@memeticsisyphus In A CONFLICT OF VISIONS, Sowell teaches you, for example, how both liberals and conservatives equally value fairness. But, their definitions of “fairness” are completely at odds.
The explosion in the number of things we all think we agree on, but don’t at all, is staggering.
They don’t know anything. They hallucinate reality so as to fit their inaccurate presuppositions.
The first major story about the Michelle Obama school lunch failures came out of NY. A district dropped the program after they watched kids throw out $100K worth of food.
@bilskirnir3124 turns out, she actually didn't do much. this sort of thing is handled primarily at the state level (and red states have shittier lunches on average)
@ThymeToBeBorn In discussion, I now insist every ‘Learing Center’ type case be framed not as fraud but as “stealing from our most desperate.”
Very clarifying.
@NupeAndre@charlescwcooke Firing a capable subject matter expert for petty, partisan reasons is stupid. Ruling that the person elected to lead the executive branch of the federal government does, in fact, lead the executive branch of the federal government is not stupid.
The desire to become righteous before God is something man cannot turn off, no matter how "unchurched" or "secular" he becomes. It animates everything he does. And every self-destructive impulse you see in the western world is the result of people coming up with insane answers to the "what makes me righteous" question after rejecting the answer that Christianity gives.
So when it comes to Muslim rape gangs, why are European leaders and progressives categorically unwilling to address the issue? It's because they believe that "not being racist" makes them righteous. That's what makes them good people, holy, acceptable to whatever concept of God they've cobbled together in their minds.
Present them with the evidence and many will simply ignore it. They will act like you said nothing so they can resume cooing over the beauty of multiculturalism and prove to themselves, and their god, that they are not racist and thus righteous, unlike all the racist people who have such unjustified views towards Islam.
Show the very faces of the girls who were raped to the most devout priests and priestesses of "not being racist" and they will literally laugh in their faces. They will boast of not caring. And they will boast of not caring because the righteousness they get from "not being racist" completely entirely 100% matters more to them than innocent girls being victimized. They would let five million innocents be raped before they would dare admit anything remotely approaching the "racism" that Islam is incompatible with freedom and peace and order and safety. They would let their own daughters be raped for the same reason. If you think I'm overexaggerating, consider how many people throughout history have sacrificed their own children to the gods they believed would favor them for doing so. Those people were made of the same flesh. They carried the same sinful nature. They are on the same quest for righteousness and forged the same dark paths on their journey.
And until you see Jesus as the answer, there is no way to get yourself on safe footing. Until you believe that Jesus Christ is the sacrificial Lamb who won your salvation and gave it to you freely, then you will always be inclined to sacrifice the weak and lowly in order to accomplish whatever you think you need to accomplish to be pleasing in the sight of your god.
So if you aren't a Christian but hate to see what has happened throughout Europe, and what is happening in America, the only way you can build a better future is through faith in Christ. Find a church. Hear the Gospel. Believe it. Understand that the only way to be pleasing to God is through the blood of His Son. The more we all believe that, the more we will all stop turning a blind eye to the blood of the innocent today.
@D__Henderson@OptimoPrincipi “Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
@memeticsisyphus My best friend has been putting up a percussionist who recently accepted a permanent tenure position. The drummer lives 1000 miles away. He travels only for concerts and, according to him, they almost never rehearse more than once.
@EuroFrontinfo@Tulsabill55@RealDianeYap Galatians 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus".