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This is beginning to be the long term. And what does the long term show?
I spent more than half my life in England, and, if I had managed to marry one of the women I loved, I would still be there. To me, Brexit was a personal catastrophe. But, unlike most people in similar conditions, it was not a surprise. I spent the night of the referendum in fear of what was coming, and the morning in depressed acceptance. In fact, ( Read more... ) -
A strange new way to (fraudulently) exclude Jews
I am noticing, on Youtube and elsewhere, a remarkable interest in one particular early Heretic, Marcion of Sinope. Suddenly the man is news; he in particular, while other early heretics from Cerinthus to Nestorius remain part of scholarly obscurity.
I don't think it is a coincidence that Marcion rejected the whole Old Testament - AKA the Jewish ( Read more... ) -
"...in the case of rape or incest."
Abortion is murder. Not saying it out loud means informing hundreds of actual, living human beings, who were generated by rape or incest or other illegal or merely undesirable events, that they should have been killed, that they have no right to live - that they have to pay with their lives for the sins of one or both of their parents. That is so ( Read more... ) -
How do you recognize a natural right?
There are two ways to be certain of the difference between a true and false right, a right in natural law and a right designed by some political entity to suit itself. The first is that the obverse of a right is a duty. A right is always a claim made on the rest of mankind. The obverse of the right to life is the duty not to lay violent hands on ( Read more... ) -
I thought of this a year ago, but never before.
I wonder whether, when Carl Barks introduced Donald's rich uncle with his Scottish family name, and soon made Scotland an integral part of the duck mythos, he was thinking that the name of the original hero himself - Donald - is a most typically Scottish one. Certainly neither Walt Disney nor Al Taliaferro seem to have had any related idea.
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My faith and the study of history
I've said more than once that it was the study of history that convinced me of the truth of Christianity, and that I was a historian before I was a Christian. I think however that there is one thing I haven't said, which is very important.
I am certain that all the documents of the New Testament were written within living memory of Jesus, in the ( Read more... ) -
Virtue Signalling
One of the shortest debates I ever had was with a Facebook user who said, in a proud tone, "Well, I never eat dead animals." My immediate response was: "Do you support abortion?" And the response to that was a blocking. Not that I expected anything else. The last thing I thought would happen would have been for the poster to argue that the decision ( Read more... ) -
Cancel culture is something YOU have, not something others suffer from
It is crazy how we repeat, celebrate, and consecrate, famous words and passages from the past, while proving entirely incapable of learning from them, or even of conceiving that they might in any way apply to us. It is almost as though the consecration of the truth someone once spoke is one and the same with its denial and ignoring in practice; ( Read more... ) -
A COLLECTIVE MENTAL PROBLEM
The extreme pitch of falsification and Jew-bashing reached by the overground media (including the so-called right-wing press of Rupert Murdoch and Fox) can no longer be seen as anything but a symptom of collective mental disfunction. The Western media, and the social strata among whom they live and move and have their being, have collectively gone ( Read more... )
