A few years back, I thought about making a bumper sticker that said KEEP ABORTION LEGAL, LET THE PAGANS KILL THEIR OWN BABIES. This line of thinking led me from conservative pro-lifeism to be anti-abortion but only half-heartedly pro-life. Contrary to Spencer, there is in fact a moral binary here; abortion is either good or evil, either permissible or impermissible according to the natural law. I am anti-abortion not because it psychologically devastates women, or because it's racist against blacks, or discriminatory against the retarded, or even because it's dysgenic for whites or Christians. I'm anti-abortion because it is intrinsically a grave offense against the natural law. It has no place in a society ordered to the laws of God.
Unpopular Opinions
If any one saith, that Christ Jesus was given of God to men, as a redeemer in whom to trust, and not also as a legislator whom to obey; let him be anathema.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Comment on Abortion & the Alt-Right
A few years back, I thought about making a bumper sticker that said KEEP ABORTION LEGAL, LET THE PAGANS KILL THEIR OWN BABIES. This line of thinking led me from conservative pro-lifeism to be anti-abortion but only half-heartedly pro-life. Contrary to Spencer, there is in fact a moral binary here; abortion is either good or evil, either permissible or impermissible according to the natural law. I am anti-abortion not because it psychologically devastates women, or because it's racist against blacks, or discriminatory against the retarded, or even because it's dysgenic for whites or Christians. I'm anti-abortion because it is intrinsically a grave offense against the natural law. It has no place in a society ordered to the laws of God.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Feminism is Disloyalty
If they wanted true equality on this point, feminists would be pushing for insurance to cover the equivalent of Viagra for women. But they aren't, so it seems modern feminism's really about promoting childlessness.
Why promote childlessness? In order to increase the power of women as a political interest group, freeing them from burdens imposed by nature to bear and raise children.
This power-seeking on the part of women is why many developed nations' fertility rates are below replacement level.
It's time to call feminism out for what it does: it puts the interests of women as a political class above the survival of the nations to which they belong. Demonstrably hostile to national survival, feminism is a disloyal outlook fit only for disloyal women.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Atheistic Science
Atheistic Science
From RationalWiki:
"Methodological naturalism is the label for the required assumption of philosophical naturalism when working with the scientific method. Methodological naturalists limit their scientific research to the study of natural causes, because any attempts to define causal relationships with the supernatural are never fruitful, and result in the creation of scientific "dead ends" and God of the gaps-type hypotheses. To avoid these traps scientists assume that all causes are empirical and naturalistic; which means they can be measured, quantified and studied methodically.
"However, this assumption of naturalism need not extend beyond an assumption of methodology. This is what separates methodological naturalism from philosophical naturalism - the former is merely a tool and makes no truth claim; while the latter makes the philosophical - essentially atheistic - claim that only natural causes exist."
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Methodological_naturalism
Can anyone doubt that the grand scientific theories simplified and promulgated in the mainstream discourse of our day are intended to form our understanding, not only of our physical surroundings, but of our self-understanding, and the courses of action we should take?
It cannot be doubted.
The grand theories of cosmology, evolution, climate change, and all the rest are narratives composed and arranged out of facts selected by the method of methodological naturalism.
What is more, all narratives must follow a certain logic. In our day, this logic is supplied by philosophical naturalism, i.e., materialistic atheism.
Therefore, the above quoted definition disingenuously separates method from philosophy.
However, the scientific method wasn't always practiced this way. In the past, many theistic scientists assumed a Creator and a creation designed to operate according to laws established by the Creator.
For the Christian, there is an additional source of true information found in special divine revelation--the Bible.
The Bible isn't a scientific textbook or naturalistic historical account. Yet, it presents us with true facts pertaining to history, natural phenomena, and the origins of the universe.
Before dismissing me as a wild-eyed biblical fundamentalist, let me ask a simple question:
What should have priority in the Christian mind--the Christian Creed or atheistic narratives arranged from facts selected by a method presupposing naturalism? In other words, is Theology the Queen of the Sciences or not?
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Israel in the Church
Saturday, August 09, 2014
ON NATURAL SOCIETY
Natural society is the association of human beings on the basis of kinship, i.e., natural affection for one’s blood. Such societies organically emerge as families produce offspring, multiply, and form alliances. The kernel of natural society is the nuclear family, the first human society, and the index of social health is the health of its families.
The ploughshare, the cutting edge of the plough, pierces and divides soil in order to plant seed for husbandry.
Prophets are individuals who arise on extraordinary occasions when the official priesthood has broken down and not fulfilling its basic functions. In the name of deity, prophets call for covenant renewal and restoration.
Today, moderns believe their societies have progressed beyond the need to be rooted in ties of kinship. They believe natural societies are a thing of the past, of humanity’s primitive childhood. They believe their modern technologies afford them the ability to transcend the limits of nature itself. They redefine the family apart from its biological and procreative basis. They even attempt to alter what it is to be male or female.
Temporarily, the modern project appeared to be successful. Increasing rates of mental illness, suicide, crime, illegitimacy, and non-fertility give the lie to this, however. In the long term, apart from the bonds of natural affection social cohesion cannot be maintained. To abolish fathers, kings, and priests is to abolish filial obedience, fraternal loyalty, and paternal love at every level of society. “A house divided against itself will not stand,” and a people without a heritage is no people. They will perish from the face of the earth.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
From a Letter to a Syriac Christian Friend
In the contest between Muslims and Israelis, I support the Israelis. Christians should not be in alliance with the Muslims against the Jews. They should be neutral or in alliance with the Jews to drive the Muslims out. Jesus and the prophets came from the Jews not the Muslims. Mohammed is not a prophet I recognize.
Because the Christians are in the minority they will have to live with whatever regime takes power--or leave. Christians will not be in control any time soon unless many Muslims & many Jews convert to Christianity.
Killing is what happens in war and war is what you have right now. It was inevitable. They should have been allowed to fight it out to a conclusion a long time ago. War is how these things are decided, not ineffective "peace talks" and political solutions no one respects. Generals and armies make the borders, not politicians. They always have.
The people that bleeds, sacrifices, and most importantly--wins--earns the right to make the rules, nobody else. This is the only way peace can be achieved. I'm sorry.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Sluts and Sissies
Sluts cause collective externalities far more serious than tobacco smokers. Because of the grave and great externalities produced by sluts, they should be taxed and penalized, like tobacco smokers, only at considerably higher rates, rather than subsidized, and subjected to official shaming and exclusion similar to that applied to tobacco smokers, only more severe.
I comment:
People are offended by the use of the word "slut" because they think it's demeaning to women in general. They think it's an unjust word because it applies to women only. They try to discredit the basic assumption behind the word by saying that, "it takes two to make a slut."
But it takes many more than two to make a slut. A slut is made by many encounters with many men.
Jim also writes:
For men, there is an equivalent to a girl being easy. If a man who wants to marry young, reveals that he wants to marry young, no woman will want him. Women despise men who are eager to have a relationship, even good women despise men who are eager to have a relationship, just as men despise women who are eager to have sex...
...Everyone admires the man who has sex with lots of women, because that is hard, while everyone despises the woman that has sex with lots of men, because that is easy.The male equivalent of a slut is the emotionally promiscuous man who quickly shares his heart with every girl that comes along, whether he's able to be physically intimate with them or not. Such men usually don't get any, because they are despised by everyone, including sluts.