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Apologizing for Truth

Posted March 12, 2024 By John C Wright

From Newsbusters:

What’s the most upsetting thing about the sentence, “An illegal alien violently murdered a 22-year old nursing student?” If you work in the corporate news media, the answer is the word “illegal.” When President Biden referred to the illegal alien who allegedly murdered Laken Riley in cold blood as “an illegal,” the news media sprang into action and rushed to the violent felon’s defense.

No comment necessary. Media delenda est.

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Klavan, Shakespeare, Transhumanism

Posted March 11, 2024 By John C Wright

Shakespeare vs. the Transhumanists

One of the most insightful essays I have ever encountered on the topic of transhumanism, oddly enough, as seen through the eyes of King Lear and Prospero the Magician.

Mr. Klavan begins:

I find these days that even friends with no religion have begun to speak in religious terms. Recently, within a single week, I heard the word “demonic” used five times, four times by people who don’t believe in demons. Stranger still, and not long after, I found myself in two separate conversations in which the sort of men who would never speculate upon the coming of the “end of days” began, with some embarrassment, to do exactly that.

The subject, in each case, was transhumanism: transgenderism, artificial intelligence, artificial wombs, the melding of man and medication, man and machine. There was a sense that we were arriving at a moment of choosing—choosing, each of us, whether we would continue to be what we were originally made, male and female, mortal, fallible, passionate, irrational, seemingly random in our individual qualities and yet recognizable, even if only in metaphor, as the image of God. Or would we, through medication, surgery, implants, and the like, become whatever it is we would: happier presumably, smarter in some sense, maybe even eternal in some sense, free in form, no mere image of God, but electric gods ourselves?

He goes on to examine two Shakespeare plays in which a king shouts commands at a storm, and, unlike the Messiah, is unheeded by deaf and roaring nature.

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Paradigm Shift

Posted March 8, 2024 By John C Wright

Let me draw your attention to this conversation. I found it insightful to the point of vertigo.

Andrew Jones in this forces me to reconsider my zeal for the Enlightenment project of individualism, individual rights, and a franchise extended to all and sundry — the idea that big government and big business, historically speaking, are coconspirators, nor competitors, makes a mockery of the Right-to-Left political spectrum I have used my whole life as the lens to view the world.

Left and Right agree on an axiom of individualist collectivism (ironic as that sounds) which the Catholic Church denies.
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Which Books did the Socialists Burn?

Posted March 2, 2024 By John C Wright

At times, the enemy of my enemy is indeed my enemy.

Here is a non-controversial topic impossible to discuss without sparking acrimonious controversy. Which books did the National Socialist German Workers’ Party actually burn and censor?

The somewhat heterodox historian here, a man who (in other vide0s) argues the Second World War to be one America should have not fought,  attempts to be nonpolitical, but I note he does not tell both sides of the story, nor need he. We have heard the other side and nothing but all our lives.

We see in Weimar Germany, as today, the play of a nearly perfect hellish tactic: Namely, set two antichrist factions directly against each other, Socialist and National Socialist, both of whom advocate totalitarian antics such as book burning, both of whom accuse the other side of its own sin, so that any opposition to the one is seen as advocacy of the other. That way, any Christian absolutely opposed to both is condemned by both sides as advocating or appeasing, the opposite.

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From the Pen of Andrew Klavan “Words, words, words”

Posted February 29, 2024 By John C Wright

One of the best essays I have heard on the topic:

In his fascinating book on moral intuition, The Righteous Mind, psychologist Jonathan Haidt tells the fictional story of what he calls a “harmless taboo violation.” A sister and brother, Julie and Mark, are traveling together. While staying at a beach cabin in France, they decide it would be a fun new experience to have sex with one another. They take strict precautions to avoid pregnancy. They make love and enjoy it. It makes them feel closer. They then decide never to do it again. They keep the incident a secret between them.

When test subjects were presented with this story, they reacted strongly at first: “It’s totally wrong.” But when questioned about why it was wrong, they were stumped. There’s no danger of pregnancy. The relationship isn’t damaged. No one else knows. The subjects began to hem and haw — but even so, they stuck to their position that the act of incest was wrong.

“People were making a moral judgment immediately and emotionally,” Haidt observes. “Reasoning was merely the servant of the passions, and when the servant failed to find any good arguments, the master did not change his mind.” In other words, our moral intuitions are not based on reason, and some may be mere evolutionary remnants, no longer legitimate.

My own reaction to the story, however, was very different.

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I am Afraid I Can’t Do That, Dave

Posted February 29, 2024 By John C Wright

Gemini, make an image of a White Person

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Deidre

Posted February 19, 2024 By John C Wright

This is the daughter of our neighbor, one of my wife’s good friends. She grew up into a fine looking woman.

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Pints with Chesterton

Posted February 17, 2024 By John C Wright

Two of my favorite Catholics talking about my favorite Catholic:
Dale Ahlquist and Matt Fradd on G.K. Chesterton

I came to know of GK Chesterton through the writings of CS Lewis, back when I was an atheist and eager to read the battleplans of my enemies, finding their strongest arguments so that I could vanquish them. However, like a comic book mad scientist working with radioactive materials, studying the arts of the enemy may transmogrify into you to the enemy.

