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RAMANAM
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
John Hinderaker at Power Line posts under title Should Conservatives Give Up On The Supreme Court. With edits here, I commented:
I concur with [Andy] McCarthy on his analysis and beg leave to add a deeper dimension, to wit: several Framers famously posited that the continuing success of their constitutional handiwork depended upon the moral courage of a religious — to them, Christian — citizenry.
That position of theirs has been under challenge for a very long time, on two continents, and from two directions: (1) from the direction of German Liberal Theology/Social Gospel (Albrecht Ritschl to Reinhold Niebuhr), finding Karl Marx in the Gospel of Jesus the Christ, and (2) from the direction of French Atheistic Existentialism/Deconstructionism (Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Michel Foucault), finding the Gospel of Jesus the Christ in Karl Marx.
(Now a third challenge, from two continents, the Middle East and Africa, is upon Framers’ reliance on moral courage inspired by Christian religion to fructify their constitutional creativity: Caliphism, finding nothing in anything and anything in everything.)
Not only have the churches, including Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox, failed to surmount these challenges to the precondition — Christianity — of success for the US Constitutional System, they have succumbed to them, some willingly.
And note, please, that legalist/political, extra-Christian efforts — e.g., conservatism, libertarianism, even “classical liberalism” — to protect the USA Constitutional System (whose success depends on a Christian-ly religious citizenry) are shown by this week’s trifecta (or quadfecta, and here) to be impotent in the cause. Law and politics cannot protect or save themselves. Only moral courage arising from religion can do that.
So, along with laying legal and educational plans to attack the terrible antinomianism of the day — what McCarthy observes here: the hideous appetites (concupiscence) of the lawless — might I suggest scrubbing Marx out of Christianity and Christianity out of Marx. Put them both in the crucible of intense, prolonged scrutiny and see which remains once the fires burn long and hot. I tell you, that is how to protect the USA Constitution and the structures of law, morality and culture its Framers aimed to protect and foster.
There are four remedies for any problem: the Legal, the Medical, the Theological, and the Pyrrhic. The problem in this instance — assault on Framers’ position that constitutional success depends on moral courage inspired by Christianity — is the identification of Christianity with Communism and Communism with Christianity. In this week’s trifecta, the Legal — Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs et al. v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., et al. — the Medical — King et al. v. Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. — and the Theological — Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Director, Ohio Department Of Health, et al. — remedies for the problem failed to solve the problem. That leaves the Pyrrhic remedy, the which, artfully applied, never fails to solve any problem.
In my accounting, only thrice before in history has Christianity/The Church — as distinguished from the Christian Churches, which more or less concretize The Church, The Spiritual Community — faced this strength of existential threat: once by Jesus the Christ facing Judaism, once by the Greek and Latin Churches facing Arianism and once by the Latin Church facing Albigensianism. Judaism, Arianism and Albigensianism are precursors of Socialism (Fascism and Communism). Now Christians face all three in Communism’s newly sanctimonious name and form: Globalism, The Global Community, for which the USA Constitution is an abomination as an existential threat because it fosters freedom in law.
I do not know whether to laugh or to cry over queers’ colossal stupidity.
Βασιλεία του Θεού
Kingdom of God
Update 1: Rush Limbaugh: Donald Trump’s Message Will Resonate.
Update 2: Randy Barnett is thinking ahead, properly, and here, and related here.
Update 3: Jonah Goldberg has an apposite meditation on political philosophy.
Update 4: Ryan Shinkel: The Courage To Be On The Wrong Side Of History.
Update 5: The Fraud Wants Your Doctor To Teach You About Global Warming Weather. Also here.
Update 6: At Power Line, under a post by Steven Hayward titled The Decadence Of The Liberal Mind In One Sentence, a commenter intending a taunt wrote: Did anybody see gay marriage coming?
Hayward answered the taunt:
Lots of people saw it coming, as far back as the Lawrence opinion in 2003. It was clear there [where] Kennedy’s logic would inevitably take him.
I answered the taunt:
What marriage? Just a specie of violence poked into law — a useful and fleeting artifact — by some personalities. Marriage is the sublime joy of procreation, of literal Godly-ness.
And yes, beyond legal signs of imminence (e.g., Hayward’s sub-comment), very many, especially of ordinary citizenry, saw also ideological signs in academic and entertainment tics dating from the 1960s at least and more like the 1920s. Personally, I date Obergefell to The Bonus March, the first time Soviet community organizing nearly took physical control of the US Federal Government.
Parents should teach their children that peace is earned by fighting and defeating belligerents. No one can give anyone peace. Everyone has to earn it, constantly. Nor does peace abide except by fighting for it. Use a thorn to remove a thorn from the skin, then lay aside the thorn, but keep it in reach and ready because another thorn will soon puncture the skin. The way of the world, the way life, destiny is made and happens.
Update 7: Angelo M. Codevilla: Standing Up To The Ruling Class. And on Donald Trump.
Update 8: Mark Steyn: Going With The Flow.
Update 9: The Real Deal.
Update 10: Reconstituting The Militia.
Related 11: RIP: The Great Cholesterol Scam (1955 – 2015).
Update 12: Why The American Church Should Go Off The Grid.
Update 13: Thomas J. DiLorenzo: Economic Fascism (also here)
It’s called fascism and that is what it should be called, over, over and over, to its face and from the rooftops.
Update 14: Sultan Knish: No More Mr. Nice Conservative
Update 15: A statement regarding equating Christianity with Communism:
Several New Testament parables are used, since decades, to equate Christianity with Communism. Virtually the entire “mainline denomination” leadership, to include now Roman Catholics, concurs at least in principle with that equation. Thus the pews empty out, which, remarkably, convinces that leadership to embrace leftist manners and language more tightly: cut loose by God, let’s be saved by politics.
Christianity brightly distinguishes the realm of civil authority and law from the realm of religious authority, which transcends civil authority and law and has no law of its own. Each realm has its utility, powers and necessity (“Give unto Caesar….”) and neither has authority to control or dominate the other.
The relationship between religion and science is the same. They are about different matters entirely, without intersection, confirmation or conflict. Like civil authority and religious authority, however, they are parallel, indomitable vectors of human experience and history.
Update 16: Too bad this fellow lied about his background, his sitrep is accurate.
Update 17: Randy Barnett and Josh Blackman: The Next [Supreme Court] Justices
Update 18: Colin Woodward: Eleven American nations. Woodward’s purpose is to justify national gun confiscation, but along the way his analysis of American regions — he calls them nations in order to divide the country to ease confiscation — is accurate and useful. Has a fine map supporting.
Update 19: David Bernstein: ‘Power Wars:’ Was [The Fraud] Administration National Security Policy Lawless?
Update 20: Richard Fernandez: The Global World Hits A Snag
Update 21: Seven Earth Day predictions that failed spectacularly
Update 22: The Paris climate agreement is all about empowering the U.N. and has nothing to do with the climate
Update 23: The Daily Signal, house organ of The Heritage Foundation, writes Caliphists’ lulling propaganda for them.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
