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Vic Biorseth, Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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Toward a return to argumentation; the lost art of reasoned verbal combat.  A return to argumentation requires a return to critical thinking. Is it too late for Western man?

Possibly.  We have come to a point where most of us don't really know anything, but we know how to look things up, and do it quickly, with electronics.  Our foundational education lacks depth. 

We can check the weather with our cell phones; we do our reading using our Kindle or our Ipad; we do "serous" research with our laptops.  We seldom read "hard copy" any more, and we almost never write, with a pen.  When our signature is required, we ever increasingly sign some electronic device rather than paper.  Pencils, pens and paper are just beginning to approach obsolescence

As a local courier, I get people's signatures at every pickup, and at every delivery.  I have to get people to print their last names in a column right beside the signature column, because so many of them have absolutely illegible signatures.  Now, I'm as guilty as the next guy; my handwriting is nothing to brag about.  But it calls to mind the words of an old elementary school teacher, who always went on and on about how  

"Whenever any student of mine signs his or her name, anyone else who ever looks at that signature will be able to read it!"

and even all these years later, I still remember thinking, yeah, yeah, what's the big deal.  Lord, how I wish I had listened more attentively. Most of the signatures I collect every day are absolutely illegible scribbles.  Now, today, cursive writing is no longer even a subject that is taught in public schools.  There are now new generations of Americans for whom "How R U?" is a perfectly legitimate English sentence. 

The English language is degenerating right before our eyes, and language is the first and most fundamental requirement of education, communication and elucidation.  Language is the one thing that enables us to stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us; without language, there could be no history; without language, we would be constantly reinventing the wheel. 

We remember fondly old black-and-white movies featuring The Bowery Boys, sometimes called The Dead End Kids, led by a hilarious character named Mugsey (Leo Corsey.)  What was great about Mugsey was how he absolutely slaughtered the English language, misusing and abusing almost every word with more than two syllables.  And we remember how the whole audience would howl with laughter every time he miss-spoke in some new manner, without knowing it, and just went on talking.  Now, today, if you watch one of those movies with younger viewers, pay attention to them, and you will see that they don't get it.  Blank stares.  Puzzled looks.  Yawns.  They don't know their own language as well as previous generations.  Language-specific humor is lost on them. 

The Marx brothers were famous for the comedic pun.  Here's one of my favorites from Groucho:

Time flies like an airplane; fruit flies like a banana. 

Try that line on someone younger today and see what the reaction, or non-reaction, is.  Most younger people do not understand or even detect such subtle nuances of the language as are contained in that quite simple pun. 

Part of the reason involves the purposeful dumbing-down of the people through the government-controlled public education process, which involves the virtual elimination of classical English literature from formal education, and part of the reason is related to our rapidly increasing dependence upon electronics. 

Once upon a time, before the invention of electricity, there were no electronic devices of any kind.  There were no televisions or radios; there were no movies; everything was live, every communication was either spoken, or written and posted.  A written message might take days, or weeks, if it had to cross an ocean or large land mass, to reach its destination.  And, whatever was written could always be clearly understood by anyone who read it. 

So what did everybody do for entertainment, when the work of the day was done and the last meal was eaten, and the leisure part of the day presented itself? 

Well, in the olden days when I was a boy, all I remember was fire.  And we would all sit around the fire saying "I wonder where that came from." 

That just shows that I'm a little older than you. 

In the days before electronics, which is to say, most of world history, leisure time was spent either increasing education, or using acquired education in a group setting. 

  1. People would read. 
  2. People would produce and listen to music, instrumental, vocal, or both.
  3. People would recite, from memory or from printed material, either poetry, scripture or some scene from a classical story familiar to everyone.
  4. Most importantly, people would argue.  

That is what is lost to us today.  People would choose up sides on an issue, and pick two champions to lead the debate.  One would defend a position, and the other would challenge it.  Most often it was not a formal thing; just someone would make some bold statement, hoping to be challenged, and if he was, the game was on.  It was always done in a gentlemanly and ladylike way; champions did not need to necessarily agree with the argument they put forth; they were called to use critical thinking to augment their argument as best they could.  It wasn't done because the two champions believed in what they were saying; it was done for entertainment, and for the good exercise of critical thinking.  It was to hone the skills of argumentation in a public setting. 

