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John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Imagine your brother and your sister both stagger back from a drunken orgy. The brother says that a woman threatened him and drugged him and forced him to get an erection and copulate with her. The woman had a gun and a knife and a daterape drug and was blackmailing him, and she was stronger and taller than he was. He feels humiliated.

Your sister says she was raped.

I suppose you could make the argument that the crimes were the same, if you did not care that the argument was mere sophistry. In reality, you need to go get a shotgun and kill the boy who raped your sister, or, if you live in a state civilized enough to have a death penalty, turn him over to the law for a quick trial and a slow hanging. Your brother, maybe you need to buy him a drink and lend him a sympathetic ear.

Legatuss #fundie scifiwright.com

There have been people who said to themselves “this universe looks to be made by God, I do not like that”. So, naturally, they wrote a physical book for other people who they believe do not physically exist and have it physically printed and distributed, a lot of work, a book that says “this book, and you, do not exist, it’s all a figment of your imagination”.

Camilla Cameo #fundie scifiwright.com

[H)ow many women would be willing, in return for immunity like a Church from income and other taxes, to lose the right to vote?]

*waves hand in the air* I would!

Heck, I’d give up my vote just for the sake of it being taken away from all other women as well. Even if the vote actually really meant something, you know, like it’s supposed to. Women should not vote; they are too susceptible to emotion, and if men are the only ones voting on behalf of their whole households that should encourage them to take greater responsibility for the good of their entire households.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Girls are allowed to cry and cower, because it is cute, and we gentlemen are supposed to protect them.

But women and naturally less suited for war and conflict than men. If the vote were restricted solely to men, perhaps the public debate over public laws would make fighting wars and fighting crime its primary, or even its only, order of business. Perhaps all these other things, housecleaning the environment, mothering the poor, schoolmarming the schools, would be done privately, not by the government.

Perhaps if women did not vote, they could see to the environment, the schools, and the poor through the institutions of the Church, which are better suited to charitable activity and feminine compassion than the hard and harsh swords and balances of townhall.

The Nanny State only exists in nations where all the Nannies were given a vote.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

For better or worse, reality is conservative. Because of this, drama in any form tends to be conservative: readers still enjoy reading love stories and heroic adventures. Hence a book like Harry Potter, which is based on archetypes as old as cave paintings — wise men with long gray beards, evil serpents, trusted comrades, the unloved orphan (who, like Hercules or Moses, is chosen by fate to slay monsters or evil lords and save his people) — is innately conservative.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

It is no surprise that more leftists buy books, including fairytale books, for their children, and pass along their political viewpoints as well. Leftists already live in Cloudcuckooland, which is next door to fairyland.

I suggest that some enterprising political scientist perform a similar study for any book-reading of any kind, not just books about schoolboy wizards, or, indeed, any idle pastime whatsoever. Leftism is found more among idle folk whose mental immune system is weak: among teens, among university professors, and among everyone else who does not work for a living.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Now, when I was younger and more libertarian in thought, I thought Conservativism and Leftism were political postures. I thought politics included mutual compromise for mutual benefit.

Since 9/11, all that smoke has been blown out of my eyes. Leftism is not a political posture. It is a cross between a mental disease and a death-cult. The only way to prevent Churches from being sued under antidiscrimination laws, or to keep clerks issuing marriage licenses out of jail, is to prevent gay marriage. The only way to prevent gay marriage is to keep the anti-sodomy laws on the books.

The barbarian is either at your feet or at your throat. If the Left were civilized, they would be willing and able to live in peaceful mutual respect and mutual toleration with their neighbors. For psychological reasons that seem to me to be inescapable, the Left cannot be civilized. Because the deeds of men are evil, and so they love the darkness.

sciphi #fundie scifiwright.com

Not to put to finer a point on it, but of course being an atheist makes you stupid. It can’t not make you stupid if you try to take it seriously and not just half ass it the way the new atheist clowns do. Atheism implies a certain metaphysics about the world, this is unavoidable as the atheist cannot consistently hold to a metaphysics that logically concludes their is a creator.

As a result, with the thin and sub-standard metaphysics they are forced to embrace, they are forced to constantly deny things about that cannot fit and cannot exist.

The usual one they start denying is morality but when followed consistently, you need to deny, knowledge, mind, consciousness, reason, logic and ultimately even the idea of composite objects. Why they choose this part to nihilistic madness rather than embrace a generic theism (Deism cannot provide the metaphysical foundation either) is beyond me, but they do.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

And so, confronted with a century of being driven back, step by step, failure by failure, the freethinkers in my generation, who still were capable of reason in the long lost days of my youth, had to abandon the last branch of the tree where atheism could hide. Rather than confess that the universe must have a creator, and that therefore miracles must exist, and that therefore the reports of miracles in the Gospel are not automatically incredible, the freethinkers preferred to go full postmodern, and deny that truth exists. The only way to defeat the one historical question and the three philosophical questions proving and supporting Christian belief as reasonable, was to go full stupid, and deny that truth was true.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

I don’t care if Dr Carson is a creationist or not. Indeed, my opinion of creationism goes up every time I hear of a rocket scientist or brain surgeon who supports it.

