How to Save the World

 I know i'm a broken record to use a dated phrase, I just keep repeating myself.  Into the void too, nobody listening, but even if they were what good would it do?:   Is it too late?:  I think so but then again I get some hope from here and there that it may not be.   America is coming apart, Western Civilzation is being dismantled.  Can it be turned back?  Again I don't think so, judging by all the signs I can see, but again sometimes I hope.  I'm not sure why.  If we're at the very end anyway then the world does have to come apart, that's the prophesied scenario.  Better to get it all over with.  But so many people will be put through such incredible suffering, so many will die, who wants that?   And again, who's listening?  If you reject the Bible as so many do these days what good does it do to talk about 3what the Bible says is going to happen? 

All that's left is hoping it might be of some value WHILE it's all happening to know WHAT is happening.  I write quite a few posts with that in mind.  Family, friends who aren't going to listen now might listen then.  Hard way to do it but better to be beheaded for finally getting the truth than take the mark of the beast and spend an eternity in Hell.

And again there is a way to postpone the inevitable, a way to save America and Western Civilization, but it's not going to happen swo why bother to mention it?   The west abandoned God decades ago.  Our laws have increasingly actually directly embraced what God's Law prohibits.  No society can survive that for long.   Even Christians have had their minds so twisted they think evil is good and good is evil.  

Abortion for instance is aggressively defended as a good and to oppose it is evil, it's supposedly an attack on women, as if killing your baby is a benefit.  They have to deny it's a baby of course.  Or some do.  Some actually say they know it is but it doesn't matter, human lifre is so devalued in this wonderful utopia that is being constructed.

The death penalty even for murder is aggressively opposed as a great evil, even in God's name although scripture itself says it is the just penalty for taken a human life since humanity is made in the image of God. 

Larry Flint died recently and I've heard many people say how he championed a good cause in the name of freedom of speech and that it was truly justice that prevailed in allowing pornopraphy to pollute the culture in the name of that freedom.   That's not what the first amendment was ever for.  Today it's being denied where it should be applied and applied where it should be denied.   Upside down, good for evil and evil for good.

And you'll be denounced as a terrible person if you believe that homosexuality is a sin and gay marriage is a violation of God's Law.   You're a "bigot" and a "hater" for telling the simple truth.   Good for evil and evil for good.

Does anybody even know these days that for a man to dress as a woman or a woman as a man is forbidden in the Bible?  But the society has gone much further than that and is now demanding that we all treat a person according to what sex he or she WANTS to be although there is no way to change the biological facts.   There's some kind of obsession involved that drives such ideas and I don't know where to start to save people from it, but forcing all the rest of society to accept their fantasy is a great evil.

Now we have political leaders justifying stealing and destruction of property as supposedly justice because of past racism.  Racism is certainly a sin in God's eyes as all hatred without a cause is, but the remedy is as much or more of a violation of God's Law than the sin of racism.  The facts when actually recognized belie the whole idea of systemic racism but those facts are suppressed, a dangerous violation of the commandment against lying.  Lying is done every day by the sources of infomration, all in the service of promoting today's favored evil vision for society that they call good.  And nobody is thinking at all about how such violations of God's Law are bringing God's wrath down on the heads of those justifying them and on the society as a whole.  .

Just that short list covers all the Ten Commandments spelled out in the Bible.  Let's see we've got lots of violations of "Thou shalt not commit adultery" which embraces the sexual sins which are rampant in many forms these days.  And there are plenty of violations of "Thou shalt not commit murder" as  Jesus taught murder to include hatred in the heart.  I think many justifications of murder could be found today and all I mentioned was the opposition to the death penalty.   Of course the death penalty itself is called murder, just another case of evil for good, but to oppose it is actually to justify the murders for which it is justice according to God's Law.   Then we've got all this justifying of looting and burning supposedly int he name of justice, violating "Thou shalt not steal" and worse.  Violations of "Thou shalt not bear false witness" has become an everyday practice, and  of "Thou shalt not covet" would hardly be noticed.  

 All that barely begins to describe the enormity of the problem.   All our institutions are undermined by justified violations of God's Law.   How we maintain any social stability at all is the amazing thing.   There are plenty of voices on the right side of these things but the forces of evil have become so powerful it's hard to see how it could be undone.  It's gone on too long, it's become too entrenched.