And the scales will fall from your eyes. Such is the danger of reading Chesterton.

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He Gets Us. He Saves Us.

Posted February 13, 2024 By John C Wright

This is a tale of two ads. One ran during the Superbowl, a venue enjoying the largest viewership in television history. The other ran on Twitter.

One of the ads was dishonest, asking the faithful to betray the faith.

One of the faithful made an honest ad in reply.

One ad was Antichristian. The other, Christian. Alert viewers will spot the difference.

“Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” – 1 Corinthians 6:11

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Quote for Black History Month

Posted February 8, 2024 By John C Wright

A Yammerhead on Twitter remarks:

Slavery is white history. How we survived it is black history.

Matt Walsh answers:

Slavery is world history. White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn’t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981.

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L Jagi Lamplighter on Magical Schools on Blasters and Blades

Posted January 22, 2024 By John C Wright

Blasters and Blades Ep 343

My beautiful and talented wife, Mrs. Wright, who writes under the name L. Jagi Lamplighter, appeared as one of several guests on the BLASTERS AND BLADES podcast, to discuss Magic schools, where every day is a teachable moment!

She is something of a savant on the subject, having written the UNEXPECTED ENLIGHTENMENT series, a “Lovecraft meets Narnia at Hogwarts” sort of genre, and edited three volumes in the FANTASTIC SCHOOLS anthologies series.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/GisrLg4ARf4?si=whosOc-EMUX_j7Pa

Rumble Link: https://rumble.com/v48hfnu-episode-343-magic-schools-where-every-day-is-a-teachable-moment.html

BitChute Link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/GisrLg4ARf4/

Podcast Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blasters-and-blades/episodes/Episode-343-Magic-schools–where-every-day-is-a-teachable-moment-e2eoqds

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Musical Interlude

Posted January 20, 2024 By John C Wright

I was particularly pleased with the cleverness of this particular parody of WE DON’T TALK ABOUT BRUNO by the Christian parody group Resound.

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Summary 2020 Presidential Election Fraud

Posted January 5, 2024 By John C Wright

Below is a report on the voter fraud in the 2020 Election campaign which recounts the voting irregularities and illegalities in one tidy summation. I reprint it here because it is being ignored or libeled by the press.

As best I know, no point-by-point rebuttal, answer, or explanation exists for these allegations. 

The endnotes are extensive, and I hope were transferred here accurately. If not, please tell me. 

Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States

“Out of fraud no action arises.”

Introduction

It has often been repeated there is “no evidence” of fraud in the 2020 Election. In actuality, there is no evidence Joe Biden won.

Ongoing investigations in the Swing States reveal hundreds of thousands of votes were altered and/or not lawfully cast in the Presidential Election. Joe Biden needed them. On Election Night Nov. 3, 2020, President Donald J. Trump was sailing to reelection with landslide leads in numerous battlegrounds.

In Georgia, President Trump was up by 12 points, and over 335,000 votes, with 56 percent of the vote in at 10:17 p.m.[1]

In Wisconsin, President Trump was leading by 121,380 votes and 5 points at 12:12 a.m., which Fox News anchor Bret Baier noted was “not a small margin.”

In Pennsylvania, President Trump was leading by 659,145 votes at 12:38 a.m., a full 15 points.

In Michigan, President Trump was leading by 293,052 votes and 10 points.[2]

The election was over.

However, precincts in Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Milwaukee kept counting until the results reached the desired outcome, which was the opposite of the will of the voters.

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The Pope and Blessing Sodomites

Posted December 19, 2023 By John C Wright

The mainstream media, hereafter called the Voice of Sauron, is agitated and enthused by the rumors, concocted, as it happens, by the Voice of Sauron alone, that Pope Francis has permitted the blessing of sodomite marriage unions.

As with most things uttered by the Voice of Sauron, this is not merely a falsehood but the diametric opposite of the truth.

This is not even a case where the Pope spoke in ambiguous language creating an opening for scandal. It is merely a lie.

The document signed by the Pope says the Church does not have the power to impart blessings on unions of persons of the same sex.
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Europe Died in Auschwitz

Posted December 8, 2023 By John C Wright

 As ever, I ban for anti-Semitic remarks.

In the spirit of fairness, I will ban for remarks repeating any Anti-Defamation-League-style anti-Japhetic remarks.  (Anti-Japhetism, also called Anti-Whitism, is the hatred of Europeans in general and Christians in particular, and includes recklessly false accusations of Fascism, Supremacism, and Anti-Semitism.) I regret living in a time, and among a people, for whom such a warning is necessary.  

The following is a copy of an article written under the pen name Sebastián Vivar Rodríguez appearing in the anti-Communist website Gentiuno [11 Nov 2004]. The original version of “Europe Died in Auschwitz” has been deleted from the website.

My comment is below the column.

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I walked down the streets in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth: Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a group of people who represented culture, thought, creativity, talent.

We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who made great contributions to the world, and thus changed the world.

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