A classic example of this kind of argumentation was in a scene from the movie Captains Couragious with officers and midshipmen gathered round the Captain's table.  The hard tack was being eaten by weevils almost as quickly as by men; the Captain tapped his biscuit on the table to knock the visible weevils off before he took a bite, and the following argument ensued:

Two weevils crept from the crumbs.  "You see those weevils, Stephen?" said Jack solemnly.

"I do."

"Which would you choose?"

"There is not a scrap of difference.  Arcades ambo.  They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them."

"But suppose you had to choose?"

"Then I should choose the right hand weevil, it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth."

"There I have you!" cried Jack.  "You ar a bit - you are completely dished.  Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils?"

And there followed uproarious laughter, for Jack had won the argument in a truly hilarious fashion.  Everyone laughed, because everyone "got it."  That's important.  Today, many, perhaps most, younger people would have to have that last line explained to them.  It is not merely a problem of recognizing the similarity in the sound of the words weevils and evils, particularly when pronounced after the word two; they might not even know the principle involving choosing the lesser of two evils, and where it came from. 

The whole purpose of reading and studying classical literature, of learning about English composition and structure, is to unlock these deeper meanings.  Without a good background in deeper linguistic meanings, the student is lacking in the ability to discern the finer points and nuances of irony, comedy, tragedy, the pun, the double-entendre, the unexpected turn of the word.  The uneducated or poorly educated man sees every English word as a very flat, one-meaning thing.  There is a whole world of nuanced meaning that he has been locked out of by his lack of fuller education in his own language. 

Believe it or not, before there was TV, before there was radio - which was not really all that long ago - good argumentation was a popular form of entertainment.  Around dinner tables, or sitting in front of the fire, or in bars, taverns and inns, or in town halls, people would argue, for fun.  And for the entertainment of others.  And for the polishing of the skills of argumentation.  It was once just as important and just as coveted a skill as, say, playing a musical instrument very well.  And none (or very few) participants were what we today would call highly educated or lettered men and women.  Elementary education prepared them for these kinds of discourses. 

(Remember, Abraham Lincoln, lawyer and President, was a very simple, unlettered, home-schooled man.) 

Aristotle is recognized as the father of argumentation.  He may not have invented it, but he, among the Athenian philosophers, is always thought of first, from among an elite group always thought of first, among all the great thinkers of history.  Aristotle was the disciple (student) of Plato, who was the disciple of Socrates; but Aristotle would surpass them both as a teacher of critical thinking and argumentation.  The skill that he polished comes down to us as rhetoric; the art of argumentation, using or appealing to ethos, pathos and logos

Ethos is the altruistic sense of morality, by which we follow a moral code, the end of which is always good justice

Pathos is the appeal to sympathy, emotion and human feelings.

Logos, or Logic, is the appeal to the hard, cold facts of the matter, as a presentation of empirical evidences, mathematical formulae or solid cause-and-effect argument leading to a conclusion. 

Western civilization owes much to the Athenian Philosophers; the gift they passed on to us is an ordered approach to Reason.  The ability to make sure that something makes good sense. And then, the ability to convince someone else of the correctness of your argument. 

In the Athenian "schools" where this approach to the seeking of truth was systematized and honed, disciples would listen to teachers, and then dialogue with them, and with each other.  Those who stood out from the rest by exhibiting good reasoning advanced to become assistants, or "star pupils" in the school; thus did Socrates excel among the disciples of Plato, and thus did Aristotle excel l among the disciples of Socrates.  They challenged their teachers and fellows with good reasoning. 

Aristotlian rhetoric has been used and recorded throughout all of the history of Western civilization, and it is heavily entrenched in English classical literature.  Unfortunately, much of that classical literature is today dismissed as the "unimportant" output of old, dead English poets.  And our public school education systems have virtually re-written the entire history of Western man in a completely negative way, so that most modern students are disinclined to pursue or seek original Western literature on their own. 

I have stated elsewhere that I have learned more from good arguments than I have from all the books I have ever read; that may be because a really good argument forces you to really confront your own words, as well as those of the opposite argument.  It forces you to think deeply.  The best arguments I ever had were with my Pastor, Fr. Mike, who was my mentor during my course work in the Lay Pastoral Ministry Program (LPMP.)  The mentoring program required regular weekly meetings between mentor and student, to discuss the classes of the week, readings, assignments and spiritual direction.  Our weekly meetings soon settled into longish dinner meetings, usually in the far corner booth in the quieter back room of Franco's Italian Restaurant in Dayton; a great Italian restaurant. 

