Lemmings all

I never thought I would be quoting Ayn Rand. I do not admire the way she lived her life even though some of what she had to say is prescient. However all truth is ultimately God's truth irrespective of which mouth it emerges from.

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
 

We run the risk of being too interested in the footy scores and not interested enough in what this government (Australia) is doing to undermine our freedoms. The left-wing statists have succeeded in occupying education both school and tertiary, they have overwhelmed the teacher unions, the nursing unions, public employee unions and essential service unions, a reality which accounts for the fact that even such an obviously incompetent ruling elite can manage to capture 40% of the national vote.

It truly boggles my mind when I think about how so many people can be so unaware of the noose into which they willingly place their necks. That journalists can so willingly allow themselves to be muzzled only points out the reality that these hacks were never actually journalists in the first place.

Journalistic truth

As usual the erudite Mark Steyn elucidates the truth beautifully:

"...the young, self-neutered eunuch-men of a cowed media, watching the lights go out on free speech and slipping easily and painlessly into the accomplices of thuggery."
 

The state of journalism in Australia today.

Secular truth

This excerpt is from a political article but the concepts behind it are ones which I have encountered many times within Christian circles. I hope this tendency is on the decrease rather than the increase particularly in the light of post-modern gnosticism and an increasing obfuscation of biblical truth.
Romans 12:2 is garnering an ever increasing importance in our world toady.

One of the characteristics of the progressive or utopian mindset is its devotion to magical thinking. Progressives, particularly the "useful idiot" progressives, believe that by pronouncing certain incantations or magical words or by performing certain types of magical rituals, problems can be made to disappear. This immature way of dealing with the world has as its underlying dynamic a childlike reliance upon hope and wishful thinking and presupposes a world of circumscribed or repetitive uniformity which the progressive believes he can succeed in organizing and controlling via his expertise in "magic." More specifically, the progressive believes (or rather hopes) that the behavior of hostile or dangerous forces can be controlled or neutralized by the application of the appropriate magic.

 

Courage in the face of danger.

Laugh out loud...such courage from the men of a certain persuasion!

In a recent Al-Jazeerah interview, Richard Dawkins was asked his views on God. He argued that the god of “the Old Testament” is “hideous” and “a monster”, and reiterated his claim from The God Delusion that the God of the Torah is the most unpleasant character “in fiction”.

Asked if he thought the same of the God of the Koran, Dawkins ducked the question, saying: “Well, um, the God of the Koran I don’t know so much about.”
How can it be that the world’s most fearless atheist, celebrated for his strident opinions on the Christian and Jewish Gods, could profess to know so little about the God of the Koran? Has he not had the time? Or is Professor Dawkins simply demonstrating that most crucial trait of his species: survival instinct.