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Churchians Craving Worldly Approval

02 Sunday Aug 2020

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Add the SBA to the list of sunk denominations in Amerika. Allan Wall on the demise and a solution.

Why the Baptist leadership’s radical shift left? Most likely, elite Baptists yearn for respect from secular society, which they sure won’t get for opposing abortion and same-sex marriage. Thus, they go overboard on the race issue.

And of course, Southern Baptists—Baptist Southerners—have twice as much to prove!

All patriotic members of Southern Baptist churches should be appalled.

There’s a solution: Secession.

Baptists believe in “local church autonomy,” as Greear himself said. SBC does not control the autonomous local congregations, nor does it own their local property—unlike the Episcopal church. A Southern Baptist church in Anytown, U.S.A. can secede from SBC and declare its independence.

My advice to Baptists: Get your local congregation out of the Southern Baptist Convention. Free your local church from the growing “Wokeness” infecting the Southern Baptist Convention.

Become a free congregation, responsible only to God and each other, not to woke charlatans like J.D. Greear and Eric Brentmyer.

A good start. Maybe drop the (non-BLM) protestation too.

An “Alarming Pattern” In The Schools

09 Thursday Jul 2020

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In the PRIVATE schools. I’ve made scant mention of this problem before – as bad as the public schools are, many (most?) privates are not necessarily the answer. A billionaire calls out an agenda:

Billionaire hedge funder John Paulson protested against ultra-elite Manhattan school Spence for what he claims was an “alarming pattern” of “anti-white indoctrination” in its curriculum.

Paulson, 64, who famously made millions betting against the American housing market prior to the 2008 financial crisis and was an economic adviser to President Trump, wrote a 2017 letter to prestigious all-girls school Spence, attended by his two daughters. Famous Spence alums include Gwyneth Paltrow, Kerry Washington, Emmy Rossum, Bee Shaffer and Jade Jagger.

It reads, “In recent years we have reached out on several occasions to discuss a disturbing trend in one area of the curriculum that we believe is having a negative impact on our daughters’ education. As we’ve noted before, there appears to be an anti-white indoctrination that permeates many parts of the Spence curriculum.”

I would imagine that whatever he’s noticed is only the tip of the iceberg. There’s a narrative that has infected Amerika, all parts, including public and many (most?) private schools. It’s not just anti-white, though that is, for now, the main visible conduit. It’s also anti-American, anti-Western, anti-family, anti-traditional, anti-learning, anti-normal, anti-sane, anti-Christian, and anti-God. By their works, we know them.

This example is in NYC, where one might expect to find it and, in fact, be surprised had the opposite been alleged. In North Carolina, an “elite” classical private school openly, if crookedly, avows a “Judeo-Christian worldview.” Classical learning and reason, under a worldview of inherent contradiction and falsehood, is impossible. In Georgia, an “elite” prep school openly, and unashamedly, pushes the globohomo agenda, especially regarding the superiority of secular Islam – surely sanitized to any reverence for Allah. Both of these Southern schools cater predominantly to White Christian families.

Why? Why is it that the alternative to the pagan idiot factories of the state offers the same debasement, if at a slower rate (and higher price)? It’s because of the fallen nature of the entire society and because the concept of schools is unnatural. There are, here, and there, good private academies run by decent people, where learning happens without resort to the satanic. They’re getting hard to find, diamonds in the dung heaps. The sure-fire solution: Homeschool, or better yet, unschool.

Ria! Ria! HUNGARY!

26 Friday Jun 2020

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Ria! Ria! HUNGARY!

This is part three in my series on alternative civilized nations for young Americans to consider as the United States continues to disintegrate.

PART I: Poland

PART II: Slovakia

My title derives from Hungary’s 2016 national (football) chant, which does not really translate into any decipherable message – other than to give the chance of shouting the name of a great nation. The ancient royal motto was Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae, a tribute to the Catholic heritage of a great people. For a while, the simultaneous cry was Cum Deo pro Patria et Libertate -With the help of God for Homeland and Freedom! If you’re into God, freedom, and I suppose, “Ria,” then keep reading.