Fr. Mike had a way of casually and easily destroying my initial arguments; but over time, it got more and more interesting.  He had a way of listening to my position statement, and then slowly repeating it back to me, word for word, and then systematically picking it apart, point by point.  At first, it was almost humiliating; but I quickly got better at more properly and thoughtfully formulating my argument in the first place, before stating it.  (Take this as a warning, before you argue with a priest: they really study philosophy in seminary, among other things.  Be prepared.) 

These discussions were the best part of the whole LPMP program.  Many times, after these talks, I would burn the midnight oil reading, researching and making notes, to be better prepared next time.  It was never enough to state an opinion, or just make a casual statement off the top of my head, or respond too quickly to a question.  If I couldn't back it up with something, right now, the statement was unacceptable.  I had to know whereof I spoke, before I spoke.  Not an easy thing, for a blitherer like me. 

Toward the end of the program, these sessions were the one part of the whole program that I really looked forward to.  The program had some real difficulties, because I argued bitterly with most of the professors over their extremely liberal, unorthodox and clearly improper Catholic teaching.  The mentoring sessions with Fr. Mike were a break from all that; they were like visits to an oasis of orthodoxy, true Catholicism and spirited dialogue.  And, there was always a very good meal involved. 

What got me thinking about all this was another perhaps precocious, perhaps specious, warning from Glenn Beck.  This one warned about the possibility of the loss of all electronics, everywhere, in one fell swoop.  Whether from attack-gone-wild involving EMP (Electronic Magnetic Pulse) weapons, or, more likely, a storm of solar flares, we could suddenly find ourselves devoid of electric devices, and with no electricity in our homes or work places.  Unlikely?  Yes.  Impossible?  No. 

Gigantic solar-flare storms have happened in the past, but we have never been so utterly dependent upon electricity before.  A gigantic electro-magnetic surge of the kind we're talking about would "fry" microchips and circuit boards, rendering the electronic device permanently inoperable.  Today, that means cars, and airplanes, and trains, and just about every transportation and communication device in existence.  Computers would be fried, and so would radios and TVs.  So would your GPS.  Whole power plants would be knocked out.  Along with refineries, and every sort of factory. 

Life would become simpler, as the Eco-Nazis imagine and day-dream it should be, but I submit that they might be the least prepared to deal with it.  The art of warfare would return to relying on the disciplined use of rifle and bayonet, and those not skilled with those weapons might be destined to death or slavery at the hands of those who were. 

Personally - and this is purely opinion - I don't believe it would be as widespread, as catastrophic or as permanent as some believe.  It is possible to protect electronics from pulses by use of a Faraday Shield.  While all electronics are not so protected, I believe a significant number of them are, particularly military electronics.  I can't believe the military would not have thought of protecting ships, planes, tanks and various electronics from such an event. 

A car, provided the skin of the car is made of conductive metal, is a sort of Faraday shield.  The principle of the shield is that you surround what is to be protected with a metal "skin" so that the electro-magnetic pulse induced electric current will follow the conductive skin and go around the inside rather than through it.  That is why people inside a car are somewhat protected from a lightning strike; the gigantic electric surge goes all around the car body rather than right through it. 

Many electonic devices already contain a small Faraday shield surrounding components that emit RF (Radio Frequency) waves, which might harm other electric components in the same device.  It would be a simple thing to surround the whole circuit board with a Faraday shield.  I cannot believe that military laptops and electronic devices are not protected; I certainly hope not. 

Similarly, it would be hard to believe that satellites, including  GPS satellites, would not be protected by Faraday shields, since even small solar flares are more of a threat out there in space than they are here on the surface of the earth. 

What I suspect, but cannot know with certainty, is that all planes and all cars and all computers would not be disabled.  And if that's the case, then it would not take so much time to get power stations back on line and the power grid restored.  In other words, it might be a temporary very serious problem. 

The dying art of argumentation should worry us more.  Historically, the best arguers wound up in politics, or as highly prized political advisers.  Read the Federalist Papers, and the Anti-Federalist Papers, containing the earliest debates and arguments that formed America, and you will see why our Founders and Framers rose to the top of the heap.  They were brilliant.  What they came up with, through argumentation, was a marvelous work of genius: Constitutional America

Today, I do not see one good argument coming from any elected Congressman or Senator in Washington. 

