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The absurdist play The Arsonists, written by Swiss novelist and playwright Max Frisch and staged in 1958, opens with the middle-class protagonist, a businessman named Biedermann, commenting in exasperation on a wave of arson attacks in the community. The perpetrators reportedly manage to talk their way into people’s homes, take up residence in their attics, then proceed to carry out the destruction of the houses from within. Biedermann doesn’t understand how people can be so trusting and agreeable as to let this happen. “They should hang the lot of them!” he fumes about the firebombers.
No sooner are those words out of his mouth than his maidservant announces that there is a stranger in the hall who came in to get out of the rain and refuses to leave. The maidservant is too intimidated by the hulking stranger to send him away, and Beidermann himself is reluctant to seem insensitive or inhospitable. He offers the stranger, Schmitz, a little bread and wine; soon they are having dinner and cigars together. Schmitz compliments Beidermann both for his “humanity” in taking him in and for his “civic courage” in speaking out against the firebombers.
Through a deft combination of intimidation and persuasion, Schmitz talks his way into spending the night in the attic. Beidermann becomes defensive when his wife is alarmed to learn about the stranger upstairs. “How do you know he’s not an arsonist?” she demands.
“I asked him,” explains Beidermann who, in his concern to avoid seeming like a distrustful or possibly even bigoted person, has rendered himself helpless to address what he senses is a growing threat. As a Greek-style chorus in the play proclaims, “We fail to see clearly / What’s happening right now / Under our noses / Under our roofs.”
As the play unfolds, Biedermann is taken aback to discover a second uninvited stranger in his home, an associate of Schmitz, who is storing oil drums full of petrol in the attic. “Why… why are there suddenly two of you?” sputters Beidermann. He blusters and objects but eventually even helps the interlopers measure a detonating fuse and gives them matches. Though he is well-informed about the plague of firebombings in his community, he simply cannot fathom that this evil has wormed its way into his own home – and the safety and comfort of his prosperous free society has left him neither mentally, physically, nor spiritually equipped to confront it and prevent the inevitable conflagration.
The chorus chants, “The timid are blind, more blind than the blind. / Hoping the evil is not really evil / They welcome the evil. / Defenseless, exhausted by fear, they hope for the best… / Until it’s too late.”
The success of The Arsonists, also known as The Firebugs or The Fire Raisers, established Frisch as a world-class dramatist. In 1965 he was awarded the prestigious Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society, among other awards. Early drafts of the piece had been produced as far back as 1948, in the wake of the Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia, and so Swiss audiences understood the play as a warning against Communism, but it also has been seen as a metaphor for Nazism and fascism.
In our own time the play obviously resonates with us as a metaphor for the ongoing incursion into the West by millions of immigrants (legal or otherwise) and refugees (legitimate or otherwise) from non-Western cultures whose values are proving incompatible with the liberal democracies of Western nations. Significant numbers of these newcomers seem to have less and less interest in assimilating into their host cultures; this is a recipe for division, unrest, and ultimately, civilizational collapse from within.
Europe has made mass immigration from Africa and the Middle East a centerpiece of its policies for decades, and they are reaping the whirlwind in the form of Muslim no-go enclaves where sharia is the law of the community, the nightly torching of cars in Paris suburbs, bombings in Sweden, surging Jew-hatred and attacks on Christian churches, and an overwhelming rise in rapes and sexual assaults. Instead of cracking down on these criminal elements, European elites force law-abiding citizens to conform to this new normal, such as by arresting citizens who post “Islamophobic” complaints online, and warning women to dress more modestly and stop going out at night.
America, at least since the arrival of the Biden administration, has followed suit, throwing open our southern border to an ongoing tsunami of unvetted migrants. So far, the United States has done a far better job than Europe of assimilating immigrants, but with millions pouring over the border and no end in sight, and a Democrat administration that prioritizes its citizens last and demonizes “whiteness” as society’s greatest threat, a clash of civilizations here is imminent.
