Year: 2014

Atheists Demand God-free ‘O, Canada’

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I try to escape from rot like this, but everywhere I turn, there it is.

As the English-speaking countries race to spiritual extinction, Canada has made a sudden surge with a demand by atheists that the words “God keep our land” be expunged from the national anthem ( http://www.chp.ca/commentary/the-stones-will-cry-out ).

They support their position with a 2008 survey that supposedly demonstrates that 23% of Canadians don’t believe in God. I don’t know why they bothered. Experience shows that all it takes is one single atheist complaining and–presto!–your home town’s 100-year-old Christmas parade suddenly becomes a “Winter Festival.”

So they want new, totally secular lyrics for O, Canada. Maybe something like this:

O, Canada! Our pristine Godless land!

Transgender love in all thy kids command.

With frozen heart, with shrunken brain,

We reject the King of Kings.

We venerate the secular State: the State is everything!

We sell our souls for Diversity–

O, Canada, we’ve made a pact with Hell.

O, Canada, we’ve made a pact with Hell!

It may be objected that atheists don’t believe in souls, or in Hell, for that matter. They don’t believe in anything but the coerced perfectibility of man under the tutelage of self-anointed Experts.

But I couldn’t get any of that stuff to scan.

Are You Absolutely, Positively Sure You Want Your Kids in Public School?

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So you still don’t believe the public schools go far out of their way, on purpose, to warp children’s minds and character?

Well, consider this news report from Acalanes High School in northern California, “Parents angry after school tells 13-year-olds they can have sex, choose gender” ( http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/10/parents-angry-after-school-tells-13-year-olds-can-have-sex-choose-gender/ ).

I take no pleasure in reporting these disgusting stories. But it’s important to make parents–especially Christian parents!–aware of what is being shoveled into their children’s heads under the guise of public education and its “sex education” programs.

Here, the school brought in Planned Parenthood employees to teach ninth-graders, 13 and 14 years old, that they can have sex and “choose their gender.” It was so over-the-top, “many [students] felt the sessions were pressuring them to have sex,” according to the news report.

And of course, what sex ed program would be complete without telling children “You can be a boy one day and a girl the next, depending on how you feel”? To help deliver this message, the Planned Parenthood “teachers” at Alcalanes used a cute little visual aid, “The Genderbread Person,” to help the kiddies figure out their “gender identity”–because it’s so old-fashioned for boys to be boys and girls to be girls.

Look, people, this is going on in all 50 states; and if you’re one of the millions of parents who think, “Not in our schools–never in our schools,” you need to think again. If this is not in your child’s school just yet, it will be, soon enough.

I wonder what the public “educators” would have to do, to provoke parents to pull their kids out of the public schools. Set fire to the building? What do they have to do to your kids before you say, “No more!”

Next Month, My Next Book–‘The Glass Bridge’

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Today we’ve put the finishing touches on the editing. Now all we need is to plug in the new map, add a few more details to the cover, print ‘er up–and The Glass Bridge will be good to go.

I wish I could go with it.

Whether it’s “Climate Change” alias Global Warming, or “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” public affairs today are governed by fictional “narratives”–in plain English, lies. It doesn’t seem to matter that millions of people know they’re lies. We just keep on hearing them.

The Glass Bridge is about going on against all the odds because you believe God’s word. It is a fantasy: a work of fiction intended to evoke a sense of wonder: to tell the truth by means of a parable, while at the same time providing a brief escape from a world in which powerful, influential persons see nothing wrong in telling lies to get what they want from the wider public.

Please do not confuse the work of fantasy writers with the mischief of politicians and noozies. Our work is clearly labeled fiction. Our fiction, if we do our work well, means to lead the reader toward the truth. The politicians and the noozies, following the lead of an academic fad, deny there’s any such thing as truth: but just in case there is, they do their damnedest to steer people away from it.

I don’t know about you, but I’d like more fantasy and less “narrative journalism.”

Again I Ask–Is England Anti-Christian?

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Wait’ll American liberals get hold of this hot new idea from Across the Pond.

Government schools in England are allowing Nativity scenes to be displayed, this Christmas season. There’s just one catch.

In many of these, reports The Telegraph, the Baby Jesus has been replaced by a figure of Elvis Presley or a space alien, with lobsters and fairies instead of sheep and shepherds ( http://eagnews.org/school-nativity-scenes-replace-baby-jesus-with-elvis-aliens-and-recycling-bins/ ). Some of the schools even hold “Christmas pageants” in which neither Christ nor Christmas is mentioned.

Is this anything but mockery of Jesus Christ, perpetuated by the usual gang of secularist fat-heads who wouldn’t dare mock Islam?

As usual, the Mother Country is a bit farther down the drainpipe than America. If school officials over here resorted to such blatant mockery of Christianity, they’d have a lot of public outrage to contend with.

Or would they?

Public education–this is a historical fact, so don’t bother arguing otherwise–was created to wean Christians away from Christianity, replacing it with worship of the State and its anointed Experts. It also seeks to ease out the family and replace it with the State.