For that matter, George Washington was a creationist, as were all educated and civilized men before Darwin erected his rather tenuous hypothesis that species can change characteristics to a point where they form a new species, intersterile with their parent species via an blind process called by the oxymoron ‘natural selection’ (which is to say, unplanned planning; undesigned design).

This theory is not widespread because it satisfies scientific rigor (it does not) but because it pretends to offer a satisfactory explanation for the origin of man that is naturalistic and non-theistic (it is not).

The fact that no scientific observation or experiment has ever confirmed this origin story for man makes it, as far as I am concerned, a dogma of faith taken on authority, but, unlike a religious dogma of faith, by hypothesis there is no authority on which to rely whose word we trust when he tells us it is by this means new species originate.

I don’t care if Dr. Carson thinks the pyramids of Egypt stored the grain of Joseph. I am deeply ashamed for our nation that our press put this matter before public attention, and that the public, including me, is wasting our time with it.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Do you object that I call it a myth? It is a myth. It is not science, it is not even scientific to believe in spontaneous creation of life from non life. Science is based on rational deduction from observations and predictions to confirm the deductions. Here, no observer saw or even has seen life emerge from non life. It cannot even be done deliberately, much less blindly by an natural process. If it were a natural process, we would see it going on around us at all times.

Andrew Brew #fundie scifiwright.com

In short, I do claim that “all science is Christian science”.

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So, can pagans do science? No, or yes only to the extent that they abandon pagan thinking and adopt Christian thinking, as the ancient Latin and Greek worlds did. What about heretics? Certainly they can, to the extent that they retain Christian thinking. A heretic is by definition a Christian of a sort, although the particular bent of a particular heresy might preclude it.

What about a post-Christian society, such as ours, or a never-Christian society such as Japan? It remains to be seen, I think, but the signs are not good so far.

John C. Wright #wingnut scifiwright.com

My theory is that Leftists never wake up not because they are stupid nor because they are evil but merely because the question of whether a “narrative” is true or false bores them and fills them with ennui.

Political Correctness means judging stories on how efficient they are as propaganda.

Truth never enters their mental system at any point.

Truth is merely irrelevant to them.

We keep arguing to them about whether global warming truly exists or truly does not exist, and they merely blink at us with owlish, stupid, dull looks on their brutal faces, uncomprehending, because to them it is like asking if saying please and thank you is ‘true’.

Saying please and thank you is not true or untrue. It is merely polite, an accepted formality.

Likewise, here, to them, expressing loyalty to the Global Warming faith is merely polite, a matter of accepted formality.

Asking a Leftist to react to a fact, and to recant a false theory once it is proved false is like asking a eunuch to get an erection. He cannot do it. He lacks the equipment to perform the act and lacks the mental and physical ability to desire to perform the act.

When, if ever, has anyone on the Left ever for any reason condemned or denounced or recanted a false theory once it was proved false?

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Love does not exist outside chastity, monogamy, and romance. These are unique Christian social artifacts. Marrying for love is unknown outside areas influenced by Christian thinking: absent the oath of matrimony, love is not true love, but mere lust, which is in many ways its opposite.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

(Discussing Ms Marvel, a Pakistani-American Superhero.)

Meanwhile, the one and only person on the team with a clear religious identity is the Muslim girl. This is a religion which has, whether anyone admits it or not, declared war on the whole world, and has, whether anyone says so or not, adopted terrorism and stealth jihad as the main means to wage that war.

This is the same as if, during World War Two, a comic book made one of their heroines a member of the Nazi party. But one of the those nice Nazi party members who do not approve of Hitler, or the other official doctrines, written in the official literature, of the organization to which she willingly belongs. Such a comic character would appeal to the moderate Nazis whom we do not wish to alienate, since, after all, Hitler highjacked the noble institution and motives of the Party.

John C. Wright #fundie #homophobia scifiwright.com

The Catholic Church in America, in the 1960s and 1970s, welcomed homosexuals into their ranks, and, enamored by then current psychological theories about the origins of the sin, thought that to comfort and hide the offender was the most charitable policy. Consequently, once the homosexual lobby made entry into the Church and rose in the ranks, over the next decades they diligently sought out and welcomed each other to join seminaries and holy vocations, covered up each others crimes and abominations, and so on. Hence there was a plethora of homosexual activity with young men, some of them underage under the authority of gays in the priesthood and other positions of authority.

The resulting scandal humiliated the Church and continued to be flung in the face of the priesthood and laity as a curse to this day. (It is ironic to note that the proportion of such scandals is far less than found among schoolteachers.) Why homosexual diddling with young and fair-faced boys is a horror and a scandal in the Church, but welcomed and cheered in society at large, and considered a constitutional right it is bigotry to oppose, I leave for someone more able to unwind the labyrinthine convulsions of modern non-binary logic than I to explain.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Having disregarded logic, reason, honesty and integrity as deceptions created by race or class or sex, the only thing left as a grounds for accepting or denying a proposition is one’s personal faith in the anonymous pundit making the proposition. The modern Left simply take everything on authority. Unlike a Catholic, who takes authoritative pronouncements of authorities on authority, the modern Left accepts the word of random and anonymous strangers in the press or in the scientific community, or take the word of pundits who claim to speak on their behalf. It is a crowd sourced magisterium.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Dear Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko,

I admire your creative effort tremendously. I watched your shows, bought your merchandize, and supported and lauded you. I made your work a part of my imagination and a part of my life, and introduced your show to my children.

