It is a common characteristic of religious cults to disparage mainstream religions as false. This is especially true of cults that falsely affect the outward trappings of some mainstream religion in an attempt to co-opt it.
The false Christianity being promoted in the Manosphere is rooted in an equally false philosophy called Game. Game has taken on the aspects of a cult; including a conversion process its disciples term 'taking the Red Pill' which, in turn, supposedly produces a superior type of male, the Alpha. (Women are considered an inferior form of humanity in their paradigms; and not infrequently, non-White males as well). The Red Pill Philosophy is really based more in Jungian Theory, Nietzschean Nihilism, and Evolutionary Psychology than anything religiously-based. Nonetheless, most Gamers have tried to cloak these pseudo-sciences with a veneer of Christianity, to give their abominable ideas an aura of legitimacy.
One the main bloggers of this cult, Dalrock, has published a series of articles this week, attacking several prominent Protestant ministers: accusing them of teaching the sinlessness of women and other blasphemies. As it happens, most of these pastors are engaged in family counseling and similar issues---which is completely understandable given the state of the American family. Dalrock expends most of his venom on the Rev. Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Convention, for a lecture he gave in 2013. Rev. Moore was arguing---really more from Common Sense than from Scripture---that a woman withholding sex from her husband is probably dissatisfied with him in some way, and men would be well-advised to examine the cause.
Contrary to what the Gamers seem to imagine, women who are angry with the significant men in their lives typically don't display that anger by giving said man passionate sex. Women behaved this way long before Feminism; in spite of what the Red Pills believe. Female psychology is so constituted as to avoid direct confrontation and react in passive ways. One is reminded of a dialogue of an episode of television we reviewed earlier, Johnny Ringo. In that show, Ringo was trying to stop a woman from organizing a lynch-mob to kill the man in jail for murdering her father. Ringo's young protégée asked the Marshal how a woman could do something like this. Ringo replied: "Injustice works differently on a woman. When a woman's been hurt, she can't strap on a six-gun and call out her enemy, or settle it man-to-man with her fists like we can. They have to settle things in more roundabout ways."
Rev. Moore's advice, as quoted by Dalrock, was essentially getting men to understand that and not react passively themselves by having affairs or turning to pornography. Dalrock accuses Moore (and others who said similar things) of teaching that husbands who follow this advice are unbiblically submitting to the wives. He argues instead that women are obliged to suffer in silence, and in fact actually sin themselves by withholding sex.
How could Dalrock and the other Gamers actually reach such an absurd conclusion? Dalrock explains in the article Rubbing Body Parts Together:
"Pastors and theologians are most uncomfortable with the idea that husbands are entitled to sex in marriage." he quotes Game Cult blogger 'Deti' and then affirms: "This is true and is tangled up in the modern elevation of romance/emotion out of all proportion. The belief is that martial sex needs to be purified by romance, or it is unseemly. You can see this in both Mohler's (another Southern Baptist leader) and Moore's writings."
It's likely seen in these Baptist doctors' writings because the idea is not modern. "Speak to my sisters and tell them to love Christ and be satisfied with their husbands in both flesh and spirit. Exhort my brothers in the name of Jesus Christ that they love their wives even as Our Lord loved the Church." So said St. Ignatius of Antioch, who himself was a disciple of St. John the Apostle. Which indicates that the Early Christians believed quite firmly that love purified sex.
And what opinion did the same St. Ignatius hold of teachings like Dalrock's? "But it is fitting for both men and women who marry to form their union with the approval of their bishop, that their marriage may be according to God, and not after their own lust." So much for the modern notion promoted by the Game Cult, that sex is merely a physical act devoid of any emotional bonding.
In the same article, Dalrock even goes so far as to accuse Reverends Moore and Mohler of consecrating a wife's position in marriage to that of a high priestess! That the congress of the Southern Baptist Church would advocate such a heresy is so incredible that it really calls into question Dalrock's sanity. He bases that statement on Mohler's words that:
"A husband owes his wife the confidence, affection, and emotional support that would lead her to give herself freely in the act of sex."
