Leftists Get Closer to Saying What They Feel

I read about the Christchurch shooting this morning. Quite a story.

The murderer, a man named Tarrant, is an Australian. He committed his crimes in New Zealand. I haven’t seen any explanation for that yet. He published a manifesto online; maybe it contains the answer. Australia and New Zealand may seem closely related to Americans, but they are separate countries, and New Zealand is about 2600 miles from Australia. Why would a murderer from Australia kill 49 people in another country?

It’s silly to question the logic of the mentally ill, but I will do it anyway. Tarrant killed Muslims at a mosque, referring to them as “invaders.” He, himself, was an alien. Why would he defend a foreign country from people he saw as invaders?

You can say a white man living in New Zealand shouldn’t call anyone an invader. I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t know the history of New Zealand. Maybe whites invaded, or maybe the Maoris were happy to see them at first. Perhaps someone will tell me. I am not going to get sidetracked by a Google hunt.

Whites were welcomed to America, and the Indians did not see themselves as a nation with borders, so the notion that whites came as invaders (or illegal aliens) is a canard. The Indians were illiterate and unable to create a real government or its infrastructure, so they had no nation to invade.

The Americas were like the moon. Up for grabs.

No borders, no aliens. That’s how that works.

I can’t find out whether Tarrant considers himself a Christian. He published a manifesto online, but no one seems to have it. These manifestoes usually vanish within a few hours. The authorities, the tech kiddies who run the web (I repeat myself), and a few early birds get to see them, but somehow, they are censored after that. Makes you think conspiracy theorists are onto something.

Journalists are quoting the manifesto online. You would think they would publish it. Maybe they feel the rest of us–the unwashed and the potato eaters–are not mature or sophisticated enough to be trusted with it.

God doesn’t tell Christians to kill other people; he tells us to die for them. That’s the general rule. We no longer have fixed commandments in the era of the Holy Spirit as prime influencer, but I think it’s safe to say that anyone who tells you Christians need to form militias and shoot their enemies is on autopilot. He is tuning into the wrong channel.

In the Old Testament, God told the Jews to kill their enemies, sometimes including their livestock (possibly because their enemies were bestiality enthusiasts). He told the Jews to kill babies and old people. That was a different time. Christianity is the continuation of pre-Christian Judaism, but under Christianity, the requirements God makes on people are different. We don’t have to observe the Mosaic law, and we are required to love our human enemies. We are supposed to fight spirits, not people.

There is a ton of prophecy in the Bible concerning the end times (the Christian era included), and we don’t see anything there about God’s followers rising up and shooting unbelievers. Islam is full of that kind of thing, as well as institutionalized oppression and selective taxation, but Christianity is not.

The New Testament doesn’t contain a single example of God telling a believer to kill another person.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has decided to use this event as a rationale for attacking God.

In the past, we have seen many people use the trite expression “thoughts and prayers.” When bad things happen, they go on Twitter and say they are sending “thoughts and prayers.” I am skeptical. My belief is that most people who say they are praying for other people are not really doing it. I think they say it in order to show they have good intentions and to make the people they’re addressing feel better. I’m not a big fan of the “thoughts and prayers” convention, because I suspect that it’s very empty.

When tragedy strikes, people always say they’re praying for the victims, who are dead. I don’t understand that at all. Once you’re gone, you are beyond the reach of prayer. I have never prayed for a dead person.

I believe that when you say you’re praying for someone, you should do it. It’s also good to say what you’re praying for. It’s even better to pray with them.

Ocasio-Cortez is not in my camp. She is not attacking the expression for its emptiness. She is attacking belief in God.

Here’s what she said: “What good are your thoughts & prayers when they don’t even keep the pews safe?”

Leftists have a history of criticizing Christians who offer “thoughts and prayers” because many of us also support the civil right to own and carry arms. I disagree with them, but I can understand their bent logic. They think our religion bans all weapons (wrong), so they think we should be for forced disarmament, as they are. This is their rationale. In private, they are also against God (generally), but they usually try to keep that out of the conversation, just as they keep their anti-Semitism out of the conversation when they attack Israel and “bankers.”

Ocasio-Cortez is taking the gloves (and mask) off. She is going after God himself. She thinks we’re fools to trust him in a world where some churches and mosques aren’t safe.