But the invasion from beyond the borders of the Western world is only one menace to civilizational stability. Decades of indoctrination in our Left-dominated educational system have nurtured a subversive threat from within by successfully poisoning the minds of at least two generations of students. A disturbing percentage of them have been raised to despise their own culture – what little they know of it – as the repugnant legacy of white supremacy, oppressive colonialism, and capitalist exploitation. Instead, they embrace anti-white racism, violent anti-colonialist “resistance,” and the innocuous-sounding “democratic socialism” as strategies for tearing down the old Eurocentric civilization and erecting a multicultural (not multiracial – America was already multiracial – but multicultural) collectivist paradise on its ruins.
This generational and ideological divide has drawn America and much of the rest of the West into a literal civil war, as revolutionary organizations like the neo-Marxist Black Lives Matter and the anarchic thugs of Antifa have shown not only that they can set cities afire at will (while law enforcement stands by), but that they have captured corporate America’s boardrooms as well. It is a divide that will take a concerted counter-revolution to reverse.
The Fault Line Exposed
Nothing has exposed the depth and breadth of this fault line quite like the October 7th surprise attack in Israel by the terror group Hamas, in which an estimated 1400 innocents were murdered, and the subsequent surge of support for it among young people and the cultural elites throughout the West. In the aftermath of that savagery, which historian Victor Davis Hanson calls “pre-civilizational,” supporters of Hamas and the so-called Palestinian people throughout the Western world – from New York to London to Sydney –made their Jew-hating, genocidal, anti-Western intentions defiantly clear.
Instead of the universal support one might naively expect for unarmed innocents horribly butchered by terrorists, the arsonists among us felt emboldened enough by that slaughter in Israel to celebrate it in the streets, on college campuses, and of course in the online toilet of social media, and then to launch a new pogrom against Jewish students and communities throughout the West.
A reported hundred thousand demonstrators, some waving ISIS flags, packed the streets of London chanting their full-throated support for Hamas’ act of “resistance” against the “colonialist” Israelis. The doors of Jewish residents and shop owners in Paris have been tagged with the Star of David – a chilling echo of the Holocaust. Hundreds of Jew-haters, some waving Palestinian flags and many shouting “Allahu Akbar” – “Allah is greatest” – violently stormed the airport terminal in the Russian Republic of Dagestan in search of Jews arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv. Had they found them, there would certainly have been brutal mob violence. This is just a fraction of examples of unabashed Jew-hatred in the wake of October 7th.
Predictably, the loudest and most radical Western supporters of Hamas’ bloodbath of Jewish “occupiers” were students and far-Left faculty who banded together on college campuses to fly Palestinian (and sometimes ISIS) flags, gleefully share memes of armed paragliders honoring the ones who sailed into a music festival in Israel to lay waste to hundreds of concertgoers, and to raise their voices in the genocidal chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Students among our most elite institutions such as Harvard University, where over 30 student organizations signed a statement declaring they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” proudly expressed their solidarity with the “oppressed” Palestinians and cheered the “military operation” against the “settler colonialists.” Princeton students gathered to chant “Long live the intifada!” – a call for Jewish genocide. Students at George Washington University projected pro-terror, anti-Israel messages such as “Glory to our martyrs” and “Divestment from Zionist genocide now” onto a school library wall. Cornell University professor Russell Rickford proclaimed at a rally that he found the mass murder of Israeli civilians “energizing” and “exhilarating.” Jewish students at NYC’s Cooper Union College were forced to barricade themselves in the library as a bloodthirsty Muslim and leftist mob tried to break down the door to get at them. Other examples of shocking campus Jew-hatred abound.
In response to this vertiginous spike in Jew-hatred, the Biden administration naturally announced it was launching a campaign to combat… Islamophobia.
For years, I and many others – including Doc Emet Productions’ Gloria Greenfield, through her documentary films – have been warning about this fault line, the growing civilizational crisis in the West, broadcasting a clarion call that we are in the fight of our lives. But it was shocking nonetheless to see the terror attack on Israel – like Pandora’s box – release such demonic evil into the world.
A grimly positive perspective on this is that now we know who among us still possesses a shred of humanity, on the one hand, and who celebrates the gang rape, torture, and literal butchery of Jews (in particular) and Western “colonialists” (in general) on the other. The battle lines between good and evil, between love and hate, between civilization and barbarism, between what could be the last generation of Western civilization and the first generation of a new Dark Ages, have been drawn more starkly than ever before. Now there can be no mistake or denial of what we are up against: evil incarnate.