Not one. 

And that, to me, poses more of a threat to Constitutional America than any EMP or Solar Flare possibility.  The Democrats, with Obamunists in the lead, and despite their oaths of office, are clearly anti-Constitutional in every single tactic and stratagem they pursue.  They are openly attacking everything in the Bill of Rights.  They are openly attacking the very principle of sovereignty and sovereign borders, which means national integrity.  They are alienating traditional allies, and they are encouraging, and even paying our traditional enemies.  They are purposely spending and borrowing us into economic oblivion, while printing and/or digitizing American dollars into worthlessness.  All to the cheers of a dumbed-down and increasingly dependent moron vote, that forms a larger and larger segment of the American voting populace. 

And what do we see from the opposition? 

They form political "gangs" to cooperate and get things done.  Today, it's a gang of eight; past manifestations have included a gang of fourteen; it is always a gang of an even-number, because it always contains an equal number of the two great political Parties. 

What these gangs of even-numbered-fools are formed to cooperate in is the systematic, piecemeal destruction of the Constitution, and Constitutional America. That is what the Marxocrats are after, and the Republicans who join even-numbered gangs do so to "compromise" with them.   

How, exactly, do you compromise on any Constitutional principle without weakening it? 

How do you compromise with the existing state of American national sovereignty without weakening it? 

You don't.  It is quite impossible. 

Yet we have Republican office holders willing to cooperate in "background checks" or other infringements on the right of the citizenry to keep and bear arms, ostensibly to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the "dangerously mentally unstable." 

But, why are criminals and dangerously mentally unstable people loose among the citizenry in the first place? 

They don't even ask the most glaringly obvious questions

They would rather cooperate in infringing the rights of the law abiding and the mentally stable than do anything about the real problem. 

And we have Republican office holders willing to cooperate in finding some path to normalcy for millions upon millions of criminal aliens, who are already increasing our dependent population, and who will eventually join the moron vote and the Santa Clause vote opposing Constitutional America and rendering the Republican Party into permanent political irrelevance. 

All of them took an oath of office to protect our American Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic.  I doubt many of them took it as seriously as the Framers intended. 

The worst among those representing us are evil and duplicitous.

The best among those representing us are fools, easily duped by better politicians. 

What more can I say? 

Pray for Constitutional America. 



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American Communists hide their true identity and disguise themselves as anti anti-Communists. Using their playbook, I hereby identify myself as an anti anti-American.

Deliverance From Evil goes to the heart of the hot political debate in America.
Americans increasingly pray and work for deliverance from evil, as they slowly wake up to a threat that is not merely political in nature.

Background history of the recent Catholic reformation (revolution?) in liturgy.
Reform of the Liturgy began with good intentions toward minor changes, yet almost permanently trashed Latin, and Chant, and, etc., etc., etc.

Our definition of pro American goes considerably deeper than the dictionary.  Anyone, anywhere, may be a patriot. Definition of pro American: one who loves and adheres to the American Constitution.

Our definition of anti American goes considerably deeper than the dictionary.
Anyone, anywhere, may oppose nationalism or national pride. Definition of anti American: one who ignores or opposes the American Constitution.

Islam is the enemy; the non-Islamic world just dosen't know it yet.
I keep saying that Islam is the enemy here, and you keep not wanting to hear it. But it's true.

A submission of the “The Church is rotten to the core” argument and its basis.
If indeed the church is rotten to the core then all is lost; unless, of course, the statement is untrue.

Our argument opposing Libertarianism as an amoral conservative vote-splitter.
Opposing Libertarianism may seem counter-intuitive until you realize that it’s just another form of moral relativism.

Why is this American Christian nation not called a Christian nation?
This American Christian nation is oddly referred to as something other than a Christian nation. Why?

Argument Against the Anti-American UN: Why do we support such an antagonist?
The staunchly anti-American UN has a major goal involving world governance, and America is in the way of that effort.

Either limit the scope of government or limit citizen liberty.
Scope of government has broadened so much that there is now little of the living of life that is not subject to regulation.

A fatal false premise is a deadly logical trap for the mal-educated person.
A Fatal false premise with broad general consensus will always trump reason, evidence and critical thinking.

