If you’re like me you’ve probably had it with being afraid of the sheer rise in power that the transgender movement has amassed in little over two years. It has many people scared, truly scared. Scared of saying (I’m going to say it): Biological men can never be real women; men cannot have babies; referring to oneself as “they” is beyond grammatically infelicitous, it renders one a nonsensical and a conceptual non-entity; the transgender affirmation of adolescents, which means agreeing to visiting a host of atrocities on a child’s body and plying it with irreversible drugs, is child abuse; trans women (biological men) have no business participating in (real) women’s sports. There I’ve said it all—at least as much as I care to for now. Why are people scared of offending trans people?
Misgendering another person, I am told, is the worst offense you can commit against another human being—as bad as rape and murder. No kidding. How did a small minority of people get to command the language, protocols, norms and framing methods of an entire culture in so short a space of time? Who handed all that power to them, and why?
The issue goes deeper if we look at the logical terminal point of radical transgenderism. It is a form of moral decadence. Why? Because ultimately it culminates in people signing up at the gender unemployment line. To unemploy yourself from your gender or, some would say, to recuse yourself from it, is to emancipate yourself from the moral dimensions that come with your sex identities. For the sake of rhetorical expediency, I shall say, yes: to unemploy oneself from one’s gender identity as well. I have heard it said often that young people are suffering from civilizational exhaustion, and that that is the reason they are relinquishing their binary sex identities. It’s my generation, however, and the ones preceding it that have a right to be exhausted. The millennials and Generation Z that have no business feeling civilizational exhaustion. It is Gen Z that has inherited a technologically advanced civilization built for them. You’d expect more adults to be coming out as trans if this were even a plausible explanation for the rise of transgenderism. This is not the case.
But it is not just the case of individuals resigning from their ethical roles. We have a case of Jesus Christ himself being canceled as a cis-heteronormative patriarchal male and being queered and turned into a gender neutral, non-binary, total Woke trans star. In a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus is played by a non-binary actor, someone who does not identify as male or female, and Judas is played by a woman. The twelve apostles are played by female or non-binary performers.
Jesus is the Son of God. He is Indubitably and immutably male. He performed distinctly male roles. He protected both the weak and the strong. He provided for the hungry and the soul-impoverished, and he left behind an enduring legacy on which others could pin their aspirational identities. When he acted, he did so decisively. He taught men the art of problem solving, and he taught them how to fix things. These are the responsibilities trans women (biological men) are renouncing and walking away from.
But the confederacy of nihilists, and the army of global anarchists behind this movement are not content to have a global movement of she-men and he-men simply live their lives and even impose their ideologies on society writ large.
What is the psychological result of queering and transitioning Jesus? If his disciples are re-sexed and un-sexed by the fiat of folks who think they can just exploit the Bible for politically expedient purposes, it means not just that concepts of right or wrong, unassailable truths and moral axioms are beyond the reach of destructive ethical relativists and amoral anarchists. It also means that a new form of idolatry has taken root in our culture and that it is beyond moral reproach. The new idolatry I speak of is a “destructive will of a group motivated by a desire to seek raw naked power through the force of their feelings, which they impose on others with a moral mandate that functions and behaves as if it were as invariable as the laws of nature.”
We know we are living in a psychotic world when professors are explicitly told that under no circumstances can they ever utter these words in class: Men cannot give birth to children. We know the psychosis is real when two men who look and act like linebackers, but who identify as women, claim they are in a lesbian relationship because they identify as women. We are forced to use the female pronoun to refer to them, and wish them well in their lesbian relationship. We are “mind-forced” to acknowledge that two biological women are in a heterosexual relationship because one identifies as male and the other as female.
The madness suffocates. One would have to have been in some form of serious self-sequestration for the last two years not to have witnessed this malarkey. To indulge in further examples will force the reader to become a statistician of gutter trivia.