It is impossible to hear or see gruesome details of the massacre of civilians in Israel on October 7th – a date that will live in infamy – without the paralyzing sense that you are staring into The Abyss – the face of true evil. Yes, as the Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn brilliantly noted, the line between good and evil cuts straight through every human heart, and certainly all of us have been guilty at some point or another of bad things.
But the vast majority of us never cross the line into evil. It is a black hole of malevolence that no average person can wrap his or her head around even when faced with it. That innocence is largely a result of the West having elevated itself above the barbarity and selfishness of the past through the civilizing ideals of liberty, individualism, and Judeo-Christian morality. This is a positive evolution for humanity, but it also puts us at a psychological disadvantage when confronted by the kind of atavistic evil on display during the terror attack in Israel. Except for the most battle-hardened warriors in military and law enforcement, most of us, like Beidermann, are unprepared to confront it, and so now our houses are afire.
Those privileged young people who support this evil from their Ivy League dorm rooms are not the revolutionaries they fancy themselves to be; they are just automatons indoctrinated to shed their humanity and hate their political and religious enemies – but they have sufficient numbers and political/cultural power now not to hide it anymore.
What Happens Now?
In response to the terror assault, the Jewish state rightly declared war on the jihadists of Hamas, with Israeli leader Bibi Netanyahu vowing that every single member of the terror organization is now a dead man walking. And predictably, the mainstream media, left-wing politicians, and globalist institutions like the United Nations Security Council that are packed with enemies of the Western world, demanded that Israel exhibit “restraint” in its response and refrain from “disproportionate violence.” Has one of these individuals and global entities ever called for Hamas terrorists to show “restraint”?
What violence is “disproportionate,” by the way, to the burning alive of families, the gang rape of captured females, the beheading of babies and toddlers, the torture of old people, and the kidnapping of hundreds more who live in terror that their beheading will be live-streamed on the internet? What would the anti-Israel Left consider an acceptably “proportionate” response to that? The answer is that the only response the Left considers appropriate is for Israel to sit on its hands and submit to its own extermination.
Seeing the surge of support for – even celebration of – the barbaric evil on October 7th throughout Europe, Australia, and America, it is easy to feel disheartened and believe that it is too late, that we are witnessing a point of no return in the West’s collapse. Like the characters in The Arsonists, the West has been too blind for too long to see the evil, and/or too timid to nip it in the bud. Our political and cultural elites have even welcomed it. Many in the West, like Max Frisch’s character Beidermann, simply could not grasp that things could get this bad, that the evil could be among us. Our civilizational values and prosperity made us soft and tolerant and naive, allowing an infestation of subversives to burrow their patient way deeper into the culture until, lo and behold, they owned it. And now here we are.
For those who think the current surge in enmity against Jews is just another flareup linked to Israeli-Palestinian politics and has no larger implications: as the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks noted, “The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews.” Having been raised to reject their own culture and to worship “the Other,” the Western supporters of the butchers who came for the Jewish innocents on October 7th will not hesitate to come for all the designated Western “colonialists” whom they deem to be oppressing the purportedly marginalized and powerless black and brown populations. This time it’s civilizational.
The enemies of the West, the arsonists trying to burn our civilization down, believe they are on the right side of history, that victory is inevitable, that their collectivist utopia of equity is within reach if only they wipe away everything that came before in the cleansing fire of social justice retribution. Those among them who dream of a worldwide caliphate are confident they will prevail through demographics alone – “we’re multiplying, and you Westerners aren’t,” they crow, and demography is destiny.
But demography is not irreversible. “Sometimes the fire can be prevented,” the chorus in The Arsonists declares. Yes, it can – but not if we don’t recover a civilizational pride and self-confidence, the courage to stare down evil, and something the West hasn’t had in half a century: the will to win. There are many conservative voices musing aloud that all civilizations rise and fall, and that perhaps it is simply our time to fall. We cannot afford to tolerate this defeatist mindset. Step aside, doomsayers, and let the rest of us fight this war.
