This morning we celebrate, locally, the sacrifice of servicemen who have died for King and Country from the Land Wars of the 1860s to the Sandbox. The celebration date is shared with Australia, and dates from when the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp (ANZAC) hit the beaches it Gallipoli. Yes, that was a defeat. A terrible one. Yet we celebrate this: not VE day, not Armistice Day (which is when the British and Canadians celebrate such).
And the text today is about the resurrection. It is a reassurance that those who have died in Christ are not lost. And that we have all to face judgment. But… as the sermon noted yesterdays, we have our sins forgiven, and can stand on that day because of the name of Christ. We have been forgiven in his name. That we are not in fellowship in Christ, and that we can and have overcome the evil one. That as the young are strong, and courageous, and one victory in the Land Wars, the Boer War, The Great War, The second World War, Korea, the Malayan emergency, and (on the battlefield) in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, so the young can practice true virtue and gain a victory.
If we live and obey as Christ commands. This is the struggle, this is the challenge. And there is a reward.
I am writing to you, little children,
because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake.
I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, children,
because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God abides in you,
and you have overcome the evil one.1 John 2:12-14 ESV)
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
(Matthew 6:1 ESV)
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
(1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV)
however this elite do not want us to think that there is anything greater than the state, which is them. They want us atomized, as slaves. They think not of virtue, or courage or righteousness, but instead the appearance of the same.
What is good in this world the Social Justice Twerps want to enter and ruin. What is true and good must be bought down. Common sense does not matter. The sacrifice of the generations before us does not matter.
For they cannot tolerate sin, or the idea od shame, or considering others before themselves.
We have North Carolina saying there should be penis free bathrooms in public places. And various organizations, such as Cirque de Soliel, choosing not to go there because it offends the “rights” of the gender dysphoric. But most of such would be horrified to be placed in a position where a little kid could see them. Pedobear, however, sees a vector, and no matter how much virtue signalling happens, North Carolina has chosen.
Not having to deal with Bruce Springsteen and Cirque de Soliel, is, of course, a bonus.
Cirque du Sashay is one of many examples of shitlib virtue signaling, in which the conspicuous assertion and indulgence of virtuous feeling is more important than virtuous deed. Boycotting a state for an eminently reasonable law to prohibit cross-dressing men from women’s restrooms while continuing to do business in a country that would throw cross-dressing men off buildings to cheering crowds below is as little virtuous as it is greatly hypocritical. Donning a mantle of virtue to impress friends and win plaudits from similarly signaling virtuomos is not the same thing as actual virtue.
There are three psychological motivations compelling shitlib virtue signaling about tranny “””rights””” (this bullet list can be applied to nearly every shitlib cause du jour).
1. Shitlibs don ‘t really believe Arabs (or blacks/mestizos/gypsies/etc) are as evolved, culturally or genetically, as Western Whites, and therefore can’t be expected to adhere to Western morals. Shitlibs are in truth extremely racist and expect more from Whites and less from nonWhites, which is why they punish (as they see it) minor transgressions by BadWhites more severely than major transgressions by NuminousNonwhites.
2. Shitlibs don’t really give a shit about tranny rights, they just want to act self-righteous and gain social status points with their amygdala-stunted SWPL peers. Their virtue, such as it is, is wholly self-aggrandizing in the pursuit of social benefits that will redound to their (awkwardly androgynous) reproductive fitness.
3. Shitlibs are one group of Whites that hate another group of Whites, and their moral causes are merely weaponized rhetoric to lower the social standing of the enemy Whites best situated to be the group that ousts shitlibs from power. Virtue signaling thus accomplishes two fitness-maximizing tasks for the shitlib: raising their own social status and lowering the social status of their most immediate and capable competitors: nonshitlib Whites and shitlib Whites who may grow a pair and stray off the reservation (taking many others with them to foment revolution against the reigning shitlib order). In this motivation, virtue signaling can as reasonably be called ‘virtue warning’.
As the scope of the battles in which shitlibs can morally posture shrinks, the ridiculousness of their causes approaches lunacy. We are reaching the logical end-game of shitlibbery, and it’s nothing less than wholesale normalization of mental illness. One can only guess what’s next on the shitlib plate, but advocacy for “benign” forms of pedophilia and bestiality are certainly a possibility.
Virtue signalling is the current tax vice pays to deny virtue. This is degeneration from hypocrisy, which acknowledged virtue. The SJW do not perform acts in public so men can praise them, for that would do some good. Instead they want to regulate the values for which people can praise, so that any good deed leads to pointing and shrieking.
But this is not reality. There is a life to come. And those who cause scandal, who cause the smallest and most frail of us to sin, face the greatest punishment. The small and frail should know that they have had their sins forgiven in the name of CHrist, who is sovereign over all, and they have fellowship with the father and creator of all.
Not me microregulated into a lake of fire.
Let us be virtuous. Let us obey Christ. The neo-Marxist “Liberals” will seethe. But their time will soon end.
That bullet list is great.