In the broadest and most fundamental of terms, transgenderism and its medical ministrations constitute a radical form of medical, social and cultural eugenics. Short of cloning another human being, the attempt to change one’s sex (a biological impossibility) is the most audacious eugenical act undertaken in human history. It takes a metaphysical given—the chromosomal markers of a person that designate his or her sex and gender—and attempts to reverse, alter and neutralize it.
The manner in which this radical form of eugenics manifests itself and attempts to reverse an invariable law of nature is by way of taking a very rare medical condition and normalizing it. This medical condition caused by a DNA disorder gives birth to the hermaphrodite. This is an extremely rare condition in humans, constituting—according to various statistics—about 0.5 to 1% of all live births in the total world population. It is a condition in which a single human being can possess both male and female reproductive organs inside and outside of the body. In every stage of human history, the birth of the hermaphrodite has been met with absolute horror and metaphysical incredulity. The condition was regarded as a bad omen presaging war, disaster or pestilence. The infant was usually destroyed or left to die from exposure, and blame was usually assigned to the parents for being guilty of some irredeemable moral malfeasance.
Today’s trans woman with her intact penis, testicles, and bulging cleavage is a symbol of a eugenically-crafted hermaphrodite, a strange primeval androgyne that conjures up, in the minds of many, images of a futuristic phenomenon that attempts to function and become a realistic model for human life while remaining, in nature, something of a metaphysical grotesquerie—a small percentage of aberrant birth defects nature has spared most parents. The transgendered person not only normalizes and legitimizes the figure of the hermaphrodite by conscious intent, but those who go through the completion process become castrated eunuchs – cold, abstract androids in the public consciousness. In the minds of many, what is a medical rarity in nature becomes transmogrified via a surgical procedure into a self-cutting figure who elicits myriad unconscious fears: castration anxiety, self-mutilation, and traversing gender, which means going beyond the creation of life itself. In the public imagination, the trans person represents a closed system that shuts down all reproductive life.
What sort of Satanic force is behind this movement? Who are its members and who ultimately profits from a society of makeshift hermaphrodites and non-reproducing trans men and women? Who benefits from the moral and psychological confusion and mental pain of children who are taught that transitioning from one gender to the next lacks any moral gravitas, and that the decision is simply right because it is rooted in inchoate feelings and sensations? Who benefits from the protracted guilt, sadness and unalterable and regrettable bodily mutilations suffered by the victims?
Why on earth did trans ideology become sacrosanct, and the people who espouse it the new sacred cows in our culture? Who perverted and sullied traditional ideologies and morality, cast aspersions against their moral status to make room for the self-righteous claims and demands behind the often punitive trans movements?
Indeed, if the Son of God, Jesus Christ, can make the decision that God assigned him the wrong gender, and that he is free to reconceive of himself as he ought to have been made, then the message is clear. For the trans ideologues, God got it all wrong. He made a plethora of mistakes. He got nature wrong and he misgendered broad swaths of people. Under the guise of a new Woke religion new cults arise that will create a new heaven and a new earth. These rebels are metaphysical revolutionaries who believe they have every right to transcend God’s will and the nature he endowed them with. Sacred. Reverence. Obedience. All such virtues in relation to God are lost in the name of the shallow ephemeral present, and the arid mental categories that inform anything that is expedient and in the moment. They have killed the concept of God and, therefore, in the spirit of Dostoyevsky, everything is possible.
Most of us know the answers to the questions I have posed. Few of us have the courage to identify its evil and Satanic foundation, and to root it out of existence. Perhaps it will take an extraordinary vanguard and sentinel of our already existing, amazing earth to restore order and expurgate the forces of evil running rampant: an authoritarian strong man; an illiberal type who will realize that too many people have been let into the future, that not everyone can be let into the future, and that the over-democratization of all spheres of life ultimately leads to rule by the depraved sensibilities of the lowest common denominator among us.
“The madness suffocates. One would have to have been in some form of serious self-sequestration for the last two years not to have witnessed this malarkey.”