And it is a war we can win. Culture-savvy political leaders like Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis, conservative activists like Matt Walsh and Christopher Rufo, and grass-roots groups like the parental rights organizations Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have shown that the defenders of sanity and civilization can fight the arsonists and win.
Our values of tolerance, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the like, which can potentially sow the seeds of our own destruction, need not be a suicide pact. The pact we must make to keep our civilization alive is with our ancestors and descendants: to honor and defend the cultural legacy of the former, and to bequeath it to the latter. It is not necessary to jettison our values in order to make a righteous stand against the subversive elements whose goal is the torching of our civilization.
The first step toward starving that fire of oxygen is for the West to ruthlessly evict the arsonists from our attic. This is no small task because their infiltration is deep and wide. We must stop being petrified by accusations of racism (Islam is not a race), of Islamophobia (we are not in the grip of an irrational fear of Islam), and of intolerance (like Beidermann). We must, for starters, begin tightening national borders; deporting the supporters of terrorism among foreign-born visitors and illegal aliens; banning subversive organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups CAIR and the Students for Justice in Palestine; ousting the imams of mosques who promote Jew-hatred and sedition; and overhauling our broken educational system and purging it of radical activists and Marxist tools like Critical Theory. Just as Israel has the moral right not to tolerate the genocidal jihadists of Hamas in its midst, the West has no obligation to tolerate people or ideologies that are actively undertaking our destruction.
On a grander scale, the West must set about reversing its decline in three areas critical for a thriving culture – faith in God, love of country, and commitment to families – and begin rebuilding a culture of confidence in the future.
This is obviously a monumental undertaking that is easier said than done – but the alternative is to hand over our matches to the arsonists.
Originally published at Doc Emet Productions’ Deep Dives Into Critical Issues blog
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Excellent – absolutely first class. I only wish this was the discussion that was actually being had in the corridors of power in our countries. Because this is the discussion that needs to take place – followed by swift and decisive action. If we keep on sleepwalking and doing nothing, things are only going to get worse.
It wasn’t us doing the sleepwalking.
We’ve known from the start that our chickenshit politicians flung the doors open – with us shutting down the phone lines to the Capitol in 2007 screaming “No!”
After 9/11, Bush 43 was morally & pragmatically required to deal our borders tight.
He refused.
Then Jug-eared Barry shipped in 10s of 1000s more.
Now the retarded empty suit is making sure every Islamist aching for the next 9/11 can stroll right in.
We didn’t do this.
Politicians did – politicians that don’t allow these 3rd world refuse in Kennebunkport or Martha’s Vineyard. (Our neighborhoods seem sufficient.)
Great article, Mark.
Two points:
1. Right now–as in today–there’s legislation being drawn up, lead by Dick Durbin, to give temporary resident status to–get this–ONE MILLION Palestinians from Gaza.
2. Read, “The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer, and in just 155 brilliant pages, you’ll know why and who will destroy this country.
Sen. Durbin must be insane. I didn’t know this. Thank you.
Here you go:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/08/report-democrats-circulate-plan-to-open-floodgates-for-palestinians/
The chickenshit prick is called Dick Turban for a reason.
Yes, Durbin and many of his colleagues are lunatics and a plague on the nation. Americans needs to get out and protest en masse if Palestinians are allowed in. That’s a red line that cannot be crossed.
Read that great book last month. You are spot on.
The savages will always be savages. They don’t belong in the civilized world.
Sir, Israel turned Gaza over to Hamas in 2005. Israel forcibly removed Jewish settlers in Gaza in order to complete the transfer. The people living in Gaza subsequently elected Hamas into power. That was their LAST election. Hamas leaders have openly said that the blood of the Gazans should be shed because it will advance the cause of Hamas and please Allah. Israel has blockaded Gaza because of their danger to Israel. Nevertheless, there has been an increase of Gazans working in Israel which partially reveals how they got so much info about where people were living and what the Israelis were doing that enabled them to advance and do their evil deeds. Israel did not attack Gaza or Hamas. Israel turned Gaza over to the Arabs. Israel has developed and enriched that area since the end of the 19th century. Israel has made tremendous improvements in healthcare for Arabs as well as Jews living in or near Israel. I cannot forget the photo I saw of a Gazan woman coming into Israel presumably to seek help at an Israeli hospital, and then being put in a special room where she had to take off that big cloak of a dress. Underneath, she had all kinds of bombs strapped to her body. She was a homicide bomber bent on killing as many Israelis as possible. You have zero cases of Israelis doing this in Arab sectors or settlements. It is intolerable.
