What Do They Know of England Who Only England Know?
November 7, 2010 
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…as Enoch Powell asked, via Kipling.
According to Sir William Blackstone, the common law, being the unwritten (lex non scripta) law of “tradition, use, and experience,” allows for five methods of acquiring a title to property: Escheat, Occupancy, Prescription, Forfeiture, and Alienation. Escheat is when land reverts to the original owner, according to descent.
The law of escheats is founded upon this single principle, that the blood of the person last seised in fee-simple is, by some means or other, utterly extinct and gone; and, since none can inherit his estate but such as are of his blood and consanguinity, it follows, as a regular consequence, that when such blood is extinct, the inheritance itself must fail: the land must become what the feodal writers denominate feudum apertum; and must result back again to the lord of the fee, by whom, or by those whose estate he hath, it was given.
The question arises, When might hereditary blood be deficient? Aside from those cases where there is simply no heir, there are three other excluded categories: Bastards, Monsters, and Aliens.
Bastards are incapable of being heirs. Bastards, by our law, are such children as are not born either in lawful wedlock, or within a competent time after its determination. Such are held to be nullius filii, the sons of nobody [not even of the women who give birth]…
A monster [such as siamese twins], which hath not the shape of mankind, but in any part evidently bears the resemblance of the brute creation, hath no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any land, albeit it be brought forth in marriage: but, although it hath deformity in any part of its body, yet if it hath human shape it may be heir. This is a very ancient rule in the law of England; and its reason is too obvious and too shocking to bear a minute discussion.
Aliens, also, are incapable of taking by descent, or inheriting: for they are not allowed to have any inheritable blood in them; rather indeed upon a principle of national or civil policy, than upon reasons strictly feodal. Though, if lands had been suffered to fall into their hands who owe no allegiance to the crown of England, the design of introducing our feuds, the defence of the kingdom, would have been defeated. Wherefore if a man leaves no other relations but aliens, his land shall escheat to the lord… As aliens cannot inherit, so far they are on a level with bastards; but as they are also disabled to hold by purchase, they are under still greater disabilities. And, as they can neither hold by purchase nor by inheritance, it is almost superfluous to say that they can have no heirs, since they can have nothing for an heir to inherit; but so it is expressly holden, because they have not in them any inheritable blood.
With this very biblical (and nativist) concept of property in view, inheritance is determined by nearest relations, or as Blackstone puts it, by lineal rather than collateral consanguinity. (Collateral relations descend from the same stock but not from one another.)
[T]he heir need not be the nearest kinsman absolutely, but only sub modo; that is, he must be the nearest kinsman of the whole blood; for if there be a much nearer kinsman of the half-blood, a distant kinsman of the whole blood shall be admitted, and the other entirely excluded; nay, the estate shall escheat to the lord, sooner than the half-blood shall inherit…
[I]t was originally requisite, as upon gifts in tail it still is, to make out the pedigree of the heir from the first donee or purchaser, and to show that such heir was his lineal representative. But when, by length of time and a long course of descents, it came (in those rude and unlettered ages) to be forgotten who was really the first feudatory or purchaser, and thereby the proof of an actual descent from him became impossible; then the law substituted what Sir Martin Wright calls a reasonable, in the stead of an impossible, proof; for it remits the proof of an actual descent from the first purchaser; and only requires, in lieu of it, that the claimant be next of the whole blood to the person last in possession, (or derived from the same couple of ancestors;) which will probably answer the same end as if he could trace his pedigree in a direct line from the first purchaser. For he who is my kinsman of the whole blood can have no ancestors beyond or higher than the common stock, but what are equally my ancestors also; and mine are vice versa his: he therefore is very likely to be derived from that unknown ancestor of mine from whom the inheritance descended. But a kinsman of the half-blood has but one-half of his ancestors above the common stock the same as mine; and therefore there is not the same probability of that standing requisite in the law, that he be derived from the blood of the first purchaser.
As we Kinists often say, our loyalties ripple outward in concentric circles. You can see that the common law is a very useful guide for the man who is to inherit an acre as well as the people who are to inherit a nation. The very same laws that govern inheritance of estates may be applied to national and tribal lands. We know our kinsmen of the “whole blood” on the national level, not least because they look like us. We are descended from the same fathers who established us on this continent. Our Alienist opponents admit of no categories of blood whereby a person may be denied inheritance, because blood to them is meaningless, although they remain partial to their own children. Their two reasons for denying everything you just read from Blackstone are that 1) The county courthouse has their own personal deed on file, and beyond this, no tribe can be allowed to claim any land by geniture; and 2) Since all men are created in the image of God, one group must never be allowed to exclude any other group by geniture. This is yet another example of how Alienists are rebels and refuse to walk in the ways of their Christian forefathers.
They are habitual patricides.
As G.K. Chesterton said, it is much easier to project oneself onto the blank pages of the future than fit oneself into the humbling records of the past… “The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes,” Chesterton said. “And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”
As our friend Ehud has observed, the great Bible commentator Matthew Henry echoes Blackstone on “monsters” in his commentary on Leviticus 19:19:
Here is, I. A law against mixtures, v. 19. God in the beginning made the cattle after their kind (Gen. i. 25), and we must acquiesce in the order of nature God hath established, believing that is best and sufficient, and not covet monsters. Add thou not unto his works, lest he reprove thee; for it is the excellency of the work of God that nothing can, without making it worse, be either put to it or taken from it, Eccl. iii. 14. As what God has joined we must not separate, so what he has separated we must not join.
Sure, but that’s for cattle, you might say. No, Henry’s final reference is to Mark 10:9, which refers to marriage. Moreover, the Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Cor. 9:9-10 that laws concerning cattle are given chiefly for the sake of human relations.
Chesterton, in Calling Names and Otherwise, echoes Henry’s point about adding to God’s work:
These things will not come until the modern world has realized that its cure lies in distribution and even in differentiation; and not in mixing everything together in one great mess… Nobody seems to have any notion in improving anything except by pouring it into something else; as if a man were to pour tea into coffee or the sherry into the port.
Who believes for a moment that mixing tea and coffee produces a better drink?
John MacArthur does, apparently. He is another lying traitor on the level of John Piper.
We’re one in Him. Listen, I want you to understand what I’m going to say. When a Jew believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, he loses his national uniqueness. Did you get that? He doesn’t stop being a Jew. Doesn’t lose his heritage. I’m not talking just about the history. I’m talking about his spiritual identity. I’m talking about the national uniqueness that sets him apart. When Jesus died on the cross Judaism as a religion ended. It ended. It was done…
A Jew loses his uniqueness. From then on he is in Christ. That’s the issue. He is a member of the church. There is neither Jew nor Gentile. That’s exactly what the New Testament says. That doesn’t matter anymore. It’s lost. There’s no distinctions, not black and white, not male and female, not bond and free, not Greek and Barbarian, and not Jew and Gentile. When a Jew comes to Christ that’s gone. And when a Gentile receives the Lord Jesus Christ, he loses his identity also and he comes to the place of being in Christ and that’s all that matters anymore. And listen people, those of us who are all in Christ ought to be radiating that kind of acceptance and love. We ought to be ripping down those fences so that the world will know what our Christ really does…
Listen, all fleshly distinctions, race, nationality, color, all are nailed to the cross. It’s over with.
I’m not even going to bother with measuring my words here: This is the anti-gospel. This is the doctrine of demons. Anyone who teaches these lies in the name of Christ can go to hell, right after they heed our advice and fark themselves.
Matthew Henry, in his commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:17-24, denies MacArthur’s neo-Babelist interpretation of Galatians 3:28 and Colossians 3:11:
Let every man wherein he is called abide therein with God, v. 24. This is to be understood of the state wherein a man is converted to Christianity. No man should make his faith or religion an argument to break through any natural or civil obligations. He should quietly and comfortably abide in the condition in which he is; and this he may well do, when he may abide therein with God. Note, the special presence and favour of God are not limited to any outward condition or performance. He may enjoy it who is circumcised; and so may he who is uncircumcised. He who is bound may have it as well as he who is free. In this respect there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free, Col. iii. 11. The favour of God is not bound.
In other words, status and caste do not limit God’s grace, but by the same token, God’s grace does not dispose of race, tribe, class, sex, and other social obligations. Learn what God’s Word actually teaches so that you identify imposters and counterfeits.
The Book of Common Prayer has a good list (derived from Leviticus 18) of those who may not marry each other. It does not take race into account because the interracial “marriage” that is common in modern times was unknown for most of human history. Just as the common law extends biblical inheritance laws, extended marriage laws of necessity and prudence must be enforced for the purpose of saving our race from destruction.
“No race has brought more blessings to humanity than the Caucasian; none is more essential to the continued progress of world humanity.” ~ Otto Scott
“Every great European people achieves a practical equilibrium in some particular and almost secret manner. It is a mistake to suppose that this equlibrium is peculiar to certain peoples—to talk about Germany as ‘efficient,’ or England as ‘business-like.’ In a superficial sense, all the great white nations are efficient; in a deeper and grander sense, the whole human race is as inefficient as an idiot school.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
In this article by Steve Halbrook, who is desperately trying to justify his adultery, Kinists are accused of being “irrational,” “prideful,” and “rebellious against God.” Basically, they’re like camels whose humps are filled with Hate. He calls Kinism “race worship” and therefore idolatry. He says the goal of Kinists is to establish “One Racial Order throughout the country,” and this makes Kinists the real Babelists. “While masquerading as Christianity, kinism is heresy and therefore ultimately pagan… Race is the god by which all other things are judged. Thus race is the tower upon which the kinists unite in their opposition to God.” (You might notice that I did something very unusual just now. I quoted and accurately represented the views of our enemies! You might find this shocking if you’re used to the anti-Kinist practice of disabling comments, banning those who dissent, and caricaturing opposing views.)
We believe that God has given us the right and the duty to survive as a distinct people, just as He created us. Every nation in history, with the exception of various short-lived empires, has been founded on a combination of religious faith and ethnic exclusivity. This was true of our own country; we would not exist otherwise. Kinists agree with what all Christians believed until a couple of generations ago about race and nationhood and kinship.