Let’s talk about madness and malarkey — Adam and Eve, The Garden of Eden, A Talking Snake, Original Sin, Noah’s Ark, The Parting of the Red Sea, A Talking Bush, Manna Falling From Heaven, A Woman Turning Into A Pillar of Salt, A Virgin Birth, The Raising of Lazarus, Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, The Resurrection, The Ascension Into Heaven, The Second Coming, Eternal Life, Heaven and Hell, The Rapture, The Apocalypse — that’s a lot of suffocating madness and malarkey.
But you Christians don’t call your madness and malarkey — madness and malarkey, you call it the Gospel Truth. The madness, malarkey, and magical thinking, the unreason and irrationality, begin with mystical religion.
“Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.” – Leonard Peikoff
Hey, Jason D. Hill, what are you anyway, a Christian or an Objectivist? Pick one or the other, you can’t be both.
I think you keep inferring that I am an Objectivist. Have I stated so? You seem obsessed with pigeonholing me. Simply read the articles and judge them on the merit of the arguments presented therein and stop forcing Objectivism down my throat!
I’m an independent thinker and a professional philosopher.
You’re not an independent thinker, a thinker would have figured out you can’t square a circle. You cannot reconcile Christianity and Objectivism and yet you keep taking ideas from Objectivism and combining them with Christianity and trying to present them as philosophically coherent.
The Christian rubes will fall for it, logical consistency is a requirement of reason and not of faith. But actual thinkers will see right through your logical inconsistency and incoherence. But you need a paycheck right? So why not present the rubes with an intellectually dishonest incoherent grafting of Objectivist ideas on Christian mysticism?
Ultimately, it’s the serious and consistent philosophers that matter and they will see right through your dishonesty.
“There are men today who advocate freedom and who recognize what ideas lie at its base, but who then counsel “practicality.” It is too late, they say, to educate people philosophically; we must appeal to what they already believe; we must pretend to endorse religion on strategic grounds, even if privately we don’t.
This is a counsel of intellectual dishonesty and of utter impracticality. It is too late indeed, far too late for a strategy of deception which by its nature has to backfire and always has, because it consists of confirming and supporting the very ideas that have to be uprooted and replaced. It is time to tell people the unvarnished truth: to stand up for man’s mind and this earth, and against any version of mysticism or religion. It is time to tell people: “You must choose between unreason and America. You cannot have both. Take your pick.”
If there is to be any chance for the future, this is the only chance there is.” – Leonard Peikoff, “Religion versus America”
And yet he is writing articles for this site, and you ain’t.
Sucks to be you, loser.
I think all of us are seeing through your Objectivist grift.
If only the almighty THX were running things, we would have world peace, no crime, no prisons, and we would still be living in the Garden of Eden. /s
In reality, if he could, THX would be a world dictator doing all of the things that dictators do – prison camps, censorship, and all the rest. After all, people must be FORCED to be “Objectivists” – who could disagree? – and all “superstition” must be aggressively eliminated.
You make the fundamental error in believing that objectivism is the only valid form of philosophy. That would make it the only true religion in your philo-philosophy cult, which is plain foolishness.
Wow, even the author thinks you are a jerk. Take the hint. Go away.
Your writings remind me of those of Peter Abelard.
Can you please look into a mirror and say these things to yourself and maybe then you will see that you are an evangelical objectivist?
Sad Little Moron. The “madness and malarky” that you always bring up from your little note card will not get you fired or thrown in jail or canceled or fired so that your life is ruined.
But speaking the against the stupidity and insanity the trans crowd and the LGBT gaystapo wants us to adhere to definitely will.
But, as always, you are just so busy shoehorning your warped ideology where it doesn’t belong. The article is about trans gender fascism and insanity. Not about objectivism.
It’s clear that you are running out of things to whine about. Not everything is about you and your sick twisted world of rational selfishness.
“Little note card”. Good observation.
The consumed fool bangs his “I hate Christians” drum chronically – repeating the same crap, as if repeating it ad nauseum will make it believed.