Faith versus Atheism: Is atheism really just a silly superstition?
The Faith versus Atheism argument is at the root of every other important argument.

“Are you saved” might be the conversation starter with a devout Protestant.
First, are you saved; then, are you saved by having been “born again” (but not by Baptism) are the two popular questions of Protestantism.

Is the Bible the sole authority for teaching Christianity?
If Holy Scripture is the sole authority for Christian teaching, then, where does it say that in Holy Scripture?

Marxism Socialism Communism – what’s the difference between them all?
Marxism Socialism Communism are all mistakenly held to be different things, but they are one and the same.

Can we outlaw Marxism in the USA and still be a free thinking society?
I say we can and should outlaw any ideology that seeks the elimination of Constitutional America.

Can we outlaw Islam in the USA and still be a free thinking society?
I say we can and should outlaw any ideology that seeks the elimination of Constitutional America.

Is faith alone the sole requirement of salvation?
Luther’s dictum says that man is justified by faith alone. Is it true?

Argument for Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
The Federal Reserve Act did not prevent the Great Depression, so why does it still exist?

Argument to Repeal Amendment XVI, the Income Tax Amendment.
Repeal Amendment XVI and the very idea of progressively taxing income.

Argument to Repeal Amendment XVII and the Politicizing of the Senate.
We need to repeal Amendment XVII and restore our Senate to its original status.

Toward a return to argumentation; the lost art of reasoned verbal combat. A return to argumentation requires a return to critical thinking. Is it too late for Western man?

Secularism is clearly "the enemy" in the culture war; so, what, exactly, is it? Secularism is an aggressive and very pro-active form of atheism, in that it not only disbelieves, but it actively attacks belief itself, on all fronts.

Linda Kimball

The evil materialist faith of global Luciferianism, Technocracy, Socialism, and Marxism

Prayer Against Wicked Ideologues Rescue us, O Lord!

System of Lies: Ideological Paradise on Earth and Why the Bloody, Violent Dream Will Not Die

Christendom and Protestant America’s Apostasy into Paganism A Timeline

The presence and influence of powers, principalities, and demons in our age of apostasy into godlessness

Nihilism…All That Exists is Matter and Energy The Worldview that Caused the Collapse of Christendom and Protestant America

Revisiting Nihilism: The Will Turned Toward Evil and the Destruction of Western and American Civilization

The enemies of God, reality, truth, western civilization and our souls Linda Kimbal column

The Last Hour and the New World Order Prayer

Our Call to Battle: Rise of the Spirit of Antichrist Prayer Article: “And this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.” (1 John 4:3)

God to Mankind: NOW Do You See the Stupidity, Depravity, and Evil in Your Hearts?

Raising the New Tower-- Occult Evolution: Antediluvian, Babylonian and Modern Expressions

Psychopathy and the Western and American Tyranny of Evil Leftist Progressive Myths

Supernatural Genesis 1-11 vs. Pagan Darwinism God and Liberty or Fallen Mankind and Tyranny

Luke 21: 29-31: Some Signs Of America's Abandonment And Spiritual Bondage

Eternal Paradise Or Hell? How And Why Both Choices Are Freely Made

Luciferian Humanists: Citing the Genesis Account is Evil "Any country grounded in Judaeo-Christian values can't be overthrown until those roots are cut ... "

Who is intolerant because ashamed: Creationists or Evolutionary Theists?

Death of the Christian God in Hearts of All Humans Why America and W. Europe are Committing Suicide

THE WORLDVIEW OF EVIL SPIRITS - an article by Linda Kimball MAGICAL MYSTERY CHURCH

Pagan-Darwinian-Materialism Redoubt of Miserable Self-Deceived Non-Self Nihilists

Americas' Spiritually Dead, Deep State and Ruling Class Nihilists Walking Dead Parasitic Idolaters

Doctrines of Demons and the Modern Pagan and Pantheist Antithesis The West's Greatest Threat

Gnosis: The Main Expression of Paganized Christianity in the New Age Inner Knowing, Self-Salvation

Our Age of Malicious Perversion How Truth, Meaning, and Reality Have Been Perverted

The Serpent's Gnostic Luciferian Elite Oligarchy and Global Powers Demonic Darkness Over the West and America

The Creation Model Versus Modern Pagan Models
2 Corinthians 10:5

What Kind of God Do You Believe In?
2 Cor. 10:5 Destroying 'scientific' arguments for false Gods

