One of the characteristics of cults is they way they continually employ confirmation bias to undermine faith. Two of the ringleaders of the Red Pill Cult, Dalrock and Vox Day have published a pair of complimentary articles 'proving' that Feminism---and by extension 'feminized' churches (i.e. everyone outside of their belief system)---has succumbed to the idolatry of the Feminine Imperative.
The 'Feminine Imperative' is one of the Game/Red Pill mythologies, based on Evolutionary Psychology and some of their own heresies related to the Garden of Eden story. Imperiousness would actually be a better word for what they are describing; but they're too discreet to use that term. Their doctrine alleges that women are this way by nature, unless controlled by Man or the State.
So, what do Dalrock and Vox offer as evidence for all this? That the British version of the Girl Scouts mentioned 'duty to God' in their creed 117 years ago, but don't today.
"There are no two ways around it. As Dalrock shows, the evidence is clear." Vox authoritatively informs his disciples, quoting his confederate at length, "Feminism isn't merely wrong, or incoherent, or dyscivilizational (sic) it is intrinsically anti-Christian."
It may be so; but not for the reasons the Red Pills state---which are clearly designed to promote the mythologies of their Cult. Otherwise, Dalrock wouldn't have added this non-sequitur:
"We don't get this merely from secular sources or even just from Liberal Christian leaders. Women's feelings are taught by modern Conservative Christians as something holy, divinely inspired."
The Red Pills actually care nothing about women's feelings, so they repeat exaggerations like the above at every opportunity. They have argued that wives have no right to refuse sex under any circumstances. A few even argue that they have no right to refuse it outside of marriage, either. This is the point from which they attack Christians (and others) who actually believe in respecting female feelings as 'feminist'. So Dalrock adds:
"Thus we are taught that wives are light-years closer to God than their husbands, and that they are channeling the Divine Will when they throw Godly tantrums. This is especially true when it comes to women's sexual/romantic feelings."
What a cad. Dalrock and Vox are arguing that female feelings about sex are imperious and essentially, sinful. This is the reasoning of a thug, or a sexual predator, disguised as Christian Doctrine. To underscore the point further, they attack some ministers as 'heretics':
"Pastors Dave Wilson and Dr. Albert Mohler both teach that a wife's sexual attraction (or lack thereof) to her husband is a signal from God as to her husband's righteousness."
Actually, neither teach this. Here's what Dr. Mohler actually did say, as quoted by Dalrock himself:
"I believe that God intends for a man to be civilized, directed, and stimulated towards marital faithfulness by the fact that his wife will freely give herself to him sexually only when he presents himself as worthy of her attention and desire."
What a concept: a woman having voluntary sex with a man because she respects him!
The whole idea of the Feminine Imperative is bogus anyway. In Palmyra, Syria Christian women were martyred by ISIS for refusing to renounce their Faith---even when the Jihadi thugs lined their children up in a trench and shot them in front of their eyes. For every anecdote like the British Girl Scouts that the Gamers adduce to support their hypothesis, there's another that refutes it. This is why reasoning from anecdote is illogical.
The Law of Polarity and sexual complimentarianism is never cheated. The Red Pills aren't the antidote to anti-Christian Feminism; but its polarity and compliment. Both are antagonistic to Christianity and to Civilization, regardless of their superficial appearance as opposites.
Trump Derangement Syndrome struck again shortly before tonight's rather meaningless Oscars-Awards Ceremonies. Some supporters of President Trump were protesting peacefully outside the event when two young women suffered a TDS attack and went on a short but spirited and profanity-laden rampage. Anyone interested in seeing a video clip of these fine specimens of Postmodern American maidenhood in action can watch at Samuel Gonzalez' blog.
These two women are familiar types to anyone who's spent much time in Southern California. This is usually what girls grow up to be like when they have no strong male role models in their childhoods. They both come across as a couple of overgrown brats who've never had a male authority figure in their lives but subconsciously act out because they crave discipline. When the blonde is arrested by the burly male cop, her expression reminds one of those old aftershave commercials where the man gets slapped an says, "Thanks. I needed that."
And really the fracas outside the ceremony was more entertaining than most of what Hollywood produces these days. The Oscars have generally sunk to a point where saying much about them is pointless: like the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Just a bunch of effete Media oligarchs patting themselves on the back and posing for the populace as though they were still a free press.
What Americans---and American Women in particular---can take away from the Oscars' meltdown is what we saw during the Golden Globes when Meryl Streep cracked up. Don't be that girl. Make American Women Great Again (MAWGA). And, as we did after the Golden Globes article, we reached into the Feature Friday archives to find some examples:
That's reason to rebuild America enough!