And this is how you repay loyalty and affection?

A children’s show, of all places, is where you decided to place an ad for a sexual aberration; you pervert your story telling skills to the cause of propaganda and political correctness.

You sold your integrity out to the liberal establishment. In a craven fashion you deflect criticism by slandering and condemning any who object to your treason.

You were not content to leave the matter ambiguous, no, but had publicly to announce that you hate your audience, our way of life, our virtues, values, and religion.

From all the fans everywhere worldwide let me say what we are all feeling:

Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko: You are disgusting, limp, soulless sacks of filth, you richly deserve to burn in hell forever, inch by inch, starting with the scrotum working outward, or starting with the eyelids and working inward, therefore it would be best to pray God treats you with mercy.

You have earned the contempt and hatred of all decent human beings forever, and we will do all we can to smash the filthy phallic idol of sodomy you bow and serve and worship. Contempt, because you struck from behind, cravenly; and hatred, because you serve a cloud of morally-retarded mental smog called Political Correctness, which is another word for hating everything good and bright and decent and sane in life.

I have no hatred in my heart for any man’s politics, policies, or faith, any more than I have hatred for termites; but once they start undermining my house where I live, it is time to exterminate them.

Sincerely,

A lifelong fan.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

A Leftist, left to himself, will speak in elliptical and opaque phrases mocking with sly mockery all normal and decent things. However, if confronted directly, the Leftist will tell a bald faced lie, one that has no possible chance of deceiving anyone; and so shamelessly and openly will he lie, that the opposition is usually caught stammering and astonished.

Feminists don’t hate men? And the Earth is as flat as a pancake! Of course, of course.

This is because the Left are controlled by what I call the Unreality Principle, where they believe a mutual hallucination of mutual lies that they all tell each other.

This is done out of a sense of group loyalty and a reckless disregard for truth, or, rather ‘truth’ since truth is a concept for which they have nothing but contempt. When someone speaks an obvious truth, as feminists hating men, they all know it is untrue, but anyone in the rabbit warren willing to stand up and utter a completely lie contradicting the truth, he is a hero, because he shows he puts party loyalty above honesty, above honor, above trustworthiness, above all things.

A sane and normal man would feel a great shame for being forced to tell such a stupid and transparent lie: but for the Left, the most stupid it is, and the less convincing it is, the greater their sacrifice of self worth to the Party.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Many words have been spent debating in vain whether the Left are knowingly and deliberately aiding and abetting the destruction of civilization, or they are so drugged and dazed in fathomless stupidity as not to know it.

When one talks to a Leftist, and, at first, they seem sane and normal, as well educated as any man, or, at least, as well educated about recent matters. Of the past they know nothing.

And they are sane and normal on any topic except those touching their central insanity, the self-destructive philosophy they use to smother the conscience and to excuse themselves from any obligation or debt of fealty to the civilization in which they live.

Once that spot is touched, they utter word-noises without meaning, meant only to halt thought and halt debate, invariably an ad hominem attack to shut up any questions shining light on that spot.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

I am more than a presumably rational individual, I am a champion of atheism who gave arguments in favor of atheism so convincing that three of my friends gave up their religious belief due to my persuasive reasoning powers, and my father stopped going to church.

Upon concluding through a torturous and decades-long and remorseless process of logic that all my fellow atheists were horribly comically wrong about every basic point of philosophy, ethics and logic, and my hated enemies the Christians were right, I wondered how this could be. The data did not match the model.

Being a philosopher and not a poseur, I put the matter to an empirical test.

For the first time in my life, I prayed, and said. “Dear God. There is no logical way you could possibly exist, and even if you appeared before me in the flesh, I would call it an hallucination. So I can think of no possible way, no matter what the evidence and no matter how clear it was, that you could prove your existence to me. But the Christians claim you are benevolent, and that my failure to believe in you inevitably will damn me. If, as they claim, you care whether or not I am damned, and if, as they claim, you are all wise and all powerful, you can prove to me that you exist even though I am confident such a thing is logically impossible. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation in this matter, John C. Wright.” — and then my mind was at rest. I had done all I needed to do honestly to maintain my stature as someone, not who claimed to be logical, objective and openminded, but who was logical, objective, and openminded.

Three days later, with no warning, I had a heart attack, and was lying on the floor, screaming and dying.

-Then I was saved from certain death by faith-healing, after which–

-I felt the Holy Spirit enter my body, after which–

[description of ecstatic visions and personal encounter with Jesus edited for space]

I was converted.

So I was prepared to say adieu to logic and reason and just take things on faith, when I then found out that the only people who think you have to say adieu to logic and reason in order to take things on faith are crackpots both Christian and atheistic.

Every non-crackpot thinks faith is that on which you rely when unreasonable fears tempt you to disbelieve that to which your reason has consented. If your father says you can dive off the high dive with no risk of death, and he has never lied in the past, and your reason tells you to trust him, it is rational to take his word on faith and jump, and it is irrational to let your eyes overestimate the danger poised by the height.

