Last week a lady said to me, concerning Samantha Lewthwaite, the alleged terrorist, that she was from a 'respectable family', and it was this respectability that made her actions all the more surprising.
For one thing, her parents were divorced when she was eleven years old. In other words, at least one parent was unbearably self-indulgent and cared little for the children.
A broken home is hardly respectable.
Secondly, Samantha attended an English comprehensive school, where girls are no longer taught domestic science, but are taught to be highly sexualised. Girls, their femininity mocked, objectified and debauched, frequently starve themselves and self harm.It was in an effort to regain her dignity as a woman, that Samantha converted to Islam, hoping to fend off the influence of her depraved teachers.
Thirdly, her father was a soldier. I can see nothing respectable about being a hired killer.
No doubt, the glorification of violence was part of Samantha's upbringing.
Back in the 1970s, when her father took the Queen's shilling, the British Army were no longer killing Kenyans, but up until the 1960s they had killed plenty.
They fought Kenyatta, the father, in the 1950s, putting him on trial. Now the soldier's daughter and her Moslem friends fight Kenyatta, the son, the enemy of the so-called 'international community', who is also going to be put on trial.
In the 1970s state violence was still pretty much the preserve of males, but now that women have been diminished, and they have been assimilated into state power structures, the likes of Samantha can join in the psycho fun, killing ordinary people for the benefit of Power.
Like Father, like Daughter, Patriarchy to Neo-Patriarchy, the desperate declining West sows chaos and destruction, not only amongst its own children, but throughout the world, loving death as much as the Rest loves life.
Monday 30 September 2013
Sunday 29 September 2013
Be Not Conformed To This World
From John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book Five;
"So spoke the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found;
Among the faithless faithful only he,
Among innumerable false unmoved,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;
Nor number nor example with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,
Though single. From amidst them forth he passed,
Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained
Superior, nor of violence feared aught;
And with retorted scorn his back he turned
On those proud towers, to swift destruction doomed."
"So spoke the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found;
Among the faithless faithful only he,
Among innumerable false unmoved,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;
Nor number nor example with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,
Though single. From amidst them forth he passed,
Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained
Superior, nor of violence feared aught;
And with retorted scorn his back he turned
On those proud towers, to swift destruction doomed."
Saturday 28 September 2013
John's Gospel Chapter 6 - The Will Of God
Jesus has come not to do his own will, but that of his Father. Unlike Adam, who walked with God but a short distance, and then did his own thing, learning to say 'I' not 'Thou', Jesus walked with God all the way.
Never once did Jesus rebel. He followed God's will in the Law and in the Spirit. He was the perfect sin offering to propitiate the righteous wrath of God.
And so must we too try to walk with God, though we are feeble, and we have no strength, and our faith is little bigger than a mustard seed at times. But we too, like Jesus, can call upon the strength of the Lord and make a small difference and give glory to God.
The world around us sees love as gratification, love's purpose the glorification of the self.
But we too, in our own small way, can do the will of God, by living a life of sacrifice not self, like Our Lord Jesus Christ, learning to say Thou Lord, not I.
Never once did Jesus rebel. He followed God's will in the Law and in the Spirit. He was the perfect sin offering to propitiate the righteous wrath of God.
And so must we too try to walk with God, though we are feeble, and we have no strength, and our faith is little bigger than a mustard seed at times. But we too, like Jesus, can call upon the strength of the Lord and make a small difference and give glory to God.
The world around us sees love as gratification, love's purpose the glorification of the self.
But we too, in our own small way, can do the will of God, by living a life of sacrifice not self, like Our Lord Jesus Christ, learning to say Thou Lord, not I.
Friday 27 September 2013
Kropotkin - The State, The Church And Taxation
'In Paris, Moscow, Madrid and Prague you see the Church bending over the cradle of royalty, a lighted torch in her hand, the executioner by her side.'
'And it was only by the stake, the wheel and the gibbet, by the massacre of a hundred thousand peasants in a few years, that royal or imperial power, allied to that of Papal or Reformed Church - Luther encouraging the massacre of peasants with more virulence than the pope - that put an end to those uprisings which had for a period threatened the consolidation of the nascent states.
Lutheran Reform, which had sprung from popular Anabaptism, was supported by the State, massacred the people and crushed the movement from which it had drawn its strength in the beginning.'
'But the State, by its very nature, cannot tolerate a free federation. The State cannot recognize a freely-formed union operating within itself; it alone recognizes subjects. the State and its sister the Church, arrogate to themselves alone the right to serve as the link between men.'
'State is synonymous with war. Wars devastated Europe and managed to finish off the towns which the State had not yet directly destroyed.'
'Observe taxation - an institution originating purely with the State - this formidable weapon used by the State, in Europe as in the young societies of the two Americas, to keep the masses under its heel, to favour its minions, to ruin the majority for the benefit of the rulers and maintain the old divisions and castes.'
'And finally, what is even worse .......is the fact that the education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up being lost, and disguised in servitude.'
EITHER the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it all its wars and domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development is ......death!
OR the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centres on the principles of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.
The choice lies with you!'
'And it was only by the stake, the wheel and the gibbet, by the massacre of a hundred thousand peasants in a few years, that royal or imperial power, allied to that of Papal or Reformed Church - Luther encouraging the massacre of peasants with more virulence than the pope - that put an end to those uprisings which had for a period threatened the consolidation of the nascent states.
Lutheran Reform, which had sprung from popular Anabaptism, was supported by the State, massacred the people and crushed the movement from which it had drawn its strength in the beginning.'
'But the State, by its very nature, cannot tolerate a free federation. The State cannot recognize a freely-formed union operating within itself; it alone recognizes subjects. the State and its sister the Church, arrogate to themselves alone the right to serve as the link between men.'
'State is synonymous with war. Wars devastated Europe and managed to finish off the towns which the State had not yet directly destroyed.'
'Observe taxation - an institution originating purely with the State - this formidable weapon used by the State, in Europe as in the young societies of the two Americas, to keep the masses under its heel, to favour its minions, to ruin the majority for the benefit of the rulers and maintain the old divisions and castes.'
'And finally, what is even worse .......is the fact that the education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up being lost, and disguised in servitude.'
EITHER the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it all its wars and domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development is ......death!
OR the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centres on the principles of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.
The choice lies with you!'
Thursday 26 September 2013
Equality Is Not Liberation
Mary Malone writes:
The so-called Women's Movement has been taken over by State Feminists. Feminism has been twisted, transformed and institutionalised by the bureaucratic ethos of spite and resentment known as Equality.
At one time Feminists wanted to overthrow patriarchal power structures. Now they want to join them. We want to wield the whip too, they cry out.
Over the past two hundred years of the Liberal State men have been conscripted, militarised, 'educated' in regimentation at so called schools, and indoctrinated into the principles of hierarchy. Men were taught that above them were corporals and captains - the teachers, the managers, the owners, the civil servants. And at home they were taught that they were the corporals and the captains, and that Woman was merely a foot soldier, one whose legal and social rights were removed by the Liberal State.
Now technological advances mean that women can be conscripted too. Autonomous woman, the queen of home and family, must be abolished. Liberated from her friend, Man, she must stand alone to face Authority, reduced to a role of consumer and wage earner. Her children are sent to nursery and then go school. Her man, her oppressor, she is led to believe, lives elsewhere, thinking only of his own needs. Her new husband who pays for her and protects her (for by definition the new woman is more than equal as a victim) is the State.
She is not free, no! But she is equal to man in his degradation and servility.
The so-called Women's Movement has been taken over by State Feminists. Feminism has been twisted, transformed and institutionalised by the bureaucratic ethos of spite and resentment known as Equality.
At one time Feminists wanted to overthrow patriarchal power structures. Now they want to join them. We want to wield the whip too, they cry out.
Over the past two hundred years of the Liberal State men have been conscripted, militarised, 'educated' in regimentation at so called schools, and indoctrinated into the principles of hierarchy. Men were taught that above them were corporals and captains - the teachers, the managers, the owners, the civil servants. And at home they were taught that they were the corporals and the captains, and that Woman was merely a foot soldier, one whose legal and social rights were removed by the Liberal State.
Now technological advances mean that women can be conscripted too. Autonomous woman, the queen of home and family, must be abolished. Liberated from her friend, Man, she must stand alone to face Authority, reduced to a role of consumer and wage earner. Her children are sent to nursery and then go school. Her man, her oppressor, she is led to believe, lives elsewhere, thinking only of his own needs. Her new husband who pays for her and protects her (for by definition the new woman is more than equal as a victim) is the State.
She is not free, no! But she is equal to man in his degradation and servility.
Wednesday 25 September 2013
Living On Welfare
Those who live on welfare get a bad press, but why refuse a free lunch? Of course, some do, preferring to work for their money rather than sink into helpless dependency.
But there are many out there who have worked for maybe thirty years or more, and just need a break from full time work. So why not work the system, when the system has been working you all your life?
Those who are sufficiently institutionalised, careerists, those with a vocation, those who enjoy sadistic power over others, are perfectly happy with the degradation of waged and salaried work, but for the vast majority a job is a job, a means to an end - money - and nothing more.
