God's Moral Law Will Have the Last Word

Sometimes I hear the line quoted from the following passage in the book of Hosea, "My people are destroyed for lack of kowledge," followed by different interpretations of what sort of knowledge is being referred to. This has bothered me for some time because the context itself seems clearly enough to d3efine what knowledge is meant.

Hosea 4:1-8
Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. 4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

Very earnest Christians, even pastors, will offer ideas of what sort of knowledge is meant, from knowledge about the devil's wiles, to knowledge about diseases and poisons in our environment, to knhowledge about political conspiracies, all things that could certainly threaten our survvival if not recognized and avoided.

But reading the passage as a unit it seems pretty plain to me that God is talking about a lack of knowledge of His Law. He says there is no truthy, mercy or knowledge of God, that there is swearing and lying and killing, stealing and committing adultery. Isn't it clear that He's talkiing about a lack of knowldedge of the consequances of sin here? Isn't it sin that is bringing on them the mourning of the land, the languishing of the people, the taking away of sustenance, causing their falling?

It is sin that destroys us. Scripture says elsewhere "The waes of sin is death." And Romans 5:12 has: "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned..." It is violations of God's Law that bring every kind of destruction on the humqan race. That's what the Fall was, from which all humanity has been suffering for millennia. We live in a fallen world, which is too often fprgpteem evem by Christians who should khnow it best. Althoughh in the Hosea passage God is talking specifically about His chosen people who lack the knowledge of His law that would keep them from the sin that destroys them, it's true of human beings inb general. All suffering of every kind is the consequence of sin, our own personal sin or sin we inherit from ancestors, our own ancestral lineage as well as our original parents whose Original Sin of disobedience has been passed on to all their progeny.

As I've mentioned before, various cultures and religions also have some knowledge of God'[s Moral Law although it is incomplete or distorted by comparison with the biblical revelation. Lying, stealing, adultury, murder are all identified as basic karmic categories to be avoided in Buddhism for instance. That's four of the Ten Commandments spelled out in the Bible. If you avoid committing these sins you will cut down on your susceptibility to disease, injuries and early death. Of course we can't change what we inherit from our ancestors, all we can do is minimize our own personal sibns and their consequences. Even so we all commmit sins every day because it's built into the fallen nature we are born into.

This is why Christ died. This is the gospel, the "good news" that although we all deserve Hell because we're all sinned against the Law of God, Jesus Christ the God-Man came to pay our sin debt for us. He took on our sins so that we could take on His perfect righteousness and have eternal life. If we believe in His death in our place we are saved. If we refuse His offer we will go to the Hell we have personally deserved.

I remember God's Law lately because of the sins America as a nation has accumulated, and natiobs are also subject to destruction for sin. That's what the Judhment of God is all about. Pass a law calling the killing of the unborn good and the nation comes under God's judgment. Pass a law interpreting Freedom o Speech to include protecting pornography and the nation comes under gOD'S JUDGMENT. Pass a law extending marriage to homosexual couples and the nation comes under God's judgment. God's judgment includdes all kinds of destruction, from violent weather patterns to social unrest, increased in murders, the election of evil people to governing positions, defuncting the police so that crime increases, bringibng foreigners into the country to destroy the economy, spending more monjey than we have which will also destroy the economy. In other words sin increases sin and that in itself is God's judgment. Eventually God's wrath will utterly destroy a nation. He may use our enemmies to destroy us, although they in their turn will also be judgged.

Knowing that God is in chanrge of all these things is what keeps me from being very hopeful that America can recover from our current downward spiral. The Left has the upper hand and they are at the moment the wielders of our destructfion though they will be destroyed in turn for their blatant violations of God's Law. I still see some signs of hope here and there so I haven't given up completely but the general trend of lies and more lies and destructive policies after more destructive policies looks like the main trend with no end in sight.

The only way to prevent it is for the nation to turn back to God in humility, rependance and prayer. I don't see that happening, do you? well, I could add that there are passages in the bible that make it clear God will honor a few righteous even in a predominantly wicked nation. I guess that's a source of hope. Otherwise it looks like it's all downhill to the Great Tribulation from where I sit.

Sam Harris Replies, and the beat goesw on.

Sam Harris has responded to Bret's response to his pocast with Eric Topol, the subject of my previous post, and if anything his response is even more sickening, frightening and disheartening than his first podcast. He accuses Bret and Heather of paranoia, doesn't see anything costructive to come from a personal discussion between them, and hasn't altered his wrongheaded beliefs one iota.