I then discovered that the Christian world view makes sense of much that the atheistic or agnostic worldview cannot make sense of, and even on its own philosophical terms, is a more robust explanation of the cosmos and man’s place in it, answering many questions successfully that atheists both claim cannot be answered, and then, without admitting it, act in their lives as if the question were answered, such as how to account for the rational faculties of man, the universality of moral principles, the order of the cosmos, how best to live, etc.

Turning to my atheist friends, I then discovered none of them, not one, could give me even so reasonable an argument as I was expert in giving in favor of atheism.

They reasoned as follows: “God cannot possibly exist. Therefore any evidence that you encountered that God exists must be hallucination, mis-perception, faulty memory, self-deception, coincidence, or anything else no matter how farfetched and absurd. Since any evidence that you encountered that God exists must be hallucination, mis-perception, faulty memory, self-deception, coincidence, or anything else no matter how farfetched and absurd, therefore none of your evidence proves God exists.”

I found their perfect, childlike faith touching.

No matter what they saw, no matter what they heard, no matter how the world was against them, they would go to the lions rather than look at the evidence, lest their faith in their faithlessness be shaken.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

But keep in mind most pervertarians are not homosexuals themselves, or have anything they stand to gain personally from abolishing marriage in the name of marriage equality. They are enemies of the Church, and have found a convenient stick with which to beat the Church: they can claim that laws against sodomy, or laws acknowledging marriage, are just like the Jim Crow laws the Democrats enacted in the South after the Republican Union smashed the Democrat institution of slavery. What the connection is between race-hatred, which is an irrational antipathy of a whole racial group of man based on a trivial external characteristic no one can control or change, and a moral opprobrium against sexual perverts, which a rational antipathy against those individuals who freely decide to transgress the bounds of law and of nature, is a mystery of the Democrat faith. It is a talking point, something said without substance, neither meaningful nor meant to be believed, merely an emotional appeal, like calling someone a bad name, or calling an atrocity by an nondescript euphemism. It is a word-fetish.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

The proponents of what is called (with unintentional hilarity) gay marriage express the gaiety for which they are named by crowing and gamboling with delight that the Supreme Court has declined to do its core Constitutional mission of interpreting the law, and chastise and check the abuses of activist judges overruling the sovereign votes of the decent and sober majority.

They should perhaps rein in their gay celebrations: gay marriage cannot be justified either in law or logic. This means the law has just departed from the environs of law and logic.

The gay partisans should instead recoil with dread, for the thing, by being given into their hands, is effectively destroyed. Whatever meaning or sanction the pairs of homosexuals are seeking out of the pretense of marriage is destroyed by the very fact that it is a pretense, not a marriage.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Darwinism is not only correctly called a theory, it even more correctly called an unscientific theory, a philosophical theory, in that it is not open to disproof by normal scientific means of measurement, observation, experimentation; and it makes no testable predictions. There is no such thing as ‘Darwin’s Law’ parallel to ‘Newton’s Law’ because Darwin makes no predictions of outcomes.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Before political correctness, homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder by the officials of the psychiatric profession, and it was taught as such in medical school. It is as obvious as coprophagy,the desire to eat excrement rather than food: even if one does not regard coprophagy as a mental disorder, it is clearly an abuse of the organs of eating and digestion, and alien to the purpose logically implied by their design. It is not eating, but the opposite of eating. So, too, using the sex organs for homosex, for the opposite of sex, is likewise an abuse.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

When women move into a leadership role, their maternal instruct comes to the fore. Even queens and political leaders of the fair sex act motherly, and treat their followers like children. And to see one’s fellow man as children creates this same hatred and contempt for them, the same fear, which the craven liberal in this column attributes to any disagreement.

She reacts as if I am not smarter, older, better educated, a lawyer, a philosopher, a writer, with a genius level IQ. She reacts like I am a smart mouthed child who is boasting, and whose judgment that one way of life is better than another merits me a sharp slap on my knuckles with the ruler.

So there is no equality involved. Women either follow their men, or follow Big Brother, or act like mothers surrounded by a world of smelly and disobedience children whom they have no authority to discipline.

The first option is love; the second is hate; the third is weariness and despair.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

The Left did not take over the culture in an evening, nor in a summer, but after a century of hard and patient and tireless work, and it was the work of many hands acting according to one ideal, one vision, one philosophy.

It is, namely, the visions of hell, of gulag, of death camps, which make the Leftists salivate like Pavlov’s dogs. The Left are not repelled by the Holocaust, by the purges of Stalin or the genocides (yes, I mean genocide in the plural) of Mao, but erotically stimulated, attracted and allured to it, and they dream night and day how to get enough power over their fellow man to commit such atrocities again. They do not want to make an omelet: their pleasure comes from smashing eggs. If you do not believe me, go into any modern art museum. There you will see concrete visual depictions of their internal emotional and moral nature, the invisible things made visible.

We have truth, beauty, virtue, life, honesty, delight, joy, forgiveness, mercy, justice, reason, logic and sanity on our side, not to mention The Almighty. We are promised that things will get worse, apocalyptic levels of worse, before they get better, New Jerusalem Levels of better. Let not your heart be troubled. Fear nothing but the Lord.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Please do not speculate that I have even the slightest superstitious impulse in me. The only people who are less superstitious than fanatical atheists (who do not believe in any supernatural powers) are fanatical Christians (who do not believe in any supernatural powers aside from the Omnipotent, and are strictly forbidden in any case to evoke them).