"Judgment begins at the house of God" is still the place to start.   A radical reformation is needed, and it's needed in the "good" churches no less than the outright heretical and apostate.   Is anyone seeking God to find out where to start?   I could repeat some of my own suppositions but there's really no point.  If the churches got serious about it and prayed about it and sincerely wanted to know all the ways we Christians have offended God anybody's personal guesses aren't necessary.  He'd tell us where we've gone wrong.   

THAT's the solution, the beginning of the solution.  Is that going to happen?

The Poison Brew of the Nineteenth Century Is Choking Us in the 21st.

Many lines of evil are all coming together at once in this fallen world, lines of thought that started over a century ago all coming together to snare the unwary.   The Nineteenth Century brought us a veritable witches' brew of novel theories and ideologies designed to undermine all truth.  And fallen humanity eats it up.  

TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND THE GREAT BIBLE HOAX

Such as the "scholarly" work of Textual Criticism that came out of the Tubingen School in  Germany. That one's huge.  It brought us the lies of Liberal Christianity.  And at the end of the century we got the lies of the promotion of two supposedly recently discovered Greek texts as older and more reliable that became the foundation of a whole slew of new Bibles that have been polluting the churches ever since.  Chris Pinto has a lot to say about it in his documentaries and radio shows.   Here's his most reent radio show on the subject:

 NOTR - BIBLE SKEPTICS & PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN HERESY - 3.4.21 - Noise of Thunder Radio Show - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto  

As is often the case some of the best Christian preachers and teachers have embraced this assault on the Bible as if it were respectable scholarship, and prying anyone loose from that perspective appears to be impossible, at least by human means.   I have a whole blog on the subject, "The Great Bible Hoax of 1881" where I try to collect the best arguments, but Chris Pinto goes into it all in far more historical detail.

So sad to see the proliferation of the modern Bible versions in all the churches, which have created a veritable babel in which simple communication is disrupted while despite all the testimony to the contrary by Christian believers the inerrancy of God's word is thrown into doubt.  Listen to this latest radio show by Pinto.  Westcott and Hort's totally made-up "theory" is destroying the biblical basis of Christian theology and faith.

MARX, ANOTHER INGREDIENT IN THE WITCHES' BREW

Then there was Marx who provided the evil ideology that has enragptured so many people in the last few decades, an ideology specifically aimed at the destruction of America and Western Civilization, maybe most popularly in the form of Neo Marxism or Cultural Marxism.  I recently listened to Glenn Loury interviewing James Lindsay who touched on this as one source of Wokeism.  He gets into the subject of Cultural Marxism starting about 41:  

Wokeism's Postmodern Roots | Glenn Loury & James Lindsay - YouTube

The Anti-Racist stuff comes out of this, and Antifa too, and BLM.   It has made its way into the churches also, carried in by the Jesuit-originated (Luigi Tapparelli) Social Justice idea for instance.  And although there's no direct connection that's easy to find that I know of, I'm sure Feminism, which in its current form derives from Cultural Marxism, is the root of the abandonment of the women's head covering in the churches.   

Undo the undeserved reputation of the bogus Bibles, undo the effects of Social Jutice and Marxism, restore the head covering, and we, God's people, might be able to save the churches, save America, even the world.  I mean it, but then I'm just a cockeyed optimist.   

DARWIN, ANOTHER POISON TOAD IN THE WITCHES' BREW

There was also of  course Darwin's influence and the growth of the bogus science he inspired that has a death grip on today's scientists.  Mostly it's window dresswing since they just CALL everything evolution whether it is or not.  When they are discussing current observations of biological facts, various adaptations of interesting creatures around the world perhaps, or even the variants of the corona virus, calling them "evolved," the term is being misused.  At least it is being aggresively appropriated to Darwinian theory which obscures the main point that the theory of evolution is fundamentally not about variants but the idea that over hundredws of millions of years Species eveolved from Species, human beings evolved from fish etc.  Through apes of course.  And so on and so forth. 

But each creature's genome is designed for variation on its own theme as it were.  You will never get anything but a cat from the cat genome, even when altered by mutations, but you can get a whole lot of very insteresting variations of cats.  I think this is intuitively obvious but I've also argued at length that the processes of evolution (variation) themselves reduce genetic diversity, potentially to complete depletion, which makes further evolution impossible.  

