Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
Now, in addition to our Chalcedon website being down, our email communications have been ravaged. What I send to my editor now comes out as gibberish.
It’s beginning to look like vandalism.
So if I’m not here tomorrow, if this blog is not here, it’ll because they’ve gone after this aspect of our ministry, too.
Please pray for us. Lord, we are your servants and they go after us because they can’t reach up to you. Deliver us out of their hands, and triumph over your enemies. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Really, I was going to start working on my Chalcedon assignment this afternoon, a long article on Internet and social media censorship–
–Only now the Chalcedon website is down. See for yourself, http://www.chalcedon.edu/ .
We know they’ve been trying to shut us down, because we’re a Christian ministry and that’s what you do with Christian ministries. Our “crime” was to be accused by the Southern Poverty Law Center and some other Far Left hate groups–they accused us of being a “hate” group, therefor we shouldn’t be allowed a presence on the Internet. In Lefty Land, the mere accusation is the same as being found guilty. Ask Brett Kavanagh.
Last we heard, we were being “investigated” by some so-called “journalist” who poses in a “rainbow” T-shirt and a PLO-style mask over the lower half of his face. Think we can expect a fair shake from him?
So I don’t know how to get the story started because the news is breaking this way and that, every day, we don’t know when we’ll get our website back in service, we don’t know why it’s down–but we do know that the Left is gunning for us. We do know that.
Suggested by Erlene, by way of an antidote to the kind of nooze we have to report today, A Shelter in the Time of Storm, inspired by Isaiah 32:2.
Martin Selbrede just recently wrote on this theme for Chalcedon. Let me see if I can find it for you.
The ginks who run the Harris Poll expressed shock and lamentation recently when they found only 45% of “young people” aged 18-34 “comfortable” with “interacting with” LGBTQ individuals–down from 53% in 2017 (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/24/lgbtq-acceptance-millennials-decline-glaad-survey/1503758001/?fbclid=IwAR3LBvR7GSw8_h201wewpY4Tah0WX5En7eVNebvb3jGpApZdbeta5BE4UnY).
“Young people are growing less tolerant of LGBTQ individuals,” states the USA Today headline, calling the poll results “alarming”.
Alarming to whom?
Gnashing his teeth, the Harris Poll CEO wailed, “We count on the narrative that young people are more progressive and tolerant… These numbers are very alarming and signal a looming crisis in discrimination.”
They are dumbfounded that regular people, even young ones who’ve had their brains kneaded by our schools and colleges, have limited patience for being incessantly beaten over the head with this stuff. So the “un-comfy” numbers are way up, across the boards.
Imagine that! People actually get tired of having to say they’re cool with something when they’re not. And this in Pride Month! Oh, the pain!
Yes–they work night and day to impose their weird notions of societal evolution on us, then they fall down and foam at the mouth whenever there’s resistance. There are things that the vast majority of the human race has resisted for the vast majority of human history; and this is one of them.
Would you believe it? Some two-thirds of American employees regret having earned college degrees–mostly because it cost them so much and rewarded them so little (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-thirds-of-american-employees-regret-their-college-degrees/).
Persons working in jobs requiring STEM degrees (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)–also known as real stuff–are much less dissatisfied than those who ponied up for degrees in liberals arts or social sciences.
The debt hanging over their heads for years and years is the leading reason for regretting having gone to college; but in second place is the graduate’s “area of study.” Well, yeah–what are you supposed to do with your master’s degree in Superhero Studies? It was all right while you were at college partying and getting wasted every other night; but now that you’re sweeping the floor at the 7-11 and earning the minimum wage, that degree doesn’t look like such a hot idea.
And guess what! America’s aggregate student loan debt is now around $1.6 trillion! But not to worry–Democrat/Socialist presidential wannabe Bernie Sanders has proposed the government just tax Wall Street trading to pay off the debt.
If you think that’s a good idea, think again. Debt can never be wiped out–only shifted onto someone else. And who winds up standing at the bottom of the hill, when all this s*** rolls down? You, sunshine–the undefended taxpayer! ‘Cause there’s no way Wall Street’s just gonna swallow a $1.6 trillion s*** sandwich. This tab will be passed on to the public, one way or another.
Oh–and Bernie also proposes universal free college: everybody goes to college (everybody’s already going, but never mind), absolutely free!
We’re gonna need another trillion dollars.
I’ve got to start writing that article about Internet and social media censorship, can’t put it off any longer because the deadline looms.
If you’ve been banned or suspended from Twitter, Facebook, Google, whatever, or censored in anyway, I’d like to hear about it! Your experience matters. Don’t worry, I’ll disguise your identity, they won’t come knocking at your door.
Point is, they haven’t just been going after big fish. They want to silence all of us. All of us who don’t bow the knee to their Far Left Crazy Baal.
And it’s time to push back!
If you’ve been banned or censored, tell us about it in a comment anywhere on this blog.
Lest we forget! Lest we take next year’s presidential election for granted… and bring upon our own heads the calamity of one more Democrat president.
That means you don’t sit this one out, boys and girls–or there won’t be boys and girls anymore, if quobs like Obama have their way. That means you don’t toss your vote away on some quixotic third-party candidate who has about as much chance of winning as you do. And you don’t just sit there waiting for The Righteous Candidate to emerge from fantasy.
It’s gotten so we’re never more than one election away from losing our republic.
Don’t let it happen on your watch.
Job knew this, well over a thousand years before Our Lord Jesus Christ was born: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, sung by “a Mennonite choir.” Background set design by God the Father: His handiwork on earth displays His glory and His love.
Good grief! Some of these places look like the owner ought to apply for disaster relief. None of my family’s dogs ever did anything like this. My iguana wouldn’t have permitted it.
You can see the dogs feel guilty about what they’ve done; they know they’ve displeased the humans. I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time…
See this balloon with all the air let out of it. That’s me!
I’ve just finished typing the first half-dozen chapters of The Wind From Heaven, 10,000 words and change–it has sunk me deep into the typo zone–and submitting it to Susan, my editor.
Next up: write that humongous article about Internet censorship for Chalcedon. The deadline looms. Still no word from any of you who have experienced Internet censorship. I hate to go on without you, but what can I do?
I must rest!
See you later, when it’s cat video time.