Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
This day has gone by so quickly I can’t believe it.
I am extremely busy right now and it just seems that this day was incredibly short. I did not do half of what (in a fit of baseless optimism) I thought I would do today.
Did you ever have a day where you seem to be running behind all day?
That was today for me.
Maybe tomorrow I can catch up. (Laughs maniacally).
That’s it for now.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
From July 1, 2015
The only time liberals are more mean-spirited than they are when they’re losing… is when they’re winning.
They’re on a roll now, trashing marriage, stuffing their Organized Sodomy “rainbow” under everybody’s noses, banning the Confederate flag, defacing monuments, and so on.
Now the mayor of Memphis, TN, wants Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest dug up, along with Mrs. Forrest, evicted from his tomb, and his monument torn down.
I know this’ll get libs mad at me, but here are some facts.
*Before the Civil War, Forrest was a wealthy planter and slave trader. These activities were lawful in that time and place.
*With no military experience, training, or study, Forrest joined the Confederate Army, rose rapidly to the rank of lieutenant general, and became one of the most gifted and effective soldiers in American military history.
*After the war, Forrest was a founder of the Ku Klux Klan, and its first “grand wizard.” (That must have sounded better in the 19th century than it does today.)
*Forrest tried to dissolve the Klan, and then resigned from it, saying it had deserted its original mission of defending the South from being ruined and pillaged by the North.
*Although depicted in the Northern newspapers as a habitual war criminal, Forrest was never formally charged with any war crimes. (No Union officer, of course, was ever even mentioned in any postwar discussion of war crimes.) Bear in mind that the government did execute a number of Southern officers for war crimes.
*Forrest died in 1877. In 1905, the city of Memphis erected a statue to him and he and Mrs. Forrest were entombed beneath it.
*Starting in the 1980s, the NAACP, CORE, and other African-American organizations began to protest the monument, demanding that General and Mrs. Forrest be dug up and buried somewhere else.
The man died 138 years ago. Because his side lost the war, and because statists are in the driver’s seat today, the Confederacy is now depicted as an evil empire solely devoted to preserving slavery: which is not a fact.
If Forrest’s side had won the war, would they be demanding today that General and Mrs. Sherman be dug up? Had the South won, Sherman would have doubtlessly been prosecuted for massive crimes against the civilian population.
But liberals do not accept history any more than they accept facts. “Feelings” are everything.
So they desecrate the dead, who cannot defend themselves.
They can be thankful Bedford Forrest is not still alive.
From June 4, 2014
A fellow Christian columnist has shared this comment from one of his readers. I reproduce it here unedited, undiluted.
“Not a shred of moral relativism at all in what I said. I said all human live is valuable. I also said it is good to live one’s religious faith.
“But let’s get your your example of what you call ‘mugging and self-defense.’
“A person you term a ‘mugger’ approaches you with a display of force and, with the threat of violence, ask you to give him some property. You comply. No one dies. Everyone goes on with their day.
“The only actual ‘danger’ to human life comes when you threaten the mugger (and the mugger’s life). You may say ‘no.’ That threatens the mugger. You may brandish a weapon. If its a gun, you may open fire. Those acts certainly threaten the mugger.
“When all that the mugger wants is a little property, it is not clear why you feel morally inclined to threaten the mugger’s life. It would seem it is just easier to share your property with the person who has the monopoly of force.
“And its not clear in the case of the mugger who is actually the victim. The mugger needs property. You have property. The mugger is asking you to share. That does not imply victimhood at all. Your selfish refusal to share is what escalates the exchange in the first instance.”
Now this is imbecility of a very high order, inaccessible to ordinary dunderheads. It may only be acquired, at great cost, at a university, from tenured professors who are themselves morons.
I wonder if this guy will ever deliver the keynote speech at a Democrat convention?
So, folks, the next time a thug with a switchblade “asks” you for your property, remember, it’s immoral to resist him.
A compleat jidrool has told you so.
Today was moving along quite well.
Then, right after lunch, something went radically wrong with my computer. I had just selected some content that I wanted to post to the blog and when I went over to WordPress to post it–up came the Captcha thingumabob where you get a picture of distorted letters that you have to decipher??!! To prove you are a human being. No way does this belong on the WordPress platform. I also saw that I had been disconnected from my AOL email account. I even put a call in to Jill at Chalcedon (she is a WordPress expert). After about 25 minutes of total stress I was able to get into my AOL account, and the other problem resolved itself. I have not the foggiest idea of what happened. That was one hell of an epic glitch. Meteor showers? A server somewhere going mad? Cosmic rays? Solar ejecta? Your guess is as good as mine.
We are so very dependent on these devices. When they do not function, it is absolute chaos. I did call Chalcedon back and tell them the problem was resolved.
But I don’t know why or how, really.
Pray for our troops. I believe the 82nd Airborne are being sent to the middle east in a non combat capacity.
God bless everybody.
Patty