How shall we then live? Halbrook asserts that Christian faith is all that matters and rebukes us for believing that “it is only in an idolatrous unity by race” that “society [can] avoid collapsing.” This is one of many lies told about us. If we believed that only race ought to unify us, there would be no difference between Kinists and the garden-variety White Nationalist. The crucial difference is that Kinists thank God for His grace in allowing us to survive, and we count our redemption in Christ to be more precious than anything else in the world; more precious even than our own lives and the longevity of our people. Our critics maintain that we have no right to agree with our own Christian forefathers and continue to call ourselves Christians, and so rather than quoting what we have actually written, we are pummeled with scare words like “heretic,” “pagan,” and “idol,” devoid of proof.
There is one quote that our slanderers adore, and Halbrook goes for it:
[W]e stand or fall with no other but the White peoples of Europe, and their standards of beauty, their cultural achievements, the achievements of their civilization, established through the confluence of pagan and Christian traditions, are both irreplaceable and vital to our survival as a people.
“The Kinist Institute Manifesto,” The Kinist Institute for European-American Studies
This is believed by anti-Kinists to be a smoking gun that proves that we are closet pagans. But why would slanderers be expected to fairly explicate the millions of words that we have written on this subject? It is simply a lie that race is the only thing that unifies us.
We utterly reject all religions of works, both pre-Christian and modern, but we cherish many of the pre-Christian traditions of our race that have inspired our kind for thousands of years. The Faerie Queene, The Wind in the Willows, and Tolkien’s masterpieces are just a few of the books that would not have been possible without a deep appreciation of folklore and mythology, as well as Christianity. Our culture is suffused with folklore, but it is brought to its full realization through the gospel. The gospel is vital, but if the gospel is all that we must hold dear, our culture will be undifferentiated from that of any other people, and we will not survive as a distinct people. This is precisely what anti-Kinists desire. They have no love for the Folk, and therefore no love for the brethren (1 John 4:7-8). The two go together like a horse and carriage. Despisers of the Folk who profess to be Christians are in fact unitarians; they seek a monolithic Christian culture that has never existed and will never exist.
Nor has a nation solely comprised of Christians ever existed. Anti-Kinists are fully aware of this fact. When they say that Christ alone should be enough to unify any people, it is more evidence of the unitarianism that drives them to erase borders and boundaries and distinctions. All Christians want the world to be baptized into the faith, but the Kinist recognizes that there are many organs in one body, each of which serves a God-ordained purpose.
The anti-Kinist is a peculiar creature who considers the inheritance of race and nationality to be, at best, functions that once served a purpose but are no longer needed. (See John MacArthur above.) They agree on this point with Communists but disagree entirely with their own Christian fathers.
The funny thing about Halbrook is that he is always careful to protect the ideological purity of his ridiculous website. Here’s an example where he links to a video but posts a note saying that he does not endorse the theology of the man who posted it. Is it really necessary for a person to point out that he doesn’t agree entirely with another man’s theology? Who agrees with anyone 100% of the time? Here’s another example where he links to a video of interest but frets over the “worldview” of the people who created it, and for some inexplicable reason feels the need to observe, once again, that he does not “necessarily endorse everything said in the DVD.” He doesn’t entirely agree with the “worldview” of the people running Youtube either but neglects to mention this every time he links to a video. Here’s yet another example where he links to a video of Race-Changer Sproul Jr. but warns (you guessed it) that he does not endorse “everything about R.C. Sproul Jr., or the intro song for that matter.” Life must be tedious if it’s necessary to issue disclaimers for all but the sliver of your fellow nutjobs. And what’s wrong with the Frank Sinatra song? He must think that “I’ve got the world on a string” is Pelagian code language. One can only imagine Halbrook fretting over this.
Here comes the funny part: After lying about Kinists and what we believe in dozens of articles recently, he (inadvertently?) promoted a notorious Kinist, Rev. John Weaver, for a sermon that was preached last week. In this clip, you can hear Pastor Weaver teach that God created the races for His own purpose, and interracial marriage is the sin of adultery, and it leads to idolatry. Order Rev. Weaver’s excellent sermon, “Interracial Marriage, Idolatry, and Multiculturalism.” You done good, Halbrook! I wish I could say the same for the rest of your website. I believe it was William Shakespeare who offered the best review of your work: “I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation” (The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1).
Though this video is pornographic, it deserves to be seen for a few reasons: 1) It was produced by Swedish State Television; 2) It shows that race-mixers have lost all inhibitions (the explicit message of the video is that race betrayal is ecstasy); and 3) Except for the detail of the sex being extramarital, it is exactly what neo-Babelists are pushing on the Church and Western nations in the 21st century. The grotesque black whores in the field are gyrating in front of a large clock. This is surely meant to convey the idea that time is running out for the white race. Notice also that Ken and Barbie’s Dreamhouse is filled to overflowing and then ransacked, which seems rather accurate.
Jew Tim Wise jewily jews with jewish abandon. The recent election notwithstanding, Tiny Tim exults that white people are “on the endangered list.” He even includes in his prose the sound of a clock ticking, which, as in the video above, has the goal of frightening us into believing that God has abandoned us, and mere seconds remain before our genocide is complete.
And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving.
In forty years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around who actually remember that Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Opie-Taylor-Down-at-the-Fishing Hole cornpone bullshit that you hold so near and dear to your heart…
It’s OK. Because in about forty years, half the country will be black or brown. And there is nothing you can do about it...
So enjoy your tax cuts a while longer…
We don’t need guns. We just have to be patient. And wait for you to pass into that good night, first politically, and then, well…
Do you hear it? The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently? Because I do, and the sound of its demise is beautiful.
Our Christian ancestors knew how to handle this scum, but that’s because they were Christians. The people who call themselves by that name today and who fill the race-mixing social clubs known as churches, are poor substitutes. Just remember that when you see what is happening to our people, don’t blame the God-damned Jew or the semi-retarded Negro. All the destruction that has come upon us has been the work of our own relatives, of those who claim the name of Christ. We have reaped the curses of Deuteronomy 28 because the law of God is hated, and every man does what is right in his own eyes.
It goes without saying that the SPLC’s laughable “Hatewatch” has seen nothing hateful in Rabbi Tim’s genocidal screed.
Mohammed now beats Oliver, Jack, and Harry for the most popular name for baby boys in Britain.
The ten most corrupt countries in the world, with the exception of Myanmar, which is Asian and Buddhist, are black and/or Muslim. The ten least corrupt countries in the world, with the exception of Singapore, which is Asian and Buddhist, are historically Christian and still majority-white. Our anti-Kinist friends vow that there is no such thing as race, which they always write in quote marks, and if race does exist, it shouldn’t. They can never use real-world statistics to prove their contentions, because the facts point in the opposite direction.
Warning! These are very graphic images of India, but pictures that should be seen if you have a strong stomach. Pray that God spares us, in our own country, from being exposed to these savages and their toilet-soup religion. Just remember that prayer is useless if all you want to do is pray.
“If I had tomorrow to go to India to preach the Gospel, I should pray to God, if such a thing could be, that he would give me a black face and make me like a Hindoo; for otherwise I should feel that when I preached I should be regarded as one of the lords—one of the oppressors it may sometime be added—and I should not expect my congregation to listen to me as a man speaking to men, a brother to brother, a Christian full of love, but they would hear me, and only cavil at me, because even my white face would give me some appearance of superiority.” ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Miss India-New Zealand has blonde hair and blue eyes and looks like no Indian you’ve ever seen. White women are the gold standard of beauty, says Captain Obvious.
The Occidental Quarterly has never looked better. Why TOQ exists. You are what you watch.
You must read this SPLC page to fully appreciate how ridiculous it is. Morris Disease bloats petulant over the National Policy Institute’s fan pages for presidents and great Americans such as Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh. NPI even likes “certain non-Americans such as Beethoven, Goethe, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling. Entirely missing from NPI’s collection of sponsored Facebook pages: Any American or non-American of any race or culture other than white European, and women.” Well, dang. That must have been an oversight. We are henceforth forbidden by the Jews, fags, and Jewish fags at the SPLC from making heroes of dead white men. So let it be written. So let it be done.
You’ll recall that when Arizona tried to protect Arizonans from wetbacks, Obama and other liberals said that it was perfectly understandable but it went too far, and we need to leave border control to the real authorities, not to sovereign states. Now Obama has told Hispanics that he has no intention of enforcing the law unless one of their muchachos commits another crime while here.
Jim Russell lost his election last week, 62%-38%, but that’s still an excellent showing for a known “racist.” The times, they be a-changin’. Alvin Greene lost too, sad to say. When we really needed the black race to come through for us, they decided to stay home.
George W. Bush has such profound respect for the opinions of niggers that even 9/11 and his grand fiasco in the Middle East bother him less than being called a racist by Kanye West. He says it was the worst moment of his presidency! If I may paraphrase Mark Twain, the problem is not that there are too many fools. The problem is that there are too few lightning strikes in Dallas.
Tea Partiers had no problem at all with this, but when a black man was elected, they finally got angry. But whatever you do, don’t call them racists. They’ll deny it left and right.
It’s all about race to this voter, but the cops don’t call him names or arrest him, as they have done to many people we know for doing far less. And of course, it goes without saying that news of this incident has been buried by the objective mainstream press. He calls a black woman, who merely disagrees with him politically, a “f-ing house nigger white-black bitch,” and of course a “racist.” Let me repeat, the cops do nothing. In fact, the black cop appears to be trying to calm him down, as though his rage directed to racist white people is completely understandable but needs to be controlled for the sake of propriety.
Now read this, about a couple who witness two men sodomizing each other in the park and yell out, “You sick faggots! Get the hell out of here!” And then to a nearby cop, “Officer! Arrest these disgusting perverts!” Where did these boisterous people come from, the year 1950? They apparently don’t realize that this is the year 2010, and we’ve moved beyond the unbridled HATE of our ancestors. The only crime that was committed here, according to the well-trained policeman, was the hate crime of using the words “faggots” and “perverts.” He said that parks are now “public sex environments,” and those who exercise this newfound right must never be taunted because this will cause post-traumatic stress. It’s simply not possible to make this stuff up. No one would believe it.
Semitical Correctness, as defined in George Orwell’s 1984:
Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments…and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.
As Orwell said, “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” But Steve Sailer is correct that Orwell got it partially wrong. It’s not that Big Brother is watching us from our TVs; it’s that we’re all watching TV, eagerly absorbing the rules for what we are to think, how we are to speak, what is good, and what is evil. For the same reason, Hans Christian Andersen was wrong, or at least naïve; the mob in The Emperor’s New Clothes would never be swayed by one person pointing out the obvious. Men are comforted to know that everyone else is learning and obeying the same rules, regardless of whether they are true and regardless of whether our righteous forefathers loved them or hated them. The Folk can be destroyed without an army. (Even Tim Wise knows that guns are not needed.) All that is required is to train them to be status-seekers, for as the old Book says, pride goes before the fall. The irony is that we Kinists are regularly accused of a sinful pride in our endangered race. For some reason, semitically-correct Alienist conformists are never accused of pride.
Sailer said something else in his Mencken Club speech that is typically brilliant: “[K]nowledge consists of similarity and difference, of contrast. You can turn information into a binary digital stream of 1s and 0s, but you can’t turn it into all 1s. That way lies non-knowledge.” This hints at why God created separate kinds. If everything were the same, we would have no knowledge of the world or ourselves, and therefore no knowledge of God. We can appreciate the accomplishments of female runners because they have their own races in the Olympics, and they have their own races because they could not otherwise compete. Diversity, properly understood, is good. Those who fail to appreciate the God-ordained diversity of humankind, who falsely believe that all people are the same, are on the path to anti-knowledge and darkness. Our “racist” Christian forefathers did not walk in darkness. Instead, they bestowed the blessings of science upon the world. Those who are scared by words like segregation are actually fearful of culture. There can be no culture without distinctions.
”If you choose to lump all flowers together, lilies and dahlias and tulips and chrysanthemums, and call them daisies, you will find that you have spoiled the very fine word daisy… [I]t is barbaric and reactionary to destroy cultural distinctions between one thing and another; because it is like rubbing out all the lines of a fine drawing.” ~ G.K. Chesterton, incorrigible racist
“In certain respects (not all, or even perhaps most), current culture seems simply to have fallen to a lower level of civilization and to be now a little nearer to niggers or even to monkeys.” ~ G.K. Chesterton, again
If you want to find a good steward of culture and civilization, look no further than to the man who is the trustee of his family. As Rushdoony taught, “The biblical trustee family is when the living members see themselves as trustees of the family blood, rights, property, name, and position for their lifetime. They have an inheritance from the past to be preserved and developed for the future.” Robert Fort adds:
Without the trustee family, you basically decline into a Hobbesian society in which there are no solid, lasting institutions other than the state and the individual. Such a society immediately falls into tyranny, along with collectivism and hyper-individualism (and yes, those two things can co-exist). It is pretty much what we have in the US.
While the Church needs good theology and a focus on dominion to be the Church, it also must be comprised of a significant amount of trustee families, or the Church becomes a transient institution with no sense of permanence. Which in turn leads to the easier acceptance of eschatologies of defeat.
The Reconstructionists who were Rushdoony haters thought he was wrong to put the family over the Church. But he was right because you have no church without family. Those who think the Church just magically sustains itself without strongly-focused families are attending Gum Drop Church on Fairy Tale Lane.
So what have we learned? There can be no such thing as culture if all men are equal. There can be no liberty without defenders of the blood. And as our knight from Cambria knows, the faith itself will wither on the vine if it is merely assentive rather than incarnational.
Behind the white man’s flight from his race is a flight from the living God. Christ came to us through the blood; He became part of us, body and soul. A European can only deny God by forsaking his blood. This is the reason Christianity only survives as an intellectual system, not an incarnational faith. You can pick or choose when you are dealing with a mind-forged system, agreeing with some tenets and disagreeing with others. But a blood faith is different. It is all or nothing. You must either trust your instincts and plunge headfirst into the raging river, trusting that the current will take you to a safe harbor, or you must stay on the dry land and create abstract theories about rivers and currents and cabbages and kings…
The Europeans longed for the coming of the hero. Who was Thor, who was Odin, if not the European’s waking dream of a hero that would come and save his people from the forces of the underground world of evil, sin and death? Christ was Thor, He was Odin, He was Siegfried, He was all the gods and all the heroes, and He was more than the gods: He was blood brother, Savior, and King…
Off-white children are waiting three times longer than white children to be adopted, which has prompted the “children’s minister” of Britain to declare that there is “no reason at all” why white people should not take children of other races as their own. Did you get that? No reason at all!
It’s as safe and natural as this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Naturally, liberals consider the adoption deficit to be a problem of, by, and for white people. No one ever asks non-whites why they have no interest in adopting their own kind, but they clearly do not. It’s one of those things that you’re not supposed to discuss if you want to keep your job.
I wonder why legalized segregation in Israel is not a matter for constant self-flagellation in the Jew-press. Whites who oppose miscegenation are “racists” but Jews can, without fear of retribution, call their own miscegenists “traitors”? The double standards never end. And while the “rape by deception” case is deceptively being called an “interfaith” matter, the men who stand in doorways in Israel to make sure that Jews are not pairing up with Arabs are not conducting theological tests. Jews consider themselves to be the Messiah, so they will always exempt themselves from the standards they enforce for everyone else, all of which are designed to benefit Jews.
One thing that blacks and Jews have in common is their penchant for telling outlandish stories to enhance their credentials as The Oppressed of the Earth. No Holohoax story is too extreme for a Jew to invent. Remember Trudy the Wonder Child, who cleaned the entire kitchen floor at Auschwitz with her tongue? Here’s another one about a magic shirt that saved a Jew. Even as early as a few years after the war ended, Jew Samuel Gringauz, in a 1950 book called Jewish Social Studies, concluded that the credibility of his race had been strained to the breaking point. He wrote: “[M]ost of the memoirs and reports [of 'Holocaust survivors'] are full of preposterous verbosity, graphomanic exaggeration, dramatic effects, overestimated self-inflation, dilettante philosophizing, would-be lyricism, unchecked rumors, bias, partisan attacks…” Yet 25 or 30 years later, there began a full-court press to punish anyone who doubted the least aspect of the endless fiction that was being churned out in print and film. It is now illegal throughout most of Europe to question even the number of Jews who died (for any reason) during the 12-year span of the war. Great and noble men have been imprisoned, and the Church, to its eternal shame, has either been silent or has joined in the satanic refrain of denouncing these prisoners of conscience as “anti-Semites.”
Well, if you think Jews can weave a yarn, this is doubly true for blacks and their stories of the Klan. When was the last time you heard of a KKK member committing a crime? I’m sure it happens here and there, but almost never. So I was listening to the Don Imus show, and the guy from the rent-is-too-damn-high party was being interviewed. Like Alvin Greene, who answers every question with a robotic statement that his opponent caused the recession, Jimmy McMillan talks constantly about how he was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, and that’s why his hands get cold. He inserts his martial arts experience into every other sentence. Best of all, he dodges every question about his “anti-Semitic” criticism of Jew landlords in New York by saying that he has been victimized too, beginning with the KKK killing his grandfather and uncle. Listen to the ridiculous and graphic story he tells at 8:15 in this clip. You can guess what he intends to cover up by the tall tale. Then he frightens the entire audience by saying, “Every child is my child.” A giant clicking sound of car doors being locked was heard across the country at that moment.
McMillan’s fiction about the KKK will surely bring to your mind this famous story about Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley, which inspired Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities. “Reverend Al” told a fantastic story about Brawley being raped and sodomized by six white men, but of course it couldn’t end there. He knew that blacks would only be energized if the alleged attackers were KKK members (a lesson that the inventor of the Duke rape hoax should have learned). Therefore, the letters “KKK” were said to have been carved into Brawley’s breast and abdomen. A good story only gets better with the retelling, and the KKK continues to serve as an all-purpose villain. Meanwhile, Reverend Al, famed minister of the gospel and gatekeeper of the public airwaves, has continued to find work as a storyteller.
“There are more African Americans under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.” ~ Michelle Alexander
It’s racist to say that blacks disproportionately go to prison because they disproportionately commit crime, as two Washington State Supreme Court Justices have discovered. As everyone knows, blacks are imprisoned in large numbers because the white man hates the black man’s freedoms.
“It is well known, that, as a general rule, [Negroes] are a graceless, vagabondish set, and contribute very little to the support of the State by which they are protected.” ~ R.L. Dabney
“Whites from families with incomes below $10,000 score better on the SAT than Blacks from families with incomes over $70,000.” But poor whites never benefit from quotas.
Blacks are given more quotas than anyone, and as we pointed out recently, an Asian needs an almost perfect score on the SAT to be given the same breaks as a black student with an average score.
The real unemployment rate is 17%. In California it’s 22%, because they had the bright idea that white people are not really needed for prosperity. In the year 2010, with whites in the dwindling minority, these Grateful Dead lyrics seem hopelessly obsolete:
California, preaching on the burning shore
California, I’ll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I’m gonna shine
As Jay Leno said before the election, Meg Whitman released a TV ad “in both Mandarin and Cantonese… That’s how” it works in California, “where a white woman from back east trying to replace an Austrian governor runs an ad in Chinese to explain to people why she hired a Mexican maid.”
Who wants to bet that the University of Virginia’s lifting of its ban on free speech does not extend to “racists”?
I guess when you travel to the Maldives to allow savages to make a mockery of the sacred Christian institution of marriage, you get what you pay for.
This “pastor” in Africa, the “New Center of Christendom,” has devised a clever gimmick. To “remove the stigma attached to HIV sufferers in his country,” he claims that Jesus was HIV-positive.
Anti-feminists are “Neanderthals,” says Sarah Palin, the famous helpmeet and domestician.
Phil Hendrie’s “The Greenskeeper” is hilarious. A white man calls in to the show to rant and rave about what another man (played by Hendrie) is saying about whether Tiger Woods should be allowed at the country club. This was long before Tiger’s harem of white whores became known, which makes it even funnier.
Agriculture was born in the Fertile Crescent. In almost no time, “everyone in Central Europe was suddenly farming and raising livestock,” keeping cows in wooden pens, and grinding grain with stones. Some have believed that agriculture spread into Europe as a sort of missionary effort, but now we learn that there was a mass migration of lactose-tolerant farmers from the Middle East to Europe.
The cursed Hamites inherited no science.
Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro—
And what should they know of England who only England know?—
The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag,
They are lifting their heads in the stillness to yelp at the English Flag!
I don’t know where you got the genealogical chart, but I think it is wrong. Even those who subscribe to the 100% European-Japhetic theory do not trace the descent that way. Nearly all Protestants follow Josephus (or did, when such things were discussed), whether Baptist, Presbyterian, Anglican or Dispensationalist. All have Javan as the father of the Greeks, not the 10 “barbarian” tribes. The Spanish/Iberians are of Tarshish, as the Bible indicates rather clearly.
The Gomeric theory has been very popular, with Gomer as the progenitor of the Celtic/Brythonic peoples. Some have tried to connect Cymry and Cymric with a linguistic corruption of Gomer and Gomeric. Others, reading the promise to “enlarge” Japheth as physical, point to the East and try to connect the Asians with him: ex. Gomer-Khmer, Javan-Java, Javanese, etc. I don’t know. I think the Japhetic peoples went into Europe originally, and were followed by their brothers, the Semitic Israelites, and they LITERALLY dwelt together in the tent.
“The cursed Hamites inherited no science.”
Sorry, gentlemen, but that is not true. The Bible and secular history say otherwise. Who was Nimrod? A Cushite. Who were the Egyptians? Mizraim’s children. Who were the Hittites, whose metalworking technology dominated the early Iron Age? Israel greatly feared the Canaanites in the land. All these were Ham’s. The Hamites as presented in the Bible were intelligent builders and engineers, militarily dominant, and technically advanced. They most often used their intelligence for evil, but they do not have the characteristics of modern Negroes (or of negroes at any time in recorded history for that matter), which leads one to question whether the Negro is of Ham at all, at least fully. Something else is in the woodpile.
Your comment is very helpful, Caradoc, and we would love to know more from you. You appear to be very well-educated on the subject.
The chart comes from Bill Cooper’s “After the Flood.”
http://ldolphin.org/cooper/
Though I disagree with the young-earth stuff, he seems to have a lot of the details worked out. Still, the details that he considers to be certain are in fact shrouded in mystery.
You could be right that Cooper is wrong.
Regarding the Hamites, I think there is no question that they were all cursed after the Flood, despite their original talents, and despite their ongoing accomplishments for a time. We didn’t state it very well, but this is what we meant when we said that they inherited no science. You’re correct that they fell from a great height, and their descendants were either wiped out or merged entirely with Negroes.
What do you think about this table of nations that “Answers in Genesis” has drawn up? It’s also very interesting.
Thank you, admin. The AIG chart is the traditional Protestant approach, based on Genesis 10. The real question is, where are the descendants of these people now? I imagine AIG’s theological committment would make them reject any notion of Israelite movement into Europe, much less another theory of Negro origin.
I am not familiar with Bill Cooper. But it is interesting that he includes in his works the Chronicle of the Early Britons. That particular work is collected in the Four Ancient Books of Wales, which is available for free download from Internet Archive. From his preface:
“But, degrees of historicity or otherwise
notwithstanding, the most important consideration of all is that our ancient forebears believed it to be a true and honest account. This is how they saw their world and the past which led them to
it, and this is the literary heritage that they have taken such pains to pass down to us.”
It is so interesting that he should write that, because the book in question makes the claim that the Britons are descended from Trojan refugees. Of course, moderns ridicule that, but lineage was EXTREMELY important to these ancient people. I find it hard to believe that they would write comic books and call it their family tree. To say it is an insult to the dead. So, back up, who were the Trojans? One conjecture is that of the 5 sons of Zarah (of the Scarlet thread, Genesis 38) Dara or Darda led a migration out of Egypt before the plagues, eventually founding Troy. This is from the Encyclopedia Britannica of all places:
“DARDANUS, in Greek legend, son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, mythical FOUNDER OF DARDANUS on the Hellespont and ANCESTOR OF THE DARDANS of the Troad and, through AENEAS, of THE ROMANS. His original home was supposed to have been Arcadia. Having slain his brother Iasius or Iasion (according to some legends, Iasius was struck by lightning), DARDANUS FLED ACROSS THE SEA. He first stopped at SAMOTHRACE, and, when the island was VISITED BY A FLOOD, CROSSED OVER TO THE TROAD. Being hospitably received by Teucer, he married his daughter Batea and became THE FOUNDER OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF TROY. — 1943 edition. Vol. 7, p. 56.” Real figures have a way of being written into legend as demi-gods. They tried to do it to Paul and Silas. If true, that points to a very large component of Semitic makeup in the European population, making the claims of those who say they are Jews and are not, but do lie, all the more ridiculous.
One other interesting point concerning the Greeks and Hebrews. Both groups were notoriously insular. Both kept meticulous records. Neither wanted to be connected with any alien blood. From the Book of I Maccabees, chapter 12 (note particularly vs. 11 and 21):
[1] Now when Jonathan saw that time served him, he chose certain men, and sent them to Rome, for to confirm and renew the friendship that they had with them.
[2] He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose.
[3] So they went unto Rome, and entered into the senate, and said, Jonathan the high priest, and the people of the Jews, sent us unto you, to the end ye should renew the friendship, which ye had with them, and league, as in former time.
[4] Upon this the Romans gave them letters unto the governors of every place that they should bring them into the land of Judea peaceably.
[5] And this is the copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Lacedemonians:
[6] Jonathan the high priest, and the elders of the nation, and the priests, and the other of the Jews, unto the Lacedemonians their brethren send greeting:
[7] There were letters sent in times past unto Onias the high priest from Darius, who reigned then among you, to signify that ye are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.
[8] At which time Onias entreated the ambassador that was sent honourably, and received the letters, wherein declaration was made of the league and friendship.
[9] Therefore we also, albeit we need none of these things, that we have the holy books of scripture in our hands to comfort us,
[10] Have nevertheless attempted to send unto you for the renewing of brotherhood and friendship, lest we should become strangers unto you altogether: for there is a long time passed since ye sent unto us.
[11] We therefore at all times without ceasing, both in our feasts, and other convenient days, do remember you in the sacrifices which we offer, and in our prayers, as reason is, and as it becometh us to think upon our brethren:
[12] And we are right glad of your honour.
[13] As for ourselves, we have had great troubles and wars on every side, forsomuch as the kings that are round about us have fought against us.
[14] Howbeit we would not be troublesome unto you, nor to others of our confederates and friends, in these wars:
[15] For we have help from heaven that succoureth us, so as we are delivered from our enemies, and our enemies are brought under foot.
[16] For this cause we chose Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater he son of Jason, and sent them unto the Romans, to renew the amity that we had with them, and the former league.
[17] We commanded them also to go unto you, and to salute and to deliver you our letters concerning the renewing of our brotherhood.
[18] Wherefore now ye shall do well to give us an answer thereto.
[19] And this is the copy of the letters which Oniares sent.
[20] Areus king of the Lacedemonians to Onias the high priest, greeting:
[21] It is found in writing, that the Lacedemonians and Jews are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham:
[22] Now therefore, since this is come to our knowledge, ye shall do well to write unto us of your prosperity.
[23] We do write back again to you, that your cattle and goods are our’s, and our’s are your’s We do command therefore our ambassadors to make report unto you on this wise.
Great article. As for the AIG chart, I’d have to look but it appears to be Gen. 10 in chart format.
FANTASTIC! I love it.
The legend of Troy reminds me that the British monarchs have traced their lineage to King David, and from there to Adam. I first learned about this when I heard that every name in the family tree, all the way back to Adam, was read aloud when Queen Elizabeth II was coronated.
We’ve also written a bit about the Irish legend of Tea Tephi, the daughter of King Zedekiah, who was taken by the prophet Jeremiah to Egypt when the Babylonians invaded Israel. From there they sailed to Sicily then Spain then Ireland with the stone that Jacob used for a pillow in Genesis 28. In Jeremiah 1:10 it is prophesied that Jeremiah’s task would be to build and plant, but in Jeremiah 43:6-7 we find him in Tahpanhes, Egypt. It turns out that this city was a very probable launching point for a voyage to Ireland. There is proof that this was a well-known route at the time because in the British Museum right now there is a Philistine Seal dated to about 670 BC which had been found in Dundrum, Ireland! In 1886, an archaeologist named Sir Flinders Petrie discovered at Tahpanhes a mound called “Qasr Bint el Yehudi,” which is translated, “Palace of the Hebrew’s Daughter.” Later, the name of a city in Spain near the Rock of Gibraltar caled Caer Malcarth was changed to Caer Teia (“City of Tea”).
Legend also has it that this very Tea Tephi married Prince Eochaidh of Ireland, who was himself descended from Zerah, the child who had the scarlet thread tied around his wrist in Genesis 38. It is said that the Irish monarchy descended from these two, and every king and queen that followed was coronated over Jacob’s pillow, the stone carried by Tea Tephi from Israel.
As you said about the demigods of mythology, hyperbole can be mixed into the very real stories of very real people. How much of it could be true? Perhaps most or all of it. I agree with you that these people did not take their genealogies lightly. They were so important that they were committed to memory, and this was how children were educated from a very young age.
It’s amazing to think that God could have very carefully guided our ancestors into western Europe from the Middle East. It fits with what was said above about the migration of lactose-tolerant farmers who brought their livestock with them, just as the Israelites did who entered and left Egypt.
