Month: June 2013

A Greegie Award this week, for egregious stupidity in government, goes to the dolts who run Sir John A. Macdonald Jr. High School in Calgary, Canada.

As reported in the National Post, May 31, a 13-year-old boy saw two of his fellow students having an altercation. When one kid pulled a knife, the boy charged into the fray, knocked down the Jack the Ripper wannabe, and disarmed him.

For which he soon found himself in trouble with the school officials. Instead of saving someone from a knifing, school officials said, he should have run off and hunted up a teacher, explain the situation, yatta-yatta… and meanwhile some kid is doing a Ginsu demonstration on his classmate’s abdominal cavity. But the school, said school officials, “doesn’t condone heroics.”

Yes, this is the spirit of the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre of 1989, Montreal–in which a crazed gunman invaded a college campus with the loudly announced intention of killing women. He permitted the male students to flee for their lives while he shot the females: and flee they did. Perhaps the Ecole Polytechnique didn’t condone heroics, either. They certainly didn’t get any.

Please bear in mind that Canadian public educators do teach children that, potential fatal stabbings notwithstanding, when they see something really awful going down, like gender-stereotyping language or homophobia, they’re supposed to swing right into action.

You don’t have to be a president or a prime minister to destroy Western civilization. Every public school vice principal can do his bit .

Once again my daily Bible-reading program has brought me around to Judges, and through it. I don’t know how many times I’ll have to revisit it before I can truly say I understand it.

There are a lot of stories in Judges that really aren’t very nice: the book is a history, so that’s what we should expect. Ehud smuggles a weapon in to a private audience with the king of Moab, and assassinates him. Sisera takes refuge in Jael‘s tent, and after she lulls him to sleep, she drives a tent-spike through his head. The tyrant Abimelech murders his brothers, puts down a rebellion, and comes to a shameful and violent end. We read of the tragedies of Samson and Jephthah.

And then at the end come two truly awful stories. A man named Micah steals his mother’s silver, then restores it to her–so, naturally, they melt it down and make it into an idol! And of course a wandering Levite agrees to become their personal household priest, ministering to the idol. And sure enough, a big gang of Danites, seeking a new homeland, steal Micah’s graven and molten images, threaten to kill him if he tries to get them back, and the Levite is more than happy to go along with then and be their priest–complete with idols.

The last incident in the book tells the story of a gang-rape committed by the inhabitants of a town belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, and how all Israel went up against Benjamin. And Benjamin refused to surrender the guilty parties, and fought against all the 11 other tribes of Israel at once, and was almost made extinct.

Is any of this any way for God’s people to behave?

They must have known better. They had the Ten Commandments. The Ark of the Covenant was among them. Note: the actions of Ehud and Jael, although they may seem to us unsavory, are presented as righteous actions to deliver Israel from oppression. And Samson and Jephthah, while they had their faults, fought mightily against God’s enemies.

But what are we to make of these last two stories in the book?

Pray, ponder, and meditate…

All of a sudden the freaks who shape our popular culture want girls to turn into boys and boys to turn into girls. What that is supposed to accomplish, who knows?

But in order to spur it along, they’ve come out with a new cartoon show pitched to children aged 2-11. Uh, the headline says it all: “SheZow brings gender-bending fun to Hub Network” ( http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/index.php/2013/05/31/shezow-brings-gender-bending-fun-to-hub-network/ ). The idea is, there’s this 12-year-old boy who puts on a magic ring so he can turn into a superhero who’s a girl… feh.

To quote from the article, “SheZow not only defeats the bad guys, but his new identity also helps Guy in his attitude towards the opposite sex.” Barf-bag, please!

This particular abomination originated in Australia.

My question is, why is this “gender-bending fun”, etc., such a swell idea? What benefit are we supposed to derive from having this kind of thing rammed down our throats? If there is some crackpot out there who can explain what great good this is to confer upon the human race, I’d be keenly interested to hear your reasoning.

Maybe it’s just a bad dream.