I am looking around the various blogs out there. Ann Barnhardt is talking about a prophecy of St Francis and if the current Bishop of Rome is diabolical. There are articles in Zero Hedge about the upper middle class not being able to make ends meet. Because they cannot cut their cloth to fit circumstances.

And there are local anxieties: the local paper has its fair share of bad news. But we need to look at a different perspective. This time is not the only one that matters.

And there will be a judgement. Take confidence. Christ has dealt with our sin.

This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(2 Thessalonians 1:5-12 ESV)

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

(Matthew 6:25-34 ESV)

The first passage here is not one that I have heard preached. No one wants to talk about hell, or the consequences of actions. It is seen as triggering. It must be silenced: indeed free speech must be silenced.

For the academy has gone full moron, and is now a kindergarten.

Students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst set a new high for hysteria Monday night at an event featuring Christina Hoff Sommers, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Steven Crowder.

The event was intended to be a forum and discussion about the use of political correctness on campus, but degenerated into a shouting match as protesters sought to drown out the speakers with cries of “hate speech” and, less imaginatively, “fuck you.”

“Stop talking to us like children!” … “Then stop acting like a child.”

One of the protesters took it upon herself to pass out literature expressing her concern for the “triggering” event, claiming the speakers “all demonstrate either that you don’t give a shit about people’s trauma and pain and think it’s funny to thrust people into states of panic and distress OR that you fundamentally do not understand what a trigger is, what it means to be triggered, and what a trigger warning is meant to prevent.”

When Campus Reform asked the activist to elaborate on the flyers, she refused to provide her name or comment because, as she put it, “Campus Reform causes death and death threats due to its extreme language.”

As the speakers walked onto the stage they were greeted with boos and middle fingers from many audience members, to which Steven Crowder graciously responded with a middle finger of his own.

The speakers were constantly interrupted throughout the event by shouts from the audience to “go home” or that “we don’t want you here,” with some of the most enthusiastic hollering coming from the very protester Campus Reform had attempted to speak with before the event.

But we need free speech. So we can warn. So we can correct. So we can be corrected. We need the ability to leave each other grace — particularly on theological differences. For the ultracalvinist and traditional Catholic are brothers in Christ, though they disagree on the immaculate state of Mary, and transubstantiation [1].

Racist thought and expression is protected under the first amendment; expression of racism in public is an act, rather like the expression of bias displayed by Zoe Quinn. Acts are fair game. Discuss.

I totally disagree. This is a straightforward violation of the Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction. A cannot be Not A. If expression is protected by the First Amendment, then it is protected and it is therefore not fair game. A thought is also an act, after all. But the important thing is that if people can lose their jobs for freely speaking their racist or anti-semitic views in private, they can just as easily lose them for speaking their Zionist, or feminist, or libertarian views.

That would negate the whole point of protecting free expression, which is to avoid a merciless struggle for thought and speech control. You should never assume your side is always going to be on top, and a civilized society depends upon not backing one’s ideological opponents into corners.

We are of Christ. It is Christ who saved us, and it is not our doing.

So let us be faithful and praise God. In this time, we are very likely going to be spat on, abused, no platformed — if we are fortunate. Our brothers and sisters in Syria are being crucified.

But the enemy is raging, for his time is limited. And he knows he faces destruction. He controls the spirit of the age: the zeitgeist. The elite are aligned with him.

The reason we should not compete to be part of is because we have enough to worry about today. And because to join the elite is to put our souls in peril.

Do not be part of this doomed elite. Do not be like them.

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1. Ultracalvinists tend to not consider that one shows one is of Christ by obeying his will, and see no need to preach. They are in error.
The communion is a symbol and a remebrance of Christ: he is not sacrificed each time and the use of body and blood is a metaphor.
Mary and Joseph gave Jesus brothers and sisters. God is merciful to them, for they obeyed him and had great courage. We should honour both, but to say they were virginal from the beginning and without error is to contradict scripture. So the Romans are in error indeed.