Jesus is walking towards Jerusalem. And he has told his disciples that he is going to be arrested, tortured, and that he will die. They do not believe him. Many think this is a start of a Davidic kingdom.
And there is a grating voice. Someone yelling “heal me”. It’s rude. He’s told to shut up, be silent, this is inappropriate.
But Bartimeus is remembered because he remained inappropriate.
Mark 10:46-52
46They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. 47When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 48Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 49Jesus stood still and said, “Call him here.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.” 50So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” 52Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.
Politeness and niceness is the handmaiden of tyranny. There are times we should be actively rude and dealing with the race baiters, the fascists of this world is one of them. For they say respecting their position is appropriate, when the more correct position is to put them out of civilized conversation, with the dung and rabid dogs.
While they recite some supremacist cant, street level politicos and pseudo-academic community organizers opt instead for urban-based, de facto separatist enclaves, to be supported by everybody else. Still others choose to dress for success, lose the preacher cadence and work within the establishment to promote a general system of mandatory privilege and preferences. The latter two deploy a pastiche of diversity blather and White Privilege dogma—which is a parody of nineteenth century notions about White Man’s Burden. The militants don’t much care how they’re thought of by outsiders, while the “privilege and preference” activists have made adulation obligatory. This has been up and running for so long it’s too familiar to belabor. Unsurprisingly, again, it’s federally funded.
Praise the praiseworthy, not those who demand this. Ignore them.
Ignore them. For they state the gospel is passe, the race matters, that we should unite as a volk, and bring in the Reich. Fools. We fought against this for six bloody years, that ended with Nagasaki glowing in the dark. and mass suicide of the Reichfuhren in a Bunker.
If to be in Christ is to be inappropriate, be inappropriate. If the cool are pagan, let them be cool and dead. Choose life. And if saying the truth — that race activists are racists, that our society was never a democracy and now is moving from republic to tyranny — then it’s time for us to be rude boys.
For the fashions and foolishness of this time and this period will fade and be as mocked as the yuppie padded shoulder suits of the 80s. (it has been my curse to be young through two decades that taste forgot).
The truth has never been polite or fashionable. Beauty has often confronted fashion, and honour besmirched, But choose those. Be rude.
