Crusader War College

The link is to an article posted at Rantburg. I found comment #4 particularly enlightening, and I plan to use its observations in the future:

#4 * Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.
* A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.
* Let's go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage
* Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.

Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and nurses. Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage.

Another masterful piece by Steven den Beste.

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Doing good in the face of evil.

It was on a whim," Limbaugh, who claims to have "Talent on loan from God," said. "She sounded so tired, distraught, and frightened about her and her husband's business future with an Obama victory.

"I just wanted to brighten her day, keep her inspired and 'in the game,'" he told CNS News. "We will need people like Belinda Davis to keep the country moving."

Davis runs a small jewelry business with her husband in Kerrville, Texas and called Limbaugh on Oct. 28 to complain about Hollywood celebrities getting undue attention during the election season while everyday working people like herself and her husband are ignored.

Belinda Davis told Gretchen Carlson of Fox News in an interview that the story tugged at Limbaugh's heart strings and she was just in the line of his heart.

And as luck would have it, the transmission had just died in her car.

I had read this yesterday, and it gnawed at the back of my mind. While I was at peace despite the results, and while I helped others take the long, divine view of things, I was sensing a higher than normal neurotransmitter drain. This morning, I realized that the election was taken by the darker forces in this world as permission to move in and selectively impose a spirit of discouragement and defeat on God's people, in the same way that corrupt Democrats selectively apply the laws of the land against God's people. This is a different sort of demon oppression that requires a different sort of exorcism. I tried a few different tacks, and it looks as if I was correct since I am now "keeping station" more easily.

Then the Spirit brought this incident back to my mind. I realized that repelling the spiritual oppression is merely defense. We must go on the offense. Rush shows us one way to do it: Agressive goodness done in defiance of those who hold it is best done via nanny state/paternalistic/meddling neighbor government.

Doubtless there are some who would criticize Rush for giving a car to a jeweler when there were "more deserving" people who could have been benefitted by him using the money to buy several used compact cars.

To those critics I say this: GO TO HELL, EVIL SPAWN!

"What!" they will cry, "We're good people! We know how to do more good than Rush did, who just did it for publicity!"

THERE! THAT IS WHY YOU ARE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL!

Yes, I know what capital letters mean online, and yes, I AM shouting at the top of my lungs IN FURY that these pretentious bastards!

I do not hear of THEM giving cars or goods away from their own resources! No, they would rather control how others express their goodness. Lacking instincts of good within themselves, but craving the approval of being regarded as generous and good, they substitute THEIR micromanagement of the good others do.

Know this: Controlling the good that others do is impossible without controlling those doing good. Rather than doing good, these parasitic, pretentious hypocrites strive to control the good that others do. They won't buy cars for those they deem worthy, but want to control who gets Rush's gift of a car. Rather than pay for medical care of the indigent and poor, or better yet getting a medical degree and opening a clinic in a poor area themselves, they would rather raise taxes on workers to pay for their generosity, and control the doctors, the actual givers and doers of medical care, via controlling their compensation, their businesses, and their customers.

This attitude bleeds over to God. They criticize how God exercises his powers and capabilities for good, and even using the fact that He will not stop evil or bad things from happening as a proof against his existance. In actuality, they don't want a God who refuses to submit to their ideas of good and evil and how to handle them. They'd want big government (controlled by themselves of course) handling the disposition of good and evil, rather than a Babe in a Manger.

These bastards need to shown, repeatedly, that controlling those who do good is not inherently good as well. This will be done by doing acts of true goodness that defy their definitions of good. The pharisees believed that "good" meant following their man-made laws and traditions. The Sadducees believed that "good" meant keeping the peace by cooperating with those in power to get power. The Priests believed that "good" meant honoring them, the Temple, equating them with the Temple, and buying only from the Temple authorized marketers (who were on the Temple grounds as a sign of their authorization). It is enlightening how agressively Jesus did good that they disapproved of, even while they angrily admitted that He DID do good.

One way that the System of This World manipulates Christians is by defining what a good work is and how it is to be done. We need to break away from their bondage, reassert God's standard of good and bad, and do it.

Received from a Church Friend:

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

. Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
. why the early bird gets the worm;
. Life isn't always fair;
. and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.

Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. The condition of Common Sense worsened as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility, and
his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;

1. I Know My Rights
2. I Want It Now
3. Someone Else Is To Blame
4. I'm A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

Rick Hills at prawfsblog has an interesting post on pseudo-intellectualism.

Worth looking at.

An interesting proof of the Existence of "God" using Multiverse theory.

A great post by a Marine Infantry officer whose e-mail was hosted by Wretchard at Belmont Club.

The bastards are back AGAIN.

Whew! Talk about fire in the belly!

The link is to an article doing arm chair psychoanalysis of (thankfully) former President Jimmy Carter and why he is trying to visit Hamas: The title comes from the money quote:

When one, instead of recognizing and metabolizing his hatreds and aggressive drives, denies their existence, they continue to live on in the unconscious, empowered by the denial. The expression of such denied aggression can be seen in the Preacher who is "holier than thou" and takes great pleasure in condemning the sinner to eternal torment. Some will happily supply details of the unimaginable torments (easily imagined by the Preacher) of those unfortunate consigned to the Preacher's vision of Hell.

