Food for thought

 Because this generation:

Indulged and even encouraged this generation:

We're now stuck facing the rise of this generation:

Yep.  It's not enough to be brave on the battlefield if you buckle and fold in the face of adversity on the home front when the shooting has stopped.  Exactly what went wrong is more than a blog post can handle.  And I'd never suggest that things were a step off the New Jerusalem until the war ended and then everything went to pot. But the speed with which it has unraveled since the closer of the war, and the growing movement all about destroying everything to do with the Christian world view, the democratic West and the American experiment, is nothing less than breathtaking in its scope and reach. Therefore whatever praise and honor that generation deserves for so bravely winning the battle for our civilization, it deserves as much criticism for losing so badly the overall war for which they fought that great battle in the first place.

A martyr is born

If Billy Graham was America's pastor, Martin Luther King, Jr. is America's patron saint and martyr.  He's the religious figure we're allowed to talk about.  Not that we give a rip about what he actually preached.  Far from it.  That thing known as 'Identity Politics', the default template for social theory today, is antithetical to everything that MLK represented.

But then, he's the great figurehead for post-Christian America.  If he was anyone else, he'd be skinned as a hypocrite, a misogynist, a homophobe and a bigot.  But he's MLK, the religious figure we're allowed to quote.  In fact, seldom does an American Christian leader speak or write that he doesn't quote MLK.  Heck, I've heard some (especially within the African American Christian community, but not exclusive to) who have quoted King when there was no mention of any quotes from that Jesus fellow.

Nonetheless, despite it all, King was, for all his flaws and failings, one of the great heroes of America.   He managed to confront a great evil and blind spot in America's greatness, and do so directly and with righteous indignation, yet mixed with grace, love, mercy and forgiveness.  Again, forgiveness being anathema to the Identity Politics movement.

Despite all he did, however, something clearly went horrifically wrong in the years following his brutal murder.  Crime and murder and drugs and broken homes are the majority witness among too many African American communities.  Instead of peering long and hard into the mirror, too many are content blaming anything and anyone other than the communities and the attitudes that are the center of the problems.  This self reflection was crucial for King's ministry, as it allowed him to deal openly and honestly with those around him and the country in which he lived that he was trying so hard to change.

Instead, we live at a time now where, despite deafening silence from those Christians who would compromise with the emergent heathenism, the biggest killer of Blacks is by far Blacks, and that's not counting the staggering rates of abortion within the African American community.  Add the murder rates and drug rates (too common in America in general),  to the abortion rates, and one wonders if there will be an African American community left to look back on this one who gave his life that they might be free.  Not free to do what they've been doing with the rights he fought for, but free to be servants of the one who King believed in and followed to his last full measure of devotion.

The incomparable Ella Frech asks why Hollywood is behind the latest movement to eliminate unworthy people?

It makes me almost ashamed to watch movies.  We're so quick to condemn Hollywood for its racism back in the day.  For its sexism back in the day.  For its homophobia back in the day.  For its pro-American propaganda back in the day.  We still call it out for being racist, sexist, and anti-Muslim today.  Why do we look to Hollywood for any moral guidance?

Because at different times, it also stood for good ideals and virtues, even if it had to do so subtly.  And because sometimes it is just good.  Nonetheless, unlike times in the past when art and culture were against the status quo and all about progressive reform, Hollywood is now almost completely in bed with the modern, post-Christian, secular Left.  It is a propaganda arm for that movement more than it has been propaganda for anything at any other time, WWII included.

And the Left is all about weeding out the unwanted while promising the rest of us a Utopia of unlimited sex, drugs, and celebration of my awesomeness.  Many of us just walk by, missing the signs of the times, just like all the people in ages past who missed the signs of their times, and allowed us to have all those juicy tyrannies, wars, revolts and genocides to read about in history books.

But, thanks be to God, this brilliant spark of the divine steps up to ask why Hollywood, in its modern manifestation, seems to think that the best handicapped people are dead handicapped people.  And it's true.  And it's sad that one of those movies mentioned is by a pop-icon of modern conservatism.  A reminder that there is a branch of conservatism that embraces almost all of the post-Christian decadence, death and debauchery of the secular Left, but with an emphasis on strong military readiness and tons of money.

Well done young Ella Frech.  You are now officially one of my heroes.

Evan Sayet swings and hits

Watch the video.  And then visit a liberal website or blog.  Huffington Post, Catholic and Enjoying It, Daily Kos. The Friently Atheist. Any will do.  Heck watch MSNBC or CNN. And compare.  Find where he is wrong.  I'm sure he's not right about everything.  But boy he hits close to the mark more often than not.