His knee will bend eventually, but only after learning his name isn’t recorded in the Book of Life.
His free will. His choice. His mistake.
Definitely a proponent of the Big Lie….Josef Goebbels favorite line. “Repeat a lie often enough and it will become the truth”.
Definitely his mistake. I doubt if his knee will bend re: the Book of Life. He is a confirmed atheist.
Exactly.
When Christ returns, his opportunities will have ended. His choice.
The sad little moron is your spiritual leader Martin Luther — a rabid anti-semite and anti-peasant. Your Martin Luther truly hated the DEPLORABLE peasants and wanted nothing more than for the Almighty Christian Theocracy to crush and kill them just as Hillary Clinton would.
Your Martin Luther and Hillary are soul brothers. But you are a Lutheran aren’t you? A follower of that sad little moron.
You are so lame you can’t even come up with your own insults, just like you have to crib from Peekaboo and your silly little goddess t0 get your lame points across.
Martin Luther has had more effect on the world than you or Hillary ever will. Perhaps you should read Stephen Triesch’s post to you again. He pretty much nails you to the wall. I think I will save it for future reference.
It’s been a pretty bad day for you on the comment board. 100% negative reaction. Almost impossible to do. And yet here you are….covered in Objectivist slop.
You are truly the Sad Little Objectivist Moron
Thank you THX1138 for clarifying the fact that you are nothing more than an atheist with an ideological ax to grind.
Someone has to remind you Christians of the brutal history of your madness and malarkey. You Christians want to white wash and evade the facts of your brutal history, no different than the brutal history of Islam, but I won’t let you. And that upsets you.
You are getting angry. You are getting angry. No one likes you. everyone thinks you are a joke.
Atheists love to evade the facts of your brutal history. And you are an atheist hiding behind the skirts of Rand.
Please name a lasting civilization your philosophy has created and nurtured, other than Communism/Fascism, they flopped.
Why does not Leonard Peikoff blame Judaism – from which Christianity sprung – for all of the modern evils that he attributes to Christianity? The first nine of the “superstitions” you mention are from the book of Genesis, which pre-dated Christianity by centuries, and the influence of the Old Testament permeates the New Testament.
Also, belief in the supernatural is not limited to Christianity, but was characteristic of virtually all human societies until recently. And has the erosion of belief in the supernatural led to the primacy of “reason” and peace? On the contrary, the 20th century was arguably the bloodiest in world history, with mass atrocities justified in the name of purging the world of religious faith.
You keep repeating the same foolish statement by Peikoff. That doesn’t make it wise, you know. A lie repeated over and over does not, Goebbels notwithstanding, become truth. It remains a lie. And foolishness remains foolishness.
Research work by Gigi Young for THE BEST Christ Consciousness/Creation history. Etherisation of His blood and what it actually did for us. Also prior epochs in evolution androgeny was our “sex” .This would explain current day eunuchs but that explanation may also have it’s more recent roots in that foul creatures work, Joseph Rudolph Mengele.
Very very interesting things to ponder indeed
Amen to your article Jason D Hill. It was exactly right on.
Yes, another wonderful, insightful essay from Dr. Hill. And that warning at the end about the possible coming of a “strong man” who will reverse this destruction gave me the creeps, for is that not what we are now seeing in places like China and Russia (at times I sympathize a bit with Putin, on this one), that will not have any of this? As always, in the relatively free West, how do we find the balance?
A prosperous, peaceful nation will inevitably inspire those who wish to live upon and be served by her labors. That is what we have now in our government at all levels, and most especially in the administrative state.
The administrative state provides plausible deniability and “squid ink” for our elected representatives.
I believe that these people are perverted.
“ How did a small minority of people get to command the language, protocols, norms and framing methods of an entire culture in so short a space of time? Who handed all that power to them, and why?”
Because we allow it and deny the truth that NURTURE is infinitely more powerful than NATURE.
