After convincingly trouncing the establishment anointed crash test dummy in the Kentucky Senate GOP primary, Rand Paul ran into the screeching buzzsaw of the national press corps after his refusal to genuflect before the altar erected by “Dr.” Martin Luther King and the other architects of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

On the Rachel Maddow Show (what was he doing there?) Dr. Paul was interrogated for twenty minutes about his thoughts regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the role of the federal government in protecting victims of discrimination. If you watch the interview, Dr. Paul handles the questions quite well by avoiding easy yes/no answers and laying out reasonable practical and ethical concerns associated with the state’s blurring of public and private property.

Nevertheless, in spite of his reasoned arguments and classy, soft-spoken demeanor he is being flayed mercilessly by braying banshees at the Louisville Courier Journal, lesbian talk-show hosts and in the press at large. Why the hysterical reaction of race-obsessed liberals and their neo-con water carriers?

The problem is that Dr. Paul, and the movement he represents, is uttering ideas that our secularized, pagan elites equate with heresy. Because the chattering classes among the journalistic and intellectual classes have rejected Christianity, they subscribe to another religion, the faith of Secular Humanism (SH). Moreover, they see themselves as prophets, calling down the judgement of their loving, compassionate and non-discriminatory “god”, i.e., the state. Their ideology, ostensibly a defense of individualism and free inquiry, has instead devolved, after a long flirtation, to statism. As Rushdoony wrote, “Man needs a source of certainty and an agency of control: if he denies this function to God, he will ascribe it to man and to a man-made order.”

One tool wielded by this idolatrous state is the language of compassion, which is bandied about in pursuit of messianic aims. Not only does this God State seek to provide cradle to grave healing and security, through nationalized healthcare and wealth redistribution schemes, but it seeks out the “helpless” and “harassed” masses, sheep looking for a savior.

The rise of the messianic, imperial state has been ongoing for several centuries, connected to the ascendancy of SH ideology. The statism of American elites is little more than the inversion of religion and hence hostile to Christianity. The religion of SH is a dying faith. It is in a terminal condition collapsing under the weight of its presuppositions. Drowning in debt, bleeding from imperial overreach, and unable to keep the promises it has so promiscuously made, it is merely a matter of time before the ticking bomb explodes. The loss of faith in secular premises and institutions will ultimately lead to a lack of faith in statist, i.e. political, solutions, and bring about a reconfiguration of the state.

Rand Paul is a harbinger of that collapse. As a result, a determined effort will be made by political, intellectual and media elites to discredit him and his movement. What is being attempted is an excommunication.

We’ve seen this before. I’ve written about the attacks on Pat Buchanan more than a decade ago. But times have changed. The new media (blogs, social networking, You Tube, etc.) may make it possible to fight back against the press corps and the apparatus of cultural dissemination. Do the elites still have the capacity to establish the parameters of “legitimate” debate, or are those chinks I see in the armor?

In a recent Takimag essay, the estimable Paul Gottfried explained that the neoconservative movement consists of two factions he describes as “ill-mannered, touchy Jews” and their “groveling or adulatory Christian assistants.” In the former category, Gottfried includes the Frum-Kagan-Podhoretz-Kristol axis of evil. Occupying the “servants’ quarters” are Bill Bennett, Michael Novak, Cal Thomas and other lesser lights of the “conservative movement.”

Among conservatives of the Religious Right variety, Israel and her neocon hirelings find unqualified support among Dispensational fundamentalists and Hagee-style Pentecostals. In my denomination, the SBC, Richard Land provides political cover for neocons and supporters of Israeli policy vis-a-vis Arab states and the Palestinians.

Land is one of America’s most influential evangelicals, trolling the corridors of power armed with a huge rolodex filled with the names of Washington insiders, not to mention an educational pedigree that includes stops at Princeton and Oxford.

Prior to the Iraq war, Land organized an open letter to President Bush from leading evangelicals blessing the coming storm with the imprimatur of Just War Theory. Now Land is at it again. In December and earlier this week Land teamed up with approximately 40 Christian and Jewish leaders, sending letters to Congress urging the imposition of new sanctions on Iran.