No, sir, take me at my word. I am being utterly honest with you. I know about my writing the one thing my readers do not know. I know how much is perspiration and how much is inspiration.

Materialists who think inspiration comes from the unconscious mind credit that part of your brain that does not have conscious thoughts with miraculous and godlike powers of creativity, nuance, word choice, rhythm, human insight, and so on. Humbug. Materialism is a crass superstition, as illogical as belief in a lucky rabbits foot, and a philosopher such as I will have no part of their nonsense.

No, the principle of Occam’s razor, that most scientific of principles, says not to multiple entities in a theory without necessity. When I write, I can see inside my head which ideas are the stupid and laborious ones I come up with, and which pop into my head as if from nowhere.

Theories of modern physics to one side, Einstein is right and Heisenberg is wrong, and God does not play at dice, and nothing comes from nothing. No entity and no event can come from a cause which is insufficient to create that cause, for the same reason that Rocs do not hatch from chicken eggs.

Hence, logically, if story elements, images, characters, plot twists, events, word choices and so on pop into my awareness in my mind, and I do not see their origins anywhere in my mind, then they come from outside my mind, from a source capable of understanding and producing great art.

An unconscious mind or unaware awareness sounds like a contradiction in terms, and the idea that an unaware awareness is aware of abstractions like plot and theme and symmetry and so on is nonsense.

So the source of thoughts found in me, if they did not come from me, come from an outside source. You may call it what you will. The ancient Greek called them the Muses, and I see no reason to demean them with a less dignified name.

Now, I am open to the possibility that spirits more righteous and upright than merely pagan goddesses are behind any of my writing that shows truly holy spirit in it, but at this point to speculate further may be beyond human wisdom, and is certainly beyond mind.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Everything happens for a cause. The cause must be sufficient to explain the outcome: a firecracker cannot blow up Hiroshima. A work of art cannot be created by a non-deliberate or natural or blind because art is deliberate, insightful, meaningful. If it comes into my mind from somewhere, that someone from whence it comes cannot be my mind, but it has to be something like a mind, something (or, rather, someone) who is conscious and capable of artistic creative thought. The unconscious mind does not think since thought is consciousness: the two words mean the same thing.

The only two possibilities are that these inspired thoughts arise in me from a human mind or a divine one. If it were a human mind, there would be a physical cable or channel physically carrying the nerve impulses into my brain. Which is absurd. Therefore, etc., QED.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Darwin looks for an explanation of the origin of species and the teleology of the parts of animals, that is, to explain their design and the perfect fittedness of each organ to its purpose without a designer. He wants creation without a Creator in the same way Marx wants a story without a storyteller. What his theory predicts is not borne out by the evidence around us: where are the birds who only build half a nest, or the newt with only half an eye, who are halfway to evolving real nests and real eyes? Those things that are presented as transitional or preevolutionary halfway marks, such as light-sensitive spots or bird who mash down grass without weaving a proper nest, still evince a teleology, a that-for-the-sake-of-which, which the bird or critter in question did not himself decide or determine. Either the organs and instincts are purposeless, or there is purpose in nature. But nature cannot hold a purpose unless nature is an intelligent being, that is, a being capable of making self aware decisions, which is what a purpose is.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

The only real doubts about God’s existence come from sin, from a psychological unwillingness to face facts. God is abundantly, transcendentally, painfully obvious even to pagans — because otherwise they would not have bothered inventing gods if they did not know, deep down, that they were made for worship, designed by a designer, built by a builder.

Modern atheism springs from the wealth and plenty of the industrial revolution, men who think they can live without God, who then go looking for excuses, flimsy ones, not to believe in Him: Marx, Darwin, Freud.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

I understand rightwing atheists perfectly well, that is, people who disbelieve in God because they see no evidence for God. Leftwing atheist who disbelieve in God because they hate God, them I never understood, even back when I was an atheist. The rational men, theist or atheist, are natural allies against the irrational men, irrational atheists and irrational theists both.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

[Secondly, from your writing it seems that God was willing to reveal himself to you when you asked. Why is it that he doesn’t seem willing to reveal himself to others? I’ve asked, and received nothing. I know others have as well.]

All I can say is that any man not as stupid and stubborn as I does not need to see God in this life. Is my word not good enough? Either I am mad, or God exists. You believe the planet Pluto exists, I hope, even if you’ve never seen it. Why? Because you trust the men who say they’ve seen it. Why not trust me, now, here, in this? Or trust Saint Paul, who is more convincing, or trust the countless others — the Christian Scientists keep a century of records of miracles, and so does the medical committee at Lourdes — who have seen things just as I have.

Is the miracle of the sunrise not enough? Go look at the veins on a leaf, you will see more about the mind of God in action than I saw.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

In short, because Leftism is the theory that truth is impossible, and reason is a hate-crime, it requires self deception. Because self deception provokes guilt and humiliation, the self esteem of the Leftist is continually uncertain. Because it is uncertain, it must be uplifted. The only emotion loud and broad enough to smother the powerful emotions of guilt and humiliation is the uplift of sanctimonious pride, pride in one’s own perfect righteousness.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Dear reader, I myself in this essay helped to foster this false impression that the Leftist cult belief and their delirious vision is a theory by calling it ‘a theory.’