I’m not saying that all homosexuals are perverted, but having been abused by them as a child, I KNOW that they prey upon children and that it isn’t hard to confuse a child into being sexually unsure.
Yes, it’s going to take divine intervention the same way it did the last time. To kill them all. God said he wouldn’t flood the world again but all other bets are off. In this case he won’t really have to do anything; we’re doing it for him. Washington is treating nuclear war like it’s a video game. I promise you the Russians aren’t.
Most likely, the tares will remain among the wheat until the harvester come. (Then the weeds/chaff will then be bound and cast in the fire. Good riddance.)
Until then we’ll have these perverted God rejectors among us. No surprise that pedophile *Biden wants them to also have dominance.
Ain’t nothing wrong with sniffin’ lil girls
Mr. President, please!
You mustn’t talk about that. It costs us votes & we can only rig elections so far.
Hey man, the Russians are Trumps friend not mine, besides I’m too old to care about anything trivial like war, my friends are raking it in now, just ask Hunter about how much he made in Ukraine
Indeed, I am horrified at the current Biden administration that seems intent on destroying America in more ways than one. In addition to this, The proxy war against Russia the west is now fighting by supplying Ukraine with aircraft, tanks, missile systems, artillery and the “instructors” to go with them. Russia, China and Iran are now conducting naval war games while North Korea carefully plans it’s next move. Matthew 24:6 is unfolding before our eyes.
“The Fire Next Time” was the title of a Gospel hymn before it became the title of a bestselling book. Ignore the book for the moment and consider the song: G0d said that there would not be another flood and placed the rainbow (yes, the rainbow; it was His symbol before it was theirs) in the sky as testimony to that promise. The song suggests that next time, He will use fire. Nuclear war would be our way of bringing it upon ourselves and a large asteroid strike would be His; take your pick.
The rainbow that is His has seven colors. He made sure theirs only has six – the number of man.
Talking about it won’t accomplish anything anymore. Our elections are rigged and they’ve already effectively killed and incapacitated millions with their bio-weapon murder-shots. There is no recourse, nowhere to go, like the Pilgrims did. Barring something new, we are done as a civilization. I will miss the wonderful world and the go old ‘US of A’ which shown like a supernova for over 250 years, a short time to be sure, but glorious, the pinnacle of human development now in decline. When someone dies and their body falls to earth, their spirit is gone and only a shell remains as the worms and dirt reclaim it into the cold earth. Our country and the world, is now exactly that, a dead shell with the last sparks of life and joy (us) now blinking out one by one. Kind of sad don’t you think?
The Bioweapon was the Covid virus unleashed on the world.
Let’s not absolve those involved in doing so by only focusing on vaccinations instead. It was a eugenics like attack by an illness that targeted the old and infirm at first and was done in an election year with nationwide vote fraud as a result . We lost precious people in 2020 (prior to any “ shot” ) and so we dishonor our mothers and fathers when we forget this.
Idk what the purpose of useless vaccine was but one propose it serves is successfully and most unfortunately letting the developers and disseminators of a 2020 bioweapon attack off the hook.
Let’s hold them all to task instead!
I would prefer not to think that way. My children and theirs will continue. They will worship G0d and study and obey His laws. They will lead decent, honorable lives as best the society around them will permit. We’ve been doing it for 3300 years now and will continue to do it.
The strong are afraid of the weak, the intelligent are afraid of idiots, adults are afraid of children, white heterosexual males are afraid of everybody, whites are afraid of blacks, blacks are afraid of each other. The system was broken intentionally, by social media and the elevation of ” feelings” to something real, that others should care about.
THE WAY TO END THIS MADNESS:
Would Pelosi, Kamala, Dr. Jill, AOC, Omar, the supporters of the trans movement, who are walking down the hallway when they say they are needing the bathroom, (GET YOUR CAMERA READY), enter one when only seconds before, they watch as DR. RACHEL LEVINE goes in first?
What if they’re in there and the Dr. walks in?
SCHOOL BOARD SUPPORTERS TOO. Trap them. Dress up as one and as they go into the bathroom, you go first or after them.