The “tough talk” from Christians is expected but disheartening nevertheless. Christians have lost their moral compass when they endorse unbiblical and wicked means as a mechanism to bring about a good end. The goal of sanctions is to harm civilians economically and commercially so that they will pressure their government into making policy changes. In this respect, they are merely a form of state-sponsored terrorism. Sanctions, and the blockades necessary to enforce them, are acts of war according to international law. Moreover, sanctions will not work. The Iranian regime is already teetering, having lost legitimacy in the eyes of many of its own citizens. Sanctions imposed by the U.S. could entirely backfire by driving Iranians back into the arms of the mullahs.

But strategic imperatives and moral considerations are out the window. The only question on the table is, “Does Israel want it?”

Tuesday night US Congressmen Joe Wilson broke the etiquette rules of political decorum by shouting out “You Lie, You Lie” during a Yankee President’s speech. The last time a South Carolinian Congressman broke Washingtonian decorum in such an arresting fashion for the sin of Yankee lying US Congressman Preston Smith Brooks beat the snot out of a Yankee Senator named Charles Sumner using a walking cane to administer the lashing. Given the firestorm that Wilson’s shout out has created one would have thought that Wilson had cane lashed Obama as opposed to merely boisterously correcting the Yankee President’s lies.

Congressman Brooks lived in a culture of honor that demanded retribution against Sumner’s lies against a family member serving in the US Senate. Having long jettisoned a culture of honor it may be that shouting out “You Lie, You Lie” is the closest thing a South Carolinian today can get to administering a cane lashing to a notable liar. At the very least in both cases, each of the South Carolinian Congressman felt deeply aggrieved by the lies that they were being subject to. Congressman Brooks, living in a culture of honor, and having vindicated his family’s honor never apologized and was amply resupplied by well wishers and admirers for the cane he broke over Sumner’s back. Congressman Wilson, living in a culture of political correctness, immediately apologized for speaking the truth at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

The one and only point here that we need to take to heart is how each response to lies heard by our respective US South Carolina Congressmen reflected and reflects, during their respective eras, the division that was then and is now present in this country. When Rep. Preston Brooks took exception to a Jacobin Politician’s lies the nation was being violently pulled apart over a intense disagreement over the role and nature of the Government. On one side were those, like Sumner, who sought to expand the role of the Federal Government beyond its Constitutional boundaries. On the other side were those, like Brooks, who sought to restrict the role of the Federal Government to its Constitutional boundaries. The occasion of, what was to become a bloody disagreement, was the issue of slavery.

153 years later is a South Carolina Congressman once again serving as a harbinger of a violent national contest? Like Brooks, Wilson took exception to a Jacobin Politician’s lies. Like the era that Brooks lived in, Wilson lives in an era where the nation is violently being pulled apart over an intense disagreement over the role and nature of government. Today, on one side are those, like Obama, who is seeking to expand the role of the Federal Government even further beyond our Constitutional boundaries. Today, on the other side are those, like Wilson who is seeking to restrict the role of the Federal government to its Constitutional boundaries. The occasion of this disagreement once again is the issue of slavery.

Both in 1856 and in 2009 Jacobins and Marxists in the country were and are seeking to enslave men to the Nation State. It was in order to avoid enslavement to the ambitions of a burgeoning National government that the South seceded. We are once again at the point where we are going to have to make some difficult decisions on how to deal with the ambitions of a burgeoning National government that intends to enslave the citizenry through controlling our lives through a socialized health care mechanism.

Citizens today should perhaps look at the attempt at socialized health care the way that Southerners looked at the attempt at the socialized Morrill Tariff act. Both proposed acts, in the end, were about the ability to enrich the government at the expense of impoverishing American citizens. Perhaps the way we are threatened to being financially squeezed today by the Federal Government will cause us to sympathize with the way that Southerners were being financially squeezed in the run up to the War.

South Carolina US Congressman Preston Brooks was upset by that.

So is South Carolina US Congressman Joe Wilson.

Maybe we should send Joe some canes in appreciation.

