Having already expressed my profound admiration for womankind — that Woman is worthy of protection and chivalry — I must now express something far less comfortable, and yet vital to her well-being. For in recent years I’ve become aware that modern woman, being alienated generations from the laws of nature and all sensibility, has placed both herself and mankind in a precarious position — so dangerous, in fact, that I believe her doing so comprises a forfeiture of sanity. To explain this theory, a theory enshrouded by almost two centuries of feminist “thought,” we must begin with the concept of reason itself. (more…)
19. May 2013
13. May 2013
Concerning the protection of women (a note on the upcoming article)
There will undoubtedly be a barrage of angry emails over my upcoming post — The irrational modern woman and “rape culture” — and so, hoping to further explain my position on the matter, and why it is not just convenient, but necessary to have a universal and Biblical moral code for sexual pursuit, I present the following story as an addendum for your consideration: a story about how I, as a youth, was given a choice about whether or not to protect a woman; and how, due to a combination between sexual liberalization and her lack of communication, I failed — in every respect — to protect her as was my God-given duty. If this does not convince others of the correctness of my sexual conservatism, I hope at the very least to inspire sympathy for my position — that this issue is not simply one of reason and Law, but of actual experience and regret on my part. (more…)
30. April 2013
Against the Boston interfaith vigil
A people’s forfeiture of self-rule — what does it look like? Does surrender build piece by piece, day by day, law by law; or does it happen suddenly, publicly, officially — expressedly? Is it not debt that exceeds the boundaries of conceptualization? Families broken — fathers who do not father, a birthrate shriveling into impotence? A nation’s murder of millions of its own innocents? Borders left open against the creeping Reconquista? Yes — but even more than these; even more than the advance of state piracy, even more than the soullessness of Americanized Christianity, even more than teachers who do not teach virtue, and pastors who do not preach Law, we have another declaration of surrender far more blatant, yet like the others still implicit. Though acts are the expressions of thoughts, and none of the above “circumstances” can be said to be circumstantial, but all very meaningfully enacted according to very specific and suicidal doctrines, there stands declaration above all these: that Americans, no longer capable of even calling themselves Americans — or as it can be proven later, any nation whatsoever — have forfeited their grip upon reality, and thus beg replacement by any invaders with any sense of cohesion and at least a hint of spirit.
That statement, as the title heralds, is the Boston interfaith vigil. (more…)
27. April 2013
The problem with minority parties: a treatise on higher and lower faction
The future of the Republican party — this is what they say of you, dear Hispanics; but a future for better or for worse has yet to be seen. (more…)
21. April 2013
The trouble with niceness: bravery, stoicism, and the cancer patient
I couldn’t have been more than ten when my grandma passed away. I remember her, wasted away, lying on her bed in an aging manufactured home, with an IV in arm, dying of cancer. By that point she’d been so saturated with morphine that conversation was impossible, slurred speech uttering impossibilities and hallucinatory babble, a loving old woman’s mind worn with the onslaught of opiates and an ever-increasing, inescapable misery. I can think of many words to describe the scene, mostly tragic; but brave is certainly not one of them. And unlike so many organizations and people frequently do, I wouldn’t dare use the word brave to describe anyone dying of AIDS, or anyone else battling cancer, or any other person suffering from any other sort of disease, however warm I may appear by doing so. We may perhaps call them stoical, recognizing that certain smile in the face of adversity, and comparing them with the renowned Roman ascetics; but to call them brave is neither fair not true. (more…)
8. April 2013
On man’s physical boundaries (evolution, body, etc)
Supposing evolution were actually true, and that the first pile of primordial soup, ignited by a lightning bolt or some other energetic source, were to suddenly result in life, the first question we should ask should concern the boundary of choice. (more…)
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On rape and the law
Earlier in the month of October, I heard a troubling story about a man. Now, the man is not me (as some writers have a tendency to conceal), nor is he a man I know, but he is very close to a person who’s close to me. We can very rightly say the man is a fool: carousing with strange women, drinking to inebriation, cheating on his partner — certainly that he lacks sexual virtue. But having spent quite a bit of time running about the streets like a dog, he was eventually hit by a car. (more…)
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20. March 2013
Nightmares
When I was young
I used to dream
of zombies, monsters,
wolves and snakes;
of terrifying things
both large and small
that would give chase,
and I would run. (more…)
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17. March 2013
Heritage as a matter of the will
Editor’s note: a version of this article appeared on The American Thinker, but was so badly mangled and inferior to the original, I request that the reader — if he has any appreciation of my writing — please read this version either instead, or as well.
Look closely at those two words, heritage and destiny, dear reader, and see at once two concepts entirely different, and yet intimately connected: the former, what we have been, and the latter, what we will be — and yet, if we simply describe heritage as what we have been, the latter, what we will be, risks much loss. (more…)
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3. March 2013
The sin of Achan
Amassing upon the border of Canaan, swords in hand and Law upon two graven tablets of stone, Jehovah’s Israel prepared for war. The promise had been given: the sins of Canaan, her idolatry, her child-sacrifice, her filth and lewdness and injustice had filled earth to the brim, spilling over the mountains into heaven; and now the land itself would vomit Canaan up — paganism giving place to true religion, evil to righteousness, and lies to truth. The cry of trumpets preceding the menacing rumble of footsteps, as lightning and thunder coupled, Israel marched forth in Holy hegemony. (more…)
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25. February 2013
Trapped in the closet?
However long are the periods between its resurfacing, the closet — or at least, the modern concept of it — never fails in this generation to reappear: the closet, which had been hiding a megachurch pastor, now brought to disgrace; the closet, belching forth conservative politicians, long hidden, into headlines of ignominy; the closet, bringing Christian therapists into question, and salvation from the power of sin into disrepute. However it finds its entry, the revealed closet is always embarrassing to its former residents; oftentimes shocking, devouring the unexpected; never benign, painting not single persons, but entire ideologies and peoples with hypocritical hues and slanderous strokes. (more…)
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23. February 2013
A tyranny effeminate
Forget the present era with all its corrosion and absurdities, dear reader, and hearken back to days of revolution — not our own, but another; across the Atlantic, where tumult and hope birthed misery and disaster, and French patriots instead of alienating their king took him prisoner.
Witness Carlyle’s masterful account of the revolution: how French men, harassed and subdued by military patrols and martial law, sat cowering in their homes until food stores ran dry — a time of great famine — and their children began to starve. No food in sight! Children wailing in the streets! Something must be done! And yet, nothing could be done; for broken spirited and famished, poorly armed — if armed at all — and permeated by a sentiment of inefficacy, what could man do but wait and weep? (more…)
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15. February 2013
You will know them by their fruits
Having recently been disgusted by a series of “Christian” articles — shallow and kind-faced garbage, mostly — and thoroughly annoyed by the lack of substance in mainstream American Christianity, I’ve decided to take a slight turn, if only for an article.
Below you will find no kind words; below you’ll find no happy thoughts or anecdotes about how your pet reminds you of the love of Jesus — or about how to love your neighbors by banning guns, or encouragement for female pastors. What I want to do is something entirely different — allow the Bible to speak for itself; and so I’ve arranged a series of passages in a particular order, designed to prove, not with any sort of sophistry or art, but with the plain speech of overwhelming fact, that the evidence of salvation is our works. This isn’t to say that a man must commit works in order to be saved, but that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit produces a sanctifying effect; that man will change if he is saved; that we must be able to know the signature of salvation by a particular effect, and that the effect by which we know is our works. (more…)
14. February 2013
The psychological advantages of leftism
Throughout my journey into adulthood, I have become aware that two conditions prevail upon birth. The first is atheism, a child’s ignorance of the Godhead, man being exiled from the Garden of Eden, and forever dependent upon revelation — whether passed through tradition, or given directly — for communion with the divine. No child is born speaking the Laws of God; no child comprehends the majesty of the Almighty; but yet, as he grows, perhaps he might develop divine notions: ideas resulting from the complexity of nature, from the mystery of his existence, from the window into the human soul — from the conscience, the knowledge of good and evil, the burning desire of an immortal entrapped within a mortal shell. He may learn from others about the existence of God far before he discovers God without help; but he always acquires heavenly knowledge. It is never innate, unless imposed by an act of divine intervention. (more…)
29. January 2013
Sin reemergent
When after years of sanctification the Holy Spirit has worked, and all becomes calm, and orderly — a tranquil joy, a mighty silence — and man finds comfort in things of goodness, feeling all has become subdued, that the Millenial reign has begun, if not universally, then within himself; it is then vigilance often gives way to laxity, and wakeful spirits give way to slumber. (more…)
24. January 2013
Jesus is coming… for your guns!