CONGRATS… A VIRAL VIDEO THAT WILL BE USED AGAINST THEM AND THEIR MADNESS! “Excuse me Madame Speaker/Madame Vice President, you support the trans-bathroom issue but when one walked in before you, you stopped! (or walked out when one came in.) WHY?”
You can do much better than that hanging out at the bus station and picking up lonely sailors for a good time.
The ethics are better as well.
(I’m pretty sure that post is generated by a bot. So there’s not actually anything to respond to.)
Hopefully, FPM will sweep these annoying ads off, as it’s done before.
You know it’s getting worse when these perverted scumbags no longer hide having transgender reading hour to 1st graders.
Now the filth put on fishnet stockings and pole-dance in front of them, and even cultivate participation.
I remember when jug-eared Barry was publicly against queer marriage. He’s since then been able to drop that facade. (Our children/next generation is being brainwashed in stages. Barry just had to wait for the right time to come out.)
I was blocked from fpm for years for objecting to its tolerance of spam.
Now it’s back.
“The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God”. Deuteronomy 22:5
When a people accept, condone, and enforce abominations, God has no other choice but to destroy.
Dear Mr. Hill:
You cite the incidence of hermaphroditism to be “about 0.5[%] to 1% of all live births in the total world population.” I would characterize this ratio as uncommon, but not as an “extremely rare condition.” Your percentage figures would encompass between one in 200 persons to one in 100 persons. I refer you to an article (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/) which states as follows:
“If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.”
In any case, the current mania for chemical, surgical, and psychic mutilation in the guise of so-called “transgenderism” — especially as it is being thrust, with a high dose of ideology along with its harmful drug therapies, upon physically normal individuals, and not upon true medical hermaphrodites — is surely a lamentable phenomenon.
Yes, I was under the impression that hermaphroditism was a good deal more rare than Dr. Hill indicated. But that is a minor error and does not detract from an otherwise quite good article.
Above all else, transgenderism is about totalitarian control.. Because if “reality” is self-declarable and backed by government coercion , it won’t be limited to the sexual arena. Government will ultimately decide who is a woman–and whether the sky is read or blue, and whether or not two plus two equals five.
While you rightly call out the Stalinist Trans crazies, I’m worried about your final paragraph:
The false alternative between the illiberal left and illiberal right got us in trouble in the 1930s … just saying.
The intellectual dishonesty of Jason D. Hill is dangerous, as dangerous as the dishonesty of Dennis Prager and Rodney Stark. Read the following,
“The Ascension of Jason Hill”
http://ariwatch.com/TheAscensionOfJasonHill.htm
You’ve grown comfort with the taste of your own bullshit.
Ariwatch.com….nothing like appointment viewing on the web. What a surprise. Ayn Rand Inst doesn’t like him either. Do you ever have an original thought? This just makes me like him even more.
This is what happens when rational thought and empirical science are cast to the wind. Civilization dies.
Dear Dr. Hill:
You cite the incidence of hermaphroditism to be “about 0.5[%] to 1% of all live births in the total world population.” I would characterize this ratio as uncommon, but not as an “extremely rare condition.” Your percentage figures would encompass between one in 200 persons to one in 100 persons. I refer you to an article (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/) which states as follows:
“If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.”
In any case, the current mania for chemical, surgical, and psychic mutilation in the guise of so-called “transgenderism” — especially as it is being thrust, with a high dose of ideology along with its harmful drug therapies, upon physically normal individuals, and not upon true medical hermaphrodites — is surely a lamentable phenomenon.
I have twice posted a comment dealing with the statistical occurrence of hermaphroditism as a percentage of live births, and cited to an .nih article supporting the assertion of a smaller incidence than the author of the instant article had asserted. It was an incidental although, I believe, valid contribution to this discussion.
May I know why my comment, after moderation, has twice been removed from this comments section?
