I had posted this back in 2016...and I see what is going on now in the Culture wars and the TDS and the Donks flirtation with the democratic socialist and I am seeing more of the parallels..Sobering
I saw this here and I had wondered "why does the left seem to win despite supporting the most morally bankrupt system in history, they seem to always come out on top. I read this and it helped explain a bit of it. I am sure there is more here than the article shows, but it is a start. The pics are from google and my stash in my folder.
Why does the Left always win? Easiest answer in the world! They fight. They shoot to kill. They hang traitors. They do not retreat unless faced with overwhelming forces. They say “The hell with the rules.” …Instead of fighting, we surrender apologetically when pushed, and as we fade we mouth words about accompanying people on their “spiritual journey” or “My Constitution guarantees free speech.”
He captures the basics. The following might be a useful expansion on his diagnosis without changing his prescription:
The Left is unreasonable. The Right strives for an orderly, polite and morally good society. For that reason, they tend to think that other people are inclined toward being reasonable as well. The Left on the other hand views civilization as its enemy because the Left aspires to replace civilization because it views civilization without Leftism as the antithesis of good. Rightists will try to appeal to Leftists’ better natures, make compromises and keep order, which only strengthens the Left by legitimizing them and giving them a healthier society to parasitize.
The Left is unrealistic. The Right cares about the consequences of its actions; the Left cares about the ideological appearance and social popularity of its actions, and this concern displaces any cares about consequences in reality. This liberates Leftists from the additional burden of knowing anything about what they are doing. Their one mode of thought is to say something that other people like to hear, and then using the power of the group, to force it to be implemented.
The Left appeals to monkey dynamics. Leftists ideas are more socially correct than Rightist ideas, because the ideal of the Left is equality and the Right favors hierarchy, and social situations value only universal inclusion so that the members of that social group can feel stable because there is no tension, competition or conflict. This is an illusion but one that humans can no more resist than magpies can turn away from shiny objects. The idea of everyone being included and having a share makes humans have warm happy feelings inside — this is actually their brains turning off and their bodies preparing for animal death, as if recognizing the triumph of a predator — and so they will choose it every time. This is why any social group which is not policed by a hierarchy will drift Leftward.
The Left recognizes no distinction between war and peace. Rightists will never understand that for the Leftist, ideology is all. It is how they socialize, organize their thinking, justify any self-esteem they have, and find other people. It is their reason for existing. Often it is the only thing that makes them feel good besides drugs, drink and sex. Since the high does not last, they pursue it compulsively. Since it must be right for them to feel good, any dissent or non-conformity is viewed as competition and rigorously pursued so the Leftist can feel good again. Therefore, the Leftist is always at war, and has no patriotism or loyalty to heritage because Leftism is organized in benefit of the individual and rejects any larger organization system, with an exception made for the herd because a crowd enforces individual rights by removing accountability.
Leftists base their self-image on total victory, not decency. Rightists like to think that they are appreciated for their strong, sober, wise and measured moral presence. Leftists have no such illusion. They know that people respect that which they fear, and that which gives them handouts, and they achieve this by installing a struggle toward ultimate victory. This forces everyone in the group into conformity and justifies lavish lifestyles for those sacrificing their time to the war effort.
In the future, if humanity survives, volumes will be written about the psychology of Leftism. It is an individualistic genre that manifests through collectivism because collectives are built around the idea of every individual having an equal part and reward. This creates a semi-suicidal mentality because life can only be lived through external factors, denying the inner parts of the human psychology, which creates robotic, zombie-like ideological warriors for whom life is misery and the only respite is found through destroying enemies.
I'm on a mini Vacation, Its my 28th Anniversary, and the Spousal Unit wanted to get away so I didn't get a chance to blog yesterday. She is a good women so I try to make time for her because we have been through a lot together and she is the center of my world. We are in Florida and I will post a few things when I get back about some of the places we went to and of the beach, My Brother and my SIL live down here so it is easy to "drop in" and they do the same when they are in my neck of the woods.
I got this off GAB.com, I post there, you can find me there at "Gab" I am not there as much as I am here, Blogger is my main platform. I am also on "Mewe" but that is another story. I got this one from Gab, and there are some stuff that I do agree with the author and some things I don't. The derogatory comments about the United States is one of the biggies, sure the .gov is hostile toward Christians, but the framework of laws can be used to protect us, whereas in other places there is no such legal protection and the Christians are at the mercy of whomever is in charge. The Author brings up the subtle harassment of Christians and it is prevalent in society, all you have to do is look at what ever comes out from Hollyweird, if there is a bad person, it is invariably white, male, and Christian. It is boilerplate. I have commented to the spousal unit about that. She sees the better angel of peoples nature and she doesn't agree with me because she is a really good person and I have seen the bad of society, the bad of people and have had bad things happen to me, I am much more jaded and cynical. The Author does bring up some things I do agree with though and it has gotten worse in the past 20 years, Christians are the only group besides White males that you can openly mock safely in todays world and not worry about the twitter and outrage mobs going after you, Doxxing you and trying to get you fired. In todays world it is like the powers that be is trying to push Christianity(unless they supported Liberal causes like whatever the pet cause of the left is for the day) and Judaism(unless they are openly liberal, and support the right causes) into the Darkness, but any other religion...No problem..."I used to say on my Blog" especially when obungler was president the "Unofficial" religion of the United States was islam, because .gov would go after anybody that said anything unkind about that religion.
