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My Books Are Being Trolled

leeduigon(patty)January 23, 2017

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From time to time I like to check amazon.com to see how my books are doing.

I got a nasty surprise last night, and again this morning, when I discovered one-star ratings among my customer reviews: Bell Mountain first, and now The Cellar Beneath the Cellar. I would rather not give the name of the malicious little nit that posted them.

See if you can follow his logic. Lee Duigon is “a follower” of R. J. Rushdoony. [I am employed, and my books are published, by The Chalcedon Foundation, the ministry founded by Rushdoony. I am not aware of being “a follower” of anyone.] Rushdoony was “a religious huckster” [no, he wasn’t] and “a christofascist,” whatever that is. Therefore, “persons of good character” will avoid my books.

Having read thousands of pages of Rushdoony’s published works, I can truly say this person is talking through his hat. But because Rushdoony was a faithful man of God, libs and other louses have always attacked him viciously.

Thing is, I have few reviews, not many readers know that I exist: so a single one-star rating easily drives down a book’s overall rating. By the time this insect gets around to trolling the later books in my series, it will look like half the readers hated them.

That “christofascist” tag is genuinely offensive. In all probability, the reviewer is some left-wing loon from the Southern Poverty Loon Center, or someplace like that, who thinks everybody to the right of where he is, out on the far-left fringe of the galaxy, is a fascist, a knotsy, and a biggit who should be beaten senseless, etc. That’s the Loving Left all over.

All right, well, I’ve taken one for the team. An inner voice keeps whispering, “It’s about time they’ve come after you! I was beginning to think you were doing something wrong.”

But my books are my babies, and when somebody maliciously attacks them, I do admit I find it hard to laugh it off. It’s a lesson I’d better learn, I guess. I don’t want God to be ashamed of me for yelping about a bug-bite.

New Fox ‘Comedy’–But We’re Not Laughing

leeduigon(patty)January 6, 2017

(You didn’t think I was going to post an image of this garbage, did you? Let’s have a friendly baby owl instead.)

Fox TV brings you Fox News, which libs say tricks people into being conservatives when they would otherwise just naturally be left-wing loons. But it also brings you toxic trash like this.

Fox’s new “comedy,” The Mick, debuted Jan. 1, pounding another nail into the coffin of America’s culture. It features a 6-year-old boy as a “transgender” who wears bondage gear and talks about “my vagina” ( http://www.infowars.com/fox-comedy-features-6yo-trans-boy-wearing-bondage-gag/ ). Ha, ha.

I am sorry to be reporting this to you; but we have to know what we’re up against.

I no longer have any doubt that the whole project of the Left, the secular humanist whoopee crowd, is satanic to the core. R.J. Rushdoony was right, many years ago, when he described it as a full-blown rebellion aimed at overthrowing the natural order created by God.

The enterprise, of course, is doomed to total failure. Directed against Almighty God, how can it be otherwise? Those who endorse it, and labor to bring it to fruition, will perish with it.

But in the meantime it’s going to be a rough ride, and before it’s over it will cost us tears and wounds and sacrifice. It already has. The Lord has never said we’d have an easy time of it.

But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations… He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. –Revelation 2: 25-26, 29

Hold on. Pray. Repent. Persist in good works. And sing louder–to make it easier for Him to find us when He comes.

Self-Education… Through Entertainment

leeduigon(patty)August 22, 2015

I have been dipping into R.J. Rushdoony’s The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum (Ross House Books, Vallecito, CA: 1981, 2001 reprint–available from http://www.chalcedon.edu ), and it has set my mind on fire.

Culture, said Henry Van Til, “is religion externalized.” In light of that statement, one good, hard look at our culture of today should send us running madly for the exits. And one of the chief determining factors of a culture is, of course, the education provided to its members.

And here’s the thought that blows my mind:

Our consumption of “entertainment”–novels, movies, stories, television programs, etc.–is a form of self-education.

This entertainment is what we pour into our heads when we are not in a formal “educational” setting. As a society, we have more leisure time than we used to have; and much of that time is spent consuming entertainment.

The horror! The horror!

Take a good look, kimosabe, at what we’re stuffing into our minds. Is it any wonder we’re in such a mess? Given what we educate ourselves into, of course we’re going to redefine marriage, excuse all forms of lawlessness, lie and cheat six ways from Sunday, and in general behave as if there is no God.

Because so much of our entertainment, our self-education, is absolutely, positively Godless.

Think it over–long and hard and carefully. What are we learning from our entertainment?

Our elite “educators” have labored mightily to wean our nation away from Christianity. But their efforts are a drop in the bucket, compared to the weaning-away accomplished by our entertainment.

The point is so subtle as to be well-nigh invisible. We thus defend ourselves: “It’s only a movie, it’s only a novel, it’s only a TV show”–as if our steady diet of it had no effect at all.

I thank Rushdoony for this insight.