was said if one wore a camouflage jacket to and from school.
Things have certainly gotten so much better without school prayer and Christian values now, haven't they?
by Frederick Meekins
The New Spirituality
Dr. Kennedy examines the spiritual legacies of the 1960's with an old classmate of John Lennon.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Census Outrages Gone Uncorrected
These articles are several years old, but given America's diminished attention span, it sounds like little has been done to correct these outrages:
Synagogues Of Satan: Ministers Seduced Into Turning Tricks As Census Takers
Forgotten Bill That Would Have Limited Scope Of The Census
Constitutional Ignorance Rife At Census Bureau
Cesus Goons Turn Neighbors Into Stoolies
Rekindling The Revolution: Reminding Americans Of Their 2000 Census Outrage
Monday, April 03, 2006
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Friday, March 31, 2006
The Face Of Those For Open Borders
Just thought you should see for yourself the kind of human debris taking to the streets demanding we keep our borders open.
And I suppose the liberals are going to tell us we are racist if we held our bags and purses a little tighter as something like this walks down the sidewalk.
I wonder if anti-mask statutes imposed upon Klan memembers will be invoked against their even uglier counterparts.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Immigration Riots Predicted To Be The Worst In American History
And I guess when these malcontents burn down their own ghettos, that will somehow be Whitey's fault also and as Papa Bush did in the Rodney King Pillagings, Junior will rush in promising another massive round of welfare handouts.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Bastiat Prize Prejudiced Against Blogs & Self-Publishing
Readers will note that rule number six of the Bastiat Journalism Prize forbids entrance of self-published or posted on blogs.
Rather ironic since the prize was supposedly established to promote the institutions of a free society.
It is claimed the self-published are not as good as writers whose works have been stamped by the imprimatur of media and literary elites.
Mark Twain was "self-published" at one point; does that mean we should ostracize his scribblings from the annals of our literary heritage?
Shouldn't a prize established to honor one of liberty's foremost spokesman judge writing on its own merits rather than by the pedigrees that have vetted it?
by Frederick Meekins
P.S. I guess I'll have to give up the name "Frederick" since it was not bestowed upon me by a committee of my betters but merely by my parents.
Marshmallow Peeps Rally To The Easter Bunny's Defense
Had the Easter Bunny been an illegal alien, I bet no one would have dared to touch him.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Peace Activists Benefit From Military Action
Three Christian peace activists held by Iraqi insurgents have been rescued by U.S. and British military forces.
Though the story makes clear that the hostages were freed without firing a shot, I don't imagine the soldiers went into a potentially hostile environment unprepared or unprotected.
And that brings us to an interesting point.
If it is the position of these peace activists that it is an abomination before the eyes of God to even have a military or that it is wrong to use force to overcome evil in all instances, shouldn't these prisoners have been willing to remain in the custody of their captors, who are themselves merely adherents of the "religion of peace" responding to the aggression of decadent Western powers, until social workers or other do-gooder types arrived on the scene to negotiate their release through rational persuasion alone?
As with others disposed towards such idealistic nonsense, the inability to defend oneself is an ethical demand to be imposed on everyone else rather than upon those in the vanguard of the revolutionary consciousness.
Opposing specific military actions is one thing. Disavowing the right to fight all together is something else entirely.
These peace activists, refusing to realize the inherent evil of the terrorist enemy, only have themselves to blame for their frightening ordeal. They should merely thank the Lord that someone would come to their rescue with guns blazing had the need arisen.
by Frederick Meekins
A Paleoconservative Interpretation Of "V For Vendetta"
Establishmentarian conservatives have denounced this film despite the fact that its protagonist is standing against a regime clearly reminiscient of Fascist and Nazi totalitarianism.
I wonder how they square this with their admiration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and other Christians that have taken action against tyrannical regimes throughout history.
Are they going to chastize Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance for blowing up the Death Star and Peter and Edmund for attacking Narnia's White Witch since to do so would not be a proper act of submission to authority according to radical noninterventionist Evangelical social theology? If not, why then get after this costumed hero?
I don't remember many Christians complaining about the assasination of the Anti-Christ in the Left Behind Series. So from this are we to conclude we are to condemn sic semper tyrannis when "one of our own" is inflicting undeserved misery upon the masses?
If we can't even stand up to government heavies in acts of imagination now, what freedoms are left for us?