What is doubly absurd about this is that the Game Cult teaches men to seduce women by faking these very attitudes. Yet, somehow, PUA behavior does not equate submission to women in their perverse logic. Somehow, it is only when the man is using or deceiving the woman for sex, is sex justified. And Dalrock argues that after marriage, it is simply an entitlement without the pretenses.
The Red Pill Cult, true to its actual origins in primitivist theories, is not a spiritual religion at all. In fact, it's a degenerative social movement, lowering human beings not only to pre-Christian, but even to pre-pagan levels. Dalrock and the other Gamers are preaching the morality of the ape; but nothing rising to the dignity of Man. Male apes don't care about female attitudes towards sex; civilized men do.
After four grueling years under the Al-Qaeda jackboot, and a nearly two-year long siege and battle, Syria's largest city was declared officially liberated. The last of the Terrorist forces trapped in the Southeast Redoubt send up the white flag about three hours ago. After terms of surrender were negotiated, Syrian General Said Saleh reported a successful conclusion of the battle to President Bashir Assad.
Assad announced the news to a jubilant population on SANA television before leaving for Aleppo to give his personal congratulations to his victorious troops. Reports state that both Aleppo residents and returning refugees are pouring into the streets in wild celebration and the city's mosques and churches are filled to capacity with grateful citizens.
The Battle of Aleppo was truly an international effort. Besides the Syrians, military forces from Iraq, Russia, China, Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Egypt all participated in the liberation. Russia, Iran, and the United Nations all coordinated one of the greatest humanitarian relief efforts in history against the backdrop of the Battle---in which several volunteers sacrificed their own lives.
Al-Qaeda reportedly surrender after their top commander was killed. Whether this happened because of the Allied advance or at the hands of his own mutinous troops is not yet known. Al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups lost an estimated 40,000 of their worldwide forces in Aleppo. While there are a few Al-Qaeda bands still at large in the rural districts of Western Syria, the Al-Qaeda scourge is effectively wiped out as a major threat in Syria.
The victory also foiled the various schemes of Western politicians and international criminals who have been using Al-Qaeda as a proxy for their activities.
The job though is far from over. Rebuilding the devastated city and repatriating scores of thousands of refugees will require another international effort. And ISIS---which began a feint against Palmyra this week, still holds Raqqa and Mosul and is still deeply entrenched in Deir Ezzur.
But for Aleppo, a city of over 2 million people, Christmas 2016 brought the greatest gift of all---the gift of freedom.
The Portland, Oregon metro area has become the America Left's epicenter of opposition to Democracy. Recently the scene of violent anti-Election and anti-Police riots, the Portland area public schools also made news earlier this year because of an unsuccessful effort to allow Satanists to recruit on campus. This time, the Portland suburb of Hillsboro is in the midst of a controversy after their school district ended a long tradition of Christmas decoration competition.
"We will not be holding a decorating contest this year." read an official memo. "You may still decorate your door or office if you like, but we ask that you be respectful and sensitive to the diverse perspectives and beliefs of our community and refrain from using religious-themed decorations or images like Santa Claus."
Recall that Portland is a community where violent, drug-addicted street bums are allowed to live on public sidewalks and school districts are required to promote homosexual acceptance. But images of Christmas are considered offensive to the effete Oregonians. Beth Graser, a District spokeswoman explained to station KGW reporters that "We had some staff members and visitors to our building indicate that they were uncomfortable and didn't feel welcome due to the overwhelming Christmas atmosphere that had been created."
How many of us actually remember an era in America when celebrating Christmas was not considered oppressive? "We need to create inclusive and welcoming spaces for all of our students and realize that many of them do not feel comfortable...being surrounded by imagery that is a direct affront to them." Graser stated.
It's almost pathetic to consider in what a gloomy world the typical 'Progressive' must live. It must be painful to exist in a milieu where everything traditional (i.e. normative) is seen as offensive and a cause for hatred and outrage. It's no wonder that the Portland Metro Area has the 4th highest national rate of substance abuse.