The Third Republic of Hungary, a little larger than the US (client) State of South Carolina, is another of the terrific Central Euro nations that are sometimes described as “Eastern.” It’s south of Slovakia, east of Austria, west of Romania, and north of the rump states of the former Yugoslavia. It’s been in the news lately, even in fading Amerika, for very good reasons. 

A noticeable trend continues, there: the clear and coherent nation of ten million is 98% Hungarian with a small admixture of other Slavs, Germans, and a few Roma. As estimated it is at least 60% Christian (40% Roman Catholic). A quarter of those surveyed did not answer and other evidence suggests the Messianic population is considerably higher. (The minor party of the right-wing governing coalition even has “Christian” in its name!) As in Poland, the incompatible are not welcome.

The national IQ average is in-line with that in Poland, with the same upward trajectory as Slovakia. In fact, partly, for some of the reasons below, this trend might be starting to accelerate.

She’s a beauty of a country, home to rolling hills and valleys, replete with both forests and gentle grasslands. Four mountain ranges are present, including the far eastern tip of the Alps. The climate is variable, with warm summers and cold winters – partly governed by geography and elevation, as much as by latitude.

Booming Budapest, the capital and largest city, is home to a metro population of over three million. This metropolis, and most other cities and towns, is a blending of the modern and improving and the traditional, the proud, and the beautiful. By general European standards, the cost of living is low. Taxes are moderate and, as in Poland, the people who pay for the various social services are the same people who reap the benefits of the programs. The house currency is the Forint (300ish = 1 USD), though a possible conversion to the Euro is under consideration.  Hungary is a full member of the EU and a Schengen country.

Hungarian is a different kind of language than Slovak or Polish, but it is learnable. Consult Duolingo or Hungarian101, a Youtube series. 

The Parliament is controlled by the combined forces of (majority) Fidesz, the Hungarian Civic Alliance, and the Christian! Democratic People’s Party (a minority splintering of Fidesz). Together, they hold a narrow … super-majority of the 199 seats. They are also regularly joined by other center-right, pro-Hungarian parties. Viktor Orbán “The Man!” is Prime Minister and leader of Fidesz.

Orbán, a man of the kind America needed when it still counted, is the architect of Hungary’s successful stand against the powers of homoglobo. Soros and Co. called, as usual, for third-world immigrants to “fix” the Hungarian economy and society. However, Orbán became possessed of the insane idea that somehow, magically perhaps, it was possible to birth new native Hungarians. In 2019, Parliament enacted his plan via the … Child Tax Credit!!!

Yes, young people, buy into this graduated plan and see your population (magically) increase while your tax burden declines. If a happily married couple (magically) produces four or more future citizens, then they PAY NO TAXES! It’s brand new, but I can predict where this will go: First, there will be a baby boom, silencing the globos with vigorous native blood. Second, place your bets, tax revenues will, particularly in the long-run, rise. A win, win, win.

We know this is a winning scheme because of the way the enemy’s lapdog media spins it – as a move of “desperation.” By their words, we know who is really desperate. And, in Hungary, the enemy has great cause to worry. It’s another nation where the true and the beautiful is celebrated, expected, and enforced, and where the values of Amerika – sodomy, abortion, obesity, usury, and death – are frowned upon, ridiculed, and forbidden.

Again, your ticket for admission to this branch of real civilization is either employment or education-related. Your task is to research the specifics and logistics. Start Page and the Duck! Soon, very soon, I will revisit Poland, where I have uncovered nearly unbelievable programs designed to help both the nation and (certain) young internationals, like YOU! You will not want to miss that, along with some of the extended cultural information I’ve found. 

I’m doing all of this for you, the future of the West. For your part, those who take the plunge, again, please send me a postcard!

*Should this article be republished elsewhere where my prior general permission has been obtained, I insist that it be disclosed in full or not at all.