Sartre of Breaking All The Rules and The Columnist News Good does an insightful job of analyzing this movie with what seems like a provocative plot and a captivating visual appeal.
By Frederick Meekins
Monday, March 27, 2006
Abstinence Within Marriage
I guess this will eventually become such a fad within the church as well that those not consumating their marriages will come to be seen as somehow holier than those that do just as those favoring the arranged marriages popular in the courtship movement are being applauded as more religious than those that date.
One can't base marriage on sex, but if one is going to leave it out of marriage all together, why even bother getting married to begin with since there would be little there as an award for putting up with the nagging and bickering endemic to any human relationship confined to tight quarters since both pleasure and progeny have been removed from such nuptial equations. Furthermore, since such people have sworn off these most basic of desires, does this mean they lack the desire of the higher psychological and emotional fulfillment that comes from kissing and hand-holding?
I guess by even raising such a question, I have shown myself less advanced or spiritual. However, I find it interesting that the movement even has chatrooms and the like, but why would one go to a chatroom focused on one's sexuality (or lack thereof) if one had no interest in others of a similar sexual persuasion?
Frankly from the wimpish appearance of the couple posted alongside the story (he with girlsh long hair and her with a pale, malnourished look), wouldn't suprise me if most of these folks were vegetarians (probably pacifists too) and might reinvigorate their elan vital if they merely got some meat into their stomachs.
It has been said all of civilization is an attempt to impress the opposite sex. While one does not have to be a slave to this particular aspect of human nature, much of human accomplishment would be quite diminished without it.
by Frederick Meekins
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
Liberals All For Tolerance & Understanding So Long As You Agree With Them
Many contemporary liberals have taken it upon themselves to advocate tolerance and understanding as the highest social values. Such self-professed ambassadors of magnanimity usually extend these principles to everyone except those they disagree with.
Each year, my columns addressing the attacks upon the Christmas holiday elicit a number of emotional responses. My essay expounding the attempts by environmentalists to stifle enjoyment of the Advent season prompted a number of ultrapluralists to expose their true colors.
One such critic began, “This article...was too full of name calling, stereotypes, and mean spiritedness. It is very opinionated and one sided. Rang of the all too familiar ‘Rush Limbaugh’ lets bash everyone who is not like us.”
While it is an honor in the content of the column in question to be compared to Rush Limbaugh, I ask you is not the offended pluralist the one engaged in “name calling, stereotypes, and mean spiritedness”? Of course, my column was “very opinionated and one sided”. It’s suppose to be one sided; that’s why it’s called an “opinion piece”.
There is no “Fairness Doctrine” that applies to commentaries and editorials. If someone wants to consider what the other side has to say and has way too much time on their hands, one is perfectly free to consult the National Wildlife article I originally referenced.
Interestingly, this insistence upon objectivity is usually only imposed upon conservative thinkers and ideologues. I don’t remember the National Wildlife or Carroll County Times articles clarifying that holiday over-consumption was merely the opinion of a few disgruntled academics and activists with other scientists feeling differently about the matter.
Furthermore, who is a scientist to say something is too much or not enough since it is not the place of science to make such value judgments? When they do, they veer off into the realm of philosophy. Nor do I remember an evenhanded approach being taken by this professed disciple of evenhandedness.
The criticism does not stop here and proceeds on in a similar vein. The comment continues in its haughty progressivist tone, “It lacked any reference to the obligation commanded to be good stewards, it offered no options or alternatives.”
Firstly, there is no provision attached to the First Amendment saying one has to sit there with your mouth shut unless you have a solution to the problem you feel the need to speak out against. Sometimes the best solution to a problem that really isn’t much of a problem is not to apply any solution at all. Some things just really aren’t any of the government’s business.
Americans have been celebrating Christmas for quite a while now. Why all of a sudden do we need the government and tenured professors telling us how to celebrate it?
There is far more waste going on in society (often in government) than whether or not I buy a present someone really doesn’t need apart from the pleasure I will derive seeing the joy I will bring into the life of the loved one I decide to give the gift to. Furthermore, who is to decide whether or not I need that extra present --- Barbara Streisand or Arianna Huffington as they live on their palatial estates and ride around in limousines?
Claiming this is a matter of Christian stewardship is stretching that concept in some areas and misapplying it in others. The Apocalypse won’t result if I use a little too much wrapping paper or have an extra slice of pumpkin pie. There is no reason to be wound that tight.