The Hillsboro School District itself is so incompetently administered that it managed to lose over $8 million despite statewide school spending of nearly $7 billion. Hillsboro teachers are the lowest-paid in the county, despite their superintendent being the 4th highest-paid public school administrator in Oregon. His five subordinate principals earn between $134,000 and $145,000 annually. So at least among the Portland Elites, there's no shortage of holiday cheer that goes all the way to the bank.
Needless to say, the degenerate residents in this area don't feel the least bit uncomfortable about stupidity like this being carried on in front of children. But this is what happens when deviants and drug addicts make local policy.
The Personal is not Political when it comes to Christmas. It's time not only to push Political Correctness out of our schools, but out of our holiday traditions as well.
Two weeks after a naturalized US citizen launched a Jihadist attack on the Ohio State University campus, students and faculty have begun emerging from their safe spaces and speaking out. The day of the attack, ESPN assured the Prozac Nation that no OSU football players were among the 11 people wounded, so rest of the country breathed an early sigh of relief.
The story hasn't gone away in Ohio, however. On November 30th, Stephanie Clemons-Thompson, an administrator in the OSU bureaucracy wrote on Facebook: "Abdul Razac Ali Artan was a 'Buckeye' a member of our family. If you think it is OK to celebrate his death and/or show a photo of his dead body and I see it on my timeline, I will unfriend you. I pray you find compassion for his life, troubled as it clearly was. Think of the pain that he must have been in to feel like his actions were the only solution. We must come together in this time of tragedy."
Thompson concludes with a Black Lives Matter hashtag. OSU English professor Pranav Jani, agreed: "Even compassion has been politicized, as we saw with the Diversity Officer who's being attacked for saying that we should show compassion for a fellow Buckeye who made tragic, tragic mistakes."
As a professor of English, Jani has published articles in publications such as Historical Materialism, The International Socialist Review, SALAAM Newsletter, The Marxist, and The Socialist Worker. With a resume like that, we can certainly conclude that none of Jani's course material is 'politicized', can't we?
Like Thompson, Jani is a huge supporter of BLM and spoke at a campus protest against minorities allegedly shot 'wrongfully' by police. Artan, the OSU attacker who made a 'tragic mistake' was included on the list of 'wrongful deaths'. Maryam Abidi, one of the protest leaders and Gender-Studies major at OSU explained: "The protest against police brutality extends to the guilty and innocent alike, because we know that no matter what the crime, justice and due process don't come from a cop's bullet."
Professor William Clark, who was actually injured in the attack, bitterly told CNN that he was refusing President Trump's offer to visit the victims. This, of course, didn't stop Clark from spouting off to the Corporate Media about what he would say.
"I've been a professor for 35 years," Clark pontificated, "And I know these issues, when students do these things, they are often for complex reasons. I'd like Trump to embrace a message that a vital component to our universities is their multidisciplinary, multinational, multi-everything character."
Clark was rammed by Artan's car while waiting outside a building that had been evacuated after the heating system broke down. Taxpayers cough up a whopping $6.2 billion annually to subject young minds to this kind of perverted thinking.
Which brings up an interesting issue. There is no indication that Artan was radicalized in his native Somalia, and actually did become a legal resident of the US. Where would we suppose he got his radical ideas? We do note that there's a fair number of radicalized faculty, staff, and student leadership at Ohio State, though.
Maybe our Government should take a little closer look at who's teaching our young people than who's immigrating into the country. It may be a fair question as to whether our colleges and high schools are costing our country---both economically and culturally---far more than immigration, legal or otherwise.
Earlier this week, Pope Francis spoke out once again about abuses in the Corporate Media. This has displeased the egomaniacs in the Manosphere's Alt-Right, who get lots of free publicity from Big Media; and actually endorse many of the same Cultural Marxist agendas as the MSM. Among the perversions they mutually share is a hatred for traditional Christianity.