It would be one thing if this were only a clash of opinions but the problem these days is that his erroneous views are fuel for political power against his opponents and that doesn't seem to bother him. The unvaccinated are morally at fault according to him and that makes us targets of all kinds of abuse by government and other social powers. Once you've picked your enemy and labelled them with denigrating epithets long enough, concentration camps, mass slughter of the denigated, gas chambers and the like are easily justified even in high moral language.

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Anyone who thinks Trump was a threat to American democracy rather than the salvation of the American republic, is not to be trusted. But again, he's on the side that has the power, and that's unfortunately what counts in this current political climate.

Here and there we have a ray of hope that it won't porevail, or at least that there is more resistance to it than we might guess from the leftist rhetoric which is what most people are hearing with little opposition. In the latest Dark Horse Podcast, #91, Heather describes her encounter with some liberal women who see through the lies and the setting up of the unvaccinated. That's heartening. but by now we're so used to talk that produces no effective action I can't put much confidence in it.

Harris understands nothing about the realities infolved. He doesn't see the lies, he denigrates the VAERS reports, he believes the manufactured statistics. He's one of the "useful idiots."

The Pandemic One of the Tools for Destroying the Free World.

There is now a great kerfuffle on the internet about Bret Weinstein's wariness toward the vaccines and endorsement of Ivermectin as a preventative of COVID.

This podcast is a good recent overview of the arguments in favor of Ivermectin as a preventative as wel as treatment for COVID 19 and its variants: Bret Weinstein with medical Drs. Pierre Kory and Paul Marik of FLCCC (Front Line COVI19 Critical Care)

https://odysee.com/@FrontlineCovid19CriticalCareAlliance:c/Weekly_Update_SupressionofGoodScience:3?src=open

Here is the earlier Joe Rogan podcast, with Bret and Dr. Pierre Kory on Ivermectin. YouTube removed it so it went over to Spotify where you have to register to watch. this may be the main video that sparked the kerfuffle:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/

Here's the beginnng of the kerfuffle: Sam Harris on the vaccines and related issues, talking with Dr. Eric Topol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

This discussion was to me sickening and frightening, so disheartening it's hard to describe the hopelessness it engendered. I have to accept that Hrris is sincere, he sounds sincere, but that just makes the fact that he is doing nothing but regurgitating the current propaganda and completely misreprenting the point of view of his opponents abysmally discouraging. I might make some comments, not sure yet since Bret has his own response to him:

Bret and Heather responded to Harris' podcast in their Dark Horse Podcast #89L That discussion starts about 11:36:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EURFK3PAMg&t=4613s

Bret's main response was that Harris' arguments were strawmanning what he and Heather had said, which is true but my point would be that he's strawmanning all those who reject the vaccines and favor Ivermectin as well as a number of other treatments.

I'm just going to give a brief sketch of some of my own responses:

There are some who think COVID is overblown, and actually the evidence on which they base that is really quite good despite the way Harris and Topol mischaracterize it, but I doubt that's the majority of those who don't want to be vaccinated. I'm in at least two vulnerable groups and I don't want the vaccine. I feel I'm amply protected by the supplements I've been able to acquire, and I also strongly suspect I had the virus anyway, a very mild case which would probably be explained by the fact that I was taking those supplements at the time. Not only do I think I'm amply protecte but I believe that I'm contributing to the extinction of the virus, far from being the cause of anybody else's infection as Harris and Topol accuse the unvaccinated of being. This is part of what's frightening about their view because if we are held responsible for others' sickness wse become targets of government tyranny.

The real threat to public health is the suppression of the antivirals such as Ivermectin and HCQ which have a huge record of keeping people out of the hosptial as well as preventing the illness altogether. Of course they misrepresent the evidence for this in the usual ways. I've posted many discussions that bring out that evidence. They also attack the VAERS site where reports of deaths and injuries from the vaccines are recorded. the usual utterly ridiculous criticisms All the fault of "anti-vaxers" too which is a cateogry that hardly applies to the people who reject the MRNA vaccines BASED ON THE SPEICIFC EVIDENCE and not on any prior belief.

The Delta variant is hyped by them just as it is on the fake news as thiw really scary :virulent" development that the unvaccinated are now accused of sujecting the vaccinated to. Although they use the correct description, that the variant is more easily trasmitted so that we're getting a great number of cases, the fact that i does not cause as serious illness as the COVID 19 is not mentioned so its higher transmissiability is allowed to imply that people get sicker as the death rate is higher. All the reportes refer to percentages of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in very nigh numbers, which obscured the fact that you can have "double" the cases or deaths and be only referring to half a dozen actual cases. When some people have called hospitals reported on the news to be overrun with DEelta patients they have been told that that's not true, they have plenty of empty beds. We know we are being lied to but this kind of lie is particularly scary because it's making a targ3et of unvaccinated people. Just as CRT is making a target of white people. the powers that be that are behind this are truly ,br>
diabolical and it's sad and frightening to think that they are getting away with it. It's also hard to understand how so many could have been so effectively deluded by lies.