After election-rigging, threatening the Electoral College, violent riots, calls for martial law have all failed; the anti-Trump 'Resistance' has now turned to Black Magic to subvert democracy. Last Friday, at Midnight, a group calling itself Magic Resistance called for a national Witches' Sabbath to cast spells against the Trump Administration and its supporters.
The credulous Corporate Media made a big issue of the story; craftily juxtaposing the Witches against Trump-supporting Christians. "Thus far," the BBC quipped, "Mr. Trump has yet to comment on the battle between Bible and broomstick." No wonder the White House Press Secretary banned the BBC.
Interestingly enough, though, when we go back through the news archives, we find that less than two weeks before the Election the so-called Pagan Community was rather politically divided. Illustrating that even Conservative Witches have more principle than Liberals, pro-Trump witches refused to curse Hilary Clinton.
"Sorcery won't sway this election" Cerridwena, a Trump-supporting witch said on October 28th, "I am all for him. I believe that Trump will win this election on his own by his own merit, not by using magic."
But the Radical Left reflexively despises anyone who succeeds by their own merit. So great is their dislike, that they now call upon their natural confederates---The Powers of Darkness---to undo the Constitutional powers of the Electorate. A Hollywood kook named Lana Del Rey even led a televised coven outside Trump Tower in chants of "Bind him so that he does not break our polity...usurp our liberty...or fill our minds with hate, confusion, fear, or despair." What any of this means, the Devil alone knows.
Maybe instead Lana and her cohorts should chant "Make America Great Again". There was a time when Hollywood Witches were a lot more fun:
America's narcotics problem has apparently jumped the Northern border into Canada. Archbishop J. Michael Miller of the Vancouver Archdiocese has issued an urgent appeal to Christians everywhere to help assist with Vancouver's exploding drug addiction rate.
"This health emergency is widespread," Miller said in an interview with The Catholic News Agency, "It is cutting across every segment of society, devastating families and communities...It is killing our youth, workers, and elderly. Sadly, even most of those who survive suffer brain damage and from other long-term consequences."
Officials in British Columbia state that there were nearly 1,000 overdose fatalities in the province last year---more than twice the number of homicides and traffic fatalities combined. As in the US, these are primarily opiate-related overdoses. Provincial officials cite Fentanyl---a narcotic pushed by Big Pharma as a legal prescription drug---as the main killer. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid with effects similar to Morphine, but at an estimated 50-100 times the potency.
Bishop Miller stated that 42 overdoses were treated at St. Paul's Hospital between Christmas and New Year's Day alone. He stated too that "The toll is especially brutal on our first responders who find themselves mentally and physically exhausted in this exceptionally difficult job."
This section of North America seems especially prone to this problem. Seattle, the largest city next to Vancouver, has the highest drug-addiction rate in the US. Portland, the next largest city, ranks fourth.
The Bishop believes that there are three main factors contributing to the epidemic: over-prescription of dope, social isolation, and mental illness. We should add to the list---at least from the US side---an unwillingness to acknowledge or to address the problem.
Over-prescription is probably the main cause. The dope-peddlers running Big Pharma know exactly what these narcotics are doing; yet they hook people intentionally via the friendly doctor or the school nurse. Under socialized medicine, they charge the American and Canadian Governments maximum prices as addicts return for prescriptions. This is not hyperbole: the US Center for Disease Control even admits that 1/3 of American opioid junkies are hooked on pharmaceuticals obtained by prescription.
The other two points the Bishop makes are problems as well. Most Americans are probably aware that Seattle and Portland are notoriously socially isolated cities. The term Seattle Freeze is even in the urban dictionary depicting the coldness and lack of sociability among that city's residents. Portland is not far behind. Part of the reason for the extreme levels of social isolation in this region is because of the stifling Political Correctness that permeates the entire cultural atmosphere.
Mental illness is another problem---though really related to over-prescription. These supposedly 'progressive' cities allow the mentally ill to roam the streets at will and do little or nothing to help them. A scandal that broke in Portland last Winter saw seven mentally ill people die of exposure on the streets---while the City Elites were busy rioting against a fair election.
Miller recommended that Christians advocate for stronger regulations of opioids, and put more Church effort into education and treatment. He suggested the innovative idea of creating a support network for first responders and hospital workers.
As an interesting side note, China's Ministry of Health this week banned Fentanyl-based opiates as a public health menace. Will North American governments follow suit?