School districts from Maryland to Texas are fielding angry complaints from parents opposed to President Barack Obama’s back-to-school address Tuesday“ forcing districts to find ways to shield students from the speech as conservative opposition to Obama spills into the nation’s classrooms.

I am in adamant opposition to all things Barack Obama but even I have to sympathize with Obama on this one. Here are parents, who have sent their children to institutions where their children are purposefully dumbed down year after year and only now, at the thought of their children being addressed by Obama they are outraged? One does begin to understand why Obama and his administration might think the resistance is racial. I mean, for years white folk have been allowing other white folk to indoctrinate their children with Marxist views in the Government schools but now that a black man comes along and begins to push the Marxist agenda suddenly white folk have a problem? It does look fishy.

Don’t get me wrong. I think Obama televising to America’s school children smacks of a third world dictator beaming his “Great Leader” presence into the lives of his subjects. I think Obama wanting to play the father figure to America’s children is more than a bit creepy. Its the kind of thing that a pervert dreams about doing. My only problem is that I’ve always found the whole government school indoctrination thing a bit creepy to begin with. Obama’s beaming presence is just the next logical step in having your children brainwashed.

My question is: Why draw the line at the Great Leader’s presence addressing the government schools but not draw the line at the daily PC indoctrination that they get year in and year out?

This rabid reaction to Obama speaking to the country’s children has me as confused as Americans getting all riled about potential socialized health care. I mean if they are going to riled about the notion of socialized health care why not get retro-riled about Social Security and Medicare and a host of other socialistic policies?

I can understand if the Obama administration is confused. In point of fact, if I were they I would sell their push for more Marxism by forcing the opposition to admit how good the current socialist policies are.

They could run advertisements,

If you love your Social Security you’ll love our proposed health care.

Our health care will do for the nation what medicare has done for Senior Citizens.

If you love the education your child gets in government schools you’ll love the health care you’ll get in our government hospitals.

If you’re impressed with your children’s teachers at the government schools, just wait to see how impressed you’ll be with your children’s Doctors at the government Medical centers.

If you loved the cars we put you into, you’ll love the hospital bed we have waiting for you.

So here is the message. By all means resist Marxist Obama. Resist him w/ all your might. By all means pull your children out of school so they don’t have to be subjected to the Great Leader mind games. By all means resist socialized health care.

But while you’re doing all that, go ahead and be consistent and resist all forms of socialism from government schools, to social security to Medicare.

Men, who breed their children so profanely, teaching them, by their examples, the newest oaths that were last minted in hell. Such families are nurseries for hell; and though God, by an extraordinary hand of providence, now and then snatches the soul by conversion from among them; yet generally, they die as they live, going to the generation of their fathers, where they shall never see light.
John Flavel, The First of 12 ways to Hell and Remedies Thereof

1) God normatively marries predestined means to predestined ends. The predestined means of God to reach the predestined end of a mature body of Christ is for faithful parents to raise their children in the covenant, constantly giving them the Gospel of Christ, and encouraging their children’s role in the advancement of the present Kingdom. Year after year, parents are to teach and live before their children God’s faithfulness to them and their faithfulness to God in every area of life. By such means Christ raises up a faithful army from generation to generation.

2) If children are born into Christian homes the best way to do to them what is done to Flavel’s pagan children is for the pagans to separate Christian children from their Christian parents, much the way that that the 14th century sultans separated Christian sons from their parents in order to turn them into Janissary troops who would be used to destroy Christianity. However, the brilliance of the current separation of Christian children from their Christian parents is that it has been organized in such a way that Christian parents think it is good and all together normal.