It’s a little refreshing to see the openness. I wish more leftists would criticize God openly. I wish they would stop pretending to admire Jesus. They are against him. Jesus was against sexual sin. He was against pride and rebellion. He didn’t believe government (the left’s messiah) was supposed to fix our problems.

Maybe we are seeing a pivotal moment. Maybe more prominent leftists will go after Jesus openly. It would be a good thing. It’s not good that they’re against him, obviously, but it would be good to see them expose themselves as anti-Christian. They fool a lot of weak Christians into voting for them. They avoid abusing Jesus in order to keep those voters in their camp. If they open up, it may wake up some of those who slumber.

It’s going to happen sooner or later. Famous leftists will quit pretending. They’ll run as enemies of Christianity.

In other countries, leftists used to try to shame God all the time. They murdered and enslaved priests and nuns. They banned religion. They used to have a cute trick they used on kids. They would tell schoolchildren to pray for food. Of course, nothing happened. Then they would tell them to pray to Stalin or Ho Chi Minh or some other murderous dictator for food. Then they would wheel in carts of pastries and so on.

It’s strange that so many American Democrats don’t know who they’re in bed with.

As for the disturbing success of Ocasio-Cortez, Isaiah 3 said it best:

For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah
The stock and the store,
The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;

The mighty man and the man of war,
The judge and the prophet,
And the diviner and the elder;

The captain of fifty and the honorable man,
The counselor and the skillful artisan,
And the expert enchanter.

“I will give children to be their princes,
And babes shall rule over them.

The people will be oppressed,
Every one by another and every one by his neighbor;
The child will be insolent toward the elder,
And the base toward the honorable.”

When we mock God long enough, he gives up on us. He lets us have our way. We see it in Romans 1:

For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

God doesn’t make you sin, but he will let you live in rebellion and failure if you persist in rejecting him. Human parents do the same thing, when they have been pushed too far.

Ocasio-Cortez is ignorant. She is unaccomplished. She is not bright. She is immature. She is impudent. She is extremely arrogant. She is eager to take cruel, draconian action against her betters. She is the picture of the Isaiah 3 ruler.

In saner times, it would be remarkable to see leftists acknowledge her at all. Ordinarily, you would expect even the left to be sharp enough to realize she’s an embarrassment. It’s strange that they would even permit her to rise. For them to lionize her is far worse. They treat her like a sage. They revere her. They call her by her initials, just like FDR and JFK. That’s lunacy. It’s proof that God has allowed them to be deluded, like mental patients.

In 2008, we elected a former Chicago bagman with no discernible gifts and almost no political accomplishments to the highest office in the world. That was bad, but Ocasio-Cortez makes Obama look like Solomon. It makes you wonder what the next level is. Who will succeed her as Satan’s darling? Maybe we’ll elect R. Kelly.

I prayed for her today. She’s not the real enemy. She is the glove. The enemy is the hand. I don’t know whom God will choose. Maybe God can reach her.

We need to avoid anger. It’s true that we are besieged, and it’s true that we are treated unfairly by very low people, but anger isn’t helpful. When people abuse you, they also tempt you. They try to make you like them.

There is a famous saying: “Never argue with a fool. They’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” It’s funny, but it’s true. It’s bad to be provoked and mistreated, but it’s far worse to become like your enemies.

God has been helping me with empathy. It’s not easy to be empathetic in this world. When you are provoked constantly, it’s hard to focus on what other people feel. It’s hard to think of them as small, weak creatures that want and need love, acceptance, and help. I suppose only the Holy Spirit can help us do it.

We need to ask God for empathy every day. It has to be important to us. Otherwise, we’ll be just like the children of darkness. When we see obnoxious people in the news, or we encounter them in our daily lives, we have to consider their status as isolated, fatherless, untaught beings who suffer just as we do. We have to try to feel what they feel. Even if we can’t reach them, we should not stew in our own bile when we think of them. It doesn’t give us revenge on them, it hurts our health, and it puts barriers between us and God.

Failure of empathy is what separates psychopaths from the rest of us.

I’m not saying we should cling to, or enable, our human enemies. Just that we need to avoid being infected by their hate.