And yet millions of Christian parents in America, every day, continue to send their children to these schools–and we can easily see the results of this in the unceasing deterioration, coarsening, and dumbing-down of our culture.

English kids are going to grow up thinking “Christmas” is about nothing coherent at all; they will not know that Christ came in the flesh to save us from our sins.

But, hey–at least those schools are “free”–right?

Buy It Now–Eternal Life!

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The Lord Our God promises us eternal life, if we believe in and trust His Son, Jesus Christ.

But soon, if things go well for a company called Eterni.me, they’ll be able to sell you eternal life. Instead of faith or hope or good works, all you’ll need is money. Then you can, in the words of the company’s slogan, “Simply become immortal” ( http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1657109/want-live-forever-tech-firm-wants-create-your-digital-alter-ego ).

Your 3-D “digital alter ego,” which presumably your family will want to keep around after you’re dead–what will it mean when this gets moved from the living room to the broom closet, or winds up in a yard sale?–will be compiled from your lifetime’s worth of digital data–that is, every little piece of junk you’ve ever put on the Internet–along with artificial intelligence, which for some individuals will be the only kind of intelligence they’ve ever had. The end product will be a convincing illusion of your presence: the “alter ego” will  be programed so that it can interact with real people as if you were still you.

They’re not yet ready to reveal the price tag. Still some bugs to be worked out.

Meanwhile, ask yourself this…

How many of our politicians and celebrities have already died and been replaced by digital illusions?

And how many of them were digital illusions to begin with?

 

Canada’s Own Little Inquisition

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The Bank of Montreal (BMO)  put out a corporate letter recently that puts it in the forefront of the campaign to exclude Christians and Christian beliefs from public life–in favor, of course, of sodomites. (Source: CHP Comm. Vol. 21, Issue 49, Dec. 2, 2014) Here’s a little taste of it.

“BMO requires law firms with whom we do business to disclose the diversity statistics”–the what? Like, wasn’t this a bad thing when they used to do it in South Africa?–“of their associates, partners and management committee as part of our External Counsel Selection Program.” (Boy, they do blather, don’t they?) “We are the first Canadian bank to do so and are at the forefront of a new frontier in which we not only expect higher standards of diversity and inclusion from ourselves, but from our suppliers as well…”

So they are going to achieve “diversity” by forcing others to conform to their standard of diversity. Well, you know what liberals do to words.

“At the core of BMO’s brand”–oh, please–“is our commitment to providing customers with a seamless, intuitive and personal connection to our bank.” Does anybody know what that means? “Building this human connection requires”–there they are “requiring” again–“customers to view us as more than just a financial institution, but instead as people and partners who understand and reflect their values, priorities and goals.” Got that, you customers? This is what is required of you!

“At BMO diversity and inclusion are part of our core values. It is the BMO’s view that the Trinity Western University Community Covenant, which is required to be signed by all TWU faculty, staff and students, is discriminatory. We understand that the Community Covenant requires abstention from ‘sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.’ We believe that the Community Covenant discriminates against individuals on the basis of–“and here come the sacred cows–“sexual orientation and gender expression.”

So they’re going to be inclusive by excluding everyone who has any connection to this Christian university, especially lawyers who studied at its law school.

Mind you, ask any Muslim–BMO adores Muslims–about sexual orientation and gender expression, and see what kind of answer you get. Not the kind BMO wants. They know Muslims “discriminate” against sodomy; but they won’t chide Muslims for it. They won’t exclude Muslims for refusing to bend the knee to assorted schools of perversion.

It’s sort of a “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

So a Canadian bank singles out Christians and Christian morality for exclusion. Maybe someday that won’t be enough. Maybe someday it’ll be, “Have you ever been a Christian? Is anybody in your family a Christian?” If so, you can’t do business here. Get lost.

I think Canadians should be ashamed of this. Don’t you?

We Salute a Pioneer

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Christians! Get your children out of anti-Christian public schools and into Christian education!

How many times have you heard that? I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve said it. And we say it because it’s true. Really, how many examples do you need? “Communism has a lot of good ideas…” “You can be a girl today and a boy tomorrow, depending on how you feel…” “The Bible is hate speech…” “You’d better learn to like gay marriage!” These are just a few things that children are being taught in public school, every day, in all 50 states.

Back in the 1970s, R.J. Rushdoony and a few others defended Christian homeschooling against determined efforts by local, state, and federal government to wipe it out. His work inspired others–including the ministry which I salute here today.

Frontline Ministries last month celebrated its 20th anniversary–banquet, speeches, videos, etc. Frontline’s co-founder, E. Ray Moore, ex-Army chaplain, particularly stresses Frontline’s special project, The Exodus Mandate, dedicated to inspiring a mass exodus of Christian children from “Pharaoh’s schools” in America. Expecting to be in it for the long haul, Lt. Col. Moore likens Exodus Mandate’s goal to the lifelong mission of William Wilburforce to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire–a mission that succeeded, but only after decades of struggle and sacrifice.

Exodus Mandate has it right–right on the money. Nothing will do our country more good than for millions of Christian children to be withdrawn from public schools and given a Christian education, either at home, at a church, or at a Christian school.