If someone is going to get all worked up into a twitter that Christmas as commonly celebrated is a misuse of resources worthy of widespread social intervention, shouldn’t they be spending the most valuable commodity they’ll ever possess --- namely their time --- in a manner far better than responding to online blogs? To paraphrase a classic adage, those who can, write blogs; those who can’t, post comments.
Better yet, if every decision we make is to be characterized by the utmost sobriety of Christian stewardship and responsibility, should those that feel this way even have the Internet at all? Wouldn’t that $20 a month be better spent elsewhere if we are going to get all jacked out of shape that someone bought at extra DVD this Christmas instead of sending a check to some televangelist so he can buy another gilded throne for his set or more pink hair dye for his wife?
The criticism continues, “it [the original column] offered no options or alternatives.” Other than people minding their own business as to how others spend their money at Christmas time, what other alternatives are there?” I am not the one calling people to change the way they live their lives in terms of this issue to make Al Gore happy or whatever else it is an emotional Popsicle like him happens to feel.
Back in the days before we were conditioned into thinking government, academia, or the media knew how to run our lives better than we do and when people went to church to hear about their individual relationship with God and not about the imperatives of submitting to the glories of the community, people use to make decisions like how they’d celebrate Christmas on their own. Seems the communitarians are as thrifty with backbones as they are about allowing people to enjoy themselves without Big Brother staring over their shoulders.
This effusively sensitive ascetic concludes by exhibiting a bit of an elitist streak by saying of the commentary, “Too-done too many times and there wasn’t any new voice in the piece.” In other words, if someone at a pay-grade above yours has already said something similar to what’s on your mind, you’d better keep your mouth shut.
Frankly though, isn’t everything said since ancient times simply variations on a theme? Alfred North Whitehead said all of Western thought is but a footnote to Plato and the Bible puts it as there is nothing new under the sun. Since that’s the case, if liberals really cared all that much about the various forms of pollution including that of unneeded noise, shouldn’t they cease their yammering as well?
Winston Churchill is credited with saying the following: under 30 and conservative, you have no heart; over 30 and liberal, you have no head. The worldview espoused by liberals is so devoid of logic and commonsense that they themselves refuse to adhere to the rigors and demands which they expect those of us of inferior intellectual caliber to themselves to abide by.
Copyright 2006 by Frederick Meekins
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Peace Activists Benefit From Military Action
Three peace activists have been rescued by U.S. and British military forces.
Though the story makes clear that the hostages were freed without firing a shot, I don't imagine the soldiers went into a potentially hostile environment unprepared or unprotected.
And that brings us to an interesting point.
If it is the position of these peace activists that it is an abomination before the eyes of God to even have a military or that it is wrong to use force to overcome evil in all instances, shouldn't these prisoners have been willing to remain in the custody of their captors, who are themselves merely adherents of the "religion of peace" responding to the aggression of decadent Western powers, until social workers or other do-gooder types arrived on the scene to negotiate their release through rational persuasion alone?
As with others disposed towards such idealistic nonsense, the inability to defend oneself is an ethical demand to be imposed on everyone else rather than upon those in the vanguard of the revolutionary consciousness.
Opposing specific military actions is one thing. Disavowing the right to fight all together something else entirely.
These peace activists, refusing to realize the inherent evil of the terrorist enemy, only have themselves to blame for their frightening ordeal. They should merely thank the Lord that someone would come to their rescue with guns blazing had the need arisen.
by Frederick Meekins
Monday, March 20, 2006
Galactica Finale A Portent Of Things To Come In Light Of Port Developments
In the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons sent an emissary in the form of a religious minister genetically engineered to look human (that in and of itself an apt metaphor for many of today’s churches) to the Galactica crew claiming the annihilation of the colonies of man had been a mistake and that from that point forward this cybernetic society of robots, cyborgs, and clones would no longer harass, to use Lorne Greene’s words from the original series, “the ragtag, fugitive fleet”.
In light of this development, the newly elected president, Gaius Baltar --- himself a Cylon puppet seduced by the enemy’s lusty fembot --- decided to settle upon a habitable planet. An entire year elapses and it seems the Cylons have proven good on their word; however, one day from out of no where the Cylon fleet appears out of hyperspace.
Since the colonials have largely demilitarized, the Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus are forced to jump away through hyperspace with the remainder of the fleet in order to avoid detection. The episode ends with Baltar surrendering to the Cylon delegation and the metal soldiers with the pulsating red eyes marching through the struggling human settlement.