Hamas and the PLO all want the same thing: To kill all the Jews and take their stuff. They’re no different from the plundering, murdering Nasties.
This is a totally focused, realistic, honest, and sophisticated article. Mr. Tapson who is always an interesting read has brought so much focus and understanding to the matters discussed and the illusions that the left are perpetuating that I find my understanding brought to a new, higher level of understanding and commitment to justice. Thank you sir.
The Islamists in our attics are arsonists, but they are not alone. There are “diverse” arsonists in all the institutions. Elections, which should elect firefighters, are run by arsonists.
How very true, the public sector is now chock full of these people who have also learned that they can sit and do nothing all day and never get fired, they can get full pay for being sick and loooong holidays and they then have enough energy to riot and revolt.
The rest of us need to work for a living and pay taxes to keep the government in power.
You’re a moron. Do you get some kind of cathartic release posting this shit?
Yah he is an idiot. God himself GAVE the land to Israel. No other nation on earth can say make that claim in truth.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
“These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.”
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Civilization is done for and we will lose. We will lose because we are dealing with an unthinking cult whose kitsch Marxist principles (to use a David Horowitz’s phrase) are more inapplicable to reality than Classical Marxism is. Will civilization be destroyed? They don’t care. They are getting along with their piers and are informed that doing Nazism (they won’t call it by its name) will make them feel good inside.
Adding to this problem is the infantile, spoiled brat rage that they exhibit — as if that is anything near a rational argument.
These overgrown spoiled brats cannot be spanked because they are too old and there are not attractive females as in the 60s.. What is needed is something much stronger and more final.
When civilization collapses there will be deaths anyway — millions upon millions by our American Khymer Rouge. Bib will not properly deal with his corrupt judiciary, that care nothing for the Jewish people and no one has the courage of Pres. Lincoln when he dealt with the 1863 draft riots.
To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, “The tree must be watered….” As so-called good people will do Nothing about it. We will collapse and millions of people will be murdered. First, by our American Khymer Rouge and then the Moslems who ill take over from them.
It is another problem that you will fold under the names they call you. You don’t even have the courage of a nobody such as myself as my first and best youtube post demonstrates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkZSf6rlhZw&t=49s
The answer to saving Western civilization certainly is not Christianity. Christianity when practiced seriously and consistently leads to the brutality of intolerance and brutality,
For more than 1,000 years Christians persecuted and killed Jews for being Jews. Christians engaged in countless pogroms of violence against the Jews for being Jews. Christians put the Jews in ghettos for being Jews.
For 300 years during the centuries of the reformation and the counter reformation Christians persecuted, tortured, and made war with each other over heresy and blasphemy. Catholic killed Protestant, Protestant killed Catholic, and Protestant killed Protestant.
The Puritan pilgrims were persecuted in England by the theocracy of the Church of England. The Puritans left England and came to the shores of Massachusetts not to establish freedom of religion, or freedom of conscience, or freedom to think for oneself, but to establish their own brutal theocracy and persecute those that were not Puritans and persecute their own members for heresy or blasphemy.
It was only after the Aristotelian Renaissance (the rebirth of reason) and the Age of Enlightenment (the light of reason) when Christianity lost its stranglehold on the American mind that individual freedom, liberty, individual rights, the pursuit of personal happiness on earth became cherished values in America.
The United States is not the product of Christianity or Judaism, it is the product of reason and the Age of Enlightenment.
