Without honour in one’s own country [Mark 6]

Does growing up with someone make one immune to their achievements? Do you disavow the good your brothers and sisters have done? This is a blind spot. When my brother succeeds (and he has) I am proud of him. When my sister is happy, I am happy. And when my mother and father grieve, I am on the phone and thinking of how to get up North.

For I no longer live where I grew up. None of us do. That area is now a red-light district.

What we see in this passage is an emotional argument “He is a Galilean like us. It is not his place. He cannot be a prophet, for we are not prophets”.

But Jesus was more than a prophet. He was and is the Messiah, and will be the salvation of nature: rescuing this world before it is completely grey goo, converged, with no variety: as Dante pointed out, there is no beauty in hell.

Mark 6:1-13

1He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! 3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4Then Jesus said to them, “Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house.” 5And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. 6And he was amazed at their unbelief.

Then he went about among the villages teaching. 7He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; 9but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. 10He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. 11If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” 12So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. 13They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.

What is this convergence? It is the triumph of theory, that beautiful lie, over the crude and peasantly facts. It is a rebellion against our created states and the limits we have: instead of rejoicing in the beauty that we see all is disavowed in the name of the narrative. As dc.sunsets notes:

There are two pillars:
1. Turning the humiliation of others into a sport (where I am among the “Emanuel Goldsteins” subjected to Two Minutes Hate orgies), and
2. Destroying standards while continuously amplifying the demand to openly accept the next absurd fantasy.

As Angelo Codevilla pointed out (The Rise of Political Correctness), the Leftist Cult Theocrats’ demand that observable reality be rejected in favor of their Fantasy-du-jour was ALL about subjugation and control, just as described in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

(snip).

Where, if the trend did not reverse, would they have tried to go? Can any of us imagine what our great-grandparents would say if someone had predicted that men who prefer sex with men would be permitted equal standing when adopting an infant boy in the state’s care?

No. The Theocrats humiliate me. They seek to destroy my economic well-being. They tax me both money and via “set asides” of jobs, housing, educational opportunity and government contracts for people who expressly differ from me in ways that don’t matter to the job, house, school or contracted work.

Then they demand I bow and scrape when they hold up four fingers and insist I see five.

Frankly, the only reason these people are still breathing is that people like me are not yet fully backed into a corner.

A maniacally positive social mood put a lid on opposition to all this. It erected a dam, behind which a reservoir of rage was filled these past 50 years, capped by a flash flood of RAGE during Obama’s 2nd term. The rage laps over the top of the dam, and cracks (in the form of MAGA-Trumpism) crisscross its face.

The mistake the MSM/Assclown celebrity Clergy of the Theocracy make is in thinking that if Trump goes down, they’ll return to power. No—if things go sideways from here and Trump is blamed, the Right (alt and all) will dynamite that dam holding back all that rage.

If the masked a-holes and BLM’ers start burning things, the Flood of Rage Right will respond. I actually think Trump is all that stands between us and that.

The natural order would have seen fraternal love mean that the brothers and sisters of Christ were at his back from the beginning. That they were those who helped him: and we know that James did believe and led the Church in Jerusalem. But emotion overcame reason, because to give Christ this power confronted their chosen fate. The Galileans were trapped by bias (as most people who live on the March (or border) have been in most places) economic hardship, and the tyranny of the Herodians. Christ came healing and preaching repentance.

They saw the cost of following him as too great. They wanted a comforting narrative. They did not want Christ.

And they would be shocked by our unbelief.

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