A job usually means stultifying boredom, monotony, repetition. A job means being too tired to do anything productive. A job means settling down to the easy option of bland consumption.
A job means deprivation, depression, a zombie existence, working just to kill yourself in parties, holidays, watching the screen.
Why not settle for a life on welfare and have the time, the space, the energy to be creative. Why not bake, paint, sew, write, paint, dig the allotment, walk the hills, play chess, badminton and squash, swim, dance and learn calligraphy?
Why not have the time and the energy to sit down at life's table and eat a banquet rather than take a plastic wrapped snack heat it up and consume it in front of the telly?
But there are many out there who have worked for maybe thirty years or more, and just need a break from full time work. So why not work the system, when the system has been working you all your life?
Those who are sufficiently institutionalised, careerists, those with a vocation, those who enjoy sadistic power over others, are perfectly happy with the degradation of waged and salaried work, but for the vast majority a job is a job, a means to an end - money - and nothing more.
A job usually means stultifying boredom, monotony, repetition. A job means being too tired to do anything productive. A job means settling down to the easy option of bland consumption.
A job means deprivation, depression, a zombie existence, working just to kill yourself in parties, holidays, watching the screen.
Why not settle for a life on welfare and have the time, the space, the energy to be creative. Why not bake, paint, sew, write, paint, dig the allotment, walk the hills, play chess, badminton and squash, swim, dance and learn calligraphy?
Why not have the time and the energy to sit down at life's table and eat a banquet rather than take a plastic wrapped snack heat it up and consume it in front of the telly?
Tuesday 24 September 2013
Democracy
The Democratic State is by nature totalitarian. In the act of voting for people to rule us we are surrendering our right to autonomy. By pooling our power with others and giving it to a central authority we are effectively asking to be crushed should we be in a minority.
In earlier times, monarchical times, representatives would attend Parliament in order to restrain the power of the Executive. In a democracy we no longer vote to restrain the Executive, we simply choose between a few people as to who shall be part of that Executive. There is little to restrain the increasing power of government.
By voting we legitimise hierarchical authority. We are slaves who choose between masters.By voting we give consent to be ruled in every aspect of our lives.
In a Representative State the executive power remains with the Monarch. The Monarch's job is to maintain law and order and to keep us safe from foreign invasion. Nothing else is the Monarch's business. The Monarch is seen as a necessary evil. Outside of his limited remit society is autonomous and free.
In such a State the Representatives are there to make sure that the Monarch rules with a light hand.
In nineteenth century England the rise of Liberalism under Gladstone (who introduced Income Tax in peace time) set us on the road to surrendering our liberties. Bit by bit we have descended to a state where the totality of our lives is the State's business.
The first step on the road to freedom is to see Democracy for what it is - an exercise in tyranny - and to see the State for what it is - no more than a necessary evil.
In earlier times, monarchical times, representatives would attend Parliament in order to restrain the power of the Executive. In a democracy we no longer vote to restrain the Executive, we simply choose between a few people as to who shall be part of that Executive. There is little to restrain the increasing power of government.
By voting we legitimise hierarchical authority. We are slaves who choose between masters.By voting we give consent to be ruled in every aspect of our lives.
In a Representative State the executive power remains with the Monarch. The Monarch's job is to maintain law and order and to keep us safe from foreign invasion. Nothing else is the Monarch's business. The Monarch is seen as a necessary evil. Outside of his limited remit society is autonomous and free.
In such a State the Representatives are there to make sure that the Monarch rules with a light hand.
In nineteenth century England the rise of Liberalism under Gladstone (who introduced Income Tax in peace time) set us on the road to surrendering our liberties. Bit by bit we have descended to a state where the totality of our lives is the State's business.
The first step on the road to freedom is to see Democracy for what it is - an exercise in tyranny - and to see the State for what it is - no more than a necessary evil.
Homosexuals Used As Political Pawns
The Political Class loves to create labels, to divide and rule, to pitch us one against the other, by categorising us, limiting our humanity to racial, ethnic, religious and gender profiles. Now we are even questioned and profiled according to our most intimate, and formerly private, erotic and romantic inclinations.
Having labelled us all, we are then placed into two camps, abusers and victims. The only way for a 'white' 'male' to become a victim and enjoy special rights is to be 'gay'.
In such fashion the State becomes the judge and jury of our daily lives. The arm of Authority is seen refereeing every human relationship.
Most of the world, for obvious reasons, does not want to live in our nightmare. However, those wishes mean nothing to the Western Political Class, who having rejected Christianity as a religion that leads to too much autonomous action, has turned to Human Rights as its preferred weapon of moral superiority.
One recent addition to Human Rights has been Gay Rights, the propagation of homosexuality as equal to heterosexuality, and gay marriage as being equal to normal marriage.
Gay Rights are rejected in Africa, Russia, China, India, Greece, the Arab countries, in fact everywhere where the population is not atomized, isolated and micro managed by Power.
The problem is that whereas homosexuals were at one time variously ridiculed and tolerated, now they are seen as missionaries and collaborators with Western Power, the Bombers and the Bummers united.
Societies that wish to protect themselves from Western style meltdown are increasingly persecuting homosexuals. At one time people could quietly and discreetly give rein to their homosexual inclinations, but Western Power is now forcing people out of the closet into the full glare of public judgement.
Homosexuals are being labelled by the State whether they like it or not. No longer can a person be seen as an accountant or a musician or a priest. They are categorised as the Gay accountant, the Gay musician, the Gay priest. How sad!
Homosexuals are being set up by the State whether they like it or not (Stonewall is funded by the government).
To some extent, homosexuality, like adultery and prostitution, indeed all sexual activity outside marriage, strikes at the heart of the family and society - autonomous families and societies that have been set up for the protection of children and women.
Toleration is one thing, approval is quite another.
It is to be hoped that the Rest, when faced with the cultural imperialism of the West, seek to oppose Homosexualism while retaining their traditional toleration of those who do not conform. Homosexuals are not the problem - Western Power is the problem.
Having labelled us all, we are then placed into two camps, abusers and victims. The only way for a 'white' 'male' to become a victim and enjoy special rights is to be 'gay'.
In such fashion the State becomes the judge and jury of our daily lives. The arm of Authority is seen refereeing every human relationship.
Most of the world, for obvious reasons, does not want to live in our nightmare. However, those wishes mean nothing to the Western Political Class, who having rejected Christianity as a religion that leads to too much autonomous action, has turned to Human Rights as its preferred weapon of moral superiority.
One recent addition to Human Rights has been Gay Rights, the propagation of homosexuality as equal to heterosexuality, and gay marriage as being equal to normal marriage.
Gay Rights are rejected in Africa, Russia, China, India, Greece, the Arab countries, in fact everywhere where the population is not atomized, isolated and micro managed by Power.
The problem is that whereas homosexuals were at one time variously ridiculed and tolerated, now they are seen as missionaries and collaborators with Western Power, the Bombers and the Bummers united.
Societies that wish to protect themselves from Western style meltdown are increasingly persecuting homosexuals. At one time people could quietly and discreetly give rein to their homosexual inclinations, but Western Power is now forcing people out of the closet into the full glare of public judgement.
Homosexuals are being labelled by the State whether they like it or not. No longer can a person be seen as an accountant or a musician or a priest. They are categorised as the Gay accountant, the Gay musician, the Gay priest. How sad!
Homosexuals are being set up by the State whether they like it or not (Stonewall is funded by the government).
To some extent, homosexuality, like adultery and prostitution, indeed all sexual activity outside marriage, strikes at the heart of the family and society - autonomous families and societies that have been set up for the protection of children and women.
Toleration is one thing, approval is quite another.
It is to be hoped that the Rest, when faced with the cultural imperialism of the West, seek to oppose Homosexualism while retaining their traditional toleration of those who do not conform. Homosexuals are not the problem - Western Power is the problem.
Sunday 22 September 2013
True or False - Adelaide Anne Proctor
So you think you love me, do you?
Well, it may be so;
But there are many ways of loving
I have learnt to know.
Many ways, and but one true way,
Which is very rare;
And the counterfeits look brightest,
Though they will not wear.
Yet, they ring, almost, quite truly,
Last (with care) for long;
But in time must break, must shiver
At a touch of wrong:
Having seen what looked most real
Crumble into dust;
Now I chose that test and trial
Should precede my trust.
I have seen a love demanding
Time and hope and tears,
Chaining all the past, exacting
Bonds from future years;
Mind and heart and joy and sorrow
Claiming as its fee
That was Love of Self, and never,
Never love of me!
I have seen a love forgetting
All above, beyond,
Linking every dream and fancy
In a sweeter bond;
Counting every hour worthless
Which was cold or free:-
That was Love of Self, and never,
Never Love of me!
I have seen a love whose patience
Never turned aside,
Full of tender, fond devices,
Constant, even when tried;
Smallest boon were held as victories,
Drops that swelled the sea:
That I think was - Love of Power,
But not Love of me!
I have seen a love disdaining
Ease and pride and fame,
Burning even its own white pinions
Just to feed its flame,
Reigning thus, supreme, triumphant,
By the soul's decree,
That was - Love of Love, I fancy,
But not Love of me!