Those breathing a sigh of relief over the United Arab Emirates seeming to relinquish their claims to a number of America’s most sensitive ports would do well to watch this hauntingly prescient scene.
Due to the backlash by patriotic Americans over news of a number of ports being surrendered to potentially hostile foreign powers, Dubai Ports World has promised to instead transfer control of operations to what has been labeled a “U.S. entity”. Anyone saying the matter is over and the danger now passed is, to use Galactica terminology, full of felgarcarb.
For starters, what “U.S. entity” is control being handed over to? Is this a company we can trust controlled by Americans whose families will themselves be blown away should a weapon of mass destruction make into our ports or will it be some kind of sham front American in name only but manned by foreign personnel or controlled from abroad?
And even if this port fiasco ends up settled in our favor, it’s not the only threat of subversion and infiltration we face from this part of the world. According to Pastor Chuck Baldwin, Dubai has also acquired a British firm that produces parts for U.S. military aircraft and tanks.
Islamophiles will counter, but we are at peace with the United Arab Emirates. So what? Even if we are, what is to prevent them from having these parts sabotaged to prevent them from being used against their ethnic kinsman or fellow coreligionists?
Others will snap, in this global economy, we already have foreign corporations managing vital U.S. assets. And it is a cause for tremendous lamentation.
We’ve already lost control over the Panama Canal and since it’s controlled by a firm known for being a front for the People’s Liberation Army of China, it’s likely we won’t be able to use it in the pending war with China likely to take place later this century.
Maybe now Americans will wake up and realize we have been lulled asleep by our news media with stories about O.J Simpson, Britney Spears not putting her baby in a carseat, and Dick Cheney accidentally shooting a friend in the face.
As the Cylon troops march down the streets and cybernetic fighters fly overhead, Chief Tyrol turns to Starbuck and asks, “What do we do now, captain?” She responds, “Fight like we always do. Fight until we can fight no more.” America’s enemies will never stop plotting to bring about our ultimate downfall and that is why the price of liberty will forever be eternal vigilance.
by Frederick Meekins
Friday, March 17, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Nude Cyclists To Be Cited For Lack Of Crash Helmet
Just imagine the stains on the seats, and not to mention what might get hung up in the bike chain.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Were New Orleans Levees Blown For Benefit Of Gambling Interests?
A fascinating interview by Radio Liberty of a National Guard chaplain suggesting the levees in New Orleans were deliberately blown and that mercenaries are now roaming the streets down there doing as they please. It is also pointed out how the government intends a massive land-grab primarily for the benefit of gambling interests.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Is Concerned Women For America Becoming Just Another "Men-Are-Always Wrong" Racket
The National Center for Men has filed a lawsuit claiming that fathers should be able to opt out of providing child support for unwanted children.
After all, if a mother has the so-called "right" to have the baby killed, it only naturally follows that an equally self-absorbed father should be able to follow the relatively more benign course of action of total non-involvement in the life of the child.
While the idea is almost as preposterous as allowing the woman the right to end a pregnancy, Concerned Women for America is jumping on board criticism of this lawsuit as a chance to vent the anti-male bias percolating beneath the surface of contemporary Evangelicalism.
In the organization's press release addressing the legal action, it reads, "Fathers must start acting like men and accept responsibility for their actions. This lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to save a few bucks and get out of kid duty. They need to wake up, smell the diapers, and realize that fatherhood is a beautiful and huge responsibility, which affects the lives of children and our society as a whole.”
While absolutely correct, when was the last time mainstream, religious conservatives took a stand this boldly against the women that have had their innocent children murdered in the name of convenience?
Maybe we should call on women to act like real women to step forward to either keep their pants on if they don't want children, to keep their offspring if they decide to go out and become in the family way anyway, and not pawn the results off on everyone else to take care of.
But instead these days of labelling sin "sin" for what it is and calling on righteous living on the part of all without regards to gender and to take responsibility for their own actions, it's those that speak out plainly against such deeds that are lectured on how the poor woman couldn’t help herself and how it's our fault for not signing over what little remains of our paychecks after having taxes removed to finance the deviancy of all the other dregs of society.
If women these days want to be seen as equals with men, it's about time people rose up and told them off as well in those matters where their irresponsible actions endanger the well-being of us all.
