Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
From September 22, 2013
People know an awful lot of things that just ain’t so.
Yesterday, for instance, twice in one day, I encountered the pseudo “fact” that people in Colonial America were burned at the stake for witchcraft–with Rev. Cotton Mather gleefully stoking the fires.
The truth is that not a single person was ever burned for witchcraft anywhere in North America–and certainly not in Salem, Massachusetts. As Casey Stengel used to say, you could look it up. Those persons convicted in the Salem witch trials were executed by hanging (one defendant was pressed to death, but that was an accident).
As for Cotton Mather, he was against the witch trials from the very beginning and did everything in his power to put a stop to them. He did not instigate and celebrate the witch trials. He opposed them.
Where do people get their erroneous knowledge? It matters, you see–because what folks think they know affects their opinions and their actions. When false facts translate into public policy, the results can be disastrous–for instance, in the big push to turn everything upside-down to Save The Planet from imaginary Global Warming.
We should all regularly re-examine what we think we know. There may be some surprises in store for us.
Remember this warning from the Bible: “Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.” (Romans 3:4) It applies not only to deliberate untruths, but also to misinformation and ignorance.
From August 10, 2025
The publishing world is agog today over the decision by Violet Crepuscular, the Queen of Suspense, to re-write, from the beginning, her epic romance, Oy, Rodney.
But what about the 500-plus chapters already written? What about the herd of woolly mammoths invading Scurveyshire? And all the other stuff?
“Never mind that!” Ms. Crepuscular says, in an interview by some guy. “Mr. Pitfall has convinced me that there’s nothing like a new beginning, so that’s what we’re going to do. To that end, I am inviting readers–I’ve got a zillion of ’em–to submit ideas for a new Oy, Rodney Chapter One. And then we’ll take it from there.”
Submissions, she adds, must be accompanied by 400 dollars in new Monopoly money.
As Ms. Crepuscular’s long-time editor, I have nothing to say about that.
No, I have nothing to say at all.
Today the weather was absolutely lovely. A clear blue sky, not cold or windy.
Returned to Mark Rushdoony’s book again today, but my disc player was acting up. I will have to contact Adam, my computer wizard, tomorrow and he can see what’s up. Also one of my virus protection programs seems to be fighting with the automatic backup. It is seeing it as some sort of nasty intruder. He’ll have to check that out as well. Fortunately, he has access so it won’t be too bad.
Nothing major going on today, other than I received a new Medicare card in the mail which I have to start using on April 14. I don’t really know why, but I do know Medicare will issue a new card if there is any oddball activity on your account. One of those arcane governmental mysteries.
Other than that, all is OK.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
From July 6, 2017
Hi, Mr. Nature here–with a deep-sea creature that looks like the product of a special effects crew.
The goblin shark wasn’t discovered until 1898. It has two far-out features. First, that long thing sticking way out the top of its head. It’s not a nose or a horn. It’s full of tiny sensors that enable the shark, in deep and lightless waters, to detect electrical fields given off by living things it might want to eat.
The second weird feature is a set of jaws that can be shot out in front of its head to catch prey–sort of like the choppers on the monster in Alien. Zap! Gotcha!
The shark in the video probably didn’t mean to attack the diver, and only accidentally got its teeth caught in the wet suit. This gives us a really good look at those extendable jaws.
Probably the closest look we’ll ever want to get.
From April 19, 2017
We wonder why public school “educators” are always so hot to trot for sex education–and the younger the children in the classroom, the more eagerly the educators swing into action. In Britain, as reported earlier today, they now want to go after two-year-olds. (https://leeduigon.com/2017/04/19/uk-teachers-vote-sex-ed-for-2-year-olds/)
It’s because what they like to call “sex education” is a sacrament of a false religion, secular humanism. The other humanist sacraments are sodomy, transgenderism, abortion, and assisted suicide.
Another big question is why parents, even Christian parents, continue to allow believers in that false religion to educate their children, day in, day out, and year after year.
Rather large books can be, and have been, written on this subject. This is only a blog post. It’s my way of urging parents and families to stop subjecting their children to public education.
Years ago, I worked most days as a substitute teacher at a public high school, called in to teach any and all subjects with only one exception–sex education. No substitute was ever called in for that. If the teacher was absent, an assistant principal had to supervise the class.
To keep parents from ever knowing exactly what was being taught, the textbooks were never allowed to be taken out of the classroom. Students complained that this made it hard for them to study for tests and quizzes, but that was the policy and the administration was not about to change it.
A student or a teacher in a public school can fall into a world of trouble by openly expressing any kind of faithfulness to Christian teaching. “You can be a boy one day and a girl the next, depending on how you feel.” This is, increasingly, what is being taught.
The Coalition of African-American Pastors, just to name one of many groups of concerned citizens and Christians, has warned that this kind of indoctrination is not going to go away, it is going to be made more intense as time goes by, and if we leave it alone and do nothing to stop it, our society will be severely damaged by it.
They couldn’t be more right. (http://caapusa.org/2017/04/beware-those-who-have-their-heads-in-the-sand-over-transgender-issues/ )
From December 27, 2017
All Christians ought to read Humanist Manifesto II (https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto2/), to see what we’re up against.
True, every pack of douchebags has a “manifesto,” starting with the the Communist Manifesto itself. But that’s no reason not to take it seriously. These are dangerous douchebags, with academic creds galore and all kinds of prestige. They and their kind have soaked into the institutions of Western civilization and corrupted it. So read what they have to say for themselves.
Here’s their sales pitch. You give up God, because He isn’t real, and all that “unproved and outmoded” religion stuff like forgiveness of sins, redemption, the hope of eternal life, the hope of justice and the hope of mercy–you give that up, see, and transfer your hope and trust and allegiance to us, The Smartest People in the World.
In return, we’ll give you goodies like you won’t believe! “Using technology wisely,” because Science, don’t you know, has all the answers, we’re gonna end war, end poverty, wipe out disease, drastically increase the human life-span, provide everyone with fantastic jobs that they really like, and even “direct the course of human evolution”–I mean, how cool is that? Just give us the power, give us the money, and we will do all these things that God shoulda done but He didn’t because there is no God, etc.
That’s the deal. Like, really–a baby in a manger? You gotta be kiddin’! Prayers? Oh, come on!
But we know what we wind up with when we turn away from Jesus Christ, our only Savior and our rightful King. We’ve seen them break their eggs to make their omelets: only the omelet never gets made, and the landscape is littered with gulags and mass graves and prisons.
They ask us to worship them as gods, claiming to be able to do all the things–eventually, at least, through Science–that God should be able to do. Since Manifesto2 was written, they’ve also cooked up a Climbit Change apocalypse and promised to Save The Planet from it… if we’ll just give them that world government that they’ll need to do the job.
Read history.
What they never fail to give us, these Smartest People in the World, is cruelty, folly, shame, and failure. Those are the gifts of fallen man, cumbered by Original Sin.
All good gifts come from God, and only from Him. The humanists’ “Good without a god” slogan is surely the biggest single line of fat-headedness ever written.
There is no good apart from God. Period.