Another way of expressing such unacceptable impulses is via a third party. There are people who are particularly adept at stirring up others to rage. Radical Islamists are particularly talented in stirring up their followers into manic rage against those who they believe have threatened their religion. The Imams, of course, are men of peace representing the religion of peace, yet their followers commit egregious acts of violence and mayhem in their name. It requires learned academics and media people operating above their level of comprehension to explain how violence actually equates to peacefulness.

Jimmy Carter is the Godfather of the modern leftist hater. He presents a pious mien, untroubled by rage or hate. He truly sees himself as a man of peace. Yet Hamas is openly and unapologetically genocidal. Jimmy Carter hates through others maintaining deniability of his own monstrous impulses. His evil is worse than the banality Hannah Arendt described because he should know better. The compartmentalization required to embrace the murderers of innocents while proclaiming their moderation is breath taking yet never seems to give pause to our ex-President. Jimmy Carter is a hate filled and bitter man and every effort he makes seem to support monsters. It is a mystery only to him.

I don't know about the actual veracity of the theory of psychology motivating this analysis, but the bolded portion says it all: you can either hate openly and be condemned as a hater, or use proxies and maintain the facade.

Hattip John Ray at Dissecting Leftism.

Zenster, formerly of Rantburg, has moved to Belmont Club as a regular commenter. I kinda miss being able to hit the comment link and say "right on!", so here's one of his comments from a post by Wretchard worth thinking about.

Meremortal: Mock incessantly, unceasingly, until they collapse. As they will, for there is no answer to mockery in their world. They can't kill everyone. They can't stop the mockery. They will implode.

ONE MORE TIME.
Fifty or sixty years ago? Sure, mockery would do just fine. WE ARE NOW IN THE AGE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. We no longer have the luxury of such genteel methods as ridicule and lampooning. Islam must be crushed and damned soon. Pakistan's tenuous control of its own nuclear arsenal should be enough to give any competent military planner conniption fits. We do not have a few decades to wait. We have less than TEN YEARS to turn this situation around before total Hell breaks loose.

All Muslim majority countries must be denied access to nuclear weapons until Islam has been neutralized. Nothing less will do. Anything short of such a policy will permit Islam to inflict sufficient damage upon the Western world that even the most brutal retaliation will not change how civilization will have been mutilated, possibly beyond all recognition.

I would sooner see every Muslim on earth perish than endure even a single major Western metropolis being immolated by an Islamic terrorist nuclear attack. WE HAVE TOO MUCH TO LOSE. The sandswept MME (Muslim Middle East) cesspits are already so close to the stone age that they have little more to sacrifice save their populations. Something they are all too ready to do. Need I remind you of Khomeini's 1980 speech in Qom?

We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.

You DO NOT ridicule such insanity. You DO NOT mock such psychosis. You KILL IT in sufficient quantities whereby such concentrated evil no longer constitutes a threat. We can do this by targeting Islam's aristocracy or resign ourselve to genocide on an unheard of scale. Those are the options.

Again, Islam has nothing to lose. We have the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the Louvre, the Uffizi and myriad other irreplacable troves of genius that must be retained to inspire further generations of artisans yet to come.

Permitting Islam to vandalize even one such treasure is an unpardonable sin. We have worked far too hard merely so some Neanderthal cretins can bull their way through the China shop of Western heritage.

Put another way: How many of these incalculable jewels of civilization are you willing to see immolated as the price of kick-starting dormant Western intervention?

My own answer? Not a one.

Right on!`

The link is to a topic at Rantburg that cites the Turks re-looking at the validity of the hadiths, or sayings of Mohammed. G(r)omgoru, a regular at rantburg, had commented thusly to my comments at 8 and 9:

Reformation Ptah, the key word is reformation = return to Old Testament.

I had failed to come back and look for responses. On the off chance that a rantburg regular comes by, here's what would have been my response to G(r)omgoru's comment.

Ah, I see. I failed to emphasize the "Reformation" aspect of Christianity.

However, in a way, I did address it: the Protestant Reformation was not a return to the Old Testament by overlooking the New Testament, but a return to the New Testament that demanded that the Church abandon centuries of accumulated opinion that forced a specific interpretation of the New Testament. One of those abuses of interpretation was that the Church replaced Israel and that its role was to rule in the governmental realm as if it was Davidic Israel. (One thing I didn't know until recently was that Martin Luther the Reformer opposed the Crusades, but not from the point of view of being pacifistic: he objected to the Church using its power to make decisions about war and using religious extortion to force secular rulers to fight the battles. His position was that the Church should make its case for getting pilgrims free access to the Holy Land from the point of view of the pilgrims being the subjects of the rulers being petitioned. They, in turn, would decide whether to obtain that free access, and how to accomplish that free access if they decided that it was worth working toward, either by paying tolls on behalf of the pilgrims, negotiation of treaties, or making war to force the making of a treaty or to take over the Holy Land. He was not as much pacifistic as insisting that those sorts of decisions were exclusively Caesar's, not the Church's.)

That's not theology. That's HISTORY.

Actually, the guy makes a good case.

Hattip John Ray at Dissecting Leftism.

Worth reading. I may add to the list later.

Hattip Gorb via Rantburg.