I have heard - or dreamt it maybe -
What love is when true;
How to test and how to try it,
Is the gift of few,
These few say (or did I dream it?)
That true Love abides
In these very things, but always
Has a soul besides.
Lives among the false loves, knowing
Just their peace and strife :
Bears the self-same look, but always
Has an inner life.
Only a true heart can find it,
True as it is true,
Only eyes as clear and tender
Look it through and through.
If it dies, it will not perish
By Time's slow decay,
True Love only grows (they tell me)
Stronger, day by day:
Pain - has been its friend and comrade;
Fate - it can defy;
Only by its own sword, sometimes,
Love can chose to die.
And its grave shall be more noble
And more sacred still,
Than a throne where one less worthy
Reigns and rules at will.
Tell me then, do you dare offer
This true love to me?
Neither you nor I can answer
We will - wait and see!
Well, it may be so;
But there are many ways of loving
I have learnt to know.
Many ways, and but one true way,
Which is very rare;
And the counterfeits look brightest,
Though they will not wear.
Yet, they ring, almost, quite truly,
Last (with care) for long;
But in time must break, must shiver
At a touch of wrong:
Having seen what looked most real
Crumble into dust;
Now I chose that test and trial
Should precede my trust.
I have seen a love demanding
Time and hope and tears,
Chaining all the past, exacting
Bonds from future years;
Mind and heart and joy and sorrow
Claiming as its fee
That was Love of Self, and never,
Never love of me!
I have seen a love forgetting
All above, beyond,
Linking every dream and fancy
In a sweeter bond;
Counting every hour worthless
Which was cold or free:-
That was Love of Self, and never,
Never Love of me!
I have seen a love whose patience
Never turned aside,
Full of tender, fond devices,
Constant, even when tried;
Smallest boon were held as victories,
Drops that swelled the sea:
That I think was - Love of Power,
But not Love of me!
I have seen a love disdaining
Ease and pride and fame,
Burning even its own white pinions
Just to feed its flame,
Reigning thus, supreme, triumphant,
By the soul's decree,
That was - Love of Love, I fancy,
But not Love of me!
I have heard - or dreamt it maybe -
What love is when true;
How to test and how to try it,
Is the gift of few,
These few say (or did I dream it?)
That true Love abides
In these very things, but always
Has a soul besides.
Lives among the false loves, knowing
Just their peace and strife :
Bears the self-same look, but always
Has an inner life.
Only a true heart can find it,
True as it is true,
Only eyes as clear and tender
Look it through and through.
If it dies, it will not perish
By Time's slow decay,
True Love only grows (they tell me)
Stronger, day by day:
Pain - has been its friend and comrade;
Fate - it can defy;
Only by its own sword, sometimes,
Love can chose to die.
And its grave shall be more noble
And more sacred still,
Than a throne where one less worthy
Reigns and rules at will.
Tell me then, do you dare offer
This true love to me?
Neither you nor I can answer
We will - wait and see!
Saturday 21 September 2013
John's Gospel Chapter 6 - Heaven
'For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.'
Jesus has come down from Heaven, but where is and what is heaven. We know that Heaven is where God resides, where all is perfect, where those who are declared just, brought to faith, who know our Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who are washed clean by the blood of the Lamb of God, where God's elect go when we shake off our earthly troubles.
We can no more picture the reality of Heaven than a caterpillar can picture life as a butterfly. But just as Man is made in the image of God, so the world is made in the image of Heaven, an image marred by the sin of Man.
For the saved person all things are good, and the Kingdom of Heaven is brought into their daily lives. Though now we see through a glass darkly, when we are raised to Glory we will see face to face.
Then we will know for sure that we have spent many years acting as if the image that is Earth is the reality that is Heaven.
Only in Heaven, in the eternal presence of God will we be fully alive.
Jesus has come down from Heaven, but where is and what is heaven. We know that Heaven is where God resides, where all is perfect, where those who are declared just, brought to faith, who know our Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who are washed clean by the blood of the Lamb of God, where God's elect go when we shake off our earthly troubles.
We can no more picture the reality of Heaven than a caterpillar can picture life as a butterfly. But just as Man is made in the image of God, so the world is made in the image of Heaven, an image marred by the sin of Man.
For the saved person all things are good, and the Kingdom of Heaven is brought into their daily lives. Though now we see through a glass darkly, when we are raised to Glory we will see face to face.
Then we will know for sure that we have spent many years acting as if the image that is Earth is the reality that is Heaven.
Only in Heaven, in the eternal presence of God will we be fully alive.
Friday 20 September 2013
Kropotkin - The State - Medieval Communes
'Their commercial and craft relations extended beyond the city, and their agreements were made without taking into account nationality. and when in our ignorance we boast of our international workers' congresses, we forget that by the fifteenth century international congresses of trades and even apprentices were already being held.'
'In short there is a massive and varied documentation to show that mankind has not known, either before or since, a period of relative well-being assured to everybody as existed in the cities of the Middle ages. the present poverty, insecurity, and physical exploitation of labour were then unknown.'
'Was it not in fact the rule of the guild that two brothers should sit at the bedside of each sick brother - a custom which certainly required devotion in those times of contagious diseases and the plague - and to follow him as far as the grave, and then look after his widow and children?'
'Abject poverty, misery, uncertainty of the morrow for the majority, and the isolation of poverty, which are the characteristics of our modern cities, were quite unknown in those free oases, which emerged in the twelfth century amidst the feudal jungle.
In those cities, sheltered by their conquered liberties, inspired by the spirit of free agreement and of free initiative, a whole new civilization grew up and flourished in a way unparalleled to this day.'
'In the commune, the struggle was for the conquest and defence of the liberty of the individual, for the federative principle for the right to unite and to act; whereas the States' wars had as their objective the destruction of these liberties, the submission of the individual, the annihilation of the free contract, the uniting of men in a universal slavery to king, judge and priest -to the State.
'In the course of the sixteenth century, the modern barbarians were to destroy all that civilization of the cities of the Middle Ages. These barbarians.......subjected the individual. They deprived him of all his liberties, they expected him to forget all his unions based on free argument and free initiative. their aim was to level the whole of society to a common submission to the master. They destroyed all ties between men, declaring that the State and the Church alone, must henceforth create union between their subjects; that the Church and the State alone have the task of watching over the industrial, commercial, judicial, artistic, emotional interests, for which men of the twelfth century were accustomed to unite directly.'
'In short there is a massive and varied documentation to show that mankind has not known, either before or since, a period of relative well-being assured to everybody as existed in the cities of the Middle ages. the present poverty, insecurity, and physical exploitation of labour were then unknown.'
'Was it not in fact the rule of the guild that two brothers should sit at the bedside of each sick brother - a custom which certainly required devotion in those times of contagious diseases and the plague - and to follow him as far as the grave, and then look after his widow and children?'
'Abject poverty, misery, uncertainty of the morrow for the majority, and the isolation of poverty, which are the characteristics of our modern cities, were quite unknown in those free oases, which emerged in the twelfth century amidst the feudal jungle.
In those cities, sheltered by their conquered liberties, inspired by the spirit of free agreement and of free initiative, a whole new civilization grew up and flourished in a way unparalleled to this day.'
'In the commune, the struggle was for the conquest and defence of the liberty of the individual, for the federative principle for the right to unite and to act; whereas the States' wars had as their objective the destruction of these liberties, the submission of the individual, the annihilation of the free contract, the uniting of men in a universal slavery to king, judge and priest -to the State.
'In the course of the sixteenth century, the modern barbarians were to destroy all that civilization of the cities of the Middle Ages. These barbarians.......subjected the individual. They deprived him of all his liberties, they expected him to forget all his unions based on free argument and free initiative. their aim was to level the whole of society to a common submission to the master. They destroyed all ties between men, declaring that the State and the Church alone, must henceforth create union between their subjects; that the Church and the State alone have the task of watching over the industrial, commercial, judicial, artistic, emotional interests, for which men of the twelfth century were accustomed to unite directly.'
Thursday 19 September 2013
State Feminism - A Religion Of Power
Mary Malone writes:
Like Islam, State Feminism is a religion of submission and violence, of power, not love.
The aim of State Feminists is to bring women into the power structures of Neo-Patriarchy. There is no wish for liberation. Liberation is forgotten, replaced by the false god of Equality. In other words, women are to be dragged into the salaried, waged, hierarchical workplace. They are to lose their traditional autonomy. Equality means equality of exploitation, equality of servitude.
According to the perverse ideology of State Feminism violence is the prerogative of men. Men are abusers and women are their victims. Women are supposed to be helpless, child-like, unable to protect themselves from men. They must turn to the government for help.
The aim of State Feminism is to destroy working class solidarity, turning women against men, making men fear and loathe women, dividing and ruling. Women are placed under State tutelage as if they were innocent children. What a sad loveless world is this world of suspicion and equality, this desert of gratification and exploitation, this world of rights and indignation, of enmity and hatred and power.
Men in autonomous societies have often worked selflessly and sacrificially for their women, and women have often cherished their menfolk, but the State Feminists will have us believe that there was never any love, only violence and domination.
Unsupervised, unregulated love is anathema for the State Feminists, these modern worshippers of Power.
Like Islam, State Feminism is a religion of submission and violence, of power, not love.