The aversion to the vaccines is not based on irrational sources, it's based on known facts properly understood by medical people with impeccable credentials . The rate of deaths and injuries as a reslt of the vaccines is far beyond that of any other drug that was not immediately pulled from public use. Yes the vast majority of people receiving them are apparently doing fine but given the deaths and some very serious injuries (which by the way look like they may be mitigated by somje of the same treatments recommended for preventing the virus in the first place), and the reasonable concern that nobody knows if they may have future serious effects, there is nothing at all irrational about the educated refusal to take the vaccine.

That'says a few, not all, of the objections that could be made to Harris and Topol. I just want to add that Bret says he's ben unable to explain the suppression of information about these things except as the commitment to the profits to be made from vaccines as well as new treatments while the old ones like HCQ and Ivermectin don't mak4e anybody any money. This is probably part of it but the suppression of information that makes the difference between life and death is nevertheless a diabolical way of protecting profits.

He wonders at the iron-fisted effectiveness of the suppressive measures, and to that I have to say it suggests something beyond even the profitmaking strategies of multibillionaires. It suggests the globalist agenda of the Great Reset, which is using COVID as well as CRT and inflation and open oborders that overwhelm the economy and bring in diseases, plus other destrutive political actions to destroy their opposition, which America in particular has represented as the most succssful free society. No more are we that apparently. They've pretty much accomplished their aim. this is no longer America Klaus Schwab of the WEF whose agenda is the Great Reset, recently said that we're never going back to normal. Wish he were wrong but suspect he's right, because they obviously have the power to enforce it. Not that we shold give up without a fight.

Europeans Who Experienced Communism Wary of Leftist Activity in the US

This interview was done before the election last Fall so they are probably even more alarmed now. John O'Sullivan, President of the Danube Society in Budapest, interviews Marion Smith, at that time President of Victims of Communism Foundation Memorial Society, now founding President of the Common Sense Society.

I heard Marion Smith on the Lars Larsen* talk show recently, in which he talked very knowledgeably about the protests in Cuba, which he sees as the Cuban people taking advantage of a current weakness in the government to fight for freedom from Communism. They are also taking a great risk and are being subjected to horrendous mistreatment by the govenrnment. We've been getting propaganda teling us that it's about wanting vaccinations!!!! As Larson pointed out, "Libertad" does not mean "vaccination" in Spanish.

So I looked up Marion Smith and found this interview by the Danube Society. The interviewer framed the conversation with the observation that there has been a recent upsurge in the popularity of Marxism and Communism in America, which is alarming considering the genocidal history of all Communist regimes.



Smith is also involved with the National Civic Art Society which is about the effect of styles of architecture on the cultural mindset. Interesting, I think. that the motto of the Common Sense Society is Liberty, Prosperity and Beauty. The word "beauty" in that list was startling but I was happy to see it. I gather it relates particularly to architecture, but when I first read it I was reminded of my own recent preoccupation with art and how I despise modernism for its ugliness as Anti-Art, and want art to be beautiful above all else. For the sake of the human soul, the stability of society and culture, etc. etc. etc.

so many ways the culture has been undermined over the last century, politically, morally, culturally, and the degeneration of art is one that is usually overlooked. .

But I digress. The interview is about Communism.

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* Not sure now if it was Lars Larson. Might have been Jim Bohannon. Even Sebastian Gorka. I lose track.

Just a Little Opinion Piece

All political leaders and medical institutions, authorities and personnel who have authorized or contributed to the ban on, or refused to prescribe or administer the life-saving antivirals Hydroxychloroquine and Ivewmectin to COVID patients, and other helpful drugs as well, should be sued by the family members of all those who have died of COVID.

All political leaders, university professors and activists and rioters and school boards that promote the racist doctriness of Marxism and Critical Race Theory should be sued by all their victims, and tried for treason against the United States.

Most of the Democratic Party and Biden's administration should be tried for treason for most of their evil anti=Constitutional policies that will destroy the country if they get away with them.

Or the rest of us should write a new Declaration of Independence and secede from the Union.

Larry Elder for California Governor!

It was alarming to tune into Larry Elder's radio show and find somebody else had taken over the time slot. But then I found this interview of him by Tucker Carlson. Looks like he quit to run for Governor of California. Wow, he'd be a great governor for that benighted state if only he can get through the usual leftist obstructions. Here's the interview:

How Art Became Anti-Art

somehow I lost this post. Update: Turns out I have a hard copy of it, which I make of some of my posts, and if I can see well enough to retype it later I'll do that.