Maybe you don’t need this change, but I do. I’m tired of feeling less empathetic than I want. I’m tired of dismissing other people’s suffering because I feel powerless to do anything about it or afraid to get dragged into their problems. I’m sure God will provide empathy, and that he will limit our burdens so empathy doesn’t destroy us. He promised us that his yoke was easy and his burden light.

I used to embrace anger. I thought it was fun. I did myself a lot of harm.

I look forward to seeing leftists speak honestly about their hatred of Jesus. In any battle, you need to know where the lines are drawn. Maybe the body of Christ will be improved once we realize we’re not among friends.

More: The Manifesto is Out There

I found Tarrant’s manifesto. I don’t know why those in power are trying to censor it. There is always a big push to prevent mass murderers from becoming famous, but it’s a sham. News outlets and social media sites promote the daylights out of mass-shooting stories, while shutting down social media pages and refusing to let us see what the killers said. Complete hypocrisy.

His manifesto is called “The Great Replacement,” and it’s a PDF that runs 74 pages.

I will present some quotations the press will not like.

He asks himself, “Were/are you a conservative?” His response: “No, conservatism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

The question: “Were/are you a christian?” His response: “That is complicated. When I know, I’ll tell you.” He was not a Christian; you can’t be a Christian without knowing it.

The question: “Were/are you a fascist?” The response is long:

Yes. For once, the person that will be called a fascist, is an actual fascist. I am sure the journalists will love that.I mostly agree with Sir Oswald Mosley’s views and consider myself an Eco-fascist by nature.The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People’s Republic of China.

So he’s an environmental extremist, which means not conservative at all. He’s also inconsistent. China is a huge polluter.

Journalists claim he supported Donald Trump. Here is what he said:

“Were/are you a supporter of Donald Trump? As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no.”

In other words, no, he does not support Donald Trump. He simply supports using Trump as a symbol of racism.

Here’s another quotation the left won’t like:

“Why do you blame immigrants and not the capitalists? I blame both, and plan to deal with both.”

Not a fan of capitalism.

He includes a little essay on conservatism. Here is part of it:

Not a thing has been conserved other than corporate profits and the the ever increasing wealth of the 1% that exploit the people for their own benefit.Conservatism is dead. Thank god. Now let us bury it and move on to something of worth.

CONSERVATISM IS DEAD, THANK GOD.

He doesn’t like mainstream leftists, either:

To Antifa/Marxists/Communists

I do not want to convert you, I do not want to come to an understanding. Egalitarians and those that believe in heirachy will never come to terms.I don’t want you by my side or I don’t want share power.

I want you in my sights.

I want your neck under my boot.

SEE YOU ON THE STREETS YOU ANTI-WHITE SCUM

He has a short essay about his “green” notions. It tends to support his claim that he’s a fascist. The title: “Green nationalism is the only true nationalism.”

People think “fascism” is a right-wing idea. That’s not actually true. It’s poorly defined, and it can apply to just about any authoritarian government.

He’s out there on the left on the issue of labor. In a bit titled “Break the Back of Cheap Labour,” he says:

Whether that is by encouraging and pushing increases to the minimum wage; furthering the unionization of workers; increasing the native birthrate and thereby reducing the need for the importation of labour; increasing the rights of workers; pushing for the increase in automation or advancement of industrial labour replacement or any other tactic that is available.

In the end human greed and the need for increasing profit margins of capital owners needs to be fought against and broken.

CHEAP LABOUR IS SLAVE LABOUR, REFUSE TO IMPORT MODERN SLAVES

Tarrant is like most people who mistreat others in the name of social causes. He was looking for an excuse to be sadistic, and he found it. It didn’t really matter what the cause was. He would have been just as happy killing for Greenpeace or Antifa as for the ascendancy of white people.

If you want to pigeonhole this man, put him in the “sadist” and “racist” pigeonholes, along with “environmental extremist” and “socialist.” Those are the best fits. “Conservative” and “Christian” don’t work at all.

And we would not know this, if someone hadn’t seen fit to download the manifesto and make it available. We would have to swallow the MSM stuff. Trump supporter! Conservative! Not hardly.

Still More

I looked into the history of New Zealand. The Maoris didn’t show up until somewhere around 1300. There were at least two groups of Maoris, and one pretty much exterminated the other.

Europeans visited in 1642, but they made their big push a hundred years later, and it was peaceful. They got along well with the Maoris.

No invasion.