The aim of State Feminists is to bring women into the power structures of Neo-Patriarchy. There is no wish for liberation. Liberation is forgotten, replaced by the false god of Equality. In other words, women are to be dragged into the salaried, waged, hierarchical workplace. They are to lose their traditional autonomy. Equality means equality of exploitation, equality of servitude.
According to the perverse ideology of State Feminism violence is the prerogative of men. Men are abusers and women are their victims. Women are supposed to be helpless, child-like, unable to protect themselves from men. They must turn to the government for help.
The aim of State Feminism is to destroy working class solidarity, turning women against men, making men fear and loathe women, dividing and ruling. Women are placed under State tutelage as if they were innocent children. What a sad loveless world is this world of suspicion and equality, this desert of gratification and exploitation, this world of rights and indignation, of enmity and hatred and power.
Men in autonomous societies have often worked selflessly and sacrificially for their women, and women have often cherished their menfolk, but the State Feminists will have us believe that there was never any love, only violence and domination.
Unsupervised, unregulated love is anathema for the State Feminists, these modern worshippers of Power.
State Anarchists
Like Christians, Anarchists have had their clothes stolen by the State. Like Christianity, Anarchism is based on mutual support and mutual giving, but it finds the functions of autonomous society usurped by the State. Health care, education, support for the aged, the widows, and the orphans, the disabled and the insane are all the business of the bureaucratic hierarchy. In every action, at work and increasingly at home we are accountable to those in self assumed authority. Christians are left with a few periferal activities and end up as worshippers of the State. Anarchists are unable to do without the handouts, and end up as self indulgent children.
Horizontal society, its autonomy and its solidarity has been assimilated by the the vertical bureaucracy.
We have the pitiful sight of so called Anarchists joining State worshippers in opposing 'the cuts'. They suckle the teat of Big Mother, wanting to forget that Big Brother stands behind her with his stick and his dagger, his bombs and his dogs, his chains and his dungeons.
Any true Anarchist would reject the Welfare State, or at least rejoice at 'the cuts.' As long as the government provides the goodies we will be governed. We will never be free.
Horizontal society, its autonomy and its solidarity has been assimilated by the the vertical bureaucracy.
We have the pitiful sight of so called Anarchists joining State worshippers in opposing 'the cuts'. They suckle the teat of Big Mother, wanting to forget that Big Brother stands behind her with his stick and his dagger, his bombs and his dogs, his chains and his dungeons.
Any true Anarchist would reject the Welfare State, or at least rejoice at 'the cuts.' As long as the government provides the goodies we will be governed. We will never be free.
Tuesday 17 September 2013
What Should A Christian Do?
If we accept that working for the State often does as much harm as good, that teaching crushes youngsters as much as it imparts knowledge, that the health services medicalize as much as they cure, that the social services destroy the family as much as they help the individual; if we accept that so called charities such as Oxfam and Christian Aid often do more harm than good, reinforcing corrupt power structures, enabling warrior gangs, belittling, humiliating and patronizing the foreigner, legitimizing taxation and climate change scams, reinforcing the power of elites both here and abroad, where does a Christian put their money, their effort, their love?
Even on a small scale, charity can be counter productive. It can discourage autonomy and encourage dependency or even crime, e.g. drugs, people or weapons trafficking, or simply a problem of persistent begging and mugging.
So is 'charity' really what Christian charity is about?
We are called to love our neighbours, but the poor hate charity, the dole, dependency. This sort of charity defines the giver as rich and exalts their power. How can a rich person be a poor follower of Christ?
If a Christian gives away all their money, then who to?
Most Christians have steady respectable jobs, particularly in the state sector, complete with holidays and pensions. Their ethos of public service is all that is left that is good in the public sector.
But in giving money to charity, are they simply giving money to professional troughers in order to appease their consciences?
If they were to live like Christ, with no thought for the morrow, with no pension, trusting in each other and the Lord, would their charity be more effective? Certainly more poor people might enter their buildings. If the Church tried once again to live outside the State, would it live more truly within Society?
But, apart from giving a little more time and money to charity, what distinguishes a Christian from the modern heathen?
Amazingly, being poor almost totally excludes you from being a Christian here in England. The poor are powerless, and unless you live in a poor country, the Church is mostly made up of those who have power over others.
The poor are Jesus's favourites, yet modern Christians say they want to make poverty history.
Even on a small scale, charity can be counter productive. It can discourage autonomy and encourage dependency or even crime, e.g. drugs, people or weapons trafficking, or simply a problem of persistent begging and mugging.
So is 'charity' really what Christian charity is about?
We are called to love our neighbours, but the poor hate charity, the dole, dependency. This sort of charity defines the giver as rich and exalts their power. How can a rich person be a poor follower of Christ?
If a Christian gives away all their money, then who to?
Most Christians have steady respectable jobs, particularly in the state sector, complete with holidays and pensions. Their ethos of public service is all that is left that is good in the public sector.
But in giving money to charity, are they simply giving money to professional troughers in order to appease their consciences?
If they were to live like Christ, with no thought for the morrow, with no pension, trusting in each other and the Lord, would their charity be more effective? Certainly more poor people might enter their buildings. If the Church tried once again to live outside the State, would it live more truly within Society?
But, apart from giving a little more time and money to charity, what distinguishes a Christian from the modern heathen?
Amazingly, being poor almost totally excludes you from being a Christian here in England. The poor are powerless, and unless you live in a poor country, the Church is mostly made up of those who have power over others.
The poor are Jesus's favourites, yet modern Christians say they want to make poverty history.
Terrorist States
The United States and the United Kingdom are the world's two leading terrorist states. Arms sales, fomenting civil war, bombing, the use of chemical weapons such as napalm and depleted uranium is all in a day's work for the war criminals of the West. Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright was once asked, 'We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And you know, is the price worth it?', to which she infamously replied, 'I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.'
Can there really be greater evil? The mass murder of innocents simply for geopolitical advantage. These criminals make Herod look good.
Here is a list of the countries bombed by the USA since the end of World War 2.
China 1945-6
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Pakistan 2003; 2006 -
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia/Serbia 1999
Afghanistan 2001
Yemen 2002
Iraq 2003
Yemen 2009
Libya 2011
Can there really be greater evil? The mass murder of innocents simply for geopolitical advantage. These criminals make Herod look good.
Here is a list of the countries bombed by the USA since the end of World War 2.
China 1945-6
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Pakistan 2003; 2006 -
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia/Serbia 1999
Afghanistan 2001
Yemen 2002
Iraq 2003
Yemen 2009
Libya 2011
Sunday 15 September 2013
The Lost Chord - Adelaide Anne Procter
Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and I'll at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys.
I know not what I was playing
Or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music
Like the sound of a great Amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight,
Like the close of an angel's psalm,
And it lay on my fevered spirit
With a touch of infinite calm.
It quieted pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife,
It seemed the harmonious echo
From our discordant life.
It linked all my perplexed meanings
Into one perfect peace,
And trembled away into silence
As if it were loth to cease.
I have sought but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ,
And entered into mine.
It may be that death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heav'n
I shall hear that grand amen.
I was weary and I'll at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys.
I know not what I was playing
Or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music
Like the sound of a great Amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight,
Like the close of an angel's psalm,
And it lay on my fevered spirit
With a touch of infinite calm.
It quieted pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife,
It seemed the harmonious echo
From our discordant life.
It linked all my perplexed meanings
Into one perfect peace,
And trembled away into silence
As if it were loth to cease.
I have sought but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ,
And entered into mine.
It may be that death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heav'n
I shall hear that grand amen.
John's Gospel Chapter 6 - Blessed Assurance
'All that the Father giveth to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.'
John Ball writes:
Jesus does not blame the unbelievers, he does not condemn them. He does not rage against the unbeliever.
For Jesus knows that faith is a gift of God. Those of us who know Jesus as Lord and Saviour, who struggle daily with the implications of his Love in our often sad and sinful existences, those of us who are allowed to approach the throne of Grace, in humble supplication, emptied of all pride, have been given to the Lord by his Father in heaven.
Our belief is not so much a decision as an opening of our eyes. As people possessing free agency we wish to honour the Lord, in gratitude for his Love, to honour his holiness, but we cannot, by our own will come to faith.
The gift of the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ comes through faith, which is a gift from God.
It is God who opens the eyes of the blind, not the blind themselves.
Don't place the burden of your own salvation on your shoulders! Don't have faith in your faith! You cannot 'fall out of grace'.
Look to Jesus, not yourself. He is your blessed assurance. He has come to set you free.
John Ball writes:
Jesus does not blame the unbelievers, he does not condemn them. He does not rage against the unbeliever.
For Jesus knows that faith is a gift of God. Those of us who know Jesus as Lord and Saviour, who struggle daily with the implications of his Love in our often sad and sinful existences, those of us who are allowed to approach the throne of Grace, in humble supplication, emptied of all pride, have been given to the Lord by his Father in heaven.
Our belief is not so much a decision as an opening of our eyes. As people possessing free agency we wish to honour the Lord, in gratitude for his Love, to honour his holiness, but we cannot, by our own will come to faith.
The gift of the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ comes through faith, which is a gift from God.
