Musings on Loury and McWhorter and the Moral Lsae snf oyhrt dyugg.

jOHN mCwHORTER ON THE gLENN lOURY SHOW ABOUT THE TIME OF THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS OR JUST AFTERWARD i SUPPOSE, WAS GOING ON AND ON ABOURT HOW BLATANTLY rEPUBLICANS WERE WORKING TO DISENFRANCHISE BLACK VOTERS.   wHUT?   i REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BUT IT WAS DRIVING ME BATTY HOW HE WENT ON LIKE THAT AS IF IT WERE OBVIOUS.   hE DIDN'T DESCRIBE WHAT THESE "REPUBLICANS" WERE DOING, JUST KEPT SAYING HOW DISGUSTINGLY OBVIOUS IT WAS THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO PREVENT BLACKS FROM VOTING.

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fIBNALLY  lOURY HAD HIS TURN AND i THEN UNDERSTOOD THAT mCwHORTER WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN FOR VOTER id.  i ALSO REMEMBERED THAT i'D SEEN THIS PODCAST BEFORE AND HAD FORGOTTEN IT.  yIKES, mCwHORTER ACTUALLY THINKS THAT VOTER id WOULD DISENFRANCHISE BLACK VOTERS?  yIKES!  aFTER lOURY MADE HIS CASE mCwHORTER CAME BACK AND SAID THIS WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE TIMES WHEN HE AND lOURY WERE TRULY AT ODDS AND THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT lOURY WAS TALKING AOUT.  oUCH.  hE REALLY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT THE PUSH FOR VOTER id HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH RACISM BUT WITH AN URGENT DESICRE TO PROTECT EL

hE REALLY REALLY REALLY HADN'T ENTERTAINED FOR A MOMENT THAT THE PUSH FOR VOTER id WAS ANYTHIJG BUT RACIST.   qwHEREAS i AND MILLIONS i UNDERSTOOD THOUGHT AS i DID HAD NO OTHER IDEA THAN THAT IT WAS IMPERATIVE TO DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE FRAUD.  fRAJUD WE SAW HAPPENING IN THAT ELECTION AND PREVIOUS ELECTIONS THAT APPARENTLY NOBODY ON THE OTHER SIDE WAS SEEING, THOUGH THAT WOULDN'T HAVE OCCURRED TO ME UNTIL i JUST HEARD mCwHORTER \'S BAFFLEMENT .   jUST A LITTLE SLICE OF THE ONGOING POLARIZATION IN THE COUNTRY BUT IT DEPRESSED ME MORE THAN MOST EXAMPLES OF IT.  jOHN mCwHORTER?:  wELL YEAH HE'S GOT A LOT OF LEFTIST VIEWS WHICH IS DEPRESSING ENOUGH BUT HE'S A THINKER AND IN A POSITION TO HEAR THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ISSUE IN A WAY THE AVERAGE CITIZEN DOESN'T THESE DAYS WHAT WITH CANCEL CULTURE AND CENSORSHIP BY THE TOTALITARIAN LEFT.

iT MADE ME CRY BUT THEN A LOT OF THINGS MAKE ME CRY THESE DAYS.  aND i WON'T GO FORTHER INTO THIS ONE FOR NOW.  eXCEPT TO SAY THAT OF COURSE mCwHORTER HAS NO CLUE THAT THERE WAS ANY FRAUD WORTHY OF NOTE.  oUCH.    mAYBE lOURY DOESN'T EITHEi'VE BEEN \\\\\\\\\R, i'M NOT SURE.

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sORRY, TYPING IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL

i THOUGHT i WAS GOING TO GO ON TO A COUPLE OTHER THEMES i'VE LITENED TO RECENTLY ON lOURY AND mCwHORTER'S DISCUSSIONS BUT i CAN'T REMEMBER WHY i WANTED TO DISCUSS THEM SO i GUESS i WON'T.  eXCEPT TO SAY THAT ONE OF THEIR GUESTS WAS IRRITATINGLY WOKEISH AND CONSDERED HIMSELF A THEOLOGIAN, AND ANOTHER WAS A SOCIALIST WITH THE USUAL UTOPIAN IRRTATIONALISTY THAT IN MY OPINION SHOULD NEVER EVER HAVE GOTTEN AFOTTING IN ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES IN aMERICA.  tHIS IS INDEED A FALLEN WORLD BUT THE REASON FOR ACKNOWLEGING THAT ISN'T TO WEEP AND MOURN OVER IT BUT  TO DO AS THE aMERICNA fOUNDERS DID AND TRY TO PROVIDE FOR CECK AND BALANCES TO THWART THE HUMAN TENDENCY TO TAKE OVER AND DOMINATE WHEN GIVEN A CHANCE.  wHAT'S HAPPENING NOW IS THAT RTHE Lefdt has figured out how to get around all those checks and is pushing hard against them and may succeed in establishing their own craziness as tyrants over all the rest of ius.

So I'll skitter on over to an interview by Loury of a guy named Delano Squaires, or something like that.  Yes I think so.  Delano.  A genuine Christian, what a breath of fresh air.  Loury says he went through a Christian phase back in the eighties I thijnjk but I've never heard him explain why he left it except I suppose I can guess as I recognize some trends in his polit8ical views that veer away from a Christian perspetive.      Nevertheless a lot of what he says is congenial o a Christian point of view and I'm sure that's why I like him so much.   It's hard to understand though nhow anyone could have been Born Again and then leave it behind.  Could he really have been Born Again or just assuing it because he'd joined the club as it were?    I mean, to be born again, to be regenerate which is another word of it, is to have the life of God in you, implanted because of your faith in Christ's death on the cross for us.   If you have that life in you how can you give it up?  Well, you an't and if he has it I can only assume he'll eventually come back to it.

Anyway it was interesting to hear the interview with Delano Squires with Loury playing devil's advocate, although I don't know for sure that Loury doen't himself hold some of those opinions he was advocating.    Squires of course advocates for biblcial principles as solutions to problems in the black community and Loury raised questions about how anyone could espounse a religious perspective that is only one religion out of the many that exist in the country.  Dies Kiyrt see ut tgus wqat ir bit>   Does Loury see it this way or not?    

rthe Amerian Founders, at least the Big Five, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and Paine, were not Christians.  But they did revere biblical morality and thought the new republic depended on the continuation of biblical morality among the citizenry if it could work.  And we've long since lost that biblical perspective.  We are now in post Christian America and totalitarian tyranny is on the odoorstep.  With their focus so much on the problems of the black community are Louryu and McWhorter even aware of this trend tot totalitarianism?  Globalism?   Or is all that just a feverish concern of the far right in their thinking?

I don't know.  But as Squirees was laying out his view of the necessity of recovering some basic moral principles for the sake of saving the black community and Loury was questionin how that could possibly work in this day and age, it brought me back to my own view that recovering Christianityh is the onlyh solution to the whole mess.

Too late perhaps.  Impossible now perhaps.  But then missionaries have gone to remote bastoions of heathenism and discovered fertile ground for the gospel after they've done some spade work, and maybe it's not beyond possible to do the same in our own heathen societiy.   In many communities, not just the black community.  Yes, missionary type work, that's what I'm thinking of.  there are churches, and Im'm thinking only of the true churches here, not the woke monstroszities and other compromised apostate wrecks of churchs, get out of your pews and go intgo the community and set up some sort of ministry to bring the people to Christ or at least to biblical morality.  That's worth something and if you want to samve a community I don't see an;y other path to it.

Get people saved, get them born again.  the life of god will lead them.  But at least give them the biblical morality that the American Founders consdiered to be so necessary to the preservation of the Repbulic.

Restore the Ten Commadments.  Good grief, such basic stuff of life in those commandements.   Even if you don't grasp that they reflect an actual supernmatural Law that runs the actual universe you should be able to see that they have practical power to gude people awsay from death and desatruction to some kind of orderly existence.  Better of course that they be understood as that supernatural moral law though, because fear of Hell really does have some transforming power.  If you think that stealing is going to take you there you 'll think tweice about stealing, and so on.  And we've lost that fear of course.