** Next up, it’s back to Poland! Staggering good news. Then, on to Romania, the Czech Republic, and/or elsewhere!

About the Schools and Who Ruined Them

01 Friday May 2020

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Mission to Destroy Western Civilization Rebrands Under COVID-19:

Understanding the Satanic Schooling Movement

 

Well, well, another week and more national affairs. Hang up the spacesuit, adjust your Halloween mask, grab a refreshing glass of Clorox, and let’s once again discuss the state of the schools. 

Last week we examined the ongoing collapse and gave thought to the future. This week is much the same, except we begin with a word or three from the loyal opposition. My title today is a rewording of Mission to Destroy Public Education Rebrands Under COVID-19: Understanding the Christian Homeschooling Movement, by one Chrissy Stroop. “Chrissy” looks a whole lot like “she” may have started out as a Christopher and is, uh, transitioning. It has a Ph.D. in Russian history – lemme guess, a big fan of Trotsky?? – and doesn’t seem to think well of Christians or Christ or anyone slightly to the right of old Leon. My guess is that it hates God because it blames God for its illness. So, it has resorted to “logic and science,” except, of course, for the logical science of sexual biology, transcranial magnetic therapy, or lithium bio-chemistry. 

However, this hateful, projecting, and deeply mentally-ill man did give me an idea. Its repetitive and derisive language about the “Christian Right” – and that is what my side is, thanks – made me realize what the other side is. Meet the Satanic Left. That’s really all there is to Xir Stroop’s article. I can’t criticize him, uh her, or … whatever, directly. But, in general, that faction’s biggest gripe about the current shutdown is the lack of direct access to the kiddies, whom they view by-and-large as targets and snacks. Sadly, they’ve had to resort to sneaking around the public parks (where opened) for their thrills. Yeah…

You were warned about the “Satanic Left,” in the schools, before:

Towards the end of class, a boy asked Tom a simple and direct question: ‘Why are our schools so bad?’ …

He looked the boy in the eye and without hesitation said, ‘Because they’re run by feminists, queers, and communists.’ … Later, he almost kicked himself: ‘“Feminists, queers, and globalists” would have been more accurate. Or, just “satanists…”’ He let it go.

–THE SUBSTITUTE, Ch. 11

Homeschoolers and Christians did not ruin the government’s (that’s who runs them, Xir Stroop) schools. The government and the Satanists did. And, holy hell, they did a fine job of it. They’ve destroyed themselves, Stroopy. Just in time for this article, I have new (and NOT improved) statistics!!! The “Nation’s Report Card” for Civics, Geography, and History is now out, courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics 2018 NEAP Report. 

First, the good news: these people are consistent if nothing else. The national scores in the various social studies mirror those results in reading, math, and science. And there is nothing else – except total and complete failure. Thanks to the efforts of the Satanic Left, only 15% of Eighth-graders are proficient in history – with similarly dismal results in the other subjects. And, that’s based on their weak standards and even weaker instruction. 

Embedded deep somewhere in those findings, one will come across graphs showing the “progress” from 1994 until 2018. This is the modern period of all the fads like No Child, Common Core, STEM, STEAM, and the Rainbow Delusion. Trillions of dollars spent and millions of souls crushed and what’s the result? Nothing. Fifteen percent proficiency. Failure. 

They take the big measurements in the Fourth, Eighth, and Twelfth grades. I’ve noted before that, in most subjects, there is a drop in proficiency as the child advances towards graduation – as if the schooling itself increases ignorance. That’s most subjects; in the other subjects, there is virtually no change over an entire generational period. Fifteen percent understanding with a ninety percent graduation rate. God can’t do any better?

Again, it’s not the money. Two years ago, I compared Mexican school literacy rates (94%) to those in the Detroit government schools (7%) (SEVEN % !!!) (and that beat Detroit’s math rate of 5%…). I ran the math on spending Detroit’s way to success:

Working, toying with the myth that increased funding raises test scores (and, presumably, learning retention), to get Detroit up to Mexican levels of literacy, they would need to spend about $189,000 per student per year. Over 13 years, K – 12, that’s $2,457,000 – without compounding any interest. It might be, if it was affordable, better to just set that sum aside for each “student” in an idiot trust.