Evil Spirits, Death of God, Satanic Inversion Pagan America's Reality of Madness, Demonic Bondage, and Non-Self

Judgment and Wrath The Biblical Explanation for Madness and Evil

The Worldview of Evil Spirits Revolution, Evolution, Materialism, Nihilism, New World Order, and More

Gnosis The Main Expression of Modern Paganized Christianity

America's Transformation Into A Mystical Pantheist God-State What the Death of God Has Wrought

Message to All Wearied Truthtellers: Let Isaiah Be Your Inspiration the Remnant

The Triune God, Supernatural Heaven, Souls, Hell, and Demons Do They Exist?

Teachings of Demons The Aeon of Horus, Reign of God-Men, and End of the Christian God

Revelation 2:7" ...the closing of a steel door – a solemn, cataclysmic slamming of a door."

Systemic Nihilism: End of the Human Race Eternal Damnation of Human Souls

Infernal Apocalyptic Atmosphere Over America Disintegration into nothing

Global and Ruling Class Criminal Elitists Their Ring of Power and Pact with the Spirit of Death and Hell

Blessed is the Man Who Does Not Listen to Falling Stars Who Follow After Damnable Heresies

Darwinism: An Abomination Aborting and Rotting the Church. The falling away and apostasy from the one true and personal Holy Triune Creator God has not ended

The Evil One and the Impenitent Who Receive His Mark“. And the LORD God formed man (and) breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7

The Fall of Mankind, the Religion of Evolution, and the Antichrist. "Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18

Why Secular Liberals Actively Promote Evil. Mentally Retarded Liberals

Cultural Marxism. The Many Hidden Faces of Living Active Communism

The Devil, the Big Bang, Evolution, Extraterrestrials and the Genesis Problem

The Ascension To Power Of Misogyny. Hatred of Women

Gnostic Chiliastic Evolution: Satan's Alternative Plan of Salvation. The Great Reset

Why Proclaiming Jesus Christ the Word Became Flesh is Offensive. The Technocratic Utopian World Order

The Divine Androgyne, Pandemonium, and the Battle for Our Souls. Satan's Rising New World Order

America's Modern Pagan Oligarchy, Aztec Gods, and Human Sacrifice. Isaiah 57 Revisited

The Peace Symbol: Occult Sign Meaning Death Against Christians. Hatred of Jesus Christ and Christianity

Americas’ Spiritually Desolate, Parasitic, Ruling Class Nihilists. Satan and Powers and Principalities

Global Oligarchy, Forces of Darkness, and the Spirit of Antichrist. Forces Darkness Within Church and State

Darwinism: Idol of mind symbolizing hatred of Triune Creator God. And Logical End of America

Is the World a Computer Simulation in the Minds of Robotic Overlords? Magic Science, Transhumanists, Gnostic Physicists.

Your soul: Cost of admission to the Progressive Pagan City of Man. New Egypt, Babylon, Sodom and Gomorrah

Iron Curtain Over American Minds Progressive Marxisms’ Ideological Utopia

Satan’s New World Order Blueprint and Key Strategy. Christian Capitulation To the Serpent's Consensus Process

Chaos, Breakdown, Demoralization, Destruction: America's New Normal. How it came about and where we are going.

Demonic Darkness: America's Invisible Wave of Evil. Staring into the abyss

Cain, Marxism, Leftism and America's ruling class of 'superior' humans. The dragon they have in common

Modernist Christians in a Man-Centered Universe. Scientific Neutrality and Biblical Deconstruction

The Connection Between Baphomet and Why Researchers Are Creating Interspecies Embryos. 2 Corinthians 10:5

Isaiah 57 revisited: America's progressive pagan elites. Staring into the Abyss

Evolutionary Theism Implies That Christ is Wrong About Creation"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" John 5:46-47

Utopianism. Progressive Utopian Cultural Marxism Poisoning Minds, Churches, Schools, Politics

Acts 17:18-19-modern pagan and pantheist antithesis of the Word of God Ecclesiates 1:9 "What has been is what will be.."