3) Revivalism broke this uniquely reformed idea that God’s ends are predestined via predestined means. What revivalism did was to change the emphasis from the Lord Christ raising up faithful and successive generations through faithful parenting and faithful catechizing in and by the Church to an emphasis where people “get religion” through a lightning bolt emotional experience that had some loose association with some kind of Gospel message. Revivalism made the predestined means to God’s predestined ends of a Holy Church a flash in the pan, emotion-filled experience. Revivalism completely stripped away the long and sustained teaching that created a Biblical mindset and a Biblical character that had been typical of reformed church, family, and community and exchanged all of that for 30 – 45 minutes of exposure to the hooping and hollering of some barely educated evangelisa combined with the psychological pressure that comes from feeling momentarily guilty that yielded, more often than not, a quick adrenalin shot of remorse. Surely, it is not difficult to see that the kind of Christianity created by the revivalistic and crusade model is far different than the kind of Christianity created by reformed covenantalism if only because in the revivalistic and crusade model emotions were tweaked while worldviews were left barely challenged. As a result generations of Christians were created whose Christianity was limited to a sometimes vigorous and oftentimes misplaced pietistic moral stance combined with a soft sentimentalism minus any consistent or unanimous notion that such a thing as a Christian mind exists. This”sludge” that became Christianity was a far different entity than the Christianity that inspired Cromwell’s Roundheads or Knox’s Scotland, or Appalachian Scots Presbyterianism.

4) Since God marries means to ends, as we see suggested in the quote above by Flavel, we must come to terms not only with the fact that wicked children are the result of wicked parents but also that wicked children can be the result of Christian parents who did not meet their covenantal responsibilities to the covenant seed God gave them. Further, we must face the fact that the reality that so many covenant children abandon Christ is not only due to the fact of irresponsible parents but also because of faithless pastors and churches. Pastors have failed parents by not instructing them that the Christian life that they must hand on to their children is more than just a bare profession of Christ combined with a non-understood morality and a particular squishy sentimentality absent a mind that seeks to think God’s thoughts after Him in every area of life.

5) Flavel points out the human cause and effect between wicked children and wicked parents. Should we not think that in a healthy church atmosphere there should be a similar human cause and effect between righteous children and righteous parents? Yes, indeed, salvation is by grace alone, but the teaching of Scripture is that the expectation should be that grace runs in family lines. Where it doesn’t run in family lines, where faith isn’t passed on from parents to children generationally, where the covenant seed is lost in the incredible numbers as the covenant seed is being lost today in the West, it is not the case of God’s unfaithfulness but ours.

6) I am doubtful that the trend of losing our children will end until the family unit is once again strengthened. Currently, almost all family responsibilities are farmed out to other cultural institutions. Children grow up today with a family structure that is little more than a bed and breakfast. Parents ship out their responsibility to shape and teach to state schools. Many parents ship out the responsibility to feed and clothe to government programs like WIC, school lunches, and ADC. Parents ship out their responsibility to influence their children to their children’s peers.

Today, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, amidst solemn dignity and quite honor, was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Lecter, youngest scion born to a import – export royal family, was posthumously feted by friend and foe alike. Born in 1932, Lecter toiled in the long shadow cast by his famous and self denying family. With great humility and self abnegation Hannibal served mankind with aplomb and earnestness.

Lecter eventually discovered the cure for Cancer and even those who tenaciously fought against his eventual discovery of Cancer’s cure eulogized him with great fondness. Dr. Orrin Snatch, one of Lecter’s competitors said; “I fought with him and loved him like a brother.” Dr. Ray Stanforth Quail, former Vice President of the AMA, and another of Dr. Lecter’s opponents rendered up this panegyric to Hannibal Lecter; “though we were enemies in the medical guild Hannibal was a man who took the time to remember the names of my children and the dates of their birthdays. My children still remember with fondness how Dr. Lecter had them for dinner on their birthdays year in and year out when they were small, always serving New England Lobster with fava beans and a nice Chianti chaser.” New York Times Magazine medical writer Dr. Fred Kline spoke of Hannibal saying, “It is just the most amazing thing about Hannibal that he could joke about his cannibalism. It’s not that he didn’t feel remorse about the death of his victims, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.” Dr. Don McLean, a peer of Hannibal’s but yet another man who opposed Lecter’s search for the cure for cancer offered this encomium to the memory of Lecter, “Hannibal was an institution within an institution. Whenever there was an event or anything like that, he had a remarkable way of sending out a little note or calling your family or something like that.” Dr. Moe Sliden, current Vice President of the AMA and co-laborer with Lecter praised him by saying; “In working with Lecter I was a witness to history.”