The White Community Must Respond-
boycotts, pickets, lawsuits- we are White, we are Community, we are Right!
http://wvwnews.net/printer.php?id=9470
EAU: Stop Tim Wise From Speaking at Sewanee, TN
Posted on: 2010-11-07 13:05:45
Send correspondence to: jafisher@sewanee.edu,jpowen@sewanee.edu,
spurple@sewanee.edu,local@tennessean.com,newsroom@newschannel5.com
To whom it may concern;
It is our understanding on the 9th of November, Sewanee will host Mr. Tim Wise to speak to your students regarding “racism.”
Please be advised that Mr. Wise is well known for his blatant bigotry against persons of European extraction. In spite of his credentials, denials (and ethnicity) Mr. Wise is not an ‘anti racist.’ Mr. Wise is an anti-white activist, but he disguises it in order to further what amounts to a Marxist based degeneration of European Americans in favor of a multicultural socialist Utopia; an activity we understand that also happens to pay quite well.
His caustic and mean spirited diatribes are well known and normally follow course with a screed he penned (here) regarding the recent Republican election victory and white American voters:
“We just have to be patient.
And wait for your hearts to stop beating.
And stop they will.
And for some of you, real damned soon truth be told.”
While Mr. Wise has since claimed that he is only referring to what he calls the “white right”, the fact of the matter is he is likely including all of our mothers, fathers, sons and daughters in his hateful declarations whose view points diverge from his own. Moreover, following Mr. Wise’s sick logic it should also be acceptable to wish the hearts of those on the “non-white left” to stop beating as well.
In order to maintain the integrity of the University of the South’s student body and your reputation, we strongly and publicly recommend that you cancel Mr. Wise’s appearance.
sincerely;
Mr. Drago Rendl
Mr Frank Roman
Mr John Young
Board of Directors, European Americans United
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Monday, November 8, 2010 11:29:00 PM EST
Reckoning Arriving said…
Sewanee is getting a ripping good inquisition over on Steve Sailer-
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/11/uncle-tim.html
See Sewanee comments.
It looks like Tim Wise will feel right at home at Sewanee. Lots of extremist and dangerous anti-White hatred on that campus, which may be typical for any majority White campus these days.
When Whites gather in overwhelming and secure numbers, the weakness for elevating the afrovoodoo black to the status of idols seems to break out like a virulent and disfiguring disease.
Only when White Humanity is surrounded by real blacks do we find the courage to cure ourselves from the Diversity Curse.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=529180910498&set=o.312282030352
http://www.sewanee.edu/multiculturalaffairs
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87808014435&v=wall
http://www.sewaneepurple.com/students-demonstrate-for-diversity-1.1163300
Modern PC-surveillance system, although in many points unprecedented, has some clear historical precedents – like for example of the Islamic system of Dhimmitude that defined correct behavior for conquered infidel populations and easily outdid the Jim Crow etiquette of the Old South:
http://www.archive.org/details/historyofservias00rankrich
From “The history of Servia, (Serbia) [I]and the Servian revolution. With a sketch of the insurrection in Bosnia” (1853) by Leopold von Ranke;
pp. 33-34
“In the book of the “Sultan’s Commands,” compiled by a chief magistrate of Bagdad, in the fifth century of the Hegira, the duties of the Giaours — that is, of those subjects who are not Moslems — are thus specified. “They must be recognised by their dress; their dwellings must not be loftier than those of the Mussulmans; the sound of their bells must not be heard; they must not ride either horses or dromedaries.” Even in the 18th century, a decree of Osmar was renewed, by which the “Infidels” are forbidden to study the learned Arabic, or to teach their children the Koran. Above all things, however, “they may not wear arms;” and this was so completely a matter of course, that it is scarcely ever mentioned afterwards. The Raja were considered a weaponless herd, whose duty was obedience and subjection. Such was in general the state of Servia in the latter half of the 18th century.
The Turks in the country — not only those of distinction, but others of lower rank who had gradually assembled around them — considered themselves the masters of the Raja. Not only did the Turks reserve for themselves the exercise of arms, but also the right of carrying on such trades as were in any way connected with war. Like our northern ancestors, or their own oriental forefathers, amongst whom the son of a smith once founded a dynasty, many a Turk has been seen to turn back his silken sleeve, and shoe a horse; still he regarded himself as a kind of gentleman. Other occupations the Mussulmans left with contempt to Christian mechanics: for instance, no Turk would have condescended to be a furrier. Every thing that they thought suitable and becoming — beautiful arms, rich dresses, magnificent houses — they claimed exclusively for themselves.
But the personal treatment of Christians was most oppressive. No Servian dared to ride into a town on horseback: he was only allowed to appear on foot; and, to any Turk who might demand it, he was bound to render personal service. When meeting a Turk on the road, it was his duty to halt, and make way for him; and if he happened to carry small arms in defence against robbers, he was obliged to conceal them. To suffer injuries was his duty; to resent them was deemed a crime worthy of punishment.”
And I notice a similarity to modern Europe (or America) here: Turkish invaders gathered in urban centers, while Serbian natives kept dominating the hinterland…
p. 34
“Happily the constitution of the country made a separation of the two people possible. Towards the close of the last century, nothing would strike a foreigner passing through Servia more forcibly than the difference between the cities and the country. The Turks lived in the towns, large or small, and the fortresses; the Servians in the villages.
The Pachas, for their own advantage, would not suffer the Turks to roam singly about the country; and, in the existing state of things, the Servians had ample cause for avoiding the towns. Many a Servian attained the age of sixty without ever having seen a town.
Thus, from the distance at which the antagonist parties were kept, the national spirit of the Servians was maintained alive and unsubdued.”
Yes, History of the Kings of Britain, written in about 1136 AD, tells the tale of Trojan survivors and their move to Britain, named after their leader, Brutus.
That book is also one of the early written sources for King Arthur.
One of the more interesting parts of it though are the ‘Prophesies of Merlin’.
Merlin was, according to the text (and if I remember right) the offspring of an angel and a human.
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But that’s not the only Trojan/European connection.
Snorri Sturlason’s Prose Eddda (written around 1230 AD) also states that Odin and his kin were descendants of one of the twelve kings of Troy.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/pre03.htm
It’s in parts III and IV
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I was thinking about the young-earth question again after doing some reading in the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland and Ussher’s chronicles. One argument in its favour is that the early Christians (and most pre-Christians) believed it. The Annals are very precise as far back as 300 BC, but they begin at 2242 years after Creation (of Adam). It begins with a woman, Ceasair, coming to Ireland forty days before the Deluge. Now, is the whole universe young, or is Adam only young? That is the $64000 question.
One other thought on Genesis 10: verse 18b reads: “and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.” That is said of no other people. Apocryphal sources (and I will have to locate it) tell a tale of the other Hamitic families (particularly Mizraim) urging the Canaanites to move on with them into Africa which had been assigned them by Noah, but they refused, coveting the land given to Shem. Psalm 78:51 calls Africa, particularly Egypt, the tabernacles of Ham (and as you have shown, the Egyptians were not Negroid). The Bible does give some positive statements about the Egyptians, especially in Isaiah 19:24 and 25. It is possible that the Canaanites deliberately moved into the lands of OR mixed themselves genetically with everyone they could, in a repeat of the Genesis 6 effort. And of course, the Carthaginians always called themselves Canaanites and worshipped the abomination Moloch. Rome did all of us a great kindness when they razed Carthage. My point is this: the Canaanite problem crops up in history far more often than in the isolated land of Israel in the time of Joshua. The problem today of identification is immeasurably worse, because of the millennia of miscegenation since Old Testament times.
You mentioned the Coronation Stone. Have you ever noticed that when the people wanted water, Moses told them to gather before THE rock? They were in the desert; how many rocks were around them? It is like they knew which rock he meant. And Paul wrote in I Corinthians 4: “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.” We know that Christ himself used the literal Manna for the Spiritual food. It always came from the same place; so I think it reasonable to think that the water came from the same place. Is it possible that Paul is using metonymy; placing the actual rock for the Rock as in the analogies for Baptism and the Supper? If the analogy holds, multiple rocks would mean multiple sources of Spiritual drink, but there is only one source.
That should be I Corinthians 10, verse 4, sorry.
This is all very interesting, and I realize that I have a lot to learn. I’m especially interested to know more Ceasair coming to Ireland forty days before the Deluge. I wonder how this would fit with an allegedly global Deluge. At any rate, the Deluge was massive, but if it was not global, this again indicates God’s care in moving His people out of harm’s way, much like Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Petr, I never realized that rural retreats were havens from Turks, but it makes perfect sense.
“Petr, I never realized that rural retreats were havens from Turks, but it makes perfect sense.”
Another interesting thing I learned from von Ranke’s book (which I find quite relevant to us threatened natives of America and Europe these days): while the Balkan Christian populations mostly lived in “lowlands”, fertile plains, and were there humiliated and oppressed by their Ottoman conquerors, those that were able to live in barren “highlands” of Balkan mountain plateaus enjoyed much manlier state of semi-independence.
We can see that even though aggressive darkies may be brazen and powerful in some geographical spots, they can be neutralized in others. Under ruthless Ottoman occupation, many Balkanese mountain areas nevertheless became “no-go zones” for Muslim oppressors:
http://www.archive.org/details/historyofservias00rankrich
pp. 484-485
“On the plateaux of the Balkan, between Seres and Sophia, Philibeh and Ternovo, the condition of the Bulgarians is very different; nowhere do they enjoy more complete independence. In those highlands, of which he is the sole inhabitant, the Bulgarian does pretty much as he pleases; he even sets up crosses on the roadsides, a religious manifestation which would be severely punished in the plain, and he covers the public fountains with Christian emblems and inscriptions, in his own language. There only he exhibits all the characteristics of the primitive mountaineer: vivacity, high spirit, exalted love of his race, a passion for the marvellous and for the heroic life. There behind his rocks the Bulgarian feels himself backed by a terrible force, that of the haiduks. There are few families of which some members are not haiduks or mountain brigands. The father of a family will tell you coolly, “the Pacha plundered me, and I sent my son to the haiduks.” As soon as a family has several of its members thus disposed of, extortion keeps aloof from it, and the Turks themselves beware of molesting it, for it might avenge itself. These haiduks are divided into more or less numerous bands, under captains, who like certain barons in the times of feudal anarchy, beset the passes, attack the Turkish caravans and the Armenian tax-gatherers, and make those leeches of their country disgorge. Prodigious feats of strength and courage are related of them, which would seem fabulous were they not so frequent: two or three haiduks will sometimes disperse a Pacha’s whole train. The unoffensive traveller has seldom reason to fear ill-treatment at their hands; in becoming brigands the haiduks only obey the voice of nature, which cries to them to avenge the wrongs of their people, and they think they are fulfilling a duty.