It is God who opens the eyes of the blind, not the blind themselves.
Don't place the burden of your own salvation on your shoulders! Don't have faith in your faith! You cannot 'fall out of grace'.
Look to Jesus, not yourself. He is your blessed assurance. He has come to set you free.
Friday 13 September 2013
Kropotkin - The State
'Man lived in Societies for thousands of years before the State had been heard of......so far as Europe is concerned the State is of recent origin - it barely goes back to the sixteenth century.....it is to ignore that the most glorious periods in Man's history are those in which civil liberties and communal life had not yet been destroyed by the State, and in which large numbers of people lived in communes and free federations.'
'In all its affairs the village commune was sovereign. Local custom was law and the plenary assembly of all the heads of family, men and women, was the judge, the only judge in civil and criminal matters.'
'...the Kabyles, the Mongols, the Malays, do not appeal to a government; they haven't one. being men of customary law and individual initiative, they have not been perverted from acting for themselves by the corrupting force of government and Church. They unite spontaneously. They form sworn brotherhoods, political and religious associations - guilds as they were called in the Middle Ages, and 'cofs' as they are called today by the Kabyles. And these 'cofs' extend beyond the boundaries of the hamlet; they extend far and wide into the desert and to foreign cities; and brotherhood is practised in these associations. To refuse help to a member of one's 'cof' - even at risk of losing all one's possessions and one's life - is to commit an act of treason to the 'brotherhood'; it is to be treated as one's 'brother's' murderer.'
'.....from the fifth to the twelfth and even until the fifteenth century. Under the name of guilds, friendships, brotherhoods, etc., associations abounded for mutual defence, to avenge affronts suffered by some members of the union and to express solidarity, to replace the 'eye for an eye' vengeance by compensation, followed by the acceptance of the aggressor into the brotherhood; for the exercise of trades, for aid in case of illness, for defence of the territory; to prevent encroachments of a nascent authority; for commerce; for the practice of 'good neighbourliness;' for propaganda - in a word for all that Europeans, educated by the Rome of the Caesars and the Popes, nowadays expect from the State. It is even very doubtful whether there was a single man in that period, free man or serf, apart from those who had been banned by their own brotherhoods, who did not belong to a brotherhood or some guild, as well as to his commune.'
'Far from being the bloodthirsty beast he was made out to be in order to justify the need to dominate him, man has always preferred peace and quiet.'
'The 'street' or the parish represented the territorial unit, corresponding to the earlier village community. each street or parish had its popular assembly, its forum, its popular tribunal, its priest, its militia, its banner and often its seal, the symbol of sovereignty. Though federated with other streets it nevertheless maintained its independence.'
'In all its affairs the village commune was sovereign. Local custom was law and the plenary assembly of all the heads of family, men and women, was the judge, the only judge in civil and criminal matters.'
'...the Kabyles, the Mongols, the Malays, do not appeal to a government; they haven't one. being men of customary law and individual initiative, they have not been perverted from acting for themselves by the corrupting force of government and Church. They unite spontaneously. They form sworn brotherhoods, political and religious associations - guilds as they were called in the Middle Ages, and 'cofs' as they are called today by the Kabyles. And these 'cofs' extend beyond the boundaries of the hamlet; they extend far and wide into the desert and to foreign cities; and brotherhood is practised in these associations. To refuse help to a member of one's 'cof' - even at risk of losing all one's possessions and one's life - is to commit an act of treason to the 'brotherhood'; it is to be treated as one's 'brother's' murderer.'
'.....from the fifth to the twelfth and even until the fifteenth century. Under the name of guilds, friendships, brotherhoods, etc., associations abounded for mutual defence, to avenge affronts suffered by some members of the union and to express solidarity, to replace the 'eye for an eye' vengeance by compensation, followed by the acceptance of the aggressor into the brotherhood; for the exercise of trades, for aid in case of illness, for defence of the territory; to prevent encroachments of a nascent authority; for commerce; for the practice of 'good neighbourliness;' for propaganda - in a word for all that Europeans, educated by the Rome of the Caesars and the Popes, nowadays expect from the State. It is even very doubtful whether there was a single man in that period, free man or serf, apart from those who had been banned by their own brotherhoods, who did not belong to a brotherhood or some guild, as well as to his commune.'
'Far from being the bloodthirsty beast he was made out to be in order to justify the need to dominate him, man has always preferred peace and quiet.'
'The 'street' or the parish represented the territorial unit, corresponding to the earlier village community. each street or parish had its popular assembly, its forum, its popular tribunal, its priest, its militia, its banner and often its seal, the symbol of sovereignty. Though federated with other streets it nevertheless maintained its independence.'
Thursday 12 September 2013
Michael Le Vell And The Spanish Inquisition
Mary Malone writes:
So another one has got away in a show trial gone wrong. Luckily there was a jury and the accuser was simply unbelievable.
Mr. Le Vell can count himself lucky too, that he does not live in Spain. There, under the Law Against Gender Violence, special tribunals sit in judgement of men accused of abusing women. There, it's jail first, questions later. There is an assumption of guilt against the defendant. The Court assumes that the woman, the victim, is telling the truth. The man, the presumed abuser, must prove his innocence.
The Spanish Gender Inquisition acts on denunciations, however spurious, and men are thrown into jail, a hundred thousand or so each year. The Inquisition also has civil powers and can prohibit a man from living at home or ever seeing his children again.
The State encourages women to denounce men. Like in England, there are financial incentives to make a denunciation.
The Spanish State is deliberately destroying the family, the last stronghold of autonomous society. Millions of lives, men, women children, parents, grandparents are ruined.
Women are isolated, made dependent on the State, dragged into the world of wage labour. Forming a family becomes fraught with danger for both men and women; childrearing is outsourced to nurseries, childbearing is outsourced to women in poorer countries.
Michael Lee Vell is lucky not to have been tried in Spain. Here a young girl's imagination took a life of its own, encouraged by those who should have known better, making it impossible for her to back down. In Spain, her word would have been taken as gospel.
No doubt, the next Labour Government will be introducing a FeminoFascist reign of terror here before long.
So another one has got away in a show trial gone wrong. Luckily there was a jury and the accuser was simply unbelievable.
Mr. Le Vell can count himself lucky too, that he does not live in Spain. There, under the Law Against Gender Violence, special tribunals sit in judgement of men accused of abusing women. There, it's jail first, questions later. There is an assumption of guilt against the defendant. The Court assumes that the woman, the victim, is telling the truth. The man, the presumed abuser, must prove his innocence.
The Spanish Gender Inquisition acts on denunciations, however spurious, and men are thrown into jail, a hundred thousand or so each year. The Inquisition also has civil powers and can prohibit a man from living at home or ever seeing his children again.
The State encourages women to denounce men. Like in England, there are financial incentives to make a denunciation.
The Spanish State is deliberately destroying the family, the last stronghold of autonomous society. Millions of lives, men, women children, parents, grandparents are ruined.
Women are isolated, made dependent on the State, dragged into the world of wage labour. Forming a family becomes fraught with danger for both men and women; childrearing is outsourced to nurseries, childbearing is outsourced to women in poorer countries.
Michael Lee Vell is lucky not to have been tried in Spain. Here a young girl's imagination took a life of its own, encouraged by those who should have known better, making it impossible for her to back down. In Spain, her word would have been taken as gospel.
No doubt, the next Labour Government will be introducing a FeminoFascist reign of terror here before long.
Wednesday 11 September 2013
Rickie Lambert Gets Above His Station
A lot of people in my small town are delighted to see Rickie Lambert playing for the England football team. Over ten years ago, he came through the ranks of the youth team to establish himself as a regular in the first team, a big strong teenager with a cannonball shot. Soon he
moved on to better things, though it is only in the past few years at Southampton that he has realised his full potential.
After the goalless draw with the Ukraine, Henry Winter of the Telegraph said that Rickie 'dropped off well after two minutes to flick on to Theo Walcott' and praised his 'selfless movement'.
Martin Samuel in the Mail said, 'England's best move from open play came early, Rickie Lambert threading the ball through......' and 'For Lambert it was a step up again after his wonderful exploits against Scotland and Moldova. He was not thrown by it, but was undermined by a lack of support.'
Contrast that to the sneering spiteful snobby reporting of Sam Wallace in the Independent, a mouthpiece of bureaucratic bigotry. Of course, if Rickie were designated black or female, or some other sort of official victim, Wallace would be celebrating Rickie's triumph over adversity, but alas, the hero of the hour is an indigenous working class Englishman.
Wallace says: 'For Rickie Lambert too, it was a sobering lesson in the quality that is required........when one's touch has to be perfect........but this felt like the occasion when ......(he) had his limitations exposed' and 'Lambert, to put it mildly, looking rather out of his depth.' 'For all his willing running it got little better for Lambert after halftime. To borrow an old joke, his second touch was too often a tackle......'
So there you have it Rickie, lad. Tha's got above tha' station. Tha's offended against the natural order of hierarchy, so says yon Squire Wallace. You've gone and got it fot yourself, without asking permission off Squire Wallace and the good people.
You'd better get downstairs right now and polish some boots!
moved on to better things, though it is only in the past few years at Southampton that he has realised his full potential.