Here is the article I got from Gab a couple of months ago and it got buried in my emails....hey, I get a lot of emails, I wanted to post it a lot sooner, but it didn't happen. I am posting this without my mouse...somehow it and my mousepad vanished...I hope I left it at home, using the touchpad sucks, LOL
Martyrdom in Trashworld
February 25, 2023
The Psychological and Social Persecution of Christians in Current Year
Most American Christians have been told their entire lives to be
ready to give their lives for Jesus Christ. But the enemies of Christ in
the modern globalist world are not going to feed you to lions or burn
you at the stake. Instead, if you are a Christian in modern trashworld,
your martyrdom will be psychological. Not only will this psychological
torment happen to you, it already has begun.
Like many young Christians who first discovered the history of the
Christian faith, I was inspired by the stories of martyrs. How could you
not be filled with enthusiasm and passion hearing the examples of men
and women who gladly went to their excruciating deaths, refusing to deny
their Lord? Being thrown to lions, set on fire, beaten, tortured,
imprisoned, and starved. I read Foxe’s Book of Martyrs,
detailing the history of Christian martyrs from the early church to the
Reformation, and was filled with awe. After all, how could you not be?
Next, I read Tortured for Christ, by Richard Wurmbrand, the
founder of Voice of the Martyrs, who spent 14 years imprisoned and
tortured by Communists for his Christian faith. Wurmbrand was held in
pitch-black and soundless solitary confinement for three years. He was
regularly beaten and tortured and had the flesh from his feet torn off
down to the bone. After being released once and told not to preach
Christ, he immediately resumed his work in the underground church,
preaching and teaching God’s Word, undeterred and without concern for
what he had just experienced. And less than three years later, he was
arrested and imprisoned again, only ending with a ransom being paid for
his amnesty in 1964.
Stories like these that show the devotion of faithful Christians give
us heroes to emulate. Of course, the second you begin to apply the
lessons of Christian martyrs in our age, malicious people, often within
the church, will attack you. College campuses are a window into the
future 15 years down the road (or maybe five or ten—the pace has
quickened considerably). When I was in college nearly 20 years ago, I
began to see the growing hostility to the Christian faith.
At my four-year state university, professors would openly mock the
Christian faith in class. It was never even tangentially related to the
subject matter they were teaching. They despised evangelicals especially
and blamed them for that iteration of “literally Hitler,” George W.
Bush. When I spoke up and said, “I am a Christian, I disagree with you
and don’t appreciate how you talk about what I believe,” I was met with
derision from the professors and my classmates under the professor’s
sway. When I would discuss such things with other conservative,
evangelical Christians, some were sympathetic and shared similar
experiences, while others would scoff and say, “that’s not real persecution. you have a ‘martyr complex.’”
It was at that point, despite not having a framework to articulate
it, that I realized the battle lines that would be drawn over the next
15-20 years, not only within the culture at large but within the church.
Only very recently, with the “Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” model of Aaron Renn,
did the hostility to the Christian faith in our culture and the tepid
response to it by many evangelicals begin to make sense. In that model,
Renn outlines “positive, neutral, and negative worlds” where the larger
culture views Christianity as something generally good (how the culture
viewed Christianity until the 1990s), then something neither good nor
bad (from the 90s until the mid-2010s), then finally something that is
bad and low status (from the mid-2010s to the present). When I was in
college, what Renn calls the “Negative World” had already arrived. If
you were a Christian, you were unequivocally low-status. People would
think you are an uncool loser, even if you came from money, wore the
proper clothing, were good-looking, or possessed anything else that
would give you social status; your Christian faith negated all of that.
After the Obergefell decision and definitely after the “mostly
peaceful” summer of 2020, my experience in college in the early
2000s—Negative World—had finally arrived for everyone else. Now, simply
being a Christian who believes the Bible is true and who desires to live
a life according to the commands of Jesus Christ, is something which is
a clear impediment to pursuing a “normal life.” A successful career,
finding a spouse, and gaining the respect of your friends and neighbors,
all of these become much more difficult to attain if you are a
Christian living in Trashworld. Then, as now, the Christians devoted to
collaborating with the enemies of Christ will say, “that’s not real persecution.”