And conversely, nothing does America more harm than anti-Christian public education.

Col. Moore and his fellow-laborers have preached this message tirelessly for 20 years. As might be expected in this fallen world, the stiffest opposition comes from other Christians. But that doesn’t make him stop.

Inform yourself: visit the Exodus Mandate’s website, http://www.exodusmandate.org .See how public education really and truly is anti-Christian, pagan education. As incredible as it may seem, this is simply true.

I’ve been a public school teacher. I’ve seen what goes on. And I’m here to tell you, every word that Col Moore says about it is the truth.

PS: If you won’t believe Moore, if you won’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe the words of the Experts who founded public education and made it what it is today–a rigorously anti-Christian enterprise. Read The Messianic Character of American Education by R.J. Rushdoony, available from the Chalcedon Foundation store, http://www.chalcedon.edu . These villains were quite candid about what they were trying to do, and didn’t mind putting it in writing.

What is ‘Christian Fantasy’?

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We have talked about taking ordinary fiction and tacking some “Christian stuff” onto it to make it “Christian fiction.” And we have talked about fantasy as a special kind of story-telling that gets under your skin, if it’s done well. But what about “Christian fantasy”? Can we take fantasy’s special qualities and put them to work for Christ’s Kingdom?

Well, of course we can, But how? Here are a few ways not to do it.

Write it as if it were a perfectly ordinary fantasy story, like everybody else’s, only plug in a few scenes of characters praying or going to church.

You want to know why that doesn’t work? Because even an unbeliever can pray or go to church. Christianity that is only on the outside isn’t Christianity at all.

Have God give the good guys better magic than the bad guys have.

Remember what happened to Moses when he snapped at the children of Israel, “Must we fetch you water out of this rock?” God did all the miracles, but here was Moses taking credit for one of them.

I just read a book featuring a great big magical duel, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. “May the mightiest magician win!” is hardly a sentiment found anywhere in the Bible. What we do find in the Bible is God using weak and inconsequential things to confound the great and powerful. So Balaam is rebuked by his donkey, David slays Goliath, a lot of itty-bitty germs wipe out Sennacherib’s army, and the whole world is conquered not by armies, but by a baby in a manger.

Any attempt to write Christian fantasy must be anchored in the truths of the Bible, be they applied to this world or to an imaginary world, and must focus on the spirit of Christianity rather than any outward show of it–unless, of course, you’re writing about the vanity of outward show.

This being only a blog post, I’ll have to take up the subject again later on. And I’m curious to see what my readers have to say about it. Is there any Christian fantasy you’ve really liked–and why did you like it? Or is there any that you couldn’t stand–and what turned you off about it?

A Good Word Gone Bad

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Among the casualties of Democrat rule–that is to say, government by far-left, howling-at-the-moon left-wing villains–are honest English words. There ought to be a law against what these people do to language.

The most thoroughly abused of these words is “justice.”

For the Left, there is no such thing as “justice.” There are only various kinds of pseudo-justice. Here is a brief explanation of what they mean by these different kinds of “justice.”

1. Racial justice. Blacks are always right because they’re black, and whites are always wrong because they’re white. To redress this imbalance, ruling white liberals try to ensure that blacks never have to obey laws, should not be punished when they break the law, should never have to work, and should be given a lot of free stuff–but not enough free stuff to raise them out of the permanent under-class–for as long as they continue to vote for Democrats.

2. Social justice. You work, They don’t. The government takes your money and gives it to Them in return for Their political support. Here, “justice” is synonymous with that vulgar expression, “a good screwing.”

3. Environmental justice. You shouldn’t have those things you worked for–house, car, air conditioning–because they’re ruining the Environment, so government will take them away from you. The catch is, they don’t want the people in any of the poor countries to have those comforts, either. Modern conveniences must be reserved for members of the ruling class.

Poor “justice”–it has been hanged, scalped, hacked to pieces, and the libs are dancing maniacally around its pitiful remains.

Lefty ‘Law’ Center: ‘You’re Not Allowed to Think About That’

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The Stalinist wannabes at the Southern Poverty Law Center are trying to ban a documentary film, The Principle.

The film is about the Copernican view of the universe–to wit, that Earth is not the center of the universe–and interviews scientists on both sides of the question. (No, I haven’t seen it. But I can do better than that: I know someone who is in it.) It opened in Chicago recently, but has not yet been released nationally. The pukes at the SPLC demanded that the theater owners not show the film. We are glad the theater owners told them to go pound salt.

Why do these commies want to prevent people from seeing the film? It’s a movie about astronomy! Mostly what SPLC tries to do is silence anyone who doesn’t kow-tow to Organized Sodomy or bend the knee to race hustlers. Why in the world should they care what anybody thinks about astronomy?

“Believing that the earth really is the center of the universe is:

a) racist

b) could lead to Homophobia

c) puts you on the slippery slope to Climate Change Denial

d) could lead to disbelief in Evolution”

Yes, folks, these are the Diversity Goons who want to hammer out of existence any belief, any sentiment, any practice that differs in the smallest degree from what they say you must believe, feel, or do.

They say I’m a hater.

Well, I do admit to hating them.