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Political Idolatry, Free but Inept Will, & Choosing a Meal

Professing Christians who consider Donald J. Trump, not just the lesser evil of two lamentable major-party candidates, but a national savior with the stamp of divine approval, continue to use their ostensible Lord’s name in vain to promote Trump (Exodus 20:7, Deuteronomy 5:11). It seems two of the sort of big-government, “national conservative” types who now dominate the political Right have even written a whole book inspired by the “miracle” of Trump’s…

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Opposing Anarchy, “Defending” Skepticism, and Promoting Life to Liberty-Lovers Gone Wrong

Prospective Remarks This post comprises three sets of remarks: Some concluding comments will follow these three sets of remarks, though I can’t promise those comments will strengthen the linkages between the sets. I can’t even promise that they will attempt to do so. Favoring liberty but opposing anarchy, defending radical skepticism as a coherent and rational choice for unbelievers, and promoting the cause of abortion abolition to atheist empiricists who idolize Ayn…

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Abolishing Abortion: On Role Models, Leaving a Party, and Paying for Emancipation

Introduction and Contents My dissatisfaction with American political options persists. As I continue to reflect on what matters most to me in the political realm, I find I must make adjustments to my affiliations and entertain solutions to problems that I would not previously have considered. To those ends, here is what you’ll find in this post: While searching for abortion abolitionist broadcasters on YouTube, I discovered the Abolish Abortion California Initiative…

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Culture War: What Is It Good For? (Or, My Sad Farewell to the Culture War)

Introductory Remarks: Culture Peace As Possible God, through the Apostle Paul, urges his people to, “as much as lieth” in them (that is, insofar as doing so lies within their control), “live peaceably with all men” (Romans 12:18). For a while now, I’ve found it difficult to square this divine directive with efforts to use the government to win the so-called “culture war.” I’ve also been troubled by how some include abortion…

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2022 Q3 Correspondence, Part 2: Christian Libertarianism Reconsidered

Welcome to the latest collection of my off-site correspondence, including online discussion posts and, possibly, remarks I opted not to post. As previously noted, all posts on this site are snapshots of my thinking at whatever point in time I wrote them. Since I’m always modifying and improving my thinking — or trying to — my current opinions may not precisely match this set of snapshots. The following materials are snapshots from…

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Concluding Political Postscript to 2020: My Christian Nationalist Libertarian Platform

Preface ˅ Our nation’s degeneration into tyranny seemed to accelerate in 2020 as a new virus and the respiratory illness caused by it, one with a fatality rate that should not have caused any more fright or alarm than the ubiquitous threat of death hanging over every one of us every day, was used by America’s tyrant-at-heart government “leaders” to force upon a once freedom loving people an increasingly absurd assortment of…

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Californians for Blankenship: An Update

My belief that the Constitution Party’s 2020 presidential ticket * for this year could hope for nothing better than a write-in candidacy was, it turns out, too pessimistic. I learned earlier this week that the ticket will be able to appear on the ballot—provided enough of us are willing to serve as electors. The process for doing this is much less involved than the one I described for a write-in candidacy. The…

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Lamenting Lost Liberty, Lame Candidates, and Lunacy on the Left and Right

Will you weep for the two poor prisoners in their COVID-19 isolation chamber?[1] Pandemic-excused infringements of liberty and a looming presidential election with typically nauseating major-party offerings have focused much of my attention on political matters lately. Fox News remains the Trumpian news network, of late choosing to emphasize its embrace of mass impulse by titling its election-coverage segments “Democracy 2020,” and MSNBC the official anti-Trump network, no doubt taking its lead…

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Dark-World Animadversions and Other Remarks

Will you ignore the stern friar warning you to repent?[0] A new prompted letter and some delayed-release items related to the use and meaning of certain terms follow. Also, like the last post and the post before that, this one includes materials dating back a while. As a result, some items may feel dated. Since I’m not greatly concerned about keeping up with the latest news cycle, just about applying eternal principles…

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Akashic Records Prompt Letters

Since most things that occur to me, and to most people, do turn out to have occurred to someone else before (Ecclesiastes 1:9), I fear I must credit this and all my posts to the mystical Akashic records, that storehouse of all that sentient beings have ever thought or done or experienced….[1] Just kidding. It is past time for a new “[things] prompt letters” post, however. Though I doubtless violate rules of…

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Rhetoric and Cultural Trends Prompt a Sad Farewell, Some Commentary, and a Couple Letters

The relentless march of time continues, making another update necessary. This post is that update. In the items that follow, I bid a sad farewell to the unpeaceable rhetoric of “culture war,” object to the distasteful secular rhetoric of “sex workers,” affirm the right of the people (individuals) to keep and bear arms, condemn public-venue hosting of transvestite events, and make some closing remarks. On 12 October I sent an item to…

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Will, Sensibility, and Tangents

Below: some preliminary remarks on a terminological issue related to a book in progress. The book: George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (New York: Hachette Books, 2019). The issue: “This is a republic, not a democracy—let’s keep it that way!” to quote a John Birch Society sticker you’ve probably never seen. The content: main remarks and tangents. In The Conservative Sensibility, Will brings together various strands of discussion that have grown in prevalence…

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