Friday, December 14, 2018

Obama Is A God

... and once you grasp that, all becomes clear.

I've argued on this blog that we're not experiencing a political struggle, but a religious one. Two things have solidified this for me recently. The first was this comment, excerpted before, from Rod Dreher's blog.
Time to start giving up on arguments altogether.

No argument will work. The time is already past. You probably have about 2-4 years until they ban you from Twitter, etc., and the payment processor company you use to allow people to pay for subscriptions or to make donations tells you to take a hike with your hateful bigotry. You can see, I can see, and more and more people can see the direction things are going.

Time (long past time) to start thinking about alternatives to arguments, period. They are fun to make! But there is no argument that will work against the spirit of our age.
Islam is a religion. Essentially, it falls back on "It's in the Koran!" as it's fundamental justification. It's not rational, it's rationalizing. No argument there.

Secular postmodernism is a religion. It must be, because it discards objectivity in all forms - knowledge, morality and logic. You have your truth and I have mine. There is no Truth. No argument there. Instead, you have the cultural zeitgeist of the moment, determined by the elite and driven by the mob. Oddly enough, Michael Cohen's guilty plea to campaign finance violations is what crystallized that for me.

As Jonah Goldberg, who has gone off the rails as far as I'm concerned, might say, I'm going to engage in "whataboutism." My reply to Cohen's plea is, "What about Obama's far larger campaign finance violation which was treated with only a fine?" Obama got away with it because he is a god. He is a member of the elite whose duty it is to inform the mob of what is currently right and wrong. He cannot be questioned because he is the answer to all questions. "Is this wrong?" "What does Obama (or the elite) think?" is the implicit dialog.

Hillary's emails operated in the same fashion. She was given a pass for crimes which would have sent a Normal to prison for a long time because she is a goddess. She belongs to the pantheon of the elite. She is not bound by the rules because, like Obama and the rest of the elite, she makes the rules and anyway, the rules are fluid since we've discarded objective morality.

18 US Code 793 contains the following clause which, in any objective reality, shows that Hillary and everyone who came in contact with her email server, were criminals.
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing ... or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer — Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
There's plenty more Hillarian violations at the link. What of it? Objective morality is nonsense and Hillary and her cronies are part of the elite pantheon. They are gods and goddesses and should not be bound by the laws of mere Normals. You live in that world, not them.

Dig the cover of Comey's book. If that's not religious, I don't know what is.


The implication to the Normals is that Comey's higher loyalty is to the Truth. The reality is that he has a higher loyalty to the gods and goddesses he serves.

And you're not one of them.

I'm pondering a follow-up post which will suggest that the Catholic Church is the last, best hope for rationality and acceptance of objective reality. We're the only ones who, at least until the papacy of Francis, used unflinching logic to derive our theology. When we chase the ephemeral will-o-wisps of the modern culture (trannies good! bestiality not yet, but soon?), we throw away logic. Once we discard it, there will be no one left to defend it.

2 comments:

tim eisele said...

"a follow-up post which will suggest that the Catholic Church is the last, best hope for rationality and acceptance of objective reality"

I think that ship sailed a loooooong time ago. A huge slug of the people you are complaining about are (or claim to be) Catholics. The Catholic church as been taking a very relaxed approach to even attempting to explain the basis of morality for as long as I can remember. And by "relaxed", I mean "avoiding talking about it". The priests that I worked for in my years as an altar boy were, as far as I could tell, at least deists if not outright atheists. They were just doing a job, and did not act as if God was particularly important in their lives. I am not convinced that, if you went out and asked the average Catholic priest why you should be a member of the Church, that many of them would be able to give you a coherent argument in favor.

If you are expecting the Catholic Church to actually be able to competently explain and champion and justify a moral position, I think you are going to have to resign yourself to disappointment. Note that I am not talking about their written documents, I am talking about the existing people that you would need to have actually championing them. It doesn't matter what is written by St. Augustine or what is in the Catechism if the people in the Church don't read them. And from what I have seen, they mostly don't.

Ilíon said...

"He is a member of the elite whose duty it is to inform the mob of what is currently right and wrong. He cannot be questioned because he is the answer to all questions. "Is this wrong?" "What does Obama (or the elite) think?" is the implicit dialog."

Douglas Wilson has a couple of recent posts addressing what is going on here --

American Vision and the Word that Justifies

Still Not Impressed With Social Justice?