There is a spiritual battle going on, and it is being fought in odd places. It is obvious that the elite colleges are now pagan and are to avoided, and that the courts have nematodes with legal degrees challenging a righteous law on death. One of the reasons that I no longer support ACT is they promote euthanasia. It is a consequence of the Randite in them being unbalanced: in their seek for a libertarian solution they reject God and have become stupid, then ineffective.

There is a high chance that Labour and their Green minions will win our election in two weeks. The alternative are progressive conservatives that are more progressive than conservative. They also have been captured. Two examples, via infogalactic news from today.

Students gathered at Harvard University on Wednesday to denounce a speech by an author who co-wrote a book discussing racial differences in intelligence and touched off a boisterous protest earlier this year in Vermont.
Chanting “black, brown, Asian, white, Harvard united for human rights” and “you can’t turn us around,” dozens of students stood on the front lawn of the university’s Museum of Natural History to protest the appearance of Charles Murray as his speech got underway inside.
Murray, a political scientist who co-authored the 1994 book “The Bell Curve,” has said his views are misunderstood. His speech on Wednesday was closed to the media.
Student speakers, part of the organizing Black Students Association and the Undergraduate Council’s Black Caucus, condemned what they say is Murray’s hateful rhetoric, which they believe is an attack on the existence of minorities.
“He’s trying to whitewash our existence,” said Ian Hayes, a 19-year-old sophomore. “He isn’t misunderstood, he’s wrong — plain and simple.”
One of the organizers of the demonstration, Anwar Omeish, a 21-year-old junior from Fairfax, Virginia, said Murray’s ideas are “flawed.”
“If it’s about contributions to global conversations, his is not a particularly worthy one,” Omeish said.
A parallel talk at the university’s northwest building, involving professors and students, was held shortly after the demonstration. The professors identified Murray as an empirically discredited and overtly racist speaker whose work is heavily reliant on biological determinism.

New York’s ban on assisted suicide stands after the state’s highest court rejected arguments from terminally ill patients who want the right to seek life-ending drugs from a doctor.
The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that state lawmakers had a rational reason for passing a ban on assisted suicide and that the ban doesn’t violate the state constitution.
The case was brought by patients and advocates who say New Yorkers with a terminal illness shouldn’t have to suffer needlessly.
The ruling isn’t expected to end the debate as advocates will try again next year to pass legislation to permit physician-assisted suicide. That bill didn’t get a vote this year.
Colorado, Washington, Vermont, California, Oregon and Washington, D.C., have laws allowing people to seek a doctor’s help in ending their life.

The question has to be what to do now. How do we live. How do we negotiate this generation. And James had this advice, writing to a church that was being persecuted.

James 5:7-20

⁷Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. ⁸You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. ⁹Beloved, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors! ¹⁰As an example of suffering and patience, beloved, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. ¹¹Indeed we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

¹²Above all, my beloved, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

¹³Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. ¹⁴Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. ¹⁶Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. ¹⁷Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ¹⁸Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest.

¹⁹My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another, ²⁰you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

What to take from this?

• We are to not grumble about this time. We would prefer that the falling away occured in another generation and another time. That the socialists had not subverted all our universities and that the civil service throughout the West was not run by the Sharia Stasi. But this is the time we are in. By living, we are a witness.
• We are to look to the return of Christ. Not to the epiphenomenonata that make up the news cycle, nor the fights between the alt reich and the dark enlightenment, nor the equivelant battle between the antifa and those with social concerns. This world will be unjust until Christ returns. We don’t have to like the evil that is now called good.
• We shall ignore the compulsory oaths and attitudes of this time. Instead we will tell the truth.
• We will have to care for our own. There will be a time when those who shun evil will not be allowed into the converged nursing or medical trades, for their professional ethos will be broken. (This has not happened, yet. But the Soviets and Nazis both got close). We will be left with prayer, and the Lord.
• As an aside (or gloss) the antibiotics we have are no longer work. Syphilis and Gonorrhoea are now polyresistant. We may be left with righteous living as a public health issue
• Be cheerful when you can
• Correct each others. Do not be angry or grumble if corrected, but accept it. To bring a brother or sister back from apostasy is a good thing, and to be encouraged.

But do not look to this narrative or the progressive movement or any human activity for your salvation. Look to Christ. When he returns, he will still have his church: for the gates of hell have already been broken by his resurrection. This is a time of witness, before the end, when all will be known, and we will see that we are not worthy, but through him.