I lied. It is not a theory.

It is crack cocaine.

The Leftists are people who abandon their innate intelligence and moral stature and who deliberately make themselves to be stupider than average, less moral and upright and decent than average, who at once combine the worst features of a self-deceived fool and a self-deceiving conniving con-man. The only thing that saves them from the constant pain of the dentist drill of their conscience, the constant clamor of their wretched self-esteem telling them that they do not deserve to live, the only thing, indeed, keeping them alive, is their false and inflated sense of sanctimony.

Each one is a Judas, who has betrayed all he holds dear. The only reason why he does not hang himself from the nearest redbud tree is because he adopts the numbing hypocrisy of the Pharisee.

There is no greater high than to fly on the drug of smug moral superiority. You may look down your nose at all fashion of men greater than you in every other way, but if they are evil and you are righteous, the savory odor of your righteousness in your own nostrils is finer than myrrh. It is more than wine which mortals drink; it is nectar of the gods.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Do not be deceived: Leftism is an enigma. We need a theorem that explains not one or two aspects of Leftism, but all their traits.

The theory must explain, first, the honest decency of the modern liberals combined with their astonishing indifference, nay, hostility to facts, common sense, and evidence; second, it must explain their high self-esteem (or, to be blunt, their pathological narcissism) combined not merely with an utter lack of accomplishment, but with their utter devotion to destructiveness, a yearning to ruin everything they touch; third, it must explain their sanctimoniousness combined with their applause, praise, support, and tireless efforts to spread all perversions (especially sexual), moral decay, vulgarity, and every form of desecration; fourth, their pretense of intellectual superiority combined with their notorious mental fecklessness; fifth, it must explain both their violence and their pacifism; sixth, the theory must explain why they hate the very things they should love most; seventh, the theory must explain why they are incapable of comprehending an honest disagreement or any honorable foe.

John C. Wright #fundie #homophobia scifiwright.com

Faith based discrimination is actually bigotry in the purest form, since it utterly rejects everything about the person, body, soul and mind. Faith is the man. There is nothing left over and nothing held back. On the other hand, disapproval of a sexual perversion is in fact the highest compliment to pay the person afflicted by the sin, since the sin is the enemy of the man.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

You may wonder why Leftist are so absurdly shameless in the naked evil of their demands, and so inane in their pretensions to be our moral and mental superiors. Their only claim to moral superiority is that they favor immorality and perversion wherever it appears. Their only claim to mental superiority is their inability to think critically, and their desire to destroy all institutions of higher learning, including the institution of academic freedom.

Asking why Leftists are shameless is like asking why water is wet. Leftism is not a political philosophy, nor any kind or philosophy, nor a disciplined system of thought, nor any kind of thought. Leftism is a set of verbal tricks and tactics which allow the speaker to excuse evil in the name of some undefined higher purpose, usually a phrase that is coined on the spot and has no meaning. Miss Korn coins “Academic Justice” to excuse mob tactics threatening a teacher for teaching.

In other words, the reason why Leftists are shameless is because Leftism is a mental disease, deliberately imposed on oneself, to quell the faculty of self reflection hence of shame. Shamelessness is Leftism; Leftism is shamelessness.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

Despair is the key. It explains nearly everything that is so puzzling about the madness of modern life, the pack of self-contradictory dogmas that make up the default assumptions of the Dark Ages in which we live.

They have nothing else. No wonder they are bitter. No wonder they are irrational. No wonder they lie like dogs. No wonder they boast. No wonder they are full of envy and malice. No wonder they kill babies in the womb and fete socialist dictators and mass murderers. No wonder they love death. No wonder they admire, protect and love Islamic terrorists. No wonder they admire, protect, and love sexual perversion.

It is because they have nothing else. They live in a world of darkness, without hope, with nothing but their seven great friends to sustain them: pride, which they call self esteem; envy, which they call social justice; wrath, which they call activism and protest; sloth, which they call enlightenment; gluttony, which they call health food and legalization of recreational drugs; greed, which they call fairness in taxation; lust, which they call sexual liberation.

Robert Mitchell Jr #fundie scifiwright.com

Marriage was murdered (until there are serious changes in the law, and vast amounts of impeached judges removed from office, all “Marriage” is a cargo cult.) by the Left, which has hated and attacked Marriage and the Family for hundreds of years (Reference your copy of “Leftism Revisited” for more on that).

So, I think, maybe, that the Liberals/Leftists were not “just carrion eaters”, they have worked on this for a long, long time, and the “gay marriage” is looking to me to be a perverse, Evil “fuse” to protect them from any backlash. The Left is well versed on how Mobs act, and I doubt any of them want to be the next Robespierre. And destroying a mostly innocent group of people to protect themselves from the righteous fury of those they had lied to, tricked into giving up one of their best birthrights? Oh, that would be a scheme worthy of Satan, would it not?

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

The Left cannot see both sides of any issue. They cannot (or dare not) treat any rival viewpoints with respect, not even the respect needed to address or refute them. This alleviates the Left from the burden of actually meeting a burden of proof, indeed, of actually making any argument at all. They just ask opposing viewpoints to shut up.

The great selling point of the Left, the great promise of PC, is that all issues are orthodox and settled, and the great debate of the human condition, all the mysteries of life, no longer are open to discussion. The matter is closed. Talk must stop. Correct thinking is true; incorrect thinking is heresy. You must shut up. You must shut up. You must shut up.