Two thousand years of existence, two thousand years of heresies and reforms, abuses and revivals have bred a Christianity diverse and confusing, alive — and yet smothered by itself. Whatever passes for Christendom these days, we may be certain that the overwhelming majority misunderstand Christ in some way or another, misquote Him; crusades marching under banners which infuriate angels and drive men of orthodoxy to weeping, choirs belching forth obscenities which cause dead Fathers’ bones to creak and wail within their lost and forgotten graves. When a thousand mutually exclusive claims coexist, and a thousand sects profess them fanatically, we must accept that confusion on particular points is nearly universal. This is the curse of age. In the present state of affairs, it cannot be avoided. (more…)
3. January 2013
Christianity and anger
One of the best things about being a Christian is that when all the stupidity, all the evils, all the ignorance of the world become so overwhelming, that you don’t feel like you can take it, it’s then you feel something like a tap on a shoulder, and something like a voice behind you, asking “passing through?”
If I may answer briefly, Sir, I am. And thank you for that. Goodbye anger, goodbye sorrow; you were mine for a bit, a pair of ugly lovers. But I think I’ll be leaving you where you belong.
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31. December 2012
In partial defense of Psy and anti-Americanism (remembering Abu Ghraib)
In the final days of the Roman republic, when barbarous Mithridates stood at the gates and threatened both safety and pride, Cicero stood before the senate and implored them to grant military command to Gnaeus Pompeius. His impassioned advocacy had almost everything to do with talent — with Pompey’s almost divine military skills, apparent at an extremely young age for a general; with his past record, having recently eradicated a pirate menace in a single year, which until then had all but stopped Roman shipping; and his indomitable reputation, certain enemies surrendering at the sound of Pompey’s name alone. Pompey was invincible, Cicero declared — but equally important to his skill, and the fearful name in which it resulted, was Pompey’s sense of justice. (more…)
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27. December 2012
On objective physical beauty and the concept of fashion
When in the course of discussion, seemingly irreconcilable differences become manifest concerning the existence and preference of beauty, such differences oftentimes appear indicative of beauty’s subjective nature — that beauty is in the eye of the beholder; that because men visibly differ in preference, nature acknowledges no formula for the definition of “attractive.” But yet I believe the opposite can be proven: that a standard not only exists, but that the pursuit of beauty and fashion only maintain legitimacy within certain boundaries; and that if the pursuit of beauty transgresses its limitations, it becomes a perversion. It is the object of this essay to prove this theory, perhaps not defining the particulars of beauty — not to say which shades or shapes are beautiful –, but rather to present a general defense of beauty’s objective existence. (more…)
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15. December 2012
The failures of democracy (an ode to Aristides)
Oh, what America could do with an Aristides of Athens!
Of humble birth, but possessive of a virtuous spirit, Aristides championed order and decency against both foreigner and citizen, rich and poor alike. His triumphs too numerous to mention in so short a space, it must suffice to recall a few: how he exposed corruption in government — however close to him it lay; his defense of due process not simply for friends, but for criminals and enemies; his admirable conduct on the field of battle, defending Greece against the barbaric Persians; his forfeiture of pride in relinquishing the generalship to a more capable commander, and the subsequent unity of Athens in a turbulent time. Athens had her share of honorable men, for which she has become well known; but above them all in the pursuit of justice, perhaps, was Aristides (see: Plutarch’s eloquent account). (more…)
6. December 2012
On the perils of moral conviction
Years have passed since I first heard those words, long ago recorded in the darkness of Mediterranean anarchy: “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”
Not simply years, but generations of rape and murder, of mobs and violence, of tyranny and oppression, of heresy and revenge had stagnated God’s Israel into a cesspool of evils, and yet, this? Notice that it never said every man did what was wrong in his own eyes. No, had it said that, humanity would have been in a far less precarious position. But man in the depths of depravity didn’t simply disregard what was right: by denoting that man did what was right in his own eyes, man had the effect of evil, but without the guilt, without the shame, without the impending sense of divine judgment. Derailed from the tracks of reason and Law, humanity’s train careened into pathways unstable and fit him for destruction, all the while gliding softly off the edge of a spiritual cliff. (more…)
24. November 2012
“My sheep know My voice”
Perhaps some can remember far before they reached adulthood, and recall those days of infancy, and talk of how they accepted Christ at a young age. My mother speaks of my early conversion, but if I did in fact make any sort of conscious decision, it matters little. Years of adulthood spent in the Devil’s service, whether consciously or practically, serve great indication that the Spirit has no sway over a man — years; neither minutes nor days, but years. They were the most miserable years of my life. (more…)