Gramsci. Gramsci. Say it out loud. Cultural hegemony is the root of the perverted forest that grows around us. Please, Dr. Hill, extend your analyses to include Gramsci ‘s plan for the destruction of Western civilization. Sexual identity is the most profound marker of the individual and must be destroyed first.
Reality can not be destroyed. But man’s means of understanding reality — REASON — can be undermined and undercut and that’s what you need to do, make men doubt their reason, make men doubt their minds, make hem lose confidence in reason, replace reason with faith, or instinct, or revelation, or ESP, or the Sub-Conscious Id, or the Horoscope, or the Bible, or the Koran, or feeling, or emotion, and you can make men into putty.
“The man who . . . closed the door of philosophy to reason, was Immanuel Kant. . . .
Kant’s expressly stated purpose was to save the morality of self-abnegation and self-sacrifice. He knew that it could not survive without a mystic base—and what it had to be saved from was reason….
No, Kant did not destroy reason; he merely did as thorough a job of undercutting as anyone could ever do.
If you trace the roots of all our current philosophies—such as pragmatism, logical positivism, [Transgenderism], and all the rest of the neo-mystics who announce happily that you cannot prove that you exist—you will find that they all grew out of Kant.” – Ayn Rand
“Man’s mind is his basic means of survival—and of self-protection. Reason is the most selfish human faculty: it has to be used in and by a man’s own mind, and its product—truth—makes him inflexible, intransigent, impervious to the power of any pack or any ruler. Deprived of the ability to reason, man becomes a docile, pliant, impotent chunk of clay, to be shaped into any subhuman form and used for any purpose by anyone who wants to bother.
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine that attacked (or “limited”) reason, which did not also preach submission to the power of some authority….
Power-seekers have always known that if men are to be made submissive, the obstacle is not their feelings, their wishes or their “instincts,” but their minds; if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.” – Ayn Rand
No one cares about Ayn Rand either. She was nuts as are you.
Do you dress up as Rand before you make these posts?
Colossians 2:8 KJV
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
I kind of like William Gibbons post to you. You are nothing more than an atheist with an ideological axe to grind.
You seem to be getting angrier and angrier that your grift is not going over very well.
Perhaps you should stop insulting Christians and go away.
Or take a poke at islam, but that’d take courage.
He knows most Christians do not fight back. It’s so easy to pick on the meek.
According to wikipedia – “Ayn Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge; she rejected faith and religion”. So ya just another Russian atheist bent on opposing her own best interest and self destruction.
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.” Psalm 14:1-6
This is a serious MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE. It needs to be addressed as such. No sane human being would do that to there body, they are demonically driven to do this.
Yah it is mental illness induced and rooted in the Adamic Nature ( human nature ) we all inherit from our fathers and passed all the way down from Adam of The Garden of Eden.
We are living in a society that is reminiscent of the eras of the Great Flood and the Tower of Babel
“It is a condition in which a single human being can possess both male and female reproductive organs inside and outside of the body.”
But I think even in those cases, one or both of the sexual organs is usually non-functional.
I criticized the trans movement and their gender reassignment to an acquaintance, and he said that people who reject transgenderism are bigots, and cold hearted. I guess that it is different from how I thought people would respond to rational critique. But that is the upsidedown world we live in.
We are living in a new age in which it is unwise to express one’s thoughts to most acquaintances. As in the old Soviet Union in its ascendant, Leninist phase, danger lurks everywhere and we need to express our opinions only among those who are willing to deal with reality. We have not yet gotten to the phase described by Solzhenitsyn, with the middle-of-the-night knock on the door and disappearance, but things seem to be moving in that direction.
I thought this small piece by Doug Wilson to be appropriate for Dr. Hill’s topic today.
https://mycanonplus.com/tabs/discover/videos/5272
Some good points. I would speculate that it stems from Freud’s overemphasis on sexuality as a motivating force in human life, as opposed to spirituality. It may be true that for younger people with high testosterone that sexuality is a primary motivating force, but for me at least, spirituality is the primary motivating force, and it is not due to repressed sexuality, as I grew up at a time and place where it was possible to live without repressing such.