After the goalless draw with the Ukraine, Henry Winter of the Telegraph said that Rickie 'dropped off well after two minutes to flick on to Theo Walcott' and praised his 'selfless movement'.
Martin Samuel in the Mail said, 'England's best move from open play came early, Rickie Lambert threading the ball through......' and 'For Lambert it was a step up again after his wonderful exploits against Scotland and Moldova. He was not thrown by it, but was undermined by a lack of support.'
Contrast that to the sneering spiteful snobby reporting of Sam Wallace in the Independent, a mouthpiece of bureaucratic bigotry. Of course, if Rickie were designated black or female, or some other sort of official victim, Wallace would be celebrating Rickie's triumph over adversity, but alas, the hero of the hour is an indigenous working class Englishman.
Wallace says: 'For Rickie Lambert too, it was a sobering lesson in the quality that is required........when one's touch has to be perfect........but this felt like the occasion when ......(he) had his limitations exposed' and 'Lambert, to put it mildly, looking rather out of his depth.' 'For all his willing running it got little better for Lambert after halftime. To borrow an old joke, his second touch was too often a tackle......'
So there you have it Rickie, lad. Tha's got above tha' station. Tha's offended against the natural order of hierarchy, so says yon Squire Wallace. You've gone and got it fot yourself, without asking permission off Squire Wallace and the good people.
You'd better get downstairs right now and polish some boots!
Tuesday 10 September 2013
Self Denial
In moral societies, with their rules and regulations, their hierarchies of power, people become self centred and self righteous. In moral societies love becomes an exchange, a power game, a gratification. How different is the love of the poor, the powerless, Christ himself.
The two great religions of post Christian England, Political Correctness and Islam, see no need for sacrificial love, no need for self denial. Even suicide bombers hope for gratification in the ever after.
Young people are indoctrinated into rights culture, self pity and seeing themselves as victims, passively buying and claiming whatever they can, all in a spirit of indignation and loathing, both of themselves and others they consider to be more fortunate.
This attitude pervades the modern Church. Churches often see themselves as branches of the social services, and rather than preaching the love and the freedom we have in Christ, share the same prejudices against Jews, bankers, capitalists, anyone who isn't mediocre, as the rest of the bureaucratic class.
These days, in Church services the stating point is usually the self rather than the Almighty, and God Himself is seen as a social worker, some kind of lifestyle coach.
In a vertical world where all is within the gift of the Bureaucracy, Christian faith is pretty hard to practice. To our ancestors, who lived in largely horizontal societies of mutual dependence, self denying love was the stuff of life. Christianity was as natural and obvious to them as the water they drank and the air they breathed.
But in the modern world, fragmented, atomized, the isolated individual, whose social relations consist of conformity and obedience, who has nothing to give, can know love only as gratification.
Such isolated individuals fill the Church. Such people fill the world. It is hard not to be one of them.
But the Church can still continue to proclaim the Gospel of God's great love, the self denying sacrifice of all men, which was once the right of all men, and light up the world with the sacrifice that has raised us up with him to eternal life.
The two great religions of post Christian England, Political Correctness and Islam, see no need for sacrificial love, no need for self denial. Even suicide bombers hope for gratification in the ever after.
Young people are indoctrinated into rights culture, self pity and seeing themselves as victims, passively buying and claiming whatever they can, all in a spirit of indignation and loathing, both of themselves and others they consider to be more fortunate.
This attitude pervades the modern Church. Churches often see themselves as branches of the social services, and rather than preaching the love and the freedom we have in Christ, share the same prejudices against Jews, bankers, capitalists, anyone who isn't mediocre, as the rest of the bureaucratic class.
These days, in Church services the stating point is usually the self rather than the Almighty, and God Himself is seen as a social worker, some kind of lifestyle coach.
In a vertical world where all is within the gift of the Bureaucracy, Christian faith is pretty hard to practice. To our ancestors, who lived in largely horizontal societies of mutual dependence, self denying love was the stuff of life. Christianity was as natural and obvious to them as the water they drank and the air they breathed.
But in the modern world, fragmented, atomized, the isolated individual, whose social relations consist of conformity and obedience, who has nothing to give, can know love only as gratification.
Such isolated individuals fill the Church. Such people fill the world. It is hard not to be one of them.
But the Church can still continue to proclaim the Gospel of God's great love, the self denying sacrifice of all men, which was once the right of all men, and light up the world with the sacrifice that has raised us up with him to eternal life.
What Makes Gatsby Great
'He took a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel........
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before."
For my Valentine's Day post this year I offered you the scene from the Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws down his silken shirts upon the bed, upon which Daisy cries, declaring that she has never seen such beautiful shirts.
This is the central scene of the book and also one of the great love scenes in all the literature of the English language.
Last week I was talking to two young ladies, both recent Literature graduates, one of whom declared Fitzgerald to be her favourite author. To my surprise neither of them considered Gatsby's love for Daisy to be all that great. Apparently Gatsby did not see Daisy for who she really was, that his love was some kind of fixation. They told m that the book was some kind of social critique of the raging capitalism of the Roaring Twenties, as if Fitzgerald were some kind of retarded juvenile Guardian reader with a particular gift for rich poetic prose.
But it is, in fact, Gatsby's love for Daisy that makes him so great. He knows Daisy perfectly well, and it is because she is who she is, in spite of who she is, that he loves her. When younger, he might have married Daisy were it not for their differences in wealth and social standing. Somehow, he moves mountains to gain that wealth, and throws it down at Daisy's feet, in a primitive, ancient ritual, and Daisy is truly moved, yet tragically she is unable to accept his love.
It is Gatsby's heroic sacrificial love that makes Gatsby great.
In a world where love means gratification two Literature graduates cannot see Gatsby's love. They love their boyfriends as equals. No sacrifice is demanded in these relationships of mutual gratification. Compared to the heroes of the past their young men are 'poco hombres', little men who know nothing of sacrifice. Throughout the ages men have laid down their strength for their women and their children. But these days love is no longer self-denying, it is not Christ like. Instead in a vertical society, love is gratification, mutual masturbation, a deal, a consuming of each other.
No wonder the two young women were blind to the greatness of the Great Gatsby.
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before."
For my Valentine's Day post this year I offered you the scene from the Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws down his silken shirts upon the bed, upon which Daisy cries, declaring that she has never seen such beautiful shirts.
This is the central scene of the book and also one of the great love scenes in all the literature of the English language.
Last week I was talking to two young ladies, both recent Literature graduates, one of whom declared Fitzgerald to be her favourite author. To my surprise neither of them considered Gatsby's love for Daisy to be all that great. Apparently Gatsby did not see Daisy for who she really was, that his love was some kind of fixation. They told m that the book was some kind of social critique of the raging capitalism of the Roaring Twenties, as if Fitzgerald were some kind of retarded juvenile Guardian reader with a particular gift for rich poetic prose.
But it is, in fact, Gatsby's love for Daisy that makes him so great. He knows Daisy perfectly well, and it is because she is who she is, in spite of who she is, that he loves her. When younger, he might have married Daisy were it not for their differences in wealth and social standing. Somehow, he moves mountains to gain that wealth, and throws it down at Daisy's feet, in a primitive, ancient ritual, and Daisy is truly moved, yet tragically she is unable to accept his love.
It is Gatsby's heroic sacrificial love that makes Gatsby great.
In a world where love means gratification two Literature graduates cannot see Gatsby's love. They love their boyfriends as equals. No sacrifice is demanded in these relationships of mutual gratification. Compared to the heroes of the past their young men are 'poco hombres', little men who know nothing of sacrifice. Throughout the ages men have laid down their strength for their women and their children. But these days love is no longer self-denying, it is not Christ like. Instead in a vertical society, love is gratification, mutual masturbation, a deal, a consuming of each other.
No wonder the two young women were blind to the greatness of the Great Gatsby.
Sunday 8 September 2013
Oscar Wilde - Italia
With the unification of Italy, Oscar Wilde saw not the birth of a nation but the birth of a state. With the birth of the state he saw the death of a people, the triumph of the barbarians.
'Italia! though art fallen, though with sheen
Of battle-spears thy clamorous armies stride
From the north Alps to the Sicilian tide!
Ay! fallen, though the nations hail thee Queen
Because rich gold in every town is seen,
And on thy sapphire-lake in tossing pride
Of wind-filled vans thy myriad galleys ride
Beneath one flag of red and white and green.
O Fair and Strong! O Strong and Fair in vain!
Look southward where Rome's desecrated town
Lies mourning for her god-anointed King!
Look heaven-ward! shall God allow this thing?
Nay! but some flame-girt Raphael shall come down,
And smite the Spoiler with the sword of pain.'
'Italia! though art fallen, though with sheen
Of battle-spears thy clamorous armies stride
From the north Alps to the Sicilian tide!
Ay! fallen, though the nations hail thee Queen
Because rich gold in every town is seen,
And on thy sapphire-lake in tossing pride
Of wind-filled vans thy myriad galleys ride
Beneath one flag of red and white and green.
O Fair and Strong! O Strong and Fair in vain!
Look southward where Rome's desecrated town
Lies mourning for her god-anointed King!
Look heaven-ward! shall God allow this thing?