A Creationist Explanation of Global Warming

I posted a link to a talk on climate change in the previous post in which the speaker clearly accepts the idea of an ancient earth and the supposed Time Periods of modern geology that undergird evolutionary theory.   He refers for instance to the Cambrian rocks as supposedly demonstrating an atmosphere high in CO2 all those hundreds of millions of years ago.  He also refers to a plant enzyme he says can be traced back hundreds of millions of years.

I don't know if such notions affect the idea of climate change one way or another but of course I reject them as wrong because I accept the Young Earth of biblical calculations.  That means that the rocks in which the fossils are found were deposited by the worldwide Flood some 4300 years ago, which means that whatever evidence of climate might be found in the rocks would point to the climate before the Flood, not to some era hundreds of millions of years ago.    And if it does, that would be very interesting to know too, but mainstream science isn't going to be looking there.

He does mention that he thinks the current warming of the planet is most likely due to the receding of the Little Ice Age thta came to an end in the early 1800s.   I'd figured the whole warming trend goes back to the Flood itself, which would have brought on a major icea age that took millennia to retreat.  It could have extended and retreated in small increments over all that time too, but it makes sense that it all started with a massive cooling after the Flood.  One argument against such views that I have encountered is that the Flood would have generated a great deal of heat that would have fried Noah and his ark, and especially when I get into arguing that the Flood is what caused the splitting and driffing of the continents, which means they had to have drifted apart at a great rate of speed, at least a few feet per day at the begining..   The earth shoujld be a burnt-out cinder if all that happened.

Well later it occurred to me that the heat would have been rapidly evacuated into space, which would have brought on cooling, even a great ice age, even conceivably a "snowball earth"    I've never followed the arguments of the creationists who say that the biblical account puts a "canopy" over the whole planet, which is what rained down for those forty days and nights at the beginning of the Flood.   It would have been canopy of water vapor then, which is also part of the current ceiling of greenhouse tasses being talked about today as so dangerous.   The original canopy's  dissolution nto rain would have exposed more of the atmosphere of the Earth to cold outer space into which all the heat generated by whatever means, a lot of it in the form of evaporation, would have rapidly dissipated, having a drastic cooling effect.  Since science very credibly accounts for an ice age that penetrated very far south all over the world, this outward radiation of heat would explain it nicely.   Then afterward the "canopy" would have been somewhat restored over time from the accumulation of "greenyhouse gasses"  and water vapor as all forms of life expanaded and spread acrossw the world.   Say it took 4300 years and we're now at the end of the warming that caused the recession oI the ONE ice age.   Perhaps with smaller extensions and retreats but overall just one huge ice age. 

Time Periods in Rocks?

But I also keep coming back to the plain absurdity of the idea of the Time Periods which deludes both modern geology and modern biology    This is the absurdity of the idea that there was a Cambrian period of time that corresponds to a layer of sedimentary rock in which an enormous abundance of fossils are found that are interepreted as having lived during that Time Period.  Same idea for the whole stack of sedimentary rocks that climb in straight layers above it.  Why isn't the absurdity of time being divided into slabs of sedimentary rock recognized?   Why?  Different sedimentary rocks stacked one on top of the eother across most of the planet, each with its own set of fossils.   It's so OBVIOUSLY something that could only have happened on some mechanical or physical principle that makes absolutely no sense in terms of vast periods of time.    Oh but they'll defend it to the death while I hold my head in despair.  

Well, this post wandered a fair bit but I think the theme remains intact.  Our modern world is poisoned by a crazy proliferation of false ideas, some coming to fruition in some pretty scary politics.

And the Fascist Politics Concerning Climate Change

Listening to a talk on climate change that disputes the current views on global warming.   He talks about the necessity of CO2 for the health of the planet,  mentions a document signed by hundreds of scientiests that agree there is no climate emergency, which of course is suppressed by the media and Big Tech, and so on,  I feel I need to listen again some time to understand the science issues better but it looks like a good argument.    