And the burden of human reasoning, the torment of the paradoxes of life, the need for learning, education, or curiosity is done away with. Everything the faithful need know can be printed on a bumper sticker, and chanted as a mantra or a mob-slogan at a rally.

It would be an insult to religion to call this a religion. Real religions take their theology seriously, and debate hairsplitting nuances of phrase over centuries to arrive at precise truth. Cults are not serious. Cult chant slogans. Leftism is a cult.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

The closest thing the agnostic world-view can produce to a Satan is either a dictator (oddly reminiscent of agnostic himself) a Republican, or a Southerner. Other than that, they can only portray villains who manifest physical dangers, such as ax murderers and serial killers. Because of their philosophy, people who pose real dangers, such as Islamic terrorists, cannot be portrayed at all, but only people who post no danger in real life but instead produce benefits necessary to life and civilization, such as industrialists, merchants, soldiers, priests, mothers who love their children.

Other magnificent villains of the Christian imagination, creatures such as Don Juan or Faustus, cannot be produced by the agnostic imagination. When there is no white field on which the black wolf is outlined, there is nothing for the moral imagination to see.

If your view of the universe includes as its only moral principle to indulge in vacuous, vain, vulgar or perverse pleasures, and if gluttony and lust define your highest ambition of what you call good, and the only evil in your view of the universe is whatever prudence or authority hinders your boring orgy of self-indulgence, and your only foeman is he whose hand hold you back from suicide, then you can imagine only one villain, a father figure or Pharisee, and he can be guilty of only one crime, hypocrisy, the sin of claiming an authority to which he has no right.

Your villain cannot be craven, or intemperate, or unchaste, or foolish with foolish arrogance, since these are the qualities of your hero. (Of course, real hedonist and nihilist authors rarely portray such protagonists as their philosophy would demand: they merely borrow concepts and standards from chivalric Christian ideals or Homeric pagan ideals, employing them out of context, and with perhaps less than perfect artistic integrity.)

So we cannot leave the fantasy world to the clumsy hands of the agnostics and skeptics. By and large, they can write fair to middling satires of fantasy, but they cannot write classics of fantasy. For something greater than satire, we need Christians like Tolkien or pagans like Howard.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

So the Christian writer who decides to put a good witch like Glinda or Hermione or Samantha Stevens or Willow Rosenberg in his story runs the risk that some impressionable schoolgirl out in the crumbling wilderness of the modern world will decide that the path to self-respect and self-actualization is to don a pointy hat and take up her wand, go to an abortion mill, and sacrifice a baby girl to Moloch. One never knows, O Christian writer, whether the last story that schoolgirl read before she read yours was THE GOLDEN COMPASS or INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE or BLINDSIGHT, or some other work firmly in the camp and flying the black banners of the Culture of Death.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

[My wife’s unemployment is unintentional. If things were going according to our plan, she would be working.]

You mean you are not man enough to support your own wife?

You are admitting, in effect, that you desire to take the work of putting bread on the table (work you, the man, by rights should be doing) and to toss half that work onto her frail shoulders, but circumstances merely make you unfortunately unable to carry out your plan as yet. How is shifting your burdens to your woman not crass exploitation?

The philosophy of the Left, which you seem to be supporting in this case, is not just evil, it is illogical.

That philosophy is illogical because you are required by your faith to criticize men who protect and keep their women, while at the same time keeping a woman of your own, but due to circumstances beyond your control. You have, in effect, made your ethics subservient to an external economic condition. Hypocrisy is now something that can merely happen to you, not something you select.

It is evil because it discourages love, romance, and marriage, and encourages mutual mistrust and mutual exploitation between men and women.

It discourages love because it makes the roles proper to true lovers impossible. No husband wants his beloved wife to be independent of him — as well want your soul or your beating heart to be independent of your body. But your philosophy adds selfishness and pride to the mix. By your theory man and woman must each be too proud to be completely devoted to each other. You can only devote to another the dregs in the cup of love left after your self-love has drunk its fill. One dare not love nor depend completely on another, because self-protection and self-esteem must be jealously guarded. Unfortunately, it is merely a fact of reality, something no human can change, that pride and agape are mutually exclusive.

The Deuce #fundie scifiwright.com

Leftism is all about tearing down civilization (particularly Western Christian civilization – the highest form), and not about any of the other crap they like to pretend they’re about. To that end, they’ll use whatever tools are most effective, and will come up with less evil-sounding rationalizations for their actions afterwards.

Hence, they’re in favor of using the state to destroy gender roles and glorify the sodomy because they wish to tear down the family and do away with familial love, because those things form the backbone of civilization and are the greatest obstacle to absolute to peoples’ absolute loyalty to the state, and hence to further destruction of civilization by the state.

The idea that they do these things out of dedication to the dignity and well-being of women and individuals with same-sex attraction is just their after-the-fact excuse to justify it.

Hence, there’s no inconsistency in their actions when they support Muslim jihadists. There’s nothing inconsistent about attacking civilization by denigrating and tearing down families, while simultaneously attacking civilization by promoting savages who would terrorize it with mass murder and who hate the human rights upon which it is founded.