“Since the golden age of Greece, there has been only one era of reason in twenty-three centuries of Western philosophy. During the final decades of that era, the United States of America was created as an independent nation. This is the key to the country—to its nature, its development, and its uniqueness: the United States is the nation of the Enlightenment.” – Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels; The End of Freedom in America”
“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”
~John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” 1787-1788
One quote from you on Jefferson does not negate the man’s belief in God and doesn’t prove your point. You are a simpleton.
Thomas Jefferson:
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.63
63. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Bergh, editor (Washington, D. C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Assoc., 1904), Vol. XV, p. 383, to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse on June 26, 1822.
The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.64
64. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Alberty Ellery Bergh, editor (Washington D.C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XII, p. 315, to James Fishback, September 27, 1809.
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.65
65. Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor (Boston: Grey & Bowen, 1830), Vol. III, p. 506, to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803.
The crucial point is that the Founders lived during the American Enlightenment, and they were NOT consistent and serious Christians at all. The crucial point is the Founders took reason and logic MORE seriously than they did faith in the Bible. If the Bible contradicted reason and reality, they were ready, willing, and able to question and even reject any claim in the Bible.
“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” – Thomas Jefferson — in a letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814
“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter….
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.” – Thomas Paine
“The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole cartloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.” – John Adams
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.” – James Madison — Letter to Wm. Bradford, April 1, 1774
We can play your little tit for tat games re: the Founders belief in Christianity forever. History cannot be changed, only altered to push a warped narrative, your narrative.
My list at WallBuilders is documented, sourced and pretty much accepted by all who read it.
You provide your America Hatred and your pathetic hatred of the Founders, Christianity, and Judaism. You have already failed at this, as you do with every Objectivist scam you put forward.
You are aren’t convincing anyone with what passes for ideas. Yesterday was a bad day for you. I copied all of the negative reactions to your silly childish cut and paste posts and I will be sharing them with you over the next few days, just as I do the Greenfield takedown. Here’s the first one:
“Beez says
November 8, 2023 at 9:13 pm
Proof that Randians, like Muslims, would force Christians (and Jews) to give up their beliefs.”
How right he is. How pathetic you are. Where is your sourcing and links?
It didn’t matter what their personal views were as regards religion.
They got together and wrote a law that provided people with the greatest freedom the world had ever seen to practice peacefully their various religions. By protecting the religious from the dictatorial power of one religion, they enabled the free expression of all religions. With government protection, as separating the church from the state would certainly mean the state is just as bound to protect those who practice religion as they are bound to protect anyone else; protecting its citizens from foreign and domestic aggression being the only function of our constitutional government.
“The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights” Thomas Jefferson
But that was then.
Then the atheists came along and it’s been downhill ever since.
Islam? The Islamonazis have been enabled by the atheist Marxist enemy within our borders. The atheists are at fault for almost all our ills. Once man became god, hell arrived on earth.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
ZECHARIAH 12 : 2
Yes, God keeps his word, politicians don’t! God’s word is truth and the pages of every chapter of the bible are being fulfilled.
Zechariah 12:6. “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves.
Yah Chcuo, ya ding bat, you’re not fooling anyone on here. We know what you say is lies.
This bald-headed-doof in the video is telling lies. God himself GAVE the land to Israel. No other nation on earth can say make that claim in truth.
“In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
“These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.”
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
“The enemies of the West, the arsonists trying to burn our civilization down.” Yes, but only a few care what side of “history” they are on. Some few think they can build a workers paradise on the ashes of civilization. The rest … and they are the majority … just want to watch the world burn. They are “exhilarated” by their own nihilism and the “freedom” is seems to bring.
Every day shows an ever increasing sense of Evil roaming the world.
“I wake up sometimes way in the night and I know as certain as death that there ain’t nothin’ short of the second coming of Christ that can slow this train.”
_____Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men
I read Max Frisch’s The Fire Raisers (Biedermann und die Brandstifter) for my German A-Levels.
(*In the United Kingdom, A-Levels – Advanced Levels – are what you study from 16-18 years
I would change that header above. We are already IN the abyss, not just staring into it. The monumental task the West faces now is how to climb out of it.
Just in case anybody still believes in the lie of a “two state solution” for Jews and Palestinians or like Biden, wants a ceasefire in Gaza; a leader of Hamas just announced the real goal.