Trotsky's Permanent Revolution From Hell In America. The Soviet System in America

Why Transgenderism Is Being Forced Upon America and Our Children. The Divine Androgyne

The Evil Eye Of Envy: Why Being ‘White’ Is Offensive To Some People. No Vice Worse Than Envy

Absolute Nothingness and Non-Self: The Reigning Worldview of Global Power Elites and Western Ruling Classes

What is Evil? Man-made alternative realities

Cliff Kincaid

Trump is Destroying Reagan's Legacy By Cliff Kincaid

Trump is a Marked Man By Cliff Kincaid

Terrorist Attack in Baltimore By Cliff Kincaid

Moscow Terror Attack is Another KGB Operation to Fool the West

Obama’s New Nazi-Communist Alliance

On the "Days Of Rage" Planned For The 2024 Marxocrat Party Convention Some of you just couldn't believe that the formerly Democrat (Confederate) Party had already gone totally Communist before the 1968 Party Convention

Making Russia Great Again By Cliff Cinkaid

De-Nazification and De-Communization in Russia The The mutual non-aggression Hitler-Stalin Pact, which started World War II, has been carefully “forgotten”

Climate Emergency To Produce a New World Order By Cliff Kincaid

The Next Phase of Obama’s “Permanent Revolution” By Cliff Kincaid

Evil in the White House In This War, The Enemy Is In The Ranks, Standing Right Next To You

Satanism, Communism: What's The Difference? Look To The Roots Of Communism

Fox Is the Leading "Trans" Channel There are some rather peculiar goings-on at the Fox News Channel.

Trump and His Communist Enemies The Demonized Joe McCarthy Turned Out To Be Accurate In Everything He Claimed: Fox News Is Wrong About Him And About Much More

The Five Stooges on Capitol Hill They Think We Need Even More Doped No-Hopers In The American Intelligence Community

The Biden Doctrine of Demoralization and Defeat By Cliff Kincaid

A Republican Church Committee? Do Pro-American Republicans Even Know Who Frank Church Really Was?

A Top to Bottom Housecleaning of America When we clean our house, my wife has a slogan, “Top to bottom,” meaning you have to target the whole house. The same advice applies to nations.

China's Mass Murder Experiment Phase Two

Bury The Dead And Move On Fuggedaboutit!

9/11 Truth This is the real 9/11 Truth: Our “intelligence” agencies are infiltrated.

Moving Toward Gorbachev’s “World of Communism” It's called the Monster Plot.

The Errors of Russia, the Dupes of Putin, and Another Holocaust Can The Increasingly Faithless Free World Be Saved From Russia?

World War Quietly Conquering A Distracted and Blithely Unaware World. Could it actually be Satan's world war on despised humanity?

Stand With Ukraine Against Russia and China By Cliff Kincaid

Tucker Carlson Carlson Gets His Comeuppance. Tucker's View: It is not moral for us to intervene in support of any nation's (Ukraine's) democratic self-determination and against Soviet military expansion.

The Need for Secure Borders. Have we so easily forgotten what borders are for? Have we forgotten that evil exists in the world? Have we forgotten how to keep apart from this evil?

Can Ukraine Survive Putin and Biden? Can America? Can the Free World? Can Faith in God?

The Soviet Union: Back From The Dead The Return of the Evil Empire

Could an American Surrender be in the offing with Biden at the wheel? Is this not the perfect time for Communism to strike, with Commies now governing America, China and Russia? What would Biden do?

Abortion and Communism. If you ever wondered where all the popular abortion-contraception-sexuality-perversion nuttiness came from, look to Marx's Communist Manifesto.

The Secret Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. A life almost totally at odds with his reputation as a minister of the Gospel.

"We belong to the Church militant; and She is militant because on earth the powers of darkness are ever restless to encompass Her destruction. Not only in the far-off centuries of the early Church, but down through the ages and in this our day, the enemies of God and Christian civilization make bold to attack the Creator's supreme dominion and sacrosanct human rights." --Pope Pius XII

"It is not lawful to take the things of others to give to the poor. It is a sin worthy of punishment, not an act deserving a reward, to give away what belongs to others." --St. Francis of Assisi

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Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.—Winston Churchill

Note the Military Assault Rifle common to the American Founding Era.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.—Ayn Rand

Atheist Genesis:

In the beginning there was nothing, and nothing happened to nothing.
And then nothing accidentally exploded and created everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally encountered other bits of everything and formed some new kinds of everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into self-replicating bits of everything.
And then some self-replicating bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into dinosaurs.
See?

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