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I frequently watched the videos of the debates and discussions on YouTube, and was quite impressed. A Christian young man, the age of my oldest son, going to college campuses and talking about morality, social issues, and the need for Christ to college students on the territory of the Enemy. Of course I didn't agree with everything he said or thought, but on the whole, a good man, bright thinker, a Christian Ben Shapiro in a way, and when I saw the testimonies of people who he had led to change their minds and straighten out their lives, it was even better.
Then the horrible week, which began with the Catholic school shooting, the Ukrainian girl’s senseless murder, with both the murder and the judge responsible for his unconditional release followed, and then the murder of Charlie Kirk. It was almost as if it had been my own son that had been murdered, or a version that I wish, and hope my son might become. But the truly horrible thing, worse than any insane maniac getting a hold of a gun, was the reaction of seemingly up to a quarter of the population of the country cheering that murder, or the very least approving of it, and completely indifferent to the horror of it, because they disagreed with something, or other, or everything that he said. Most of them hate Christ and the Christian faith, but some, oddly are actually Christians, who believe that some of his policies are anti-Christian. Now one can understand and debate that, of course, but the complete lack of Christian sympathy for another, even if heterodox Christian husband and father and the approval of murder if it went in the perceived correct political direction, was even more shocking and saddening, if that’s possible than the murder itself.
There are other questions and strange moments. Did the shooter truly act purely alone? Did anyone else encourage or put him up to it? Since it seems, we are never going to see justice for all of the rich and powerful men that used children on Epstein’s Island, and that is the issue, the desire that our country be a country ruled by law, and justice being an absolutely essential element of that, we probably may never know the complete truth about this shooting. That all of the people who attempt these things are consistently publicly declared to be lone shooters, and none at all to be of a conspiratorial nature seems to have reached a point of improbability.
And it seems a real turning point has been reached. The winds are blowing against the social revolution attempting to overthrow all Western and Christian tradition known as “woke”; on all fronts they are in retreat and on the defensive. As long as they are peacefully driven out, that is a good thing, but what is not good is people who are so concerned about the government’s debatable responsibility to care for illegal immigrants that they are willing to shrug at such a murder. This is a concern both on the civil level with our neighbors and co-workers and those we depend upon in society, many of who have turned out to be teachers, medical workers, the people we might depend upon for our own lives in an emergency, and so on, AND in the Church with our brothers and sisters in Christ that we worship with. Obviously, we have to keep a spotlight on ourselves at all times and avoid the temptation to see “them” as especially evil, and “us” as especially good.
Where is all this going? I don’t know. Of course, I would like to see a restoration of Christendom in our land, even if it were only a heterodox one. But in any event, it does seem like things are coming to a point faster and faster. I certainly hope that in TAW there is none of the approval, or justification, or excusing of the murder that I have seen in wider Orthodox circles, no matter how one may dislike some of the man’s ideas. I doubt there is going to be a genuine return to Christendom; it would require a mass, personal and national repentance, and a rolling back of far more than just the very latest perversions, but a general restoration of morality in public order, and I think too much toothpaste has been squeezed out of the tube to put it back in, and if that is so, then our nation doesn’t have that much time left, certainly not as the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Other people have said better words than mine, but because there has been such a dead silence here over such a momentous event, I thought that something ought to be said.
Then the horrible week, which began with the Catholic school shooting, the Ukrainian girl’s senseless murder, with both the murder and the judge responsible for his unconditional release followed, and then the murder of Charlie Kirk. It was almost as if it had been my own son that had been murdered, or a version that I wish, and hope my son might become. But the truly horrible thing, worse than any insane maniac getting a hold of a gun, was the reaction of seemingly up to a quarter of the population of the country cheering that murder, or the very least approving of it, and completely indifferent to the horror of it, because they disagreed with something, or other, or everything that he said. Most of them hate Christ and the Christian faith, but some, oddly are actually Christians, who believe that some of his policies are anti-Christian. Now one can understand and debate that, of course, but the complete lack of Christian sympathy for another, even if heterodox Christian husband and father and the approval of murder if it went in the perceived correct political direction, was even more shocking and saddening, if that’s possible than the murder itself.
There are other questions and strange moments. Did the shooter truly act purely alone? Did anyone else encourage or put him up to it? Since it seems, we are never going to see justice for all of the rich and powerful men that used children on Epstein’s Island, and that is the issue, the desire that our country be a country ruled by law, and justice being an absolutely essential element of that, we probably may never know the complete truth about this shooting. That all of the people who attempt these things are consistently publicly declared to be lone shooters, and none at all to be of a conspiratorial nature seems to have reached a point of improbability.
And it seems a real turning point has been reached. The winds are blowing against the social revolution attempting to overthrow all Western and Christian tradition known as “woke”; on all fronts they are in retreat and on the defensive. As long as they are peacefully driven out, that is a good thing, but what is not good is people who are so concerned about the government’s debatable responsibility to care for illegal immigrants that they are willing to shrug at such a murder. This is a concern both on the civil level with our neighbors and co-workers and those we depend upon in society, many of who have turned out to be teachers, medical workers, the people we might depend upon for our own lives in an emergency, and so on, AND in the Church with our brothers and sisters in Christ that we worship with. Obviously, we have to keep a spotlight on ourselves at all times and avoid the temptation to see “them” as especially evil, and “us” as especially good.
Where is all this going? I don’t know. Of course, I would like to see a restoration of Christendom in our land, even if it were only a heterodox one. But in any event, it does seem like things are coming to a point faster and faster. I certainly hope that in TAW there is none of the approval, or justification, or excusing of the murder that I have seen in wider Orthodox circles, no matter how one may dislike some of the man’s ideas. I doubt there is going to be a genuine return to Christendom; it would require a mass, personal and national repentance, and a rolling back of far more than just the very latest perversions, but a general restoration of morality in public order, and I think too much toothpaste has been squeezed out of the tube to put it back in, and if that is so, then our nation doesn’t have that much time left, certainly not as the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Other people have said better words than mine, but because there has been such a dead silence here over such a momentous event, I thought that something ought to be said.