In a newly released video interview, Ghazi Hamad, who lives a life of luxury in Qatar by spending millions of dollars in embezzled aid money, said his terrorist government has no intention of formulating any kind of peace. Instead, in his own words, they’ll just keep slaughtering Jews until Israel no longer exists.
And, oh yeah, his life of luxury has been financed by Biden who has sent the Palestinians a half a billion dollars in “humanitarian aid”. And now he wants to send more aid to the Palestinians in the form of your tax dollars. Remember that the Palestinians elected Hamas to be in charge of the Gaza Strip in 2006 and so all of that aid is controlled by Hamas, it’s mostly fungible and so can be converted to buy weapons to kill Israelis or converted to cash and embezzled to their leaders like Hamad. Qatar, like Iran and a half dozen other Muslims states, openly call for the destruction of Israel and support the Hamas butchers.
Muslims are not and never have been a “religion of peace” and their beliefs are simply incompatible with Christianity, Judaism, and Western Civilization. They have no desire to assimilate or incorporate western culture and everywhere they go they adhere to or try to institute Sharia law. They believe in polygamy, permit men to marry nine year olds, allow spousal abuse and sexual mutilation of their wives. In six Muslim countries (who are members of the U.N.), homsexuals can be legally executed. I wonder if our ignorant college students or “Queers fo Palestine” know that? Most European countries are now experiencing huge increases in crime and the disastrous impact on their society from the mass migration of muslims. They are trying to stem the increases in crime and the drain on their fiscal, social and educational resources and as are several states here with huge muslim enclaves. Biden’s open border is allowing in, not only muslims on the terror watch list, but hundred of thousands of “special interest” muslims from countries that hate us. Unless we elect a Republican President and Congress in 2024, the results here will be catasrophic and it’s only a matter of time before we experience similar terror attacks.
One troll (THX) was enough. Why do we now have another?
Annoying, isn’t it? Whenever the adults try to have an intelligent conversation, those two barge in like a couple of bored toddlers.
They’ve both been around for quite a while and I’ve dealt with both of them. THX is overly reliant on the Cult of Rand and Peikoff treading historically illiterate nonsense that was moderately novel when Renaissance sophistiques wrote it but certainly wasn’t novel or credible when Rand and Peikoff adopted it, let alone now. Meanwhile Chcuo is utterly dependent on Kremlin and CCP propaganda under the pretext that a “Multipolar World Order” and breaking away from “Unipolarity” will make the world better.
(Spoiler alert: It won’t when you’re dealing with totalitarian nutjobs who will remorselessly lie and whose only issue with a unipolar world order is that they’re not the Pole Star, and that frankly the world doesn’t revolve around them more.)
“…PAKISTAN has said it would launch its NUCLEAR bombs,it has 170,”
What BS nonsense! Pakistan does not have long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israel.
The Shaheen-III medium-range ballistic missile tested in 2022 only has a range of 2,750 km and Israel is 3 365 kilometers distance. So Pakistan would end up nuking Iraq! Haha!
Time to wake up from your wet dream.
“…The pro-Hamas crowd of 500,000 in London ”
That number is total schmegege!
Gaza and all in it need engulfing in shiny green Trintite….all the way to the sea will Gaza then be free.
Watch for our “government” to invite Gazans in to add to the terrorists who have already crossed our borders, and to the unvetted Afghans we let in who were on the Taliban side.
You’ve been sniffing the seat of your pants for way too long.
Where on Earth does this guy get his information? From his drugged-out dreams? He seems to make it up as he goes along, but uses lots of ALL CAPS to show us how sincere he is.
Well, they threw everything else at the American people, Covid, Vaccines, abortion, transgenderism, lockdowns, and open borders, so allowing more murderers in serves the purpose too. There are still 240 hostages being held by Hamas and Gaza civilians too, including children of all ages.
God is not a man that he should lie either. All we get now is deception from the world.
America was a white country when I was born and now whites are a little more than half. It’s the mass immigration that is destroying America. We need to deport not just criminals and terrorists but every last illegal alien, all 50 million of them. And tear down every mosque in America. They are full of weapons they plan to use against us.