Nay! but some flame-girt Raphael shall come down,
And smite the Spoiler with the sword of pain.'
Saturday 7 September 2013
John's Gospel Chapter 6, Hunger And Thirst
Then they said unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
The people there demanded from Jesus the bread of heaven that gives life to the world. But they did not know that Jesus himself was the bread of life.
In their blindness they could not see.
He had to explain to them that those who come to Jesus will never hunger, that those who hunger will never thirst.
And then, with sorrow, he says to the people, that though they had seen him, yet they did not believe on him.
What a terrible fate, never to know God's boundless redeeming love, to thirst and hunger forever.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
The people there demanded from Jesus the bread of heaven that gives life to the world. But they did not know that Jesus himself was the bread of life.
In their blindness they could not see.
He had to explain to them that those who come to Jesus will never hunger, that those who hunger will never thirst.
And then, with sorrow, he says to the people, that though they had seen him, yet they did not believe on him.
What a terrible fate, never to know God's boundless redeeming love, to thirst and hunger forever.
Friday 6 September 2013
Emma Goldman - A Bankrupt Principle
'The State Idea, the authoritarian principle, has been proven bankrupt by the experience of the Russian Revolution. If I were to sum up my whole argument in one sentence I would say : The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of the revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic. These two ideas are incompatible and mutually destructive. The State Idea killed the Russian Revolution and it must have the same result in other revolutions, unless the libertarian idea prevail.'
'Revolution is indeed a violent process. But, if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while. It is surely not worth all the struggle and the sacrifice, the stupendous loss of human life and cultural values that result from every revolution. If such a revolution were even to bring greater social well being ( which has not been the case in Russia) then it would also not be worth the terrific price paid: mere improvement can be brought about without bloody revolution.'
'Witness the tragic condition of Russia. The methods of State centralisation have paralysed individual initiative and effort; the tyranny of the dictatorship has cowed the people into slavish submission and all but extinguished the fires of liberty; organized terrorism has depraved and brutalized the masses and stifled every idealistic aspiration; institutionalised murder has cheapened human life, and all sense of the dignity of man and the value of life has been eliminated; coercion at every step has made every effort bitter, labour a punishment, has turned the whole of existence into a scheme of mutual deceit, and has revived the lowest and most brutal instincts of man.'
'America has declared war on Spain.......It did not require much political wisdom to see that America's concern was a matter of sugar and had nothing to do with humanitarian feelings. Of course there were plenty of credulous people, not only in the country at large, but even in liberal ranks, who believed in America's claim. I could not join them. I was sure that no one, be it individual or government, engaged in enslaving and exploiting at home, could have the integrity or the desire to free people in other lands.'
'Revolution is indeed a violent process. But, if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while. It is surely not worth all the struggle and the sacrifice, the stupendous loss of human life and cultural values that result from every revolution. If such a revolution were even to bring greater social well being ( which has not been the case in Russia) then it would also not be worth the terrific price paid: mere improvement can be brought about without bloody revolution.'
'Witness the tragic condition of Russia. The methods of State centralisation have paralysed individual initiative and effort; the tyranny of the dictatorship has cowed the people into slavish submission and all but extinguished the fires of liberty; organized terrorism has depraved and brutalized the masses and stifled every idealistic aspiration; institutionalised murder has cheapened human life, and all sense of the dignity of man and the value of life has been eliminated; coercion at every step has made every effort bitter, labour a punishment, has turned the whole of existence into a scheme of mutual deceit, and has revived the lowest and most brutal instincts of man.'
'America has declared war on Spain.......It did not require much political wisdom to see that America's concern was a matter of sugar and had nothing to do with humanitarian feelings. Of course there were plenty of credulous people, not only in the country at large, but even in liberal ranks, who believed in America's claim. I could not join them. I was sure that no one, be it individual or government, engaged in enslaving and exploiting at home, could have the integrity or the desire to free people in other lands.'
Thursday 5 September 2013
Loss Of Independence
Mary Malone writes:
As capitalism develops in countries like China, India, Mexico and so on, women are raped and murdered in increasing numbers. As they are dragged out of the gift economy of autonomous society, women are faced with the violence of hierarchy. If not enslaved by bureaucratic command, they must barter their freedom for a handful of coins simply to survive.
Instead of a husband, a man who will sacrifice himself for her and her children, she must deal with a boss. In the factories of the third world, in the slums of the cities where the dispossessed flock, women are beaten, raped and killed.
Since the French Revolution men have been brutalized by conscription, first in the military, then in the hierarchy of waged labour. In ever increasing numbers women are brutalized too.
Love is no longer a gift to bestow, a holy ceremony of man and woman, but a conquest, or an exchange.
With the death of traditional society women are separated from their families and their villages. They are waged, humiliated, subjugated. They have bosses. Like men, they are degraded as the society of expropriation intensifies.
Vichy Feminism, the Feminism of the State, praises this development. Such Feminists want to see women at war with men. Divided by gender the People are easy to rule.
The degradation of the many is the price to be paid for the ego trips of the degraded few, who glory in their positions of power in politics and business. Others get their kicks as guards, teachers, social workers, police.
Far from being liberated, women's power has been expropriated by the FeminoFascists. In their powerlessness they have become a Human Resource, an Object, a Thing, prettified appetized, ready to be consumed, complicit in their own rape, heading only towards isolation, despair, madness and death.
As capitalism develops in countries like China, India, Mexico and so on, women are raped and murdered in increasing numbers. As they are dragged out of the gift economy of autonomous society, women are faced with the violence of hierarchy. If not enslaved by bureaucratic command, they must barter their freedom for a handful of coins simply to survive.
Instead of a husband, a man who will sacrifice himself for her and her children, she must deal with a boss. In the factories of the third world, in the slums of the cities where the dispossessed flock, women are beaten, raped and killed.
Since the French Revolution men have been brutalized by conscription, first in the military, then in the hierarchy of waged labour. In ever increasing numbers women are brutalized too.
Love is no longer a gift to bestow, a holy ceremony of man and woman, but a conquest, or an exchange.
With the death of traditional society women are separated from their families and their villages. They are waged, humiliated, subjugated. They have bosses. Like men, they are degraded as the society of expropriation intensifies.
Vichy Feminism, the Feminism of the State, praises this development. Such Feminists want to see women at war with men. Divided by gender the People are easy to rule.
The degradation of the many is the price to be paid for the ego trips of the degraded few, who glory in their positions of power in politics and business. Others get their kicks as guards, teachers, social workers, police.
Far from being liberated, women's power has been expropriated by the FeminoFascists. In their powerlessness they have become a Human Resource, an Object, a Thing, prettified appetized, ready to be consumed, complicit in their own rape, heading only towards isolation, despair, madness and death.
Wednesday 4 September 2013
The Centralization Of Identity
Throughout history people have identified with their neighbours, the people with whom they have formed a community. These clusters of families, these villages and tribes shared a linguistic and cultural heritage that they themselves had created.
Yet over the last couple of hundred years in particular, we have seen these autonomous communities dismantled, the people who formed a part of these groups detached and isolated, and the values they adhere to, handed down by hierarchs.
Through mass schooling, the media and the imposition of centralised language the military bureaucratic gang imposes its values.
We are made to identify with the State, an entity that gathers taxes and wages war.
Through the sop of democracy we are led to identify with the War State. Despite our lack of power we encouraged to see the State as 'We'.
Around here we are told that we are 'British'. Britain may be a geographical area, an island, or a state, but it is not a country. It is not a people. It is not a religion. It is not a culture.
Only, the overseer class, rootless nobodies from nowhere, identify with a state. Their identity has been expropriated by the Hierarchy.
The overseer class like to travel, to seek out a little difference, floating above the little people who they might meet in the capacity of servants. If they are lucky they might meet foreign overseers who eat different shaped bread.
The Poor still cling onto their culture, but the Overseers have surrendered completely to received culture. They no longer belong to their families, nor their tribes, nor their villages. Yet, for all their sacrifice they do not have the rewards of the elite. All they have is their pride in the power they have over the Poor. And they have their morality.
It is Morality that is the identity of the Overseer.
Be it the submission of Islam or the prison of the Politically Correct, the Overseers are united in hate and self-righteousness and condemnation of the Poor.
Yet over the last couple of hundred years in particular, we have seen these autonomous communities dismantled, the people who formed a part of these groups detached and isolated, and the values they adhere to, handed down by hierarchs.
Through mass schooling, the media and the imposition of centralised language the military bureaucratic gang imposes its values.
We are made to identify with the State, an entity that gathers taxes and wages war.
Through the sop of democracy we are led to identify with the War State. Despite our lack of power we encouraged to see the State as 'We'.
Around here we are told that we are 'British'. Britain may be a geographical area, an island, or a state, but it is not a country. It is not a people. It is not a religion. It is not a culture.
Only, the overseer class, rootless nobodies from nowhere, identify with a state. Their identity has been expropriated by the Hierarchy.
The overseer class like to travel, to seek out a little difference, floating above the little people who they might meet in the capacity of servants. If they are lucky they might meet foreign overseers who eat different shaped bread.