Whenever the Bulgarian peasant knows that he is in the neighbourhood of these unseen protectors he holds his head erect before his oppressors. When by mischance I had taken a Mussulman guide with me on my visit to those districts, I could never find anything to buy at the mehanas (eating-houses); I was obliged to send the Turk out of the way and say to the host: Give me some dinner, brother; I am a, Bulgarian myself. Thereupon he set before me whatever he had.”
Thus in the 19th century, the “Hajduks” (brigands) were to Balkan Christians a protective force like Ku Klux Klan was to White Southerners during the Reconstruction era. “Robin Hood” syndrome in other words:
pp. 489-490
“The more the Sultan favoured the giaour institutions, the more rancorous the Janissaries became against the Sultan and against those brothers of the giaours, the Rayahs; until at last they resolved on entirely exterminating the latter. The Janissaries of Servia began the work in 1804; but haidukism, which had failed in Bulgaria, became fully established in Servia, and saved the Christian populations. The brigands, who peopled the caverns of the Serb and Bulgarian mountains, awoke at last to a nobler sense of their destiny. One of them, the famous Veliko, a Serb brought up in Vidin, began in Tserna Reka the national war both against Pasvan Oglou and the dahis. Unfortunately the Bulgarians, too pacific by nature, or overawed, perhaps, by the able Pasvan, did not partake in the generous impulse, and their haiduks were constrained to emigrate into Servia. There the captains of all the Serb bands, convinced of the necessity of acting in concert, unanimously chose Tserni George for their commander-in-chief, beat the Janissaries on all hands, and drove them back to Belgrade, which they besieged. The starved out dahis made their escape, carrying off four great boatloads of treasure, hoping to find an asylum with their suzerain Pasvan. The haiduks pursued them by land along the Danube, till the fugitives entered Orsova, when the haiduks compelled the Turkish commandant to give up the tyrants. Milenko, a haiduk captain, went with his soldiers into the fortress, cut off the heads of the four dahis, and carried them back to the camp where they were stuck up on the lances.”
Each of your comments is a work of art. You’re right, the haiduk brigands are just like the KKK and Jesse James, who was in his time quite likely the most famous man in the world.
We’ve seen in the last hundred years how a small group of men in the mountains can repel the greatest empires in the world. I’m thinking primarily of Afghans.
This is why our General George Washington said, “If defeated everywhere else, I will make my stand for liberty among the Scots-Irish of my native Virginia.” They were in the mountains.
I love the description of the “primitive mountaineer”: “vivacity, high spirit, exalted love of his race, a passion for the marvellous and for the heroic life.”
I also find it interesting that the frontier justice of the haiduks is precisely like the “Christian mafia” that Robert Fort advocates. (Not to suggest criminality.) The problem with Christians is that no one fears them. Everyone fears Muslims, just as everyone feared Mongols. They have made it clear that there will be horrible consequences if their idol and prophet are blasphemed. The law would not even have to be broken for Christians to enforce their will. They have the ability to band together, but they refuse, and in fact are incapable, in large part because they falsely view their faith as assentive rather than incarnational. It’s all between their ears; it has nothing to do with how they live their lives. As written above, if there is no love for the Folk, there is no love for the brethren. And without love, our faith is worthless.
The haiduks had real faith because they were guided as much by the blood as by the spirit. In short, they were Kinists. They knew that perhaps a few Turks might be converted to Christianity, but also knew that it would have been folly to pin their survival on the vain hope. The Alienist, neo-Babelist, anti-Kinist needs to face the facts. Would the gospel of Christ have survived in the Balkans if the people had taken the modern, Communist approach of Judeochristians and treated all men as disposable, interchangeable, and generic “souls” that had to be won? No, to defeat the enemies of Christ, they had to put their own people first, just as every father must put his own family first. God wants us to preach His gospel, but He also wants us to survive.
“I’m especially interested to know more Ceasair coming to Ireland forty days before the Deluge.”
As am I. Unfortunately, history becomes myth, and myth becomes legend, and things which ought to have been remembered are forgotten. Tha Annals only say this: ” THE Age of the World , to this Year of the Deluge, 2242. Forty days
before the Deluge, Ceasair came to Ireland with fifty girls and three men;
Bith, Ladhra, and Fintain, their names. Ladhra died at Ard-Ladhrannd, and
from him it is named. He was the first that died in Ireland. Bith died at
Sliabh Beathaf and was interred in the carn of Sliabh Beatha, and from him the mountain is named. Ceasair died at Cuil-Ceasra, in Connaught, and was
interred in Carn-Ceasra. From Fintan is [named] Feart-Fintain’, over Loch
Deirgdheire.”
There is a note attached to the cairn of Bith: “Carn of Sliabh Beatha This carn still exists, and is situated on that part of the mountain of Slieve Beagh which extends across a portion of
the parish of Clones belonging to the county of Fermanagh. If this carn be ever explored, it may furnish evidences
of the true period of the arrival of Bith.”
I read not too long ago about the willful, wanton, destruction of a large swath of potential archaeological information near the site of ancient Tara during the construction of a freeway.
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/tara-update
We all know that in America, if a knife that MIGHT have been used by a slave in 1850 to cut a chaw of tobacco were unearthed, all construction would be halted and a monument erected. But they deliberately plowed through this site. I wonder why?
As for Ceasair herself: “This story of the coming of Ceasair, the grand-daughter of Noah, to Ireland,
is given in the Book of Leinster,
in all the copies of the Book of Invasions ; in the Book of Fenagh ; and in Giraldus Cambrensis’s Topographia Hibernica, dist. ii. c. 1 . It
is also given in Mageoghegan’s translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise ; but the translator remarks : “my author, Eochy O’Flannagan, giveth no credit to that fabulous tale.” Hanmer also gives this story, as does Keating ; but they do not appear to believe it, because, says the latter, “I cannot conceive how the Irish antiquaries could have obtained the accounts of those who arrived in Ireland before the Flood, unless they were communicated by those aerial demons, or familiar sprites, who waited on them in times of paganism, or that they found them engraved on stones after the Deluge had subsided.” The latter opinion had been propounded by Giraldus Cambrensis (ubi supra), in the twelfth century.” That is from a digitised copy of the Annals as of 1856.
The men of the time did not consider that perhaps the Flood was localised, which is another possibility for how antediluvian history was transmitted. Space won’t permit a discussion of more of the history; of the Fomorians who terrorised the land, and the Firblogs, and the coming of the Tuatha de Danaan, and finally the Milesians, where the history really begins to intersect with that of Wales. Dr. Gordon Clark once said that history was instructive, but contemporary history much less so because most of it was a lie. If so much of what has happened within some of our lifetimes has been so distorted and covered up, what can we expect when trying to piece this together? The lies told about the War against the South, the World Wars, and the current wars are immense. What else has been lost or deliberately erased?
Thanks Admin for researching these great proofs given by common and natural law. As said earlier, so long as natural and common law neither violate the divine, they can give some extra punch to the kinist argument. What you’ve found w/ regarding propriety: the relation between inheritance, property, and kindred is truly a finishing touch. The argument gets stronger day-by-day.
In Turk-occupied Greece, haiduk-like brigands were called “Klephts” (a Greek word for thief from which “kleptomania” is derived):
http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/gaskell/EG-Modern.html
“Of the former species of song (those relating to deeds of arms), the story almost invariably has a Klepht for a hero. (Klepht signifies “freebooter,” a more picturesque name than “thief,” which is, I believe, the literal translation). But we must not judge of everything by its name. To explain something of the true character of the Klephts: When the Turks first conquered the Greek provinces, there were always native mountaineers who refused to acknowledge the Mussulman government, and considered the Turkish possession of the lands of the Greeks, their forefathers, as nothing less than robbery. These mountain peasantry came down in armed bands upon the fertile plains and the luxurious towns, and stripped the Turks and those who had quietly submitted to their sway, whenever they could; it was from those who were thus robbed, that the mountaineers received the name of Klephts. But our Saxon ancestors did the same to the Normans; Robin Hood was an English Klepht, taking only what he thought was unjustly acquired, and unfairly held. The Turks found it rather difficult to make war against these guerillas; they fled to wild and rocky recesses of the mountains when pursued. So the wise and cautious conquerors tried to make friends, and partially succeeded. In return for certain privileges, a portion of the mountaineers organised themselves into a kind of militia, called Armatolians; but there was always a rough and stern remnant who persevered in their independent and Klephtic habits. And in course of time, many of the Armatolians, oppressed by the Turks, who no longer feared them, returned to their primitive state of hostility against their conquerors, began to pillage afresh, and resumed the name of Klepht. Affront an Armatolian captain of the militia, bound to preserve order, or let him be unjustly treated by a Turk, and he instantly turned Klepht, and robbed with more zest and enjoyment than he had ever experienced in preserving the peace. So, as may easily be imagined, the Klephts who were weak yesterday, maybe strong to-day, both in numbers and in intelligence respecting the movements of the great convoys appointed to guard treasures. They lived in wild places, with their arms in their hands; sometimes on the brink of absolute starvation, but rarely forgetting that they were Greeks, and might only steal from the Turks. The flocks and herds of the Turks were carried off in the night; but seldom those of the Greeks, unless indeed they had made positive friends with those of the oppressors who lived among them. Sometimes an unlucky aga would be taken prisoner by the Klephts, and would have to pay a high ransom for his liberty. Again, they were like Robin Hood and his merry men in the hatred they bore to the caloyers of monks; and these last were not slow in avenging themselves; whenever they could, they gave information to the Turks where they might surprise a half-starved party of Klephts.
