Tom’s Big Picture

I have been around a lot of dispensationalists who point to Israel’s “against all odds” victories in wars with Arab states as proof of God’s blessing, but I’m not impressed.  There have been greater victories in our own history, against worthier opponents- the average American Christian doesn’t really understand the advantage that 110+ IQ Jews with modern weapons have over 90 IQ Arabs with rusting Soviet junk; they’re picturing scenes from the Old Testament when Israel really was disadvantaged and needed God’s intervention to win.  Similarly, I was just starting to think that Iran’s president had something up his sleeve, with the escalation of rhetoric that (in my mind) would only make sense if he had a surprise prepared.  But, of course, in the end it’s just another example of Middle Eastern incompetence, as Iran apparently hasn’t been paying its bills.  Let me get this straight: you’re picking a fight with a nuclear power, and you most need nuclear capability yourself to ensure your sovereignty; you have gobs of oil money, but you don’t pay the friggin’ nuclear fuel bill??!!  This also explains why the richest region in the world needs good old boys from Schlumberger and Chevron to pump their oil for them, and why 9/11 hasn’t been repeated…I think the Arab/Muslim “threat” has been overblown, especially if we simply deported all of them through a sane immigration policy.  Then we’d have no need to be in Iraq, foolishly trying to turn people whose idea of justice is a severed head into Jeffersonian democrats…

The German strategist Von Clausewitz described war as “politics by other means.” I believe the inverse is true as well- politics is simply war by other means. This is why I am somewhat annoyed at people who object to “negativity” and “mud-slinging” in politics, as fighting with words and going home to sleep in peace is much preferable to a physical fight to the finish. And since negative ads are the only ones with any real content (as the public is generally not interested in dispassionate analysis of the issues), they’re the only chance to work out serious issues before things get to the physical fighting stage.

But most people don’t realize the nature of the war of ideas in the culture, especially conservatives, who are always trying to apologize for who they are in hopes of gaining approval from their sworn enemies. What they don’t realize is that the Left has a play-book for defense, an escalation strategy depending on how hard you hit them. These escalating strategies are summarized below:

1. The Religious Nut Attack

2. The Freudian Attack

3. The X-ist or X-ic attack, where X is a variable depending on the offense, whether that’s racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic or another choice liberal charge.

4. And finally, their biggest gun, The Nazi Attack.

All other things being equal, the Religious Nut Attack is their favorite, as the Left has contempt for traditional religion, and they simply dismiss you as an idiot. Most of the time this happens to hapless Christians who don’t understand the Lord’s admonition to not throw pearls before swine.

If instead of quoting the Bible, one focuses on Leftist behavior, they bring out the old standby, The Freudian Attack. This attack was conceptually underpinned by the great pseudoscientist Freud and perfected by the cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School (who were kicked out of Germany in the 1930’s for their culturally destructive theories, which explains their obsession with Nazism) in their famous studies on “The Authoritarian Personality” (now debunked due to their poor experimental methods). The TAP studies were essentially rigged “experiments” whose inevitable conclusions were that religious families with strong father figures are the building blocks of “fascism”. As I’ve explained before, this is why father figures (especially white male father figures) are hardly ever portrayed in a positive light by the liberal elites who run Hollywood and television- they literally think that such a portrayal will lead to “fascism” (which in their mind is just conservative government and society based on traditional families), which would be bad for people who make their living degrading the culture. It’s kind of a catch-22 for them mentally- they believe that they have to degrade the culture to prevent “fascism”, but it is their degrading of the culture that makes the “fascist” scenario so dangerous for people in their position.

The Frankfurt School, through the debunked TAP studies, essentially described conservatism and traditional family life as a mental illness. In the Freudian mythology, when conservatives get angry with Leftist behavior, it’s because they’re sexually repressed. Seriously, that’s the essence of the Freudian attack- circular reasoning that says liberalism is correct, any objection to liberalism is mental illness, and (in the Freudian mythology) mental illness is caused by sexual repression, the details of which could only be dreamed up in Freud’s sick mind and are not suitable for a family site.

Now, if instead of being angry, a conservative actually points out facts that are uncomfortable to the Left, they bring out the X-ist and X-ic attacks. As Rush Limbaugh once defined the term, a bigot is someone winning an argument with a liberal. This attack is also based on circular reasoning, the Marxist mythology of absolute human equality. When this postulate of the Left disagrees with reality, as it often does, they are forced to bring out various conspiracy theories like “racism” and “sexism” to explain the diversity of outcomes for various groups. Since many issues are linked to the essential nature of man (or the different varieties of man, there being no abstract universal “man”), and the nature of each man or woman is tied intimately to genetics and gender, conservatives who make arguments based on reality will brush up against the Equality Mythology quite often in a way that makes the Left uncomfortable.

Unfortunately, most conservatives are double-minded about this issue, and try to make reality-based arguments while still mouthing the Equality Faith, at least publicly. However, reality and non-equality are so intimately linked that liberals will make the connection for them, and then proceed to call them a nasty name of the X-ist and X-ic variety. Conservatives, always wanting to please liberals, quickly repent of their sin against the Equality Cult and say stupid things that undermine their other arguments, all to please the liberal and avoid the dreaded X-ist and X-ic label.

What happens to conservatives who don’t repent? What happens to those who have the courage to make reality-based arguments and resist X-ist and X-ic attacks? Liberals call these people Nazis. You see, anyone who refuses to confess the Equality Creed is figuratively burned at the stake as a heretic, and in our degraded culture the only real sin is intolerance, and so heretics get smeared with the worse curse word little liberal minds can dream of in their rather limited moral system: Nazi. Never mind that Hitler was small-time compared to the hundreds of millions murdered in the name of the liberal Equality Creed through Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and Roe. In their moral system, Nazism is it, the polar axis of evil to which all others must be compared.

So what does this have to do with Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary? Well, Mohler said some interesting things about biology and homosexuality last week that offended the Left- most notably, a call for medical intervention to prevent homosexuality if were determined to be biologically-based. And for that sin, the idea that not all sexual “orientations” are equal, and that this disease ought to be wiped out like polio, he is called Josef Mengele, the Left’s arch-demon of their Nazi-obsessed mythology.

The article below summarizes the controversy:

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17615602/from/ET/

Mohler’s original piece here:

www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=891

My thoughts on the specifics of Mohler’s article in part two…