There’s an inconsistency in their *stated excuses* to be sure. It is indeed inconsistent to claim that women and homosexuals are victims who need to be protected and given special promotion to make things “equal,” and also that woman-and-gay-hating Muslims are victims who need to be protected and promoted to make things right.

But that just means that the lies they tell contradict each other, not that their *real* motives and reasons are inconsistent. And since the justifications they give for their actions are merely a smokescreen, you can’t shame their consciences by pointing out how they have betrayed the “principles” they merely pretended to have. They are, in fact, VERY consistent in tearing down civilization and lying about it.

Leftists’ behavior only makes sense when you come to realize that the entire ideology boils down to hatred of truth and resentment of reality.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

I had recently come to realize that the feminist movement is not feminist at all. It is masculinist.

By this I mean, the purpose of Fourth Wave feminism (if you wish to judge not by what they say, but by what they do, and to know the fruits, so to speak, by their fruits) is not to make women legally and culturally equal to men, but to make them be men: that is, to abolish the female from life and thought altogether.

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So, in an effort to break the evil hypnotic spell the feminists have cast over the human race, let us here and now announce a Fifth Wave of feminism, a true feminism, which glorifies womankind and reduces we mere males back into our deservedly lowly position as breadwinners and heads of households, whose mission in life is to cough up money enough to support a wife and kids, and have the wife at home so that hired daycare strangers are not raising them.

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Fifth Wave feminism holds that gay marriage is impermissible, on the grounds that marrying males is a privilege too rarefied for males. You are not good enough to be women, so stop acting like it. (Of course, since no-fault divorce laws gutted the meaning of marriage long ago, this issue is moot.)

Lesbian marriage, while nobler and more understandable, abolishes the distinction of the sexes and is therefore, despite what is seems, also an insult to womanhood, especially to the maternal instinct and role. (Albeit many a sister in Fifth Wave feminism still holds this question not settled.)

Fifth Wave feminism likewise holds that unnatural sexual acts, hereafter to be known by the euphemism, “The Sin of Clinton,” are degrading and insulting to women, on the grounds that the female womb is desecrated and insulted if a male thrusts his male member into any other orifice aside from the life-giving womb: to equate the sacred mystery of femininity with the mere physical sensation of penis gratification is the same as to demean women to the status of sexual toys: it is a mortal insult.

Fifth Wave feminism holds that sterilizing women, even temporarily, and even at their own consent and insistence, is the deepest possible degradation to femininity imaginable. It makes the female not female. It reduces the all-powerful mystery of maternity to none effect; it reduces the role of women from wives and mothers and queens of their households to mere adjuncts and playthings of powerful and indifferent men, or boys who can commit to nothing. It make the price of sex cheap. It makes women cheap. We utterly denounce and eschew all practices of artificial contraception and sterility as the silent killer of woman’s happiness and the despoiler of women’s lives.

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Fifth Wave feminism celebrates the feminine. In religious practice, we hold that any Church which admits female priests (or “priestesses” see below) into the ranks of an all-male priesthood, particularly one that has to hear confession, and listen to the endless droning of losers with really boring and demeaning sins to confess, demeans womanhood just as much as if women were asked to serve as garbageman.We will not soil our hands. There is plenty of chores suited to our higher and motherly natures, and we can serve as abbesses, nuns, and saints.

John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

My own theory is that the human heart was designed by God to seek God and serve Him, and that, when for whatever reason, we find we cannot do this, we turn to substitutes. Environmentalism has several of the properties God has: Mother Nature is sublime and beautiful, as is God; she demands sacrifice, in this case, the abolition of industrial civilization, the death of babies in the womb and the artificial sterility of women via contraception; she offers the faithful a crusade, a noble venture against an absolute and diabolic evil, in this case, the selfish polluters from that Captain Planet cartoon or Rich Uncle Pennybags from the Parker Brother’s MONOPOLY game; her crusade offers a greater thing than oneself to which to suborn one’s selfish impulses for the greater good, which is perhaps the second strongest impulse in the human frame (the strongest being the sexual impulse); the sacrifices demanded by the Green Goddess are purely symbolic, such as taking time to recycle glass and plastic, which, economically speaking, creates more waste and pollution than it cures, but one can feel pure as a Pharisee merely by strict adherence to these meaningless ritual forms.

And on and on. To conservatives, conservation is at best a technical problem, or a political one: which laws will keep as much of the wilderness in a condition convenient for human use in an economically prudent fashion, as balanced against other needs? To the Liberal, it is a religious dogma, as meaningless as the two minute hate against Goldstein in Orwell. People who actually use the wilderness, and have a vested interest in conservation, such Boy Scouts and Hunters and such, are the very groups most hated by the Liberals.

There can be no rational dialog between these groups.

John C. Wright #racist scifiwright.com

Especially effort will be made to kill the babies of Negroes in the womb, a race which all the Progressives hate and fear, so much so that they will not even call a black baby a “baby”, but instead call it a untermensch nigger fetus. The other thing they will do is attempt to promote artificial sterility via contraception, in order to demean the status of women and degrade the prudence and chivalry of men. Since the rhythm method is both more reliable than contraceptives, and produces neither breast cancer nor ground water contaminants as do hormonal contraceptives, it is decried and dismissed by the Progressives.

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