Sometimes the Klephts, when hard pressed by starvation and an ever-watchful enemy, would send word to a village that unless a certain sum was paid in a place specified by a particular day, all the houses should be burnt. The poor villagers were between two fires. If they gave to the Klephts, the Turks took from them all their possessions; if they did not give to the Klephts after such a notice, the menace was sure to be fulfilled. So, before they gave to the Klephts, the warning had usually to be repeated. If they showed no sign of acquiescence after the second notice, the third and last came on a piece of paper burnt at all the four corners; and then the poor villagers dared no longer refuse. They gave what they were asked for; the Turks took all the rest of their possessions, and they were turned empty and naked upon the world to become Klephts if they liked.
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But there is no doubt that the Klepht was unrivalled in his power of making long marches. They were also capable of enduring extraordinary hunger. Combats of three days and nights, during which the Klephts neither ate, drank nor slept, were not unusual among them, according to M. Fauriel. The same endurance was known in bearing the torture which surely awaited them if taken alive. Having their limbs crushed by repeated blows from a blacksmith’s hammer was a common mode of execution; there were others, more rare, too horrible to be mentioned. No wonder that it became a favourite toast among the Klephts to wish each other “a sure hit from a bullet.”
But what was most injurious to their sense of honour was the dread of having their heads, after death, exposed to all the insults which the Turks could devise. The entreaty of the wounded Klepht to his comrades was to cut off his head, and bear it far away to their mountain fastnesses far out of the reach of the Turks. Thus, in one of their songs, the Klepht says, “O my brother, cut off my head; let not the Turkish passers-by see my shame. My enemies will wag their heads and laugh; but my mother – my mother will die of grief.” All honour attended the death of him who was slain in battle. He was called a “victim,” and the survivors mourned him with pride; whereas he who died of illness on his bed was spoken of as the “corps crevé,” and he was looked upon with a kind of shame and repugnance. But the Klephts in the midst of their wild and barbarous life preserved many chivalrous and noble feelings. They might be simple – they were not vulgar; they might be fierce – they were never cruel. They were full of delicate honour in their treatment of their female captives; even when these were the wives or daughters of those who had most deeply injured and outraged relations of their own. A captain of a hand of Klephts who insulted a Turkish woman taken prisoner, was immediately killed by his own soldiers as unworthy to command brave men. Their songs are full of allusions to the respect with which their female prisoners are treated. Images of the Virgin hung up in some rocky cleft made their chapel, where they performed their devotions with the utmost piety. Some of the Klephts made pilgrimages to Jerusalem on foot; their rifles on their backs. No Klepht was ever known to be a renegade. Whatever horrors awaited him if he refused to become a Mussulman, he remained true to his faith. “
“The haiduks had real faith because they were guided as much by the blood as by the spirit.”
Could be partly true, but these people should still not be overtly romanticized. For it was just the most barbarous and “mountaineer-like” of all Balkanese peoples, the Albanians, who defected to Islam in large numbers and became culturally Turkified. To this day, Albanians are the most savage of European peoples.
Besides the Albos, all over Balkans the members of pre-Turkish feudal upper class often decided to keep their privileges to converting to Islam – especially in Bosnia, whose Slavic-speaking Muslim population originated that way:
p. 20
“On the pretext that there was no necessity for keeping faith with an infidel, the last Prince of the Bosnians, whose life had been guaranteed to him, was, in violation of this promise, murdered by the hand of the fanatical Sheik by whom this doctrine was promulgated.
The chief nobles of the country, whom the Turks began to annihilate as they had already annihilated the royal house, soon perceived that their only safety lay in embracing Mahometanism. The last princess had fled to Rome, and at her death had, by will, made over to the Pope her right to the country. The Pontiff, touching the sword and shoe which were delivered to him, as tokens of the bequest, accepted it, on the ground that her children, a son and a daughter, having embraced Islamism, had, thereby, become incapable of succeeding her. Urged by the example of the Princess — by the danger of refusal on one hand, and on the other by the prospect of a share in public affairs, if they complied, — the most illustrious families were by degrees induced to turn Mahometans. Thus they retained an hereditary right to their castles; and, so long as they remained united, enjoyed much influence in the province. Sometimes a native Vizier was allowed them. By this means, however, they separated themselves from their people, who, in defiance of every inducement, remained true to their old faith; and, being excluded from holding any office in the State, and from carrying arms, they in common with all the Christian subjects of the Turkish Empire, became Rayahs.”
http://www.archive.org/details/historyofservias00rankrich
The feudal rule of this Slavic-Muslim “Scalawag” class in Bosnia co-incidentally ended around the same time as the Southern Reconstruction:
“The reforms announced by the Turkish Sultan Abdülmecid I, involving new rights for Christian subjects, a new basis for army conscription, and an end to the much-hated system of tax-farming, were either resisted or ignored by the powerful Bosnian landowners. They frequently resorted to more repressive measures against their Christian subjects. The tax burden on Christian peasants constantly increased.[1]
On June 19, 1875 the Catholics in the Gabela and Hrasno districts of lower Herzegovina, ignited by overtaxing, rebelled against the Ottoman authorities under the leadership of don Ivan Musić. An orthodox uprising (popularly known as Nevesinje gun or Невесињска пушка) started on July 9 around the village of Nevesinje in eastern Herzegovina. Subsequently, a general uprising of the entire Christian population in Bosnia and Herzegovina ensued. More than 150,000 people took refuge in Croatia. The Ottoman armed response came both from government troops under the recently appointed Bosnian governor and from the local landowners and their own irregular troops. The attempts to suppress the uprising proved unsuccessful.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina_Uprising
Btw, the mention made above about the hostility between Greek Klephts and Eastern Orthodox monks is a reminder that while religion was a fundamental factor in keeping the Greek national spirit alive, the Greek church hierarchy headquartered in Constantinople was nonetheless often dominated by very venal, servile collaborationist elements.
(In Robin Hood mythos, “Friar Tuck” was something like an exception that confirmed the rule, as Sherwood outlaws liked to rob rich prelates.)
For a bit of a glimpse of how “Christian mafia” has functioned in the US in the early 1900′s, read chronicles of Appalachian folks from the early 1900′s. It generally seemed to work, with all the bumps you’d expect in a fallen world. Some of the stories sound as if they are straight out of the book of Judges.
Like the Klephts and Hajduks in the mountains of Balkan peninsula, the society of Cossacks in the steppes of Ukraine also evolved in response to relentless Tatar attacks, and in spite of sometimes severely raiding neighboring Christian states as well, Cossacks in the days of their independence played an important service as guardians of Europe’s eastern frontier.
As Russian novelist Gogol put it in his novel “Taras Bulba”:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1197/1197-h/1197-h.htm#2HCH0001
“Bulba was terribly headstrong. He was one of those characters which could only exist in that fierce fifteenth century, and in that half-nomadic corner of Europe, when the whole of Southern Russia, deserted by its princes, was laid waste and burned to the quick by pitiless troops of Mongolian robbers; when men deprived of house and home grew brave there; when, amid conflagrations, threatening neighbours, and eternal terrors, they settled down, and growing accustomed to looking these things straight in the face, trained themselves not to know that there was such a thing as fear in the world; when the old, peacable Slav spirit was fired with warlike flame, and the Cossack state was instituted — a free, wild outbreak of Russian nature — and when all the river-banks, fords, and like suitable places were peopled by Cossacks, whose number no man knew. Their bold comrades had a right to reply to the Sultan when he asked how many they were, “Who knows? We are scattered all over the steppes; wherever there is a hillock, there is a Cossack.”
It was, in fact, a most remarkable exhibition of Russian strength, forced by dire necessity from the bosom of the people. In place of the original provinces with their petty towns, in place of the warring and bartering petty princes ruling in their cities, there arose great colonies, kurens (3), and districts, bound together by one common danger and hatred against the heathen robbers.”
Tim Wise compliments Sewanee students for not asking “challenging questions.”
Sewanee costs White parents $46,000 per year. (The Diversity all get free ride scholarships in effort to increase Sewanee’s much needed Diversity.)
For that $46,000 x four years, White parents can be assured that their White children are learning to:
1. Never ask a challenging question when encountering a University sponsored anti White hatemonger on campus with a question such as, “What faith do you have in the blacks such that if we rid society of White privilege and social inequality by lowering ourselves down to their level that they will not keep pulling us down even further?”
2. Never even think to challenge anti White hatred, because it is now the normal, accepted, and expected mainstream attitude on college campuses and in any corporation or institution that hosts Diversity speakers and hires Officers of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.
“As it turns out, about 400 people came to my talk at Sewanee (also known as the University of the South) — an incredibly conservative campus — and none caused trouble or even asked a challenging question.
http://www.timwise.org/2010/11/talking-loud-and-saying-nothing/
In that case, Sewanee should no longer be allowed the proud reputation as “conservative.” It now should be called ” extremely liberal and dangerously radical.”
Maybe the $46,000 is money well spent. White college students will graduate from Sewanee knowing how to keep their mouths shut and will therefore not be targeted for career oppression and marginalization by the Diversity Enforcers and the new, rising Multicultural Elite who embrace and demand their own unearned Diversity Privilege while punishing high achieving and meritorious Whites.
Students who speak up and ask the “challenging questions” will be targeted as “potentially dangerous extremists who need watching, and certainly are still holding onto unacknowledged and outdated biases, and possibly are real racists who retain a shameful nostalgia for the ‘innocence and purity’ of Jim Crow segregation.”