Red Pill Cult blogger Andrew Anglin of The Daily Stormer went so far as to accuse the Pope of being a pervert. This is nothing new from the Far Right; their anti-Catholicism runs as deep as their anti-Semitism. They're all great worshippers of Donald Trump too---Trump's Catholic Vice-President and Jewish son-in-law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Anglin is distressed because Francis compared Anglin's pals in the MSM to those suffering from a mental condition attracting them to human feces. Most of us probably agree that both the Corporate Media and Manosphere bloggers seem to enjoy wallowing in the most disgusting and repulsive stories available; but Anglin sees no problem with this. In fact, the same day, he also posted an articled titled, How to be a Nigger on Twitter in which he encourages his disciples to troll Twitter posing as Blacks. Such are Anglin's standards of media ethics.
To attack Francis, Anglin cites an article in USA Today, hardly an unbiased source given that Francis was criticizing Media outlets just like theirs. Anglin throws up his hands in pious horror that "the Pope appears to have compared 'fake news' to eating poop." The extract from Francis' speech Anglin cites says nothing about 'fake news' but about spreading disinformation and scandalmongering.
So is Andrew Anglin arguing that disinformation and scandalmongering are legitimate ways to broadcast the news? In an article bashing Catholic schools (this time relying on The Washington Post as a source), the Daily Stormer has this to say regarding a lawsuit involving a racial incident at a Catholic school:
"The only reason that clerics behave this way is because they fear Jews more than they fear Whites. It's time for that to change!" This after the same writer had accused Catholic Schools of taking bribes in the form of tuition to keep white students away from minorities.
This once demonstrates that the Alt-Right is not Conservative; nor are they traditionalists in any sense of the word. Their only real objection to Political Correctness is that the Cultural Marxists have a monopoly on it. Otherwise, they're perfectly content engaging in the same kinds of hatred.
The last few days have seen much talk from everyone about 'fake news', and media attacks centered on the politics of personal destruction. This is hardly a new phenomenon in human history. Even Pope Francis earlier this week spoke of scandal-mongering as a sin to which all of us are susceptible. When it becomes a problem with people in positions of responsibility, real damage can be done.
Media in the past often dealt with these themes in film. Our feature film for this weekend is one of the better ones on this topic. It is a Western from 1966 titled The Big Gundown and stars stalwart Western actors Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian.
Van Cleef plays famous Texas Ranger turned bounty-hunter, Jonathan Corbett. The film opens with Corbett delivering one his most famous lines "It's a bad day for outlaws,' before bringing four fugitives to justice. Corbett returns to town a hero; and is invited to a party hosted by a railroad tycoon named Brokston. Brokston hopes to interest Corbett in becoming a Senator and introduces him to his influential friends, including Baron von Schulenberg, his personal bodyguard who's killed 23 men in a duel.
The party is interrupted by two local men who announce that a 12 year-old girl has been found brutally raped and murdered. They claim that the murderer was 'Cuchillo' Sanchez (played by Milian), a former soldier in Benito Juarez' revolution, who's taken refuge in America. Sanchez is a rather shady character and flees towards Mexico. Brokston offers Corbett the Senate nomination and a handsome reward if he captures Sanchez; and so the chase is on.
Corbett finds Sanchez to be his most formidable quarry; and the pursuit soon becomes personal on two levels. One is Corbett's professional honor and reputation for always getting his man---which Sanchez doesn't make easy, escaping Corbett's grasp more than once. The second is Corbett's personal sense of justice and morality. His encounters with Sanchez throughout the film begin to make him suspicious as to the Mexican's actual guilt. The film then takes on both the aspect of an adventure and a mystery. Is Sanchez really guilty, or the victim of 'fake news'? Corbett will have to catch him to learn the truth.
The Big Gundown is rated by Western film fans as one of the best ever, though not as famous as some. The characters are realistically drawn---especially Tomas Milian's---and the viewer can really follow and empathize with both his character and Corbett's. It actually spawned two less-famous but still above-average sequels.