Well, no, we haven't forgotten that February is officially Black History Month. The Hollywood Liberals usually don't let us forget; although they've been quite preoccupied this year bashing Democracy. In the very early days of film, Harlem was a major movie center. The film companies moved out to Hollywood in the early 1920's, but a lot of Black-owned studios stayed on in New York and produced a number of films popular among American Blacks.
The trend was revived after the Civil Rights' Movement of the 1960s, in conjunction with 'Motown's' rise as a music force in the media. The effete Corporate Media today sneeringly refers to this genre of film as Blaxploitation. The reality is that most of it had an enormous audience across the board of all races and both genders. The successfulness that films of this era had really did more to integrate the media than anything Hollywood actually did. Frankly, today's trash-culture media is more racially exploitative than any of these older films generally were.
This weekend's recommendation is an action film that was released in 1974 and was a huge hit. Three the Hard Way stars former NFL rushing leader (and Trump supporter) Jim Brown with his friends Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson and Jim 'The Black Samurai' Kelly. You know that whenever these three team up, the bad guys are in for a rough time.
Brown plays the part of Jimmy Lait, a successful Motown studio owner who runs into a big problem. He finds his friend House wounded and seeking help. House has been investigating a suspicion eugenics research facility run by a bunch of Neo-Nazi scumbags. House gets killed and Lait's girlfriend Wendy is kidnapped by the Nazis as a hostage for Lait's silence.
But you can't keep a good man down, regardless of his race, color, or creed. Lait collects a couple of his buddies, soldier-of fortune Jagger Daniels (played by Fred Williamson) and karate expert Mister Keyes (played by Jim Kelly) and the trio set out to exact vengeance on the Nazis and rescue Wendy---despite several violent attempts to stop them. Along the way, they discover House's secret: the Nazis have developed a race-specific biochemical weapon which they are on the verge of deploying in three major cities. The trio split up to stop the genocide before the rescue attempt.
What a contrast to the thug-culture of the Media today. The characters these men depict are varied; but all heroic in the best masculine sense of the term. That's what is utterly lacking from most male Hollywood role-models today---men who instinctively did the right thing and took action. And there's no shortage of action in Three the Hard Way.
Although she only has a few parts, Lait's girlfriend Wendy (played by Sheila Frazier) is an enjoyable character. In a film genre known for hardened females, Wendy is a good old-fashioned damsel-in-distress. It's great watching the scenes where she taunts her captors by telling them confidently that 'her man is on the way'. In one priceless scene, the Nazi leader learns that Lait has teamed up with Daniels and Keyes, Wendy gloats: "Three of them? Now you've really a got a problem!"
The film spawned two sequels, One Down, Two to Go where the trio was joined by Richard Roundtree and a Western Take a Hard Ride, where they were joined by Lee Van Cleef. So why not make movie night a triple feature? All are available on Youtube as of this writing and on DVD as well.
The so-called 'Christian' Manosphere types are at it again. Just a day or two ago, they were expressing their Alpha outrage at statues depicting Christ teaching children of various race. Now, their ire is getting focused on Christian families adopting non-White babies.
The Red Pill blog Goodbye America is the culprit once again. A commenter with the telling name of 'Ratlick' denounced a program sponsored by Houston First Baptist Church to assist prospective adoptive parents. A success story published on the Church's website depicted a couple who'd adopted an Indian orphan:
Ratlick fumes that: "They are fertile, but chose degeneracy. Notice his legs, they are always pushed together like that" A fine comment coming from a supposed defender of men. He continues: "Congregation of the main church is around 90% White. I have seen other couples adopting Indian kids. If we got rid of tax exemption and let political issues be discussed in church, this s--t would stop."
Ratlick is apparently referring in the last sentence to the Johnson Amendment, which has been up for discussion of repeal recently. The Amendment was written in 1954 by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson and signed into law by President Eisenhower. It's purpose was to prevent political takeovers of religious institutions---which the Communists were actually caught attempting in the late 1940s. The Red Pills---like their Red Comrades on the Left---wholeheartedly support withdrawing legal protections from extremist ideologies infiltrating the churches.
The blogger then comments that: "The wife is cute, but she's running roughshod over her low-T gayfaced husband. I suspect these hot wives of cucked hubbies sublimate their raging clit-boners for the Masculine Alpha through the adoption of mocha chips. It's next to Godliness!"
Can't you just hear the jealous rage of this author oozing out from every word? This is very typical of Red Pill/Manosphere writers. They reflexively envy any man with an attractive woman. To be honest, the man in the picture doesn't exactly look 'low-T'. Put a Woolrich plaid jacket and a sock-hat on him and he'd look like someone you wouldn't pick on in a bar-fight.