Hedonism 2.0? It seems we are of the same generation. I saw a statistical graph showing the adherence to spirituality as it pertains to age. Those in the 45+ group retained the most while the younger groups increasingly rejected it. A funny thing; my peers from back then (I’m 71) have mostly returned to the faith. Could this be the result of my generation having a seed planted that eventually sprouted whereas todays youth have not even been introduced to spiritualism? Is humanism and post-modernism the stick that broke the camel’s back? “Anything goes” seems to be a recipe for the return of barbarism and tyranny especially when it ignores history and lacks foresight.
Hello Dr. Hill, I note this from your article: “Misgendering another person, I am told, is the worst offense you can commit against another human being—as bad as rape and murder. No kidding.”
Yes, Woe to anyone who points out that the Emperor has no clothes these days.
All I would want to say, speaking as a Christian, is that we are not abandoned to this. We need to find our loving Creator, the God of Abraham, listen to him and follow in the footsteps of his Messiah, Jesus. He will do the rest.
Here is a reassuring promise from the Hebrew Scriptures:
“So follow the way of good people
And stay on the paths of the righteous
For only the upright will reside in the earth,
And the blameless* will remain in it.
As for the wicked, they will be cut off from the earth,
And the treacherous will be torn away from it.”
Proverbs 2:20-22
Then when the whole earth is being ruled by the loving perfect and impartial Kingdom of God – the heavenly government for whose coming Jesus taught us to pray – we will have what our first parents so tragically lost – “the glorious freedom of the children of God”.
Excellent writing and reasoning.
I am no philosopher. I was raised Lutheran, but I do not practice any religion. I am not on social media and I use a dumbphone. I am just a regular working man with a family. When I became aware of this transgender insanity, I looked for an explanation and stumbled across Tristan Harris, an American technology ethicist that used to work for Google. He explains that technology is undermining what it means to be human: “What happens when your God-like technology is accelerating faster than your steering wheel, which is your medieval institutions, and your paleolithic emotions, your ape-like instincts, are guiding the whole thing?” Technology undermines human weakness. It appears the transgender movement is just one of the insanities in our post-truth world thanks (in no small part) to the internet, personal devices and social media. I do not imagine it is going to end well for humanity; at least, not here in Canada (or the USA by the look of things).
Tristan explains how “human downgrading” works in the following 1:52 YouTube video if you are interested.
Mr. Hill
I appreciate your piece and the honest thinking behind it. But you should also address the dynamic of irrational belief systems. Transgenderism is irrational. So what drives these people to engage in fraud and force? Truth tellers are a threat to their belief system. They have no other choices .
These are people who often go on a desperate search to find a justification for the lie. ( ex the Dutch studies on ” transgenderism ” https://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095(15)33617-1/fulltext,….. the Kinsey studies of the 50’s etc. ). Or they simply hope that if they repeat the lie enough times and with enough force their belief system will be protected. And then there are those who simply engage in overt force ( cancelling, censorship, slander, villification , and even physical force etc )
The bottom line is this, these are people desperately searching for an excuse to hide their pursuit of a particular form of paganistic / animalistic sexual gratification . They do so because the truth is a threat and have no other options in the matter.
This is why irrational belief systems are so dangerous. In far too many cases they devolve into violence. And when that belief system is embraced by the force of government, it devolves into tyranny.
Your thesis is correct… there is a cost in ignoring the ethics of ” transgenderism “.
Just a thought. Very respectfully
Who in their right mind would chose to be Transgender? No one. It would be disingenuous to believe so,that Transgender is not by choice,rather by birth,and biology.We may describe Transgender as bizarre,but like homosexuality,it is arguably a matter of birth/chance,and biology.Now,there may be unknown reasons why him/her are born Gay,and if there are some advantages to these variants in gender that influence and impact our survival fitness as a species,like other .difference in phenotype,etc.