How to Think About Climate Change | William Happer - YouTube

Vaccine and Virus Fascist Politics

A couple of links to recent information about the politics of the Coronavirus.  First a very short clip of a woman in Israel talking about the laws mandating the vacciine that are making life miserable for those who distrust it:   Urgent Message from Llana Rachel in Israel - YouTube

Then there's a recent radio show by Christ Pinto on related events, the arrest of a pastor in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for instance, for his violation of laws supposedly necessary to public health.  He goes on to discuss the role of the Jesuits including the Jesuit influence of Anthony Fauci and Beill and Melinda Gates:   NOTR - JESUITS, CORONAVIRUS & DR. FAUCI - 2.25.21 - Noise of Thunder Radio Show - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto

COUNTERFEIT COMPASSION: The Failure of Liberal Economic Policy

Taxes -  Regulations -  Illegal Immigration   -Minimum Wage  -  Environmental Policies   

 Since I'm about as obtuse as it's possible to be about things economic, I'm surprised to find myself understanding a few things and wanting to write about them.   I guess it was the Trump Presidency and the frequent repititions I'd hear about his economic successes, from him and from conservatives, that finally made a few things make sense for the first time.  (No way I'd ever have become a billionaire.)

SO. Reducing taxes and regulations on business brought back businesses that had left the country because of high taxes, allowed those in the country to hire more employees and expand their producion and sales.  

OK so far?  

That reduced the unemployment numbers enormously, the lowest for many years, and most tellingly among minorities.   A great sucdcess one would think.  Conservative economics works, it does what the liberals say they want to do but they actually have the opposite effect,.   Their high taxes drive businesses out of the country or at least force them to cut back on hiring and expansion.  Unemployment goes up.  

There's also a big paradoxical benefit that I'd never heard before:   MORE money flows into the government through taxesw when these policies are in place than when liberal policies are in place.  Cuz the expansion of business bringing more profits means more taxes, not higher taxes, more taxes.  Golly wow, wouldn't you think the liberals would learn a lesson from this?  Why don't they?:  Why is Biden now doing the exact opposite of what Trump showed works?  

Oh I suppose they'll just say it's all a lie.  Sigh.

There are lots of reasons to want to have a protected border but one big one is that illegal immogrants take jobs away from unskilled American workers.   Something I hadn't known was that Cesar Chavez opposed illegal immigration because they took jobs from the members of his Farm Workers union.  So why do liberals want to do this to American labor?   

Another policy that kills jobs for unskilled labor is the minimum wage, so dear to the hearts of liberals.  I understood that such a law forces businesses to cut back, can even drive some out of business altogether, which isn't good for the employment statistics.  Now I've been hearing from some black pundits like Larry Elder how it deprives young blacks of entry level work opportunities, prevents them from finding unskilled work because businesses aren't going to pay such high wages for that work.  These are young people just entering the work force who don't have families to support, most living with their parents.  They need the experience of holding a job more than anything else and are now being deprived of that normal opportunity to learn in order to move up as they acquire skills and work habits.  On a recent You Tube snippet of his show Elder played an old clip of economist Milton Friedman saying that the minimum wage is the most "anti-negro policy ever" or words to that effect. 

You'd think SOME liberals would wake up, wouldn't you?  Or are their motives in fact not what they claim they are? .  

Oh and shutting down that gas pipeline.  Supposed to be better for the environment?  But it turns out it takes thousands of trucks polluting the envornment to transport the gas that had been transported more cleanly in the pipeline.   So implementing regulations they intend to be good for the environment actually increases the carbon footprint so greatly it would be laughable if it were not so painful.  I guess putting all those truck drivers to work is a tgood thing at least.  

And then they shut down our own energy production for similarly wrongheaded good intentions which means the loss of thousands of jobs and the loss of the energy independence Trump had achieved, making us dependent again on foreign oil supply.  

And all that is just NORMAL liberal economic stupidity although it is trending into the Marxist influence that is growing today on the Left..  

LIVING THE CHEAT: We Aren't Animals and This World Is Not All There Is

In this fallen world the Evil One is still Prince and under his rule humanity stumbles around in the dark, accumulating sins against God and suffering the consequences, most mistaking this life for all there is.   

Some even revel in it.  Carl Sagan introduced his 1980 TV series “Cosmos”with this famous line:  “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be.  Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us . . . .    We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.“

To which I say a hearty “Bah!  Humbug!”

And then there was Darwin who said  “There is grandeur in this view of life . . .  [that]  from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful  and wonderful have been and are being evolved.”   He does suggest a possible origin by a Creator but since that wouldn’t  be the biblical Creator and today it’s all nothing but chemistry anyway I give it the same Bah-humbug. 

