Political correctness (borrowed from the Soviet system) has become part of middle-class manners in the US, i.e., what is fitting to express in a certain social circumstance in order not to lose your face. When a discussion is no longer about ideas but about manners and etiquette, the losing end, as it seems, has no way out. Now, you haven’t merely lost a fair game. You have shown bad manners, and you are expected to be ashamed of it and humbly seek repentance.
https://www.americanthinker.co....m/articles/2021/02/t Before we all forget how the election of 2020 was stolen, make a copy of this article, and archive it for your kids and grandkids. Honesty like this will probably disappear in the coming months.
Janet Etzkorn forwarded this to me:
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can quickly understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in a Prague newspaper:
"The danger to America is not Joseph Biden, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Biden presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Biden, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Biden, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.“
It's no wonder that the left is not a big supporter of Jewish and Christian ideologies, which are rooted in individual empowerment through redemption granted by God and people's genuine connection with others. In this framework, God's grace is an all-encompassing solution upon which all individual liberty and dynamics of human relationship are based. Equipped with God's grace, each individual is a player in this world that can go about his business to pursue and create his own destiny within the confinement of God's commandments. Because the God of the universe is the creator and the giver of life, all lives, not just some, matter. In this case, the currency of life, as Martin Luther King said, is "character," which is inspired by people's relationship with God, not skin color.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.co....m/articles/2021/01/d
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For some time, I've been wanting to write about the Grand Delusion that has divided and weakened Americans in recent years. In 2006, Richard Dawkins, an English biologist, published his best-selling book "The God Delusion". It was warmly received by many on the Left and panned by those of faith regardless of their politics. As a self-avowed atheist, Dawkins promoted two major ideas in his book: 1) God does not exist and those who believe in God are delusional, and 2) someone can be moral without a belief in a God-given moral code. I’ll save his first proposition for another day and focus on the second which seems to be more relevant to what we’ve recently witnessed about the suppression of truth.
I think Dawkins intentionally used the word “delusion” in the title of his book because it comes directly out of both the New and Old Testaments of the Bible. In 2 Thessalonians 2:11, Paul says: “For this reason (refusal to love the truth), God sends them a powerful delusion so they will believe the lie (essentially, what Dawkins proposes in his book)”. In the book of Isaiah, the prophet wrote speaking God’s words: “I also will choose their delusions and bring fears upon them, because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear; but they did evil before my eyes.” Isaiah 66:4.
We live in a time of great fear – fear of COVID, fear of climate change, fear of foreign and domestic enemies, fear of an uncertain economy, etc. Those most susceptible to this fear appear to be those who lack faith and must rely on what they say is “science”. That might make sense if your earthly existence is all you have. But for those who see themselves as spiritual beings who are in their bodily form only for a short while, every calamity is no more than a challenge: are we going to rely on what our culture tells us or will we cling to the eternal truths of a Creator who loves us more than we can ever imagine?
We seem headed into a time when truth will become increasingly obscured by Leftist lies – a dystopian world right out of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Privileged elites who fancy themselves as the sole guardians of civilization have decided they are the only ones smart enough to make decisions for everyone else. Of course, this is by definition delusional thinking. Any objective observer (for example, a extraterrestrial visitor with no political axe to grind) would immediately see what those blinded by Leftist fallacies don’t understand. Their world view is completely at odds with, as the signers of the Declaration of Independence said, the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”.
In today’s secular society, there is no difference between good and evil. It’s all subjective – a matter of one’s situation (particularly class of victimhood). When tens of thousands of BLM and Antifa thugs burn down federal buildings, stone cops and wreak havoc on our cities, well that’s all justified because of some perceived fault in our law enforcement system. On the other hand, when a small group of criminals (maybe some of the same people who rioted last summer) hijack a peaceful rally of 500,000 Trump supporters, it gives Democrats a bogus excuse to impeach a president, call in 25,000 or more troops and install a corrupt, senile man who needed wholesale fraud to get elected. Why that just proves our democracy works! Spare me.
I’m tired of pointing out the Left’s hypocrisy. From now on, I’m going to call it for what it is. The powerful delusion that causes people to do evil in the eyes of God and then “celebrate it” by ripping off their masks is not simply a “double standard”. That would excuse such abhorrent behavior as being merely inconsistent with what these people expect from others. No, it’s much worse than that. It’s pure evil.
Enduring values, especially free speech