Here’s another illustration on the importance of good geographical position, from the days of the First World War; thanks to their mountain resorts, the small isolated Christian Assyrian minority living in the highlands of Kurdistan (just north of Iraq) managed to avoid the sort of total genocide that met their Armenian neighbors, the kinsmen of R.J. Rushdoony:
http://www.aina.org/books/com/com.htm#c34
“With the Assyrian tribesmen in the mountains the crisis had not developed so rapidly. The Turks themselves were anxious to defer it. Indeed, there is no valid reason to doubt that they would have liked to evade it altogether. This knot of hardy mountaineers ensconced in their rocky fastnesses were far more difficult to eradicate than ten times their number of Armenians–poor, spiritless hucksters and husbandmen dispersed in open villages and towns. There was little spoil to be won from them–many more hard knocks than ha’pence–and the force that would be needed to subdue them was wanted rather urgently elsewhere. Moreover, if they could only be cajoled into complacency they might prove quite a useful asset later as independent witnesses to character. The Armenian massacres were now really beginning, and the Turks were inflexibly resolved to persist in them to the uttermost. There could come no protests from Europe, but perhaps from America there might–and the presence of American missionaries in the country rendered it impossible for the facts to be altogether hid. It would be but prudent accordingly to prepare a line of apology, and to invest with some faint plausibility the plea that this monstrous holocaust had been “exaggerated,” and that such “repressive measures” as had been adopted were really no more than were necessary to quell an incipient revolt. Such a plea might gain valuable corroboration from the fact that another Christian millet, living in the same provinces and under the same conditions as the Armenians, had nevertheless continued loyal to their suzerains, and had seen in the Turks’ proceedings no cause of apprehension for themselves. On military grounds also the mountaineers were worth conciliating; for, if Turkish Armenia were invaded, this little garrison on their flank might sensibly hamper the defenders.
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But though beaten out of their valleys, the Assyrians were not yet done with. They now took refuge on their Yailas–the upland pastures on the laps of the mountains, 10,000 feet above sea-level–whither they had always been accustomed to drive their flocks and herds in summer, and where a considerable part of the nation used generally to remain encamped as long as the cattle were there. It was summer still, and the cattle had been driven there as usual: the Yailas were, therefore, already well provisioned, and there is always water from the melting snows.
These strongholds are only approachable by a few precipitous pathways, and the Kurdish attempts to penetrate to them were everywhere easily repulsed. Raiding parties of Assyrians were even able to sally down from them into the valleys, and carry back small supplies of corn from the hidden granaries in the villages. Lack of salt was the chief privation that the bulk of the people suffered during their sojourn here, but salt is well-nigh a necessity to an Oriental; and their Patriarch, who (as a Rabban) was prohibited by his vows from eating flesh meat, was obliged to live almost entirely upon milk and parched corn.
But if the Yailas were impregnable, there was yet one fatal defect in them. It is absolutely and utterly impossible for any creature to live there in winter. Autumn was already beginning; and, at these lofty altitudes, the first snows may fall as early as October. The Assyrians were virtually “treed” (to use an expressive Americanism); and their enemies, as fully conscious of the defect in their position as they were, were content to form a leaguer round them, and wait till they should come down to be killed.
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Early in September they were transferred to the great refugee camp which had been prepared for their reception at Baquba on the Diala near Baghdad; and here they were established when Turkey sued for peace a few weeks later. Not less than two-thirds of their nation must have perished in their four years’ trial; but, like Sir Hugh Percy, they had “saved the bird in their bosom,” and assuredly had no cause for shame in the plucky part that they had played.
The fate of their neighbours, the Armenians, is already too well known to be dwelt upon, but, alas! too little regarded, for us to pass over it even here. We have sketched the horrors endured by one small sister community–a community whose position was admittedly much more defensible, and whose stout-hearted resistance enabled them to avert the worst. Multiply those horrors twenty fold to allow for the greater numbers of the Armenians. Double them again for the helplessness that robbed them of self-defence.”
And let’s not forget the most famous last stand in history, Thermopylae, where a few thousand Greeks met several million Persians (according to Herodotus) and killed tens of thousands of them. This would not have been possible if they had not been in a mountain pass.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Thermopylae_ancient_coastline_large.jpg/800px-Thermopylae_ancient_coastline_large.jpg
“I’m not even going to bother with measuring my words here: This is the anti-gospel. This is the doctrine of demons. Anyone who teaches these lies in the name of Christ can go to hell, right after they heed our advice and fark themselves.”
I may here record that I don’t quite approve such condemnation of John MacArthur. You are perfectly free to even strongly disagree with his position, but recklessly throwing anathemas is another thing. I take Christ’s serious warning against “raca-calling” Christian brethren seriously, and MacArthur is not any liberal fake but an actual Christian (with all the fallibility of a fallen human being). So yes, you should indeed bother to measure your words here.
From the context that I see, at most you could accuse MacArthur of preaching a HALF-TRUTH: MacArthur is legitimately saying that indeed, ultimately grace is greater than race and spirit is greater than flesh. There is no orthodox Christian in world history who would not agree with that.
But then MacArthur goes on to “make perfect the enemy of good.” (Many Gnostic heretics actually called themselves as “perfects”, perfecti). In his rhetoric, the spirit as if swallows up the flesh, which makes his position a harmful half-truth – resembling the Monophysite heresy where the divine nature of Christ overwhelms and annihilates His human nature. (Although I do not believe that MacArthur consciously means to teach stuff like that.)
Just because spirit is higher than flesh, it does not mean that flesh means nothing, and it’s classic “false dilemma” to make people categorically choose between them to – hating one and loving another – instead of setting a proper Christian hierarchy between them, with spirit on the top and flesh being its useful “helpmeet” like Eve was to Adam.
For let us not forget, flesh is NOT an “equal partner” with spirit in the human relationship, but a subordinate one. MacArthur would be quite within orthodoxy if he were merely to point out the inherent superiority of spirit to flesh – but again, it is not supposed to be the sort of superiority that would annihilate its rival (like Gnostics would claim).
The superiority of the male is not supposed to annihilate the female half in marriage, and again I am reminded of the Monophysite heresy that exalts Christ’s spiritual, divine nature at the expense of His human fleshly nature.
I share the interest of Caradoc and admin on the issue of the origin of races. I reject British-Israelism and especially Christian Identity for the reasons of their idiosyncratic theological positions. Many BI’s and CI’s are premillenial who believe that the British Empire was the fifth kingdom described by the prophet Daniel (Dan. 2:44). Of course I believe the orthodox position that this is referring to Christ’s eternal kingdom which is not of this world.
My interest is however with some of the historical cases that have been made linking Europe with ancient Israel. I do believe that the cases mentioned above have a compelling and well-documented history behind them. I also share Caradoc’s suspiscion in typical global Flood anthropology. Here’s an interesting question. Suppose the “universal” language of Genesis 7-9 were absent, would we still be attempting to identify every nation and ethnic group from the Table of Nations in Gen. 10. For caucasians the Table of Nations is relatively straight forward – Japheth -> Europeans, Shem -> Near/Middle Easterners, Ham -> North Africans/Moors. It seems to me that attempts to fit Asians and Amerindians into the Table of Nations are usually somewhat forced. It seems like people simply try to fit them into the Hamite genealogy. I’d definitely find a future SWB posting on this issue to be of interest.
Another SWB post and comment that evokes the Chestertonian homecoming and the “there and back again” way of true return.
This is the story Chesterton never wrote, the story he considers his best and fitting for one of the best of SWB.
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk around the whole world till we come back to the same place; and I tried to trace such a journey in a story I once wrote”…”I conceived it as a romance of those vast valleys with sloping sides, like those along which the ancient White Horse of Wessex are scrawled along the flanks of the hills. It concerned some boy whose farm or cottage stood on such a slope, and who went on his travels to find something, such as the effigy or grave of some giant; and when he was far enough from home, he looked back and saw that his own farm and kitchen-garden, shining flat on the hill-side like the colours and quarterings of a shield, were but parts of some gigantic figure, on which he had always lived, which was too large and too close to be seen. That, I think, is a true picture of the progress of any really independent intelligence today; and that is the point of this book.”
Chesterton, GK. The Everlasting Man. 1925. “Introduction: The Plan of this Book”
Most Indians (not Amerindians) whom I know in America are really smart. There is also the general trend of Indians as physicians, their role as gas-station clerks not withstanding.
Anyway, given their proclivity to the medical field, how is it that the nation of India is do unbelievably filthy and backwards? Part of it can assuredly be attributed to their backwards religious views, but beyond that, what other factors are there?
India is so* unbelievably filthy
Anyway, given their proclivity to the medical field, how is it that the nation of India is do unbelievably filthy and backwards? Part of it can assuredly be attributed to their backwards religious views, but beyond that, what other factors are there?
Well, remember most importantly that most of the Indians who come to America come from the higher-skilled (and higher-IQ) segments of their population – i.e., in other words, it sis the ‘high-caste’ Hindus, such as the Brahmin’s, that has done a disproportionate share of the emigrating to the US (and England).
So they are a very self-selected group from within their race.
Even as a self-proclaimed “Baptist” I always thought something was a little off with both of these guys. Both of these guys have written articles and books defending traditional male/female gender roles. But now Johnny Mac writes that all of these distinctions are done away with?
Make up your mind Johnny….
You Sir, are a liar and hypocrite, first of all there is no racial segregation in Israel, and secondly you claim the “cursed Hamites” inherited no science, when the same Bible you believe in says that Mizraim (Egypt) came from Ham. As we all know, Egypt was the most advanced nation of antiquity, and by your logic you admit they were an African nation, wich they were. Sad racist hypocrites like you make me sick to my stomach.
Sir,
you’ve called G. K. Chesterton an “incorrigible racist” which is quite untrue as he, as a Christian, was always against any form of materialistic ideology. racism is materialistic, it separates people by qualities of the body, not of the culture which is a product of spirit. If you have a chance please read this book sometime, it’s written by Polish historian and philosopher, Feliks Koneczny and explains REAL differences between people around the world:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4464979/ON-THE-PLURALITY-OF-CIVILIZATIONS-Feliks-Koneczny-Entire-Book
Do you see how quickly a new persona, pushing the same general passive-aggressive smearganda, appears as quickly as ‘Petr’ leaves?
This one is a putative Pole now, I guess, as opposed to a flamboyant Finn.
lol
So was Christ being “materialistic” when He took on human flesh as a member of a particular people?