Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Ivan Karamazov Predicts Abortion Rights


Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature -- that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance -- and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? (Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)
Why that is exactly what modern Western civilization has staked "women's liberty" on, and therefore the modern future utopia.  Have we Westerners taken on the character of the god we really believe in?

As Jefferson said(?), "The tree of liberty must be nourished with the blood of unborn babies!"

Sunday, June 7, 2015

"German Faith" against both Catholicism and Protestantism


It wasn't just Marxism's communist derivations that had no room for competing worldviews.  One of the Kulturkampf letters of the Confessing Church notes the complete lack of, well, Christianity, in the Nazis' "Positive Christianity" as stated in their periodical German Faith, as they sought to destroy the "confessions" or doctrinal centers of gravity for both Catholicism and Protestantism as Weltanschaungs that threatened the Nazi Weltanshauung:
from page 62 of Confronting the Nazi War on Christianity: The Kulturkampf Newsletters, 1936-1939  By Richard Bonney.   The newsletters deplored "the growing deChristianization of public life," the deChristianization of the schools," and "the deChristianization of legislation in the areas of family, marriage and education."*





Saturday, June 6, 2015

that religion is a private matter


Is religion a private matter that shouldn't provide political commentary, or should be subject to non-profit status review?   Here is an entry from page 70 of Confronting the Nazi War on Christianity: The Kulturkampf Newsletters, 1936-1939  By Richard Bonney: about the conflict between the German Confessing Church and Hitler's Reich-church with its German Christianity: