I am disturbed at the nature of the comments associated with the blog lately. Certainly, some of my posts are very negative, but if your impression is that the nature of the posts and the fairly open comment policy means that I’m simply giving you an opportunity to write protracted gripes, you’ve misunderstood my sentiment.
I write what I do in order to chronicle the decline of America, to educate my readers (and me), to enable and encourage us to prepare for the worst, and to make us better men and women. For instance, chronicling the influx of immigrants doesn’t mean that readers need to ramp up the gripes and moans, but rather, be about our business preparing. This isn’t going to last for long. Chronicling the infringements on our God-given RKBA doesn’t mean that readers are invited to lay out threats against anyone. It means that we need to understand the times, resolve never to be disarmed, and prepare for the worst.
I also have a certain religious viewpoint, and I’ve tried to make that abundantly clear on numerous occasions. So for instance, rather than engage in hate towards ethnic groups, we should all understand the following from the WCF.
Section 2.) By this sin, they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God,(1) and so became dead in sin,(2) and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.(3)
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Section 3.) They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed,(1) and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation.(2)
(1)
Ge 1:27,
28;
Ge 2:16,
17;
Ac 17:26;
Ro 5:12,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19;
1Co 15:21,
22,
45,
49 (2)
Ps 51:5;
Ge 5:3;
Job 14:4;
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Section 4.) From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,(1) and wholly inclined to all evil,(2) do proceed all actual transgressions.(3)
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Section 5.) This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated;(1) and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.(2)
Thus, the focus of my efforts won’t be to hate an ethnic group, because in the absence of that group, whatever it is, there will always be another to take its place. The total absence of central banking only means that there will be a white dictator to take its place, or an Idi Amin or Pol Pot. If you think that evil is ensconced in a race, you have entirely missed the point of the Gospel, and you believe a lie.
Thus, from now on I intend to deal with comments without hesitation or remorse. If you don’t like that, you can find another place to comment.
1] I do not intend to become embroiled in endless pedantic debates with readers. I’ll end the debate by deleting the thread.
2] I do not intend to allow readers to hijack discussion threads, thus trashing the hard work I’ve put into the articles. I’m not paid one penny for doing this – I won’t turn this site over to ne’er-do-wells who want to make it look like 4Chan or reddit by posting trashy things anonymously.
3] If you intend to make threats, e.g., “hang all pols, make a list and check it twice and get ready for war, war, war, give me violence NOW …,” you can expect to have your comments deleted without prejudice. You won’t be returning to TCJ. I do find it amusing and ironic that most commenters don’t use their real name, but rather, a nom de guerre, and then proceed to use this blog to lay out vicious comments about others, while I am the one who uses my real name rather than a nom de guerre and bear the brunt of whatever comes my way as a result of those comments.
Per counsel I’ve sought, I possibly bear some legal liability for comments like that, and I certainly suffer reputation when I give platform to such things. And I also know that not a single reader is going to do anything about the comments he’s making to make a step change in society without God’s sovereign blessing upon the nation.
It isn’t true anyway. You understand that, right? Not all pols are evil. Some are good. Not all Latinos vote for progressives. To render racial judgments based on the actions of a few, or many, is a formal logical fallacy.
4] If you engage in Jew-hate in the comments, you can expect to have your comments be deleted forthwith.
5] If you engage in any other kind of race-hate in the comments, you can expect to have your comments be deleted forthwith.
6] If you get into fights with fellow commenters, you can expect to see the entire discussion thread deleted.
I have never promised that I read all comments, and I’m not promising that here. I simply cannot review all comments – at the present, I have over 35,000 comments on the site. But as I catch them, I’ll deal with them appropriately.
Next, we’ve dealt with this thing of incrementalism before. I advocate it, and you know that. Readers have commented that the progressives have mastered the art, while we’ve been left in the dust (or maybe the dustbin of history). But then those same readers reject out-of-hand the notion that any victory, however small, means anything.
I find it patently absurd that anyone thinks that we’re going to reverse course in America in a step change by doing anything. You want lawlessness and lack of government? Okay. Then 99.99% of you will die an ignominious and meaningless death without being able to bequeath either your wealth or your heritage to your children or children’s children. Prepare yourselves for Kosovo on steroids.
You want to reject incrementalism? Okay. Sit on your couch and lose to those who believe in it. You want to try to do everything in your own power? Okay. Hold your fist up and engage in “high-handed sin.” Tell God you don’t need Him. Tell me how that goes.
Americans have no one to blame but themselves. We have allowed the deaths of innocent victims through abortion, we have allowed the fleecing of widows and orphans by the taxation of men who are trying to do well by “leaving an inheritance of their children’s children.” We have invited Hollywood to send smut into our homes at its whim. We have sent children to schools of communist indoctrination, where they learn that there is no God, there is no family, and the only entity is the state.
Is it any wonder we are where we are? Why would anyone believe that we could avoid God’s curse? There is a way to recover America, but it doesn’t involve a step change in anything except a return to God’s Holy law. Doing that isn’t likely to happen without re-educating children, home schooling them, and engaging in what Rousas J. Rushdoony called “Christian Reconstruction.” The enemy has incorporated incrementalism, and it’s absurd to think that it’s going to be made easy on us at this point by rejecting that approach. Horace Mann took a very long time to accomplish his goals. It will take us equally long to undo what he did, or longer.
By way of final comment, you are helping no one with gripes and moans, not even yourself. You are helping everyone when you make comments that encourage fellow readers, bolster their belief, and make practical suggestions for how to live in troubling times. It’s okay to say “thank you” to the host of this web site from time to time. It’s also okay to say “thank you” when a reader makes a good, educated, measured, intelligent comment that benefits you. I like to see comments from measured men who speak intelligently and with an eye to history and philosophy. Be that kind of commenter.