There are clues in life that we were made for something better than a meaningless existence in a vast cold universe of burning rocks, no matter how prettily they twinkle in the night sky.    I’m thinking of the human soul that is deeply affected by, say, Pavarotti singing “Nessun Dorma” as you can see from quite a number of You Tube “First Time Reaction” videos, that I mention in a previous post.    Many things other than music also provoke deep feelings -- yes even the grandeur of the Cosmos and biological life --  but in my own experience it was music that brought this home to me years ago.  I would cry hearing a Mozart symphony, or especially Handel’s Messiah, because it seemed to me that there is nothing in this life that deserves such glorious expression.   How can there be such music when there is no reality to which it corresponds?   How can we be capable of such exalted feelings without anything in reality worthy of them?   

That was before I believed in God of course.  The thing is, once you know that there is nothing in this life that deserves such grand celebrations, that is,  if the Cosmos is all there is and we evolved from fish, it feels like a cheat.   It IS a cheat.  Because if this IS all there is then it is a huge cheat, a sick joke on the human race.  When we are given these pathetic counterfeits of greatness and grandeur as worthy of our deepest feelings it’s like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear as the Proverb puts it.  

Then too, how do we talk ourselves into this common idea that we, these complex creatures what are way overqualified for mere existence in the physical universe, live that empty existence and then just go out like a light?  I don’t know for sure what Dylan Thomas had in mind when he wrote “Do not go gentle into that good night; rage, rage against the dying of the light,” but it’s always hit me as a protest against the cheat, the abysmal insult, of the idea of such a meaning-maker being extinguished at death.  Since he calls it a “good” night I’m unsure if he meant that but in my opinion he should have meant it.    

Shakespeare as usual nailed it:

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

 

Absurdly we tell ourselves it’s honest, courageous, grown-up of us to accept this fate as reality itself.    Or we rationalize our complex meaning-making minds as sufficient unto themselves, though merely accidentally coughed up out of the chemical soup of the universe.   Some of us are just weak, it’s understandable if we have to invent a fantasy,  manage to find a meaning in what is only our own solipsistic invention that corresponds to no external reality.   But that’s OK, we’re good at doing that and we should be content with it.  Or something like that.   The great cheat of it can be denied by such rationalizations.    Religion is a crutch and all that.    Where’s the evidence?  they demand.      

Oh to pry even one person loose from these tawdry imitations at life so many of us have taken for granted as our lot.

NO, we are worth far far more than that.   We are an extravagantly over-designed being if the only point of it all is physical and chemical, and our experience of it can be cynically summed up as “Life is hard and then you die.”   We have plenty of pleasures, happiness, fun in this life, and plenty of worthwhile things to do, but we were made for more than the best that is possible here, if the Cosmos is all there is and ever was.

But the biblical God says otherwise:

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.  (Genesis 9:6)

And from the hymn “O Holy Night”  -- “Then He appeared and the soul knew its worth.”

 You are an immortal soul.  You are not going to be snuffed out like a candle at death.  You will live on for eternity either in heaven or in hell. 

The Answer as Usual is No, Judgment is Picking Up Steam, Roaring Toward Us Like a Freight Train

 So it's pretty clear, isn't it, that the answer to the title question of the previous post is NO.  Oh we COULD, it's not impossible in principle, it's just impossible given the way people think these days.  Even going back to women's covering our heads in church, which is where I keep thinking it would have to start, is hardly likely, and if that is what would have to happen first none of the rest of it is going to happen.   Oh I still hope and pray for that, I'd love to be proved wrong, but the resistance to that one piece of scripture is adamant in my experience.  They got thtmselves convinced of the culture interpretation.  The author of that interpretation is a Christian of impeccable integrity.  Or they are the Pentecostals who insist on long hair but scorn the covering and do it with withering contempt for any other point of view.   And I got the accusation of "legalist" too of course.  No matter how good the credentials of those who have read it as I now do, no matter how good the reasoning in support ot it, the answer is ...   well, in my experience the answer is mockery and sarcasm.   

God could still turn the tide but it doesn't look like He wants to.   And again, if we don't return to that simple principle of male headship how can we expect to get anywhere on the subject of gay marriage, just to mention the most prominent issue.   Yes it probablly is the linch pin.  It came out of the wagon wheel and the wheel has wobbled on without it but eventually it has to fall off.   It would be SO easy to put it back in.

I like to think it's possible but I always come to the conclusion that it's not, and that means that things are just going to keep getting worse.  And it's getting so bad it's hard to see it as anything other than the looming Finale as I've described it in so many recent posts. 

What an arrogant know-it-all I am!