Category Archives: Ethics

Tim Pool, Hazbin Hotel, and the Actual State of the Cultural Revolution We’re Supposedly ‘Winning’

By Colby Malsbury

Hello, Quadrennial Election Year, my old friend. It’s good to hear from you again. You show up like clockwork every year we are also blessed with an occult spectacle of global woke athleticism in the summer and an extra day in February, and we are always so much the richer for the combined experience.

But, golly – I suppose that means there won’t be any room for any other topical discourse whatsoever, will there? Especially once we’re past New Hampshire? So I guess we had better discuss tangential but still crucial items while we still can. read more

The Cost of True Faithfulness: Comments on the Persecution of Thomas Achord

By Davis Carlton

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake” – Matthew 10:22

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” – Matthew 16:24-25

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” – John 15:18

I don’t know Thomas Achord personally but I wish that I did. I know of Thomas through social media, through his commentary with Stephen Wolfe on the Ars Politica podcast, and through his co-authorship with Darrell Dow of the masterpiece Who is My Neighbor? An Anthology of Natural Relations. I always find his posts and comments on Facebook to be wise, insightful, and articulate. Thomas is able to speak to controversial topics without rendering needless offense in a concerted effort to maintain peace. I have found Thomas to be a true “man’s man” who combines his considerable learning with practical knowledge that he is able to use as a provider and protector of his family. It’s without exaggeration that I can say that Thomas Achord provides an excellent example for other men to follow. I often feel challenged in a good way by Thomas’s posts to better myself. read more

Guess Which Religion Holds Abortion as a Sacrament?

By Davis Carlton

Seriously, you had to ask?

This is the argument being advanced by a Jewish synagogue in Florida in claiming religious based exemptions from a state law restricting abortion access. The legal journal Verdict reports, “The Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor, a Jewish synagogue in Florida, has sued the state saying that Florida’s new restrictive abortion laws violate their religious faith. As a matter of faith, they reject the notion that life begins at conception and further believe that the pregnant person’s health and life matter.” The article continues, “To be sure, the Satanic Temple has filed similar cases in particularly restrictive states over the last decade, but mainstream religions have been sitting on the sidelines as restrictions in a number of states have become increasingly inconsistent with their faiths.” read more

Twelve Mistakes Conspiracy Newbies Make Online

First Day On The Internet Kid Meme Generator - Imgflip

By Colby Malsbury

So your fifth cousin twelve times removed finally jumped off the Good Ship Complacency Narrative and started to clue in that there was more to 9/11 than met the eye, and that the medical Maoists heralding Covid orthodoxy nonstop might not have his best interests at heart? In all sincerity, wonderful news! From such small seeds do Godly worldviews blossom, if the Gardener prunes the spreading foliage to produce maximum fruit.

But….if he’s still a wet-behind-the-ears waif, he might not quite grasp yet just what a minefield this internet of “ours” is. And if he desires to glorify God through sounding the warning bell to those who are as at sea as he once was, it is incumbent upon him to accrue some cyber-street smarts rather quickly, lest he finds himself cast adrift into the seemingly endless void of NPC’s and finds himself a walking, talking, mocking meme. At any rate, here are a dozen rookie mistakes he ought to be cognizant of. read more

Why The Left Wins The Culture War: Considerations on a Possible Reversal of Roe v. Wade

Skelton: Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision sure to hurt GOP - Los Angeles  Times

By Davis Carlton

Recently a draft document leaked from the Supreme Court indicates that a preliminary majority of justices would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, which infamously struck down state laws banning abortion in 1973. The Left has reacted with all too predictable anger and outrage, as well as firm resolve that murdering children is a woman’s “right” that will be forever protected throughout the United States. The mainstream conservative response has ranged from jubilation to cautious optimism. Many acknowledged that whatever happens when a final judgment is reached in June that there is still much work to be done. read more

Stuff It, HAL 9000: The Coming Backlash Against Tech in General

2018 May Bring The Rise Of The Anti-Tech Portfolio – Crunchbase News

By Colby Malsbury

Remember the entire GameStop imbroglio way back in that mystic age of January of this year? (In Scarybug World, one day seems to last a wormhole-ful of eternities.) I can think of worse ways to usher in a new year, myself. It gave the Elect a much-needed morale boost to see the short-selling mountebanks of Wall Street get their shirt handed to them over an obsolete video game-exchange franchise that, inexplicably, is still listed on the NYSE. Sure, it turned out to be little more than a temporary middle finger directed the Jewish financial cartel’s way, was quickly suppressed by said cartel’s very own Securities Exchange Commission, and will likely be actively usurped by said cartel in future broker plays of its own, but even a temporary discomfiture among our worst enemies is a rare gem indeed these days. read more

Darrow’s Triumph: All-Pervading Scientism and the Death of the West

By Colby Malsbury

In more than one respect, the centuries-old Christian culture war suffered a major setback in the little town of Dayton, TN, in the summer of 1925.

Oh, sure, John Scopes might have been found guilty of teaching evolution and charged a nominal fine – that was later overturned – but that was hardly the point of what would go on to constitute the most infamous misdemeanor trial in all of history. Nay, as almost all of the trial’s participants would later admit – including those local power-brokers who found it politic to align themselves with the prosecution – the whole spectacle was a bit of theater designed, in best 1920s small-town ‘booster’ fashion, to put their economically dwindling whistle stop on the map and reap a few out-of-county bucks from the proceedings.1 And if the money’s talking loud and clear…why, sure, those nominal Christians would have had no problem allowing magistrate-with-a-mission Clarence Darrow to get on his soapbox and deliver his trademark militant atheistic (‘agnostic’, my ass) rhetoric to a print media already mesmerized by rationalism in all its hideous glory: read more

The Strangely Familiar Love of the WOKE Church

 

 

By Ehud Would

 

Time: the mid-1960s. Place: Southern California.

Middle Class Christian youth found themselves borne upon a revolutionary tide, the portents of which were more revolutionary still. A growing contingent of young women in particular found themselves groping for a more enlightened expression of Christ: a Christ free of all the old bigotries which had sullied Christendom from the beginning — one which announced social equality between genders, nations, and races.

And so it was that providence raised up a young firebrand minister as conduit for this spirit — one Charlie Willis.

Calling for revival of apostolic faith, and emphasizing the imago dei in all people, Willis prophetically rebuked what he described as “the idols of this age”, Patriarchy, Familism, Racism, and Privilege.

His message concerning the domestic family was that allegiance to blood and kinship was in fact a seminal evil to be supplanted by true family, which is spiritual only.

One of his foremost students, Suzy, recalls Willis’s words which proved so compelling on this point:

“All your roots are cut. You are freed from your families and all their old hang-ups. You are cut loose into the now.” read more

Whatever Happened to Grandparents?

 

 

By Ehud Would

Poppa, God rest him, was a real grandfather. He passed on stories, fables, limericks, work ethic, how to throw a respectable punch, a fear of God, and respect for how the West was won. And he bestowed me my first pocket knife with all the solemnity of knighthood.

Mema, bless her memory, was a real grandmother. She did all that grandmotherly sort of stuff like baking cookies, knitting, needlepoint, and the like. Ever doting on her grandchildren, she yet reinforced Christian virtues with utmost severity.

I also got to know my wife’s grandparents quite well before their passing. And it was the same with them: they spoke good words, passed on wisdom, and reinforced familial legacy under God. I loved them too.

As in my case, my wife’s relationship with her grandparents superseded the relationship with her own parents in every way.

But this is, of course, a long recognized Gen X cliche. When we weren’t alone, or running wild with neighborhood kids, our “Latchkey Generation” wound up spending more time — and certainly more quality time — with our grandparents than with our parents.

But the topic is modern grandparents. Which, in context, primarily means Baby Boomers.

As Christians, the obligation to honor father and mother warns us against publishing their sins with abandon. And this writer believes that blaming the Boomers for everything gone wrong in recent years is itself a means for our enemies to further divide and conquer Western civilization. So all scrutiny between generations must be handled with discretion and cognizance of the fact that the dispositions of the generations are largely situational. Meaning, had my generation, Gen X, come up under the circumstances of the Boomers, we would have done no better, and would likely have come to share in their tendencies. So we are obliged to sympathize with one another and, as it were, to bear one another’s burdens. Albeit to a point.

That said, the subject with which so many Xers (and even some Millennials) presently wrestle, also requires a degree of candor, else the problem goes unaddressed. And if not addressed, what hope is there of remedy?

As the seasons of life roll on, we are confronted with further implications of the severance which punctuates the Boomer generation. Many attempting now to integrate our Baby Boom parents into the role of grandparents for our children are met with some harsh realities. Chiefly, perhaps, our own naivete. Even a generation of cynics like us entertain wishful thinking on occasion. Where many of us assumed their advancing age would, in conjunction with a Christian confession, fashion our parents into the mold of genuine grandparents, reality is disabusing us of that notion.

Writ across the breadth of their cohort, the radical upsurge in divorce and its associated spousal estrangement, as well as feminist-bent courts marginalizing fathers, has resulted in the nigh extinction of grandfathers today. Since so many Boomer men were dissociated from their children early on, and in so many ways inhibiting affinity for their own children, they wind up now with even less affinity for the offspring of those children. Thus the office of grandfather lies largely vacant now.