By Frederick Meekins
Sunday School Gets Kinky
Arm-pit licking and toilet-water drinking the latest ministry fads to get the attention of modern teens.
Can the pastor with the pole through his privates that I forecasted and was ridculed over for being so out of touch be that far off?
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Sudafed Deemed A Threat To Homeland Security
You better not have a runny nose or watery eyes or you might run afoul of the Patriot Act.
Provisions are being added to this legislation, infamous for troubling libertarians from both ends of the political spectrum, that will limit the amount of pseudoephedrine an individual can purchase and require the purchaser to produce a photo ID in order to complete the transaction. Always good to condition the free citizen to bow before authorities in order to remind the humble supplicant of his place before the slave master.
Where will this nonsense end?
Maybe we should herd everyone into designated relocation camps for their own safety; after all, investigations indicate terrorists are more likely to plot such acts when concealed behind closed doors and private residences and it was said in Nam that the village had to be burned to the ground to save it.
Since the epidemic of childhood obesity threatens military recruiting goals in the future, perhaps government sanctioned nutritional accounts should be established where a computerized identification system could be used to determine what foods the individual will be allowed to eat. After all, this is a matter of Homeland Security.
Those prone to think as they are told by those with offices and degrees scoff, but food is legal. But so is Sudafed and is a perfectly legitimate product until abused as meth.
One might say the obese are misusing food. Should the government intervene to prevent it?
I guess to the some radical supporters of El Presidente, this very post is an act of sedition since freedom of expression is a "privilege" that can no longer be countenanced in the war on terror.
In remarks supporting the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, Senator Jim Bunning remarked civil liberties don't mean much when you are dead. So adhering to such logic, Hitler, Stalin, and the like didn't really do anything wrong until they started tossing their people into gas ovens or having them freeze to death in work camps but were within the realm of propriety to break down doors in the middle of the night without cause, riffle through people's possessions for no reason, and to move their populations about as they see fit all in an attempt to thwart the perceived enemies of the superstate.
By Frederick Meekins
Settling Credit Card Debt A Threat To Homeland Security
Seems the moneychangers really are running the temple.
Tantric Death Cult Grips Indian Village
I guess we are suppose to be tolerant of these savages as well. After all, America has so much to learn from the backwards cultures.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Courtship Ministry Urges Submission To Ecclesiastical Authorities In Selecting A Mate
It's one thing if advocates of the courtship movement want to insist that the young person must defer to one's parents in terms of selecting a mate since that is a matter internal to each home and families must determine these limits for themselves.
However, aren't things getting just a little bit out of hand when it is established as an expectation that the individual must consult church authorties in regards to this personal matter?
Just how far does this issue of church discipline extend: maybe we should have Pastor make our evening meal selections for us as well? If we as Christians are suppose to go out in such a state of dimwitted humility, why don't we allow the church to determine where we are to live and what kind of career we are to pursue while we are at it.
The comment in question was made around the five minute mark.
By Frederick Meekins
Edge Radio Asks "Who's Driving The Purpose Driven Church?"
Listeners should note this audio program points out that often those wishing to join Purpose Driven Churches are required to take various psychological and personality tests before being granted memembership. Some even require one to take marriage-like vows.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Woman Arrested For Infringing Upon Abortuary Guild Craft
A pregnant woman shot herself in the stomach in an attempt to slay her progeny. Unfortunately the child, rather than the mother, died.
Police have arrested this sorry excuse of a human being. However, they have not done so on the grounds of murder.
Virginia Commonwealth attorney's are careful to point out that, since the baby girl had not taken a breath, the charge is actually illegally inducing an abortion, a crime carrying a sentence of a mere 10 years.
However, had this woman gone to an abortion facility, splayed apart her legs, allowed the abortionists to scoop out the fruit of her womb, smash open the child's skull, and suck out the brains, she would be applauded by the likes of Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton as some kind suffragette heroine.
Thus in the eyes of the radical feminists and their secular humanist associates, the crime is not so much that a child has died in this tragedy but that some so-called "Doctor" will have to work an extra hour or two for that new set of golf clubs. For if child was not yet human, why shouldn’t this unmarried deadbeat mother be allowed to blow her innards apart; after all --- her body, her choice we are told the rest of the time.
by Frederick Meekins
The Threat Posed By RFID Technology
Vast Majority Of American's Can't Identify The First Amendment
Guess the theory here is that citizens won't miss it when it's taken away if they've never even heard of it.