Comments on: Sad puppies or rabid otters? https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/09/sad-puppies-or-rabid-otters/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Fri, 12 Aug 2016 21:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: Looking Glass https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/09/sad-puppies-or-rabid-otters/comment-page-1/#comment-6183 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:41:13 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=7382#comment-6183 On the topic in General, it’s a point I make about the Church over the last 200 years. The devil’s best trick was convincing us of our own Press. All of the “Christian Nations” stuff is sort of bunk. If you read any of the active Christian writers, during any decade over the last 300 years, what they don’t describe is rising Christianity until the revival movements happen. They talk of constant decay of morals. So the brutal “lie” is that we are not like the Children of Israel, coming to the Lord one generation then leaving him the next.

Further with that lie, anyone of an (American-style) “conservative” bent, who doesn’t like to blow things up without a really good reason, has boxed themselves in mentally as a “boy scout”. That there are codes to the war (spiritual and social) that are made from myths. It’s a brilliant trick to get your adversary to play by rules they invented for themselves with a rose-colored history book.

This is normally the place to toss in a historical point about a military being unprepared at the start of the war, taken off guard by the result of a battle, then utterly changing tactics. That this type of historical point happens with every conflict actually tells us more about human nature than we like to think. But things will change, and rapidly. I just hope it’s not as bloody as I think it could be.

]]> By: Looking Glass https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/09/sad-puppies-or-rabid-otters/comment-page-1/#comment-6182 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:29:15 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=7382#comment-6182 Oh Lord, “waifu” is making it mainstream.

That hurts my soul a little.

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