What these Red Pills are also completely ignorant about is how adoption actually works in the United States. It so happens that the majority of adoptive parents are White and that the majority of orphans available for adoption are not. For couples eager to start a family, a child from a non-White background is much easier to obtain.
And for that matter, let's consider the little girl in the picture. She lives in a Christian home; probably goes to Sunday School and likely will attend a parochial school of some type when she's older. What do we suppose the odds of this happening to her in India were?
This is simply more Red Pill Christian-bashing. To underscore this point, a regular Manosphere commenter called 'ar10308' opines:
"Inter-racial adoption shaming needs to become a thing. My best friend's older brother and his wife are now posting on FB about how excited they are to add some Curried Untouchable to their family. They have 3-4 healthy children of Germanic descent already; and why they need to add a Vindulooter is only out of Churchian reasoning and self-righteousness." So says the ignoramus who doesn't realize that Aryans originated in India.
The Ancient Romans had an aggressive program of adopting foreign children during an infertility epidemic and it was widely praised. The Early Christians followed the Roman program and even during the Crusades orphans from the Middle East were adopted by European families. There's nothing new or novel about any of this. The Church has always welcomed this practice as a way of encouraging families and bringing the Gospel to other cultures.
But adoption of any kind is frowned upon by the Red Pills. Their doctrines imply that the ability to reproduce is a sign of the superior Alpha Male; and that fertility is the only essential value that women. Their doctrines aren't Christian at all; but simply a role-reversal of Radical Feminist and Militant Homosexual positions on the subject. And envy of the traditional family motivates them all.
It's now been a little over 100 days since President Trump was elected. During this time, we've seen continuing civil unrest in the failing, Leftist-controlled cities of the Pacific Coast. But life under Progressivism is not exactly always a joyous one. As an example, Areavibes--- a website which rates livability in US cities---downgraded San Francisco recently to an embarrassingly low 67% Livability Score. Oakland fared even worse at 61%. In contrast, Orange,---the most conservative/libertarian large city in California---scored 80%.
The quality of life in San Francisco has literally degenerated to near-3rd World conditions. The streets and waterways are filled with garbage, people camping out in tents, a rampant drug problem and continual riots---while a few others live and work in overpriced housing. These are conditions Americans once associated with the poorer parts of Asia and Latin America; but it is an example of what the Progressive Left considers a great social achievement.
San Francisco is so filthy that there's now a website warning pedestrians of areas too polluted with human waste for safety. Elevators and escalators in public places have actually been damaged by this problem. SFGate reported last November that the City had received almost 20,000 public reports of unsanitary conditions on the streets: a 39% increase from 2015. Problems controlling vermin like rats, roaches, lice, etc. have been a uphill battle in the City for the last few years. It's not uncommon that public venues are closed for infestations of these kinds.
Even Leftist Corporate Media outlets like The Huffington Post and DailyKos were forced to admit as recently as last year that the Bay Area is one of the most polluted waterways in the country. Especially residue from plastic food containers which pile up everywhere in the streets. High levels of narcotics are also present.
Areavibes rates San Francisco as 'failing' in Cost of Living, Crime, and Education. San Francisco's public schools' test scores are 23% below national average and the City has a crime rate 142% above the national average. Violent crime accounts for most of this percentage. Unsurprisingly, San Francisco activists closed down all the City's gun stores; and concealed-carry permits are difficult to obtain.
Equally unsurprisingly, San Francisco's drug problem is among the nation's worst. It is estimated by US Government sources that the illicit drug traffic in San Francisco nets about $400 million per year. 13% of the population admits to using 'recreational' drugs according to surveys. The San Francisco Examiner reported that last Summer, overdose deaths were averaging 100 per month. And it is not simply illegal drugs: the National Institute of Drug Abuse reported that nearly 6 million opioid prescriptions were issued between 2011-2013. This is about 8 prescriptions per capita in a city of around 800,000 people.
According to Areavibes, 1 in 7 residents of the Paris of the West live below the poverty level. The Cost of Living is 89% higher than average; including housing prices which alone are 255% higher than average.
But there are advantages to living in San Francisco. It is a sanctuary city for illegal aliens; the most 'gay-friendly' city in the US; and has comprehensive tobacco bans and bans on plastic shopping bags. The City also mandates a $15/hour minimum wage for those who can find work. It ranks only behind its neighbors---Oakland and Berkeley---as the most Liberal California major cities.
Is it any wonder that the City Elites scapegoat Trump and Republicans? Diverting public attention from Liberalism's failures by blaming Conservatives is a political expedient that the Elites are compelled to employ. But San Francisco is an example of the Leftist Dystopia that so-called 'Progressives' would see imposed nationwide.
