Sprinting toward Gehenna
By Vox Day
Posted: December 27, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Jean-Paul Sartre once famously said that "Hell is other people." At this time
of year, when we find ourselves in the close company of extended family who may
cause that quote to flicker unbidden into our minds, we celebrate the birth of
the One who came to save man from himself.
For man is adept at creating hell on Earth. The pattern is inescapable, and no
sooner does one man build something up than another man is arrayed against him
to tear it down. And it is ironic, too, for the very force that builds is
denounced by that which destroys as being the evil that must be eliminated. The
darkness looks upon the light and, as always, fails to comprehend it.
Just as the anticlerical French intellectuals failed to recognize that their
intellectual tradition depended on the church scholars who kept it alive during
the Middle Ages, and so branched off into the destructive orgy of Jacobinism,
the nihilist despair of existentialism and the anti-intellectual foolishness of
post-modernism, secular America fails to see that even its shabby pretense at a
moral tradition depends wholly on Christians past.
The irony is profound. Consider the secular Jewish fascists at the American
Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Defamation League. Even as they attempt to
eradicate Jesus Christ from "the holidays" in this nation of Christians, Jews
in America remain unbeaten and unharassed, while predictions of
Passion-inspired anti-Semitic violence were proven to be nothing but
Goebbels-style propaganda. Meanwhile, in gloriously secular Europe, Jews walk
the streets in visible fear and are physically attacked on a regular basis in
France, Germany and Belgium.
One wonders why so many Jews in the media elite wish to see America move toward
a more perfectly secular society, considering that they will doubtless be the
first to be victimized should they ever get their wish.
Or consider the abortionettes, who hold sacred a woman's right to murder. (That
this goes well beyond a woman's right to her own body can be seen in the
feminist support for women who kill sleeping men "in self-defense," murderous
mothers and young women committing Singerian infanticide.) Now that
sex-selection technology is on the verge of widespread availability,
abortionettes are appalled at the notion that a disproportionate number of
unborn baby girls will be slaughtered. There is a silver lining in this,
though, as we'll likely be inflicted with far fewer abortionettes in the
future.
The moral vision of America has always been Christian. It was Christians in the
British Navy and the American abolition movement who ended 19th-century
slavery, while even a left-liberal New York Times columnist admits that today
it is the Christian Right that is fighting the battle against genocide in
Africa, human-rights violations in Asia and sex slavery around the world.
Meanwhile, the European Union and United Nations – those twin temples of
secular moral supremacists – are too busy committing atrocities of their own
in Bosnia, the Congo and other places to concern themselves with the similar
evils of others.
The secular vision is ultimately a collective death cult, lethal on both a
personal and a societal level that makes Kali look like a fecund fertility
goddess by comparison. One need not look to the most notorious examples of the
20th century to demonstrate this, for it can be seen equally well in examples
ranging from the statistically anomalous homosexual predilection for
cannibalism to the sub-replacement birth rates of post-Christian Europe.
Against the death cult stands nothing but the tradition of the fairytale, the
hope that is brought by a baby lying in a manger. Persecuted by the
authorities, hated by kings, the Child nevertheless rose to conquer Death
itself. In Him, there is the promise of life, both in this world and in the
world to come.
But one need not invoke the afterlife or the immortal soul to see that without
Jesus Christ, one is destined for Hell. Jean-Paul had it half-right. History
clearly shows that Hell is a place of people who reject the Way, the Truth and
the Life.
Vox Day is a novelist and Christian libertarian. He is a member of the SFWA,
Mensa and the Southern Baptist church, and has been down with Madden since
1992. His weekly column is syndicated nationally by Universal Press Syndicate.
Visit his web log, Vox Popoli, for daily commentary and responses to reader
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27 Dec 2004 09:51:52 AM |
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TonyZ2001 wrote:
Sprinting toward Gehenna
By Vox Day
Posted: December 27, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Jean-Paul Sartre once famously said that "Hell is other people." At this time
of year, when we find ourselves in the close company of extended family who may
cause that quote to flicker unbidden into our minds, we celebrate the birth of
the One who came to save man from himself.
For man is adept at creating hell on Earth. The pattern is inescapable, and no
sooner does one man build something up than another man is arrayed against him
to tear it down. And it is ironic, too, for the very force that builds is
denounced by that which destroys as being the evil that must be eliminated. The
darkness looks upon the light and, as always, fails to comprehend it.
Just as the anticlerical French intellectuals failed to recognize that their
intellectual tradition depended on the church scholars who kept it alive during
the Middle Ages, and so branched off into the destructive orgy of Jacobinism,
the nihilist despair of existentialism and the anti-intellectual foolishness of
post-modernism, secular America fails to see that even its shabby pretense at a
moral tradition depends wholly on Christians past.
The irony is profound. Consider the secular Jewish fascists at the American
Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Defamation League. Even as they attempt to
eradicate Jesus Christ from "the holidays" in this nation of Christians, Jews
in America remain unbeaten and unharassed, while predictions of
Passion-inspired anti-Semitic violence were proven to be nothing but
Goebbels-style propaganda.
Pretty anti-Semitic, as well as inaccurate (it's the neocons who are
fascist, not the ACLU, who is anything BUT in favor of business).
Woods
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27 Dec 2004 10:28:52 AM |
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Woods
wrote:
it's the neocons who are
fascist, not the ACLU,
Wrong.
The ACLU is against anything American or Christian.
Tony
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27 Dec 2004 12:04:52 PM |
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TonyZ2001 wrote:
Woods
wrote:
it's the neocons who are
fascist, not the ACLU,
Wrong.
The ACLU is against anything American or Christian.
Tony
Nah pantyboy...they're just against everything that is YOU!
WH
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27 Dec 2004 12:45:53 PM |
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TonyZ2001 wrote:
Woods
wrote:
it's the neocons who are
fascist, not the ACLU,
Wrong.
The ACLU is against anything American or Christian.
You might want to consider looking up terms you don't understand prior
to posting about them, so as not to embarrass yourself. In the most
basic terms, a Fascist is one who supports a dictatorial form of
government. It is a testimony to your ignorance that you would equate
such a form of government with an organization that seeks to limit
governmental authority and power.
Woods
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| User: "Marvin The Paranoid Android" |
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27 Dec 2004 03:06:46 PM |
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Woods wrote:
TonyZ2001 wrote:
Woods
wrote:
it's the neocons who are fascist, not the ACLU,
Wrong.
The ACLU is against anything American or Christian.
You might want to consider looking up terms you don't understand prior
to posting about them, so as not to embarrass yourself. In the most
basic terms, a Fascist is one who supports a dictatorial form of
government. It is a testimony to your ignorance that you would equate
such a form of government with an organization that seeks to limit
governmental authority and power.
Woods
Tony's beyond clueless ... he's become delusional.
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