Of course, it is not the same as Richard Wurmbrand having the flesh of
his feet torn off or Saint Bartholomew being skinned alive. No one would
dare claim such a thing. Nevertheless, it is a real thing that is
happening to us. You wouldn’t say to someone who just broke their leg
and was on the ground writhing in pain, “get over yourself. I know
someone in hospice with stage four cancer and has way more pain than
you.” Only a monster would behave that way.
The fact is, outside of a few exceptional cases, the kind of
martyrdom experienced by Christians in the past is not likely to take
place here. That is not how the demonic Regime operates. Such overt,
direct persecution that came at the hands of First Century Jews, Romans,
medieval governments, French Jacobins, Bolsheviks, and Jihadists is not
the kind of martyrdom we face. The demons that rule over us are not so
direct and confrontational, not so masculine. No, the demons that rule
over us are passive-aggressive and rely upon psychological and social
manipulation to torment us.
Our persecution is and will increasingly be much more subtle and
feminine. The difference between persecution then and now is like the
difference between being bullied by Biff Tannen in Back to the Future and being bullied by the antagonists from Mean Girls.
Rather than being brutalized, tortured, or murdered, you will be
socially ostracized, you will be cut off from participation in the
mainstream economy, your children will be taken from you and
brainwashed, and all the while, the Christians who collaborate with the
Regime will tell you “it isn’t happening.”
What makes modern persecution so insidious is that it doesn’t seem
like it is happening, especially compared to the overt brutality prior
Christians experienced. It is important to remember the words of the
Apostle Paul that “all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will
suffer persecution. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and
worse, deceiving and being deceived” (1 Timothy 3:12-13 NKJV). If you
are a Christian, you will suffer persecution for your faith.
There is no way around it. That persecution isn’t always going to come
in the form of men with swords or guns at your door ready to torture and
kill you. But if you are a faithful man in a godless world that rages
against its Creator, you are the tangible, flesh and blood
representative of that Creator it is raging against. You are going to
suffer. The suffering you are going to face and many of us already face
is the social exclusion and intense, unremitting psychological torment
of a godless society that is almost designed to get you to apostatize
from Christ. There are myriad vectors and mechanisms it employs. It will
use your family to pry you away. It will use corporate financial power
to dangle incentives for you to compromise just a little bit. It will
rob you of your children, and then hold them hostage against you. Every
message, from every corner of the world is a constant, 24/7 stream of
that preaches the oh-so-subtle message of: “if you believe in Jesus
Christ, if you believe the Bible is true, you are a loser and we hate
you. You have no place in our society. We hope you kill yourself.” That
is the subtext of every form of popular culture that Trashworld pumps
out. You are not being killed and tortured, but your mind, soul, and
spirit absolutely are. Trashworld has perfected a kind of persecution
that is even worse than lighting you on fire or feeding you to a
starving lion. It has industrialized a kind of persecution of the
Christian that 1. doesn’t look “like persecution,” 2. when it is
successful makes it appear as if the apostate one day woke up and freely
chose to just stop believing in Jesus, and 3. therefore causes
Christians to not have their guard up when they face it, leaving them
totally vulnerable to its pernicious effects.
But what is the answer to this problem? It is to understand that you
are at war against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the
heavenly places, no less than the saints of old. is to bear this
suffering with dignity and resolve just as the heroic martyrs of the
early church did. It doesn’t matter what faithless collaborating
Christians say; they already have their reward. Just as St. Paul said we
will suffer for pursuing a Christian life, fake Christians are going to
mock us when that suffering comes. But those with eyes of faith
understand we pursue a golden crown from the hands of our king. And
though the scars of our persecution cannot be seen with eyes, it is a
kind of suffering for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, one we should
count as joy, having been found worthy to bear it. That is the
perspective ancient Christians had of their suffering for the sake of
Christ, and that is how we should view it as well. Whatever affliction
we bear is adding to the suffering of Christ. Remaining faithful to
Christ and losing out on career opportunities is a genuine sacrifice.
Sacrificing a much more comfortable life so you can protect your
children from those who seek to do them harm is a very real sacrifice.
Being called a bigot, racist, homophobe, fascist, and every other slur
because you refuse to bend the knee to anyone but He Who Rules at His
Father’s Right Hand is a very real indignity and is very much worth it.
The Bible describes the suffering of Christians as filling up what is
lacking in Christ’s afflictions (Col. 1:24). It may not seem like it at
all, but by suffering in this way, you are conquering. Just as the
blood of Christ’s people spilled out does not fall on deaf ears but
cries out to heaven, so also does the anguish and terror you experience
for the sake of steadfastly holding to Christ. Your duty as a Christian
is to band together with those who bear Christ’s name and build real,
flesh-and-blood communities impervious to the terror of the “Negative
World.” Christ’s enemies are forcing us to band together, which is what
we must do. We must build our own society with our own economy within
the one that is collapsing before our eyes. “Negative World” is not the
end of the story. There have been “Negative Worlds” many times before,
and they have all been overcome by the victory of Jesus Christ. So too,
will the negative world of the Globalist American Empire.
