Ha ha! What a brilliant post!

[T]he same way a brain-damaged child simply cannot perform the basic mental functions of speech and reason is said to be mentally retarded, a man whose conscience cannot reach the most obvious, practical and necessary conclusions of moral law is morally retarded.

Moral retardation can be detected when man’s conscience is not telling him the moral information he needs to live his day-to-day life. If your conscience tells you human life is no more valuable than that of a cat or pig, then, logically, you should be able to castrate your son with no more moral ramifications than gelding your tomcat, or likewise cut up your wife for bacon. This is not a practical way to live.

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Are we pre-eminent above other species in acts of justice, charity, oblative love, beauty, in pomp and circumstances, in the building of cathedrals, the writing of symphonies, the launching of moonshots? The question is absurd in the asking. No animal cares about these things, or has the capacity to understand them. You can have a space race between Uncle Sam and Uncle Joe Stalin. We are not competing with the bears to see who puts the first pawprint on Mars.

So in what sense is it “perversely comforting” to contemplate the annihilation of our species and the vanity of all human hopes and aspirations? Only someone who looks on man with a shudder of distaste is comforted.

Someone who is rooting for mankind, a human, would not ask these things. Someone who is cheering for the death of humanity, a monster, to him it is the most natural thing in the world.

So here is my question. When did the atheists suddenly turn into monsters?

Read it and relish it!

This is a very nice short history of how Christians ended the slave trade. I read it in printed form at church a while back. An uplifting and enlightening piece.

It veers off into nonsense right at the end — something about climate change — but that doesn’t detract much from this very good essay.

I just posted an essay I really like on my political Blog — littletinsoldier.net.

These are the main historical characteristics of Christian/Muslim history:

• 1500 years of peace
• brothers in honourable combat
• a bulwark against invasion
• a zone of tolerance
• allies against the real monsters

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Only in recent years has a brand of terrorist totalitarianism thrown on the fleece of the Islamic religion. And a handful of shabby bandit leaders and their rabble of cut throats have presumed to declare war on the West on behalf of the great Religion of Peace.

Is that really enough for us to forget what beloved cousins the Muslims have been to us all these centuries?

Read it here.

I have a post on Little Tin Soldier (my new political Blog) about Holy Matrimony, gay marriage and the 1999 Australian Repubican Referendum called ‘Defending the City of Light’

I’ve moved this post to my other Blog Little Tin Soldier.net

The real symbol of Socialism’s Continuous Revolution is not the hammer, the sickle, the red flag, the black flag, the red or yellow star, the ear of corn or rice, or the raised fist. Nor is it the red shirt, the black shirt, the brown shirt, the black pyjamas, the Che Guevara T-shirt, or the black beret with black polo necked sweater. Nor the hippy peace sign, its anti-nuclear crow’s foot variant, or the ‘A’-in-a-circle anarchist symbol. Nor is it any of the towering images of a Benign Leader, or the many graphic representations of New Socialist Man. Nor is it even the chattering AK47, the clanking T55, the ubiquitous RPG-7, the military boot, the HoChiMin sandal, or one of innumerable mass graves or piles of whitened skulls.

The real symbol of Socialism’s Continuous Revolution is the airbrush.

P-f-f-f-f-f-t… Murder, insanity and unspeakable crimes are wiped from our memory. And the revolution continues.