GM wins, America loses (a treatise on profit, loss, and coercion)
Editor’s note: this article appeared on The American Thinker, November 24, 2012
Having already heard Obama praised, repeatedly, for saving GM, and having witnessed both presidential candidates show support for the company, I’ve decided that it’s time to explain, not in emotional terms or statistics, but in simple philosophical truths, what exactly it was that Obama saved. For when the matter is closely examined without national prejudice, I believe that what he did by “saving” GM was actually quite sinister. (more…)
13. November 2012
Recollections of an unchaste youth
When I was about the age of five, I distinctly remember attending a wedding. The details of the actual ceremony, by this point, are almost entirely lost: I know whose wedding it was, and that they had either rented or borrowed nice table cloths. The strange part about the whole circumstance is that I remember the table cloths because I was beneath them with a young girl, and we were hiding beneath them because we were taking our clothes off. (more…)
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11. November 2012
Moses and Mises: how businesses are better than charities
The world has seen its fair share of injustice and stupidity, but there exists one particularly obnoxious sentiment, masked in pretenses of Christendom, which denies the moral importance of business and profit. Citing most improperly Jesus Christ, ignorant Westerners tout the charity as the supreme duty of all Christians, as though Christ Himself was not a career carpenter and Paul not a tent maker. They pretend as though Judaism — the religion God personally founded — never had anything noble to say of the business operating wife, righteousness resulting in wealth, or that Mosaic property rights overtly establish the righteousness of ownership. They love to quote “sell all you have and give to the poor,” without noting the instructive purpose of that individual commandment to an individual person, and entirely disregard “If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.” But looking beyond this, there is a question still lurking behind the necessity of production which begs to be answered: whether or not a business is actually less moral than a charity.
7. November 2012
On Obama’s reelection
Whatever comes, whatever perils, whatever trials, whatever parties rise to power, I love my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because He first loved me. In times like these, when all the world seems to fall apart, when the wicked advance and my soul becomes burdened, I’m reminded that our hope — our everlasting Hope — lies beyond what we can see, that His hand guides the course of history, and that “all things work for the good of those who love Him, and are called according to His purpose.” God is sovereign, there is no authority without His personal permission, and there is a Christian destiny, an eternal Kingdom. Keep strong, my readers; look away from the earth, and keep your eyes upon Christ.
30. October 2012
On marijuana and psychedelics
I’ve heard many arguments supporting or opposing the legalization of marijuana and drugs in general, most of them practical in nature, but almost entirely unsatisfactory. It seems more prudent, to this writer, that if we’re to have a meaningful policy concerning man — the mind of man, particularly –, we must first begin neither with opinion nor conjecture, but with truths about his very nature. (more…)
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30. September 2012
Why I’m a Christian conservative (a reply to angry libertarians)
To my right lies a book written by hymn writer and philosopher Isaac Watts, a textbook once used at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale for generations, to train men in the art of reason. It opens thusly:
The pursuit and acquisition of truth is of infinite concernment to mankind. Hereby we become acquainted with the name of things both in Heaven and earth, and their various relations to each other. It is by this means we discover our duty to God and our fellow-creatures; by this we arrive at the knowledge of natural religion, and learn to confirm our faith in divine revelation, as well as to understand what is revealed. Our wisdom, prudence, and piety, our present conduct and our future hope, are all influenced by the use of our rational powers in the search after truth. (more…)
28. September 2012
Jesus as carpenter: a short treatise on profits
Though in modern times profits are oftentimes assailed as greedy, there stands above all a single example, which, though not attempting to deliver in treatise, or enlighten by lecture, imparts a defense of profit without any sort of controversy. In this case, I speak of Jesus’ own occupation as a carpenter. (more…)
The question of an egomaniacal Heavenly Father
While talking to my father only a short while ago, we stumbled upon a controversial question of great importance: that being whether or not it’s egomaniacal for God to demand that others worship Him. It seemed strange, at first, that He would embody a characteristic usually recognized as abusive, bizarre, and oftentimes difficult to explain to those outside the faith. But I believe these difficulties can be resolved, first, upon further inspection of man’s fall, and second, upon careful examination of what it means to be finite. (more…)