Corbett's character in particular evinces a much-maligned quality in some circles today: a desire for social justice. In contemporary Manosphere quarters, a Social Justice Warrior is a pejorative term. In fact, there are several scenes where Corbett's character is contrasted against the Manosphere 'Alpha' archetype and shows that our forefathers, at least, considered justice to be a positive aspect of masculinity. Milian's character is that of a once-idealistic revolutionary turned fugitive; and the directors skillfully progressively portray how society dehumanizes him (especially in scenes that cast doubt on his guilt). In all but one of Sanchez' escape scenes there a dehumanizing aspect involved: first, he assumes a false identity, second he begs like a coward; third involves an encounter with a rattlesnake; another he is made to wallow in a pigsty; and the last chase scene has him running through a field before mounted horsemen like an English foxhunt. In the one different escape scene, he tells Corbett:
"Yes I run, but can I stop running long enough to explain myself without getting killed? Let me tell you something: something that will give you a big laugh. I didn't kill that little girl. But it so happens, I know who did---and you will know too, if you don't know already. And when you learn that, you'll be the one who's running. And you'll see it was a lot more fun when you're the hunter than it is when you're the prey."
Mystery, adventure, action---great musical scores and a strong moral message, it's hard to find a better Western than The Big Gundown. This is a rare film of its genre in an epoch when amoral heroes were first being introduced into Westerns (and action films generally): a hero seeking justice for its own sake is a refreshing change. The film is available on DVD but not currently on any free-download sites.
The US Center for Disease Control delivered some more bad news for the Liberal Establishment today. Earlier we learned that billions spent on prenatal care during the last 30 years has resulted in infant mortality rates increasing to Third-World levels. Yesterday, we learned that two years of Obamacare have seen life expectancy declines to early 1990s levels.
And now today, for the first time, the CDC reports that death from heroin overdoses has exceeded firearm-related deaths. Only a decade ago, firearm-related deaths were 500% higher. The CDC statistics, of course, don't specify how many heroin addicts were shot in self-defense by gun owners; but we presume there were a few, anyway.
It should give one pause to consider, however, that laws against heroin haven't done much to prevent heroin-related deaths; so it's doubtful that gun deaths would be prevented by further restrictions on their use. However we are talking about Leftist logic here. Cities like San Francisco and Seattle drive gun stores out of town, but have city-run needle-exchange programs for heroin users. Yes---Liberals consider it compassionate to provide junkies with sanitary needles so that they can overdose and die more cleanly. The situation is actually so bad in both cities that hopheads there have actually formed their own political lobbies.
The CDC also reported that opioid drug use in the US has quadrupled since 1999, with overdoses rising correspondingly. Then, as now, Afghanistan was the major exporter of opium, but what has changed since 1999? Yes: US occupation since 2002. The United Nations estimated that, in 1999, Afghanistan under the Taliban produced 185 tons of opium. Since 2002, it is estimated that opium production in Afghanistan is averaging 3,400 tons annually. 2007---the year that first saw heroin deaths rise in the US---also saw a record opium crop of 8,200 tons.
Maybe if our brave men and women in uniform spent less time protecting homosexual pedophiles in the Afghan leadership and engaging in drunken orgies with corrupt civilian contractors or taking bribes to overlook criminal activities, they might actually do something about Afghani thugs filling our streets with heroin. But today's LGBTQ-friendly Pentagon is more concerned with political correctness than with protecting US citizens.
Americans are by-and-large in denial about the fact that we have turned into a nation of drug addicts; and they are in even deeper denial about the fact that high-level corruption and incompetence are exacerbating the situation. Yet the numbers don't lie. The drug problem in the United States is extremely serious and has only gotten worse under 3 decades of Liberal/Neocon misrule. The incoming Trump Administration has shown a willingness to deal with the situation in more constructive ways than we have seen in the past.
A future emphasis to reverse this trend must come with incentives. The 'Drug War' paradigm of the past proved very ineffective; and Obama's policy of ignoring it altogether has made it worse. There has to be an incentive for people to avoid narcotics and/or seek treatment. That incentive is what is lacking: like the spike in suicide rates evidenced earlier, drug addiction is symptomatic of a culture that has lost faith in the future. Restoring that faith is the key to rehabilitating both the individual and our society in general.
