Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
“The point is that, for the most part, we make our way in the world by means of under-the- radar intuition and attunement — that we live not so much by what we know but instead by know how. Being desiring, imaginative animals, our primary orientation to the world is visceral and not cerebral.”
James K. A. Smith
Desiring the Kingdom — p. 60
If this is true then why are closed head injuries a bad thing?
In his book, “Freedom Betrayed,” former President Hoover chronicles 19 failures on FDR that moved the US inexorably towards an unnecessary war (WW II). Hoover’s case is compelling.
Over the next few days I will list these failures as given by Hoover and you can judge if WW II was a “good war.”
Failure #1 — Roosevelt’s lost statesmanship was in recognition of Communist Russia in November, 1933. Four Presidents and five Secretaries of State — Democrats as well as Republicans — had (with knowledge of the whole purpose and methods of international Communism) refused such action. They knew and said the Communists would be able to penetrate the US, carrying their germs of destruction of religious faith, freedom of men, and independence of nations. They considered our recognition of Soviet Russia would give it prestige and force among other nations. All of FDR’s puerile agreements with them that they would not deal in their wickedness within our borders were on the record repudiated in less than 48 hours. A long train of Communists and fellow travelers were taken into the highest levels of the (FDR) administration. Fifth column action spread over the country, with a long series of traitorous acts during his (FDR) remaining 12 years in the Presidency.
“Instead, because for the most part we are desiring, imaginative, non-cognitive animals, our desire for the Kingdom in inscribed in our dispositions and habits and functions quite apart from our conscious reflection.”
James K. A. Smith
Desiring the Kingdom — p. 56
1.) Did Smith write this as a non-cognitive animal quite apart from his conscious reflection?
2.) How does Smith know that our desires are inscribed in our disposition and habits unless he first self consciously reflected on that truth?
3.) If all this is happening quite apart from our conscious reflection then why is Smith bothering us with his conscious reflection on all this?
4.) Quick … without consciously reflecting, and only by means of your desire, tell me what a “disposition” is. Tell me what a “habit” is. Tell me what “conscious reflection” is. Tell me what a desire is.
What should we expect next from “Vanity Fair?” A photo shoot with “Brutlyn” as a traditional stay at home wife and mother baking cookies for the neighborhood children?
Please do not mistake me here. There is no excuses for the perversion here. There is the point that even when the Cultural despisers go pervert they unconsciously still support Western notions of beauty and femininity. The irony is found in the fact that they cannot destroy Western culture without appealing to Western culture.
Some might insist that “Brutlyn” could have been black or mestizo. I don’t think so. Only in using a European is the first step arrived at in making debauchery palatable to the masses. If you can make Christian Europeans debase themselves, then everyone else will follow. That’s been the modus operandi of the 20th and 21st centuries. Doubtless on subsequent covers you will be sure to see an oriental.
The West is dead and continues to integrate downward into the void but the really funny thing is — the thing that should be screaming at all right thinking people — is that the Christian West, in order to destroy itself and strip itself of every smidgen of Christian residue, must appeal to residual Christian and Western standards in order to do so.
Benevolent Father who has revealed to each and all of your elect their brokenness, sin, and guilt and yet has clothed us in the Righteousness of Christ and as birthed us anew into your new creation, grant us grace to continue to reflect the beautiful reign of God in our lives, so that our ruin may be put off and your great Glory demonstrated in the renewing of a once broken people now healing in light of your tender care and mercy.
As citizens of your Kingdom grant us grace to be zealous for you, determined to defend your honor, and to be champions of your cause. Grant us the ability to rejoice knowing what we’ve been rescued from and delivered too. Give us love and tenderness for all the Saints and give us the capacity to make them know they are welcome in the Household of God.
Despite and through our weakness, Triune God, advertise and make known your fame.