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In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
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Three points come to mind regarding this:
1- Islam sprang from the prophets of Christianity, mostly desert dwellers, as a classic Semitic iconoclastic or puritan movement against superstitions associated with images and the Doctrine of the Trinity in Christianity as practiced among Arab tribes at the time.
Christianity itself has periodic iconoclastic movements, including elements of the Reformed wing of the Reformation (original Calvinism: e.g., Presbyterians, Puritans (Congregationalists). Unitarianism, like Islam, was a puritanical reaction to superstitious use of images and religious symbols in Congregationalism and the Church of England at its time and also against tritheistic interpretations of the Doctrine of the Trinity, which are as old as that doctrine itself (era of the Apologists, foreshadowed by Paul) and especially difficult to remove from the minds of the common believers.
Both Hebrew and Christian Prophetism have strong, persistent iconoclastic strains. Modern messianic Judaism, an oxymoron in itself, represents the phenomenon of iconoclasm.
Therefore, if these iconoclastic tribal, clan and racial hegemonists calling themselves Muslims were to gain the upper hand in any Western country, the first thing to go will be all images, statues, pictures, etc. of man, nature and God in every museum, church, government building and private home they can find. Next, advertising using images of nature, man or what they might construe as God. Next, any depictions of Jesus — whom they titularly revere — Saints, etc. such as in stained glass windows …. You get the drift. Recall the Buddhist statues and sanctuary blown by the Taliban. It will happen here with anything construed as an image … because images are An Offense Against Islam.
Even without the upper hand, expect sooner or later major agitation, backed by threats of violence, arguing that every depiction of God, Christ, Saints, nature, man, etc. in USA, Europe, Australia, etc., such as stained glass, is An Offense Against Islam and justifies riots with a view to their removal. An Offense Against Islam is carte blanche to get what they want even without political supremacy, and they have just found that out.
Now that they are granted the Offense to Islam key, they will use it to culture clean, even without having the upper hand politically. It is only a matter of time before they feel strong enough to pull this off.
All this happens because a recrudescence of radical Semitic iconoclasm is accommodated, by those whose manner of living it aims to annihilate, as an expression of multiculturalism rather than as the tribal, clan and racial hegemonism — not to mention theological and therefore ethical distortion — that it really is.
Here is a radical short-circuit of this potential that is under construction, basically using the recent Supreme Court decision on appropriating private property for public benefit.
2- On Multi-culturalism: at root, this term, as it is used, is an oxymoron or a tautology.
To wit: a culture is not a simple aggregation of things, such as can be seen to have a political presence. A group of thugs is not a culture. A group of Arabs or Englishmen or Americans or West Pointers is not necessarily a culture.
The word culture means cultivated, refined, made sweet and appealing, nourishing and constructive through hard work, solicitude and copious education, including practice in real-life context. Culture is the product care, of a system of education patiently constructed through years of trial, adaptation, adjustment, agility, renewal, reorganization, etc., or as Germans put it, Blood, Sweat and Tears.
What comes from that is culture. Culture is a product, not a given, and it is very difficult to achieve in production. Culture is not just fabricated. It is also grown. Culture takes an individual beyond himself or herself to a new homeostasis of more perfect (meaning, more self-actualized) vitality. It is a dynamic achievement, a transcendence of what is given, not a simple gathering or aggregate of things.
There are few cultures. Arabs hardly have a culture any more, although once they did. Europeans, Russians, Indians, Japanese, Tibetans, non-Communist Chinese, Mongolians and some Southeast Asians — these have cultures.
Culture is the self-integration, self-creation and self-transcendence of life in the dimension of spirit, the dimension characterized by the unity of power and meaning. Culture is the form of religion, of the process, initiated by Grace, of reuniting that which is estranged with its essential nature, with God. Religion is the substance of culture.
Culture is an actuality for which Mr. Darwin could not account using his theories regarding the functionality of evolution. The dimension of spirit operates through principles not in the view of Mr. Darwin’s theories regarding the genesis and development of individuals and types.
Mr. Darwin did not examine and did not want to examine the dimension of spirit. Modern advocates of his theories, which those advocates increasingly assert as exhaustive fact, often deny the actuality of any dimension beyond that of the inorganic and organic, whereas, in fact, three dimensions exceed those first ones: first the dimension of self-awareness or psyche, then the dimension of power and meaning or spirit and then the dimension of purpose and fulfillment or history.
The truly Un-American moronic seditionists who manage and faculty our colleges and universities — the sources of our present dis-ease, along with the leadership of the churches — call any aggregate large enough to be considered politically puissant a culture.
Ha! A culture is a structured center of the power of being itself actualizing the hard-won refinements, through cultivation, of a group’s sensibilities or tastes.
These refinements are won one way only: systematically conquering and rooting out from one’s own heart the downward-dragging impulses so that the inherent up-ward tending urges of man’s essential nature can do their stuff unimpeded, namely, concretize themselves in structures of culture, religion and morality in the affairs of man’s world.
Culture is the form of religion and religion is the substance of culture. Paul Tillich
3- The only way the present left can maintain itself in public is to vacate the meaning of the words they perforce must use. Against this, the appropriate and successful operation is to employ the same and all words for what they mean. The true meanings of words themselves are the antidote, the medicament for the defiance that is the substance of the left and its hegemonist allies of tribe, clan and race from the Middle East and Africa.
The Minnesota Democrats are allied with the defiance of foreign racial hegemonists. What we have there is an alliance of utopian (means no place to exist) puritanism and iconoclastic puritanism. The common thread is an irenic puritanism.
Now, would not the left be astonished to be deemed puritans? Indeed they are just that, and they ally with foreign-made puritans even more violent than they themselves are. Such a fuss!
Maturity is over-rated.
We are Children of a Loving Father and Mother.
We tried on maturity and it did not fit.
The unity of man is God.
The delectation of man is God.
The victory of man is God.
Defiance gets you nowhere.
You cannot get over, under, around or through me.
So, may we dispense with the bull?
IHC XPC
“All names are mine.
All forms are mine.”
Sathya Sai Baba
Update 1: An A-Z Guide To The New PC.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