Grandmothers are another story. Albeit more common than grandfathers, Boomer grandmothers are largely denatured of all things grandmotherly. Due their rebellion early in life, they wound up severing themselves from family norms not only in the short term, but – in many inchoate ways – long term as well. Having spurned the image of the modest housewife and mother in favor of careerism, feminism, promiscuity, and general liberalism, Boomer women set a trajectory for themselves which would severely retard, if not totally curtail, their maturation into grandmothers.

Wherefore finding themselves now of grandmotherly age, the average Boomer “Gran” knows nothing of baking cookies, preparing holiday meals, or cooking at all for that matter; save perhaps, microwave dinners and boil-in-a-bag food facsimiles. Sad as it is, even into their 70s many of these “glam-mas” with boy haircuts subsist on takeout.

Neither do they sew, embroider, or crochet. They do not garden or know how to care for children in anything beyond the most superficial capacity. By and large, they cannot stitch a button, nor treat a cold, let alone nurture a little soul, or encourage young women to good works.

Not that Gen X has their act together entirely. Far from it, really, our cynical bent often gives way to Pragmatism, and in some extreme cases, Nihilism. But it is nonetheless the case that Xer gals are more acquainted with traditional maternal arts and affections than are their mothers. And for the simple reason that many Xers bonded with and learned from their Silent and/or Builder Generation grandparents, whom the Boomers so vigorously rejected.

So as Xers turn to facilitating relationships between their parents and their children many find ourselves quite befuddled. Because rather than the stabilizing force which we all expect grandparents to be, most Boomer grandparents inhabit an odd hybrid position between government agent and juvenile delinquent. To whatever degree they reinforce order, it tends only to be arbitrary, self-serving, self-refuting, and undermining of Godly order.

Almost every Xer and Xennial I know who allows interaction with Grandma have had to issue strict ultimatums against her preaching feminism, watching pro-LGBT and anti-White propaganda with the grandkids, and, believe it or not, even against showing their grandkids pornographic Hollywood films. Many find themselves putting grandparents on restriction for things like coaching their grandchildren on how to lie, cheat, and steal, teaching granddaughters to ogle “bad boys”, encouraging grandkids to get tattoos, or even to sleep around, and to experiment in terms of LGBT. It is surreal to even write those words, but it is real, and epidemic with grandmothers today.

Has there ever before been a generation of grandparents who proved such a bad influence on grandchildren? If so, it is beyond the scope of living memory.

Their attitude toward posterity is epitomized by the popular bumper-sticker, “I’m spending my childrens’ inheritance”. Though more are retiring than any generation prior, and with more liquidity, their pensioned years are being frittered away in decadence rather than building into their families.

And like all cases of unrequited love, it has an expiration date. Insofar as Boomers failed to bond with their children and now, with their grandchildren, their influence on posterity is self-negating. Which, under the circumstance, we are compelled to admit for a hard blessing.

Consequently, the Boomers already bear the dubious distinction of the generation most abandoned by family in old age. No other generation even comes close. The mass-disownment of Boomer parents has taken on a lexicon all its own in the form of “Going No Contact”. Inasmuch as their cohort repudiated the covenant, the covenant reciprocates, at length exiling them.

Most strange however, despite being otherwise disinterested in their grandchildren, they desperately desire to pass on their egalitarian liberalism to the same. Which if achieved, only dissolves their claim on posterity anyway. Because their standing in the family depends essentially upon anti-egalitarian, conservative, hierarchical, and dare I say Kinist presuppositions. This again, is another divinely in-built barrier against their corrosive instincts.

All of that said, we know exceptions to these trends and thank God for them. They are the remnant whose influence will impact future generations in positive ways.

Meantime, the majority of covenant households are prayerfully navigating the question of whether or not their children have grandparents at all. For the time being, genuine grandparents have gone extinct in broader society.

Only once the West returns to her cradle faith and the hearts of the fathers turn to their children, and those of the children to their fathers, will genuine grandparents return en masse.  Then grandfathers will once more teach boys to box and grandmothers teach girls to sew.

God’s Meticulous Providence: the Mysterious Case of Rachel Held Evans

 

By Colby Malsbury

Who is Rachel Held Evans?

Woke ‘Christian’ females of a strongly antinomian bent: please don’t jump down my throat at the question. I wasn’t being facetious. I honestly had never heard of her before reading the news of her death, aged 37, this week. It might shock some of you fair maidens to know that I can’t name a single song from Ariana Grande, either. Some of us don’t live our lives saturated in the modern.

Well, whoever she was, I can’t say the tribute thread set up in her honor on Facebook appears too promising. All kinds of female emotional vomit about how profound and meaningful HER words were, how courageous SHE was, how SHE brought so much meaning into THEIR lives and how SHE made THEM better people, blah blah blah. If God is mentioned at all, it’s with the veiled threat that He had better receive her joyously, fantastic person that she was. I dunno – remind me again why women ought not to preach? read more