The unfortunate thing during this time of national grieving is that some hate filled people have not been able to look past the assorted vices of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, choosing instead to nurture their hatred by refusing to understand that a man of such greatness, like Lecter, must be allowed his occasional idiosyncratic behaviors. All these hate filled people can do, while looking at greatness, is to point out the speck in the great man’s eye. It is an open question, given the presence of these hate filled people, if America will ever be able to produce another Dr. Hannibal Lecter again.

Despite the haters and naysayers there is hope that the US will be able to pass a health care bill as a memorial to Dr. Lecter. In light of all of his work for the betterment of humanity, the realization of socialized Health care was long an aspiration of Dr. Lecter’s. Lecter’s lifelong hope was that victims would be well taken care of.

MEMO

From: The Right Hand Of Allah
To: Messengers Of Allah In North America
Subject: The Islamification Of North America

Jihadist,

We greet you in the name of Mohammad (PBUH).

By now you all now of our incredible success in Europe with our Islamification project. In Europe we have played the part of patience and through our immigration and breeding strategy we have the infidel beat back and trying to stall for time by means of political compromise with us. It is only a matter of another generation, at the most, until we are the ones running London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and all of Europe. Allah has given us a great victory here.

Now, we turn our eyes upon North America and as we do we continue to look to Allah to make us victorious. However, as we know, Allah’s ways are not always the same and we have become convinced that Allah intends to cover that continent by a different means than he has covered Western Europe. We will, of course, continue to fund the building of Mosques and Islamic centers in North America. Already our Mosques are dotting the heartland of America from Toledo, Ohio to Cedar Rapids, Iowa and thousand other rural points. This map chronicles our success in this regard.

This represents the positive side of our mission however the reason that we are writing is we want to introduce you to the way that we intend to deal with what has historically been our greatest opposition and that is Christianity.

The Christian witness in America has grown weak from a deterioration that has come in its Churches from the decadence that characterizes Western culture as a whole. Our goal is to to Islamify America without waking the sleeping giant of Christianity. To do this we want you, as our agents, to channel money to some of their Seminaries and Churches who teach a Christianity that will compliment our interests in North America. This variant of Christianity, called Two Kingdom Christianity, serves our interest in two ways. First, it insists that the Church does not and should not speak to the public square. It believes that its Holy Book only speaks of Spiritual things and how one might prepare themselves for heaven. Of course this serves our interest by allowing us, as the agents of Allah, to incrementally bring Sharia law and Islamic education to North America without howls of protest from their Churches or their ministers. Second, it serves our interest because its spokesmen teach that whatever social order is in place the Christians in their congregations must support. This means that once we become the cultural gatekeepers they will be a compliant people willing to gladly pay the Jizyah tax, submit to Sharia, and to render up their children to our educational efforts.

Because this is true we want no strong arm efforts from any of our sleeper agents. We believe that if we will spread money to the Westminister West Seminary and the respective churches that it plants and the men it graduates that they will do the work for us of continuing to make a way for our intent to Islamify their culture. Their current lack of resistance to our greatest competitor for global dominance, Cultural Marxism, is proof to us that they will not stand in our way once we conquer the Cultural Marxist infidel that are creating the vacuum that Islam will rush into once it is seen that a religion-less social order can not thrive.

After your great efforts around the world we know that what we are asking will perhaps be the greatest challenge of all. Seldom have we asked you to give money to those who have historically been our enemies. But you must keep before you that these Two Kingdom people are a far different Christian people than the people of Charlemagne or the people of Godfry of Bouillon or the people of the Christian King, St. Louis. You must keep before you that these people have made this life the enemy of their souls and have no expectation that their God has any explicit interest in this world.

So, once again, you are to fund Westminster West and the Seminaries and the Churches that it will build from the funds that you are sending them. Here is your first check.

Only one word of warning. If you mistakenly give any of this money we are sending you to Kuyperian or Theonomic versions of Christianity you will be immediately recalled and reassigned to something you will find dreadful. Those versions of Christianity are anathema to our agenda in the West.

In the name of Mohammad (PBUH),

The Mullah’s of the Right Hand Of Allah