They can’t read, write, add, or think. It’s no surprise that the poor victim children know little of history. They’re never taught nor encouraged to learn on their own. Here’s publik skool herstory in a nutshell: The Big Bang gave us the miracle of Evolution, leading fish to walk on land and the Egyptians to build the Pyramids, which may or may not have flown. After the Holocaust, everybody died because of AIDS, uh climate change … no, because of Corona. God is dead. Long live the rainbow!

That won’t cut it. Of the NEAP failure, US Secretary of Education (not in your beloved Constitution), Betsy DeVos, said, “We cannot continue to excuse this problem away. Instead, we need to fundamentally rethink education in America.” People, including DeVos, who cannot think, cannot “rethink.” NEAP’s own Peggy Carr said something very stupid about “democracy.” I think Mr. Ironsides was on to a few things…

Back to the here and now, read THIS STORY. As things are, many parents around the nation-shaped kind of place are having a rough go of homeschooling. If only they had more faith in Trotsky and less in God… Said a frustrated mother, Alexandra Nicholson of Massachusetts: “We tried to make it work the first week. We put together a schedule, and what we found is that forcing a child who is that young into a fake teaching situation is really, really hard.” Yes! Yes, that’s the problem, babydoll! Forcing a child into a fake teaching situation is more than just hard, it’s sinful. And, it’s what the “schools” normally do every day of the year. And, Mrs. Nicholson, it would be much better to just let your son play outside. This predicament is possibly the result of poorly educated Gen-X and Millennial parents forced into attempting that which they were never prepared for – the blind leading…

Seventy-two percent of parents say they are concerned that their children will fall behind – because of what the virus did… How can you fall behind 15% or 7% proficiency?! Again, this is a great chance and hope for change. That’s what has the Stroops of the world so frightened. We can obviously do better. Much better. But, it will take a little work on the part of the parents and the children (and, again, with any of the good teachers who will help). It will require us to scrap forever those systems and “experts” who intentionally created this mess. It can be done. This may be the greatest contribution of the Corona Hoax.

Another benefit may be the departure from the modern college racket. Why only skip this fall’s semester or the 2020-21 year? Why ever go into the pound of flesh slavery for four to six years of drugs, weight gain, and incoherent Marxist social engineering and very little else? Today, in the current year, a college education is a severe waste – and worse – for all but a small handful of individuals, at a few select colleges, who major in a few select fields. For the majority, it’s only higher debt, without higher (or lower) education. It ain’t worth it! There are many better alternatives. 

One of them may be the brand new Harmel Academy, as recommended by a commentator at Vox Day’s superior blog. Harmel is a two-year trade school, on the campus of a Christian college (sorry, Xir Stroop) in Michigan. It incorporates a traditional humanities curriculum into a program that forges future electricians, welders, machinists, and computer techs. The price? $18,550 a year for everything – tuition and board. That’s the cost of a semester’s tuition alone at many of the indoctrination centers. A Harmel student should emerge better educated than most Big State or even (Poison) Ivy League victims. And, he’ll be ready to start working in fields which sometimes pay at or near six-figures in the entry levels. 

A plausible scenario: “Joe” goes to Harmel and becomes a well-rounded plumber around the time his peers are stumbling into the second or third year of Big Debt U. He starts making $80,000 a year doing a respectable job that is always in high demand. He can afford to marry “Suzie” and allow her to stay home and raise their children. More than 2.3 children. The 5 or 6 children of Joe and Suzie grow up happy, well-adjusted, debt-free, and steeped in classical Christian education. They move on and repeat the cycle. Something resembling an older America starts to take shape. Western Civilization lives! God wins! Satan, ever the loser, loses.

AS SUBMITTED TO THE PIEDMONT CHRONICLES

Yes, I Have Noticed

17 Friday Apr 2020

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Have you? Michael Snyder noticed: Have You Noticed How Much Delight They Are Taking In Shutting Down Churches All Over The United States?

Every American should be deeply alarmed by the precedent that is being set right now. If our churches can be shut down any time an “emergency” comes along, and if the bar for declaring an “emergency” just keeps getting lower and lower, it creates the potential for a whole lot of abuse by tyrants both big and small in the days ahead.

Abortion clinics are essential and open, churches are dangerous and closed.

I’ve also noticed that most Amerikans haven’t done a thing about it and that most of the churches willingly went along.

Spiritual Tithing

11 Saturday Apr 2020

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It’s like spiritual Communion, but instead of us not physically receiving the Eucharist, they don’t physically receive the money. What’s all this worry about?

Like most churches around the United States, St. Anselm’s will be closed on Sunday, its members unable to gather and its priests unable to meet with them as the nation endures its worst public-health crisis in a century.

But just as American churches have been unable to meet their members’ spiritual needs — perhaps most painfully represented in the absence of public funerals for the thousands who have died — they also have faced their own unmet needs in the form of untouched collection baskets.

“We are in uncharted waters, financially,” said John Quaglione, a St. Anselm’s parishioner who is also a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. “There will be some serious conversations and some strong conversations with the parishes and the economic folks to help get us through this.”

Yeah, those “economic folks” will help alright – not that any help is needed. This is quid pro quo from the Holy Spirit. Far from being a reduction, spiritual tithing allows any Faithful to increase the gift. For example, there’s no difference between a spiritual tithe and a spiritual vicesima. Just remember: literal money cannot pass through closed and locked doors.

And where is Pope Benedict?!

Happy Palm Sunday 2020

05 Sunday Apr 2020

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It’s a little different this year. So, as you do not attend church because of the Corona Hoax, you can at least thank the beautiful Ann Barnhardt for reminding us of the time (I had never known about this) when the French Faithful knocked down a wall to break into their church.

The French are a bunch of weak surrender-monkeys, right? Tough old ‘Muricans have freedom fries!

Separation of Church and State

03 Friday Apr 2020

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What happened to that? What happened to the “wall” from Jefferson’s letter and Everson V. BOE, etc? I suppose that only applied to running God and the Godly out of the government’s schools. Now, that the schools are all closed, the state has no problem whatsoever prohibiting the free exercise of religion. Worse, the churches and the people have gone along happily. It could be that, along with covering for the usurers, the hysteria was designed to empty the pews. This may be new but it isn’t normal.

Let’s Hope So

27 Friday Mar 2020

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This could be the return to civility America really needs. Or Not. But, I’m not sure God will be all that happy with the way it’s presented here:

Could a plague of biblical proportions be America’s best hope for religious revival? As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, there is reason to think so.

Three-quarters of a century has dimmed the memory of that gruesome conflict and its terrible consequences: tens of millions killed, great cities bombed to rubble, Europe and Asia stricken by hunger and poverty. Those who survived the war had to grapple with the kinds of profound questions that only arise in the aftermath of calamity. Gazing at the ruins from his window at Cambridge University, British historian Herbert Butterfield chose to make sense of it by turning to the Hebrew Bible.

“The power of the Old Testament teaching on history—perhaps the point at which the ancient Jews were most original, breaking away from the religious thought of the other peoples around them—lay precisely in the region of truths which sprang from a reflection on catastrophe and cataclysm,” Butterfield wrote in “Christianity and History” (1949). “It is almost impossible properly to appreciate the higher developments in the historical reflection of the Old Testament except in another age which has experienced (or has found itself confronted with) colossal cataclysm.”

War again. Notice? Drool for the bell. The hoax to end them all led to the JUDEO-Christian awakening? What? The lens of the Old Testament only. Hmmm. This is starting to smell.

I’m not sure who the next target is – likely China and/or Russia. Whoever it is, I am firmly against the next war. This one won’t go as planned, nor will the next. Kids, resist the urge to “serve,” especially in the Navy, unless you’re just dying to see the ocean floor. I’m also against all these blasphemous comments and taglines. Talk about a colossal cataclysm in the making.