The Poor still cling onto their culture, but the Overseers have surrendered completely to received culture. They no longer belong to their families, nor their tribes, nor their villages. Yet, for all their sacrifice they do not have the rewards of the elite. All they have is their pride in the power they have over the Poor. And they have their morality.
It is Morality that is the identity of the Overseer.
Be it the submission of Islam or the prison of the Politically Correct, the Overseers are united in hate and self-righteousness and condemnation of the Poor.
Tuesday 3 September 2013
Glad To Serve Caesar
In autonomous societies, both rural and urban, which have been the norm in Europe for most of the past two thousand years, the duties of the Christian to love their neighbour has been obvious, given the communal and mutually dependent relations dominant in such societies.
But in an age of hierarchy and vertical power the State takes on the services that were once provided by people freely, one to another.
Many Christians work in the 'caring' professions, and it is a fact that their dedication to duty is much appreciated by everyone around them. But being a specialist who is paid to care, such as a nurse or a teacher, begs the question; who are they serving, Christ or Caesar? Whose agenda are they following?
Many Christians come to believe that there is somehow something virtuous about working in the 'public sector', despite its non Christian and authoritarian structure. They believe that working for a profit is somehow selfish and unchristian and uncharitable, that only by working for the State can they do good, that taxation and a powerful state is a good thing. They are glad to keep watch over the people, glad to serve Caesar.
But in an age of hierarchy and vertical power the State takes on the services that were once provided by people freely, one to another.
Many Christians work in the 'caring' professions, and it is a fact that their dedication to duty is much appreciated by everyone around them. But being a specialist who is paid to care, such as a nurse or a teacher, begs the question; who are they serving, Christ or Caesar? Whose agenda are they following?
Many Christians come to believe that there is somehow something virtuous about working in the 'public sector', despite its non Christian and authoritarian structure. They believe that working for a profit is somehow selfish and unchristian and uncharitable, that only by working for the State can they do good, that taxation and a powerful state is a good thing. They are glad to keep watch over the people, glad to serve Caesar.
Monday 2 September 2013
Bombing Again
People in government in the United Kingdom such as Hague and Cameron, seem very keen to order, once again, the deaths of very many peaceful and innocent people to further their foreign policy objectives.
Only last week these criminals, along with their hirelings in the Vichy press, were eager to have people in Syria meet horrible deaths, suffer unimaginable agony, injury, bereavement, to further their aims.
On the BBC I heard one commentator explain that the use of sarin gas was by the Syrian government, that although it was insane of them to use it, as they are winning, and it was while weapons inspectors were in town, it was all a cunning game of double bluff by the evil dictator. Yes, really.
A newspaper explained that it was all the doing of the dictator's crazed one legged brother. I doubt it. Surely it was the youngest brother what done it, the one with the hunchback.
The United Kingdom, like some of its allies, are big on selling weapons, big on the military, big on the glorification of violence. Like back street thugs our political elites believe problems can be sorted by violence. A handful of NATO countries have elites that behave with such barbarism. In the rest of the world barbarism and uniforms are fast going out of fashion. Only certain NATO countries commit war crimes on a regular basis, bombing other countries, killing and maiming the innocent, using murder as an instrument of policy.
Throughout the world these criminals are regarded with revulsion. Civilised countries only do business with them under duress. It is trade that is leading to growing wealth throughout much of the world, yet these savages, the leaders of the world's most powerful military bureaucratic complexes sow death and destruction.
These cowards, who drop their terrorist bombs from far away safety, deserve the fate of Saddam. Indeed they are lesser men than Saddam. At least Saddam had courage.
Only last week these criminals, along with their hirelings in the Vichy press, were eager to have people in Syria meet horrible deaths, suffer unimaginable agony, injury, bereavement, to further their aims.
On the BBC I heard one commentator explain that the use of sarin gas was by the Syrian government, that although it was insane of them to use it, as they are winning, and it was while weapons inspectors were in town, it was all a cunning game of double bluff by the evil dictator. Yes, really.
A newspaper explained that it was all the doing of the dictator's crazed one legged brother. I doubt it. Surely it was the youngest brother what done it, the one with the hunchback.
The United Kingdom, like some of its allies, are big on selling weapons, big on the military, big on the glorification of violence. Like back street thugs our political elites believe problems can be sorted by violence. A handful of NATO countries have elites that behave with such barbarism. In the rest of the world barbarism and uniforms are fast going out of fashion. Only certain NATO countries commit war crimes on a regular basis, bombing other countries, killing and maiming the innocent, using murder as an instrument of policy.
Throughout the world these criminals are regarded with revulsion. Civilised countries only do business with them under duress. It is trade that is leading to growing wealth throughout much of the world, yet these savages, the leaders of the world's most powerful military bureaucratic complexes sow death and destruction.
These cowards, who drop their terrorist bombs from far away safety, deserve the fate of Saddam. Indeed they are lesser men than Saddam. At least Saddam had courage.
Sunday 1 September 2013
Rudyard Kipling - A Death Bed
'This is the State above the Law
The State exists for the State alone.'
(This is a gland at the back of the jaw,
And an answering lump by the collarbone.)
Some die shouting in gas or fire;
Some die silent, by shell and shot.
Some die desperate, caught on the wire;
Some die suddenly. This will not.
'Regis suprema voluntas lex'
(It will follow the regular course - of throats.)
Some die pinned by the broken decks,
Some die sobbing between the boats.
Some die eloquent, pressed to death
By the sliding trench as their friends can hear.
Some die wholly in half a breath,
Some give trouble for half a year.
'There is neither Evil nor Good in life
Except as the needs of the State ordain.
(Since it is rather too late for the knife
All we can do is mask the pain.)
Some die saintly in faith and hope.........
One thus died in a prison yard........
Some die broken by rape or the rope;
Some die easily. This dies hard.
'I will dash to pieces who bar my way.
Woe to the traitor! Woe to the weak!
(Let him write what he wishes to say.
It tires him out if he tries to speak.)
Some die quietly, some abound
In loud self-pity. Others spread
Bad morale through the cots around.....
This is a type that is better dead.
'The war was forced on me by my foes.
All that I sought was aright to live.
(Don't be afraid of a triple dose;
The pain will neutralise half we give.
Here are the needles. See that he dies
While the effects of the drug endure....
What is the question he asks with his eyes?.......
Yes, All Highest, to God, be sure.)
The State exists for the State alone.'
(This is a gland at the back of the jaw,
And an answering lump by the collarbone.)
Some die shouting in gas or fire;
Some die silent, by shell and shot.
Some die desperate, caught on the wire;
Some die suddenly. This will not.
'Regis suprema voluntas lex'
(It will follow the regular course - of throats.)
Some die pinned by the broken decks,
Some die sobbing between the boats.
Some die eloquent, pressed to death
By the sliding trench as their friends can hear.
Some die wholly in half a breath,
Some give trouble for half a year.
'There is neither Evil nor Good in life
Except as the needs of the State ordain.
(Since it is rather too late for the knife
All we can do is mask the pain.)
Some die saintly in faith and hope.........
One thus died in a prison yard........
Some die broken by rape or the rope;
Some die easily. This dies hard.
'I will dash to pieces who bar my way.
Woe to the traitor! Woe to the weak!
(Let him write what he wishes to say.
It tires him out if he tries to speak.)
Some die quietly, some abound
In loud self-pity. Others spread
Bad morale through the cots around.....
This is a type that is better dead.
'The war was forced on me by my foes.
All that I sought was aright to live.
(Don't be afraid of a triple dose;
The pain will neutralise half we give.
Here are the needles. See that he dies
While the effects of the drug endure....
What is the question he asks with his eyes?.......
Yes, All Highest, to God, be sure.)
John 6 - The Bread Of Grace
'Verily,verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world.'
The bread that Moses gave to the Israelites was the Law. The Law included the ceremonial Law which was mainly to do with sacrifice. But through the moral Law the people learnt the concept of Sin, that unlike their Creator, they were not perfect.
But Christ set us free from the power of Sin by becoming our sacrifice.
Christ obeyed the Law perfectly for us who are unable to obey the Law. He loved perfectly for us, whose selfishness prohibits us from loving so much, and he suffered perfectly for us, whose suffering is marred by self-pity.
Then Jesus Christ came to live among us, to suffer and die for us, to be resurrected to eternal life, the first of the children of God.
God had extended his mercy to the people. The Law came through Moses, but truth and grace came through Jesus Christ.
The bread that Moses gave to the Israelites was the Law. The Law included the ceremonial Law which was mainly to do with sacrifice. But through the moral Law the people learnt the concept of Sin, that unlike their Creator, they were not perfect.
But Christ set us free from the power of Sin by becoming our sacrifice.
Christ obeyed the Law perfectly for us who are unable to obey the Law. He loved perfectly for us, whose selfishness prohibits us from loving so much, and he suffered perfectly for us, whose suffering is marred by self-pity.
Moses brought us the Law, and the Law set the people free from the blind fear which possessed the heathen.But it still left them with the reasonable fear of the condemnation of a just God.
Then Jesus Christ came to live among us, to suffer and die for us, to be resurrected to eternal life, the first of the children of God.
God had extended his mercy to the people. The Law came through Moses, but truth and grace came through Jesus Christ.
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