Timothy Birdnow

He's right but he misses the whole point. They are not just pillagers, they are morally and spiritually empty.

You will notice the author has no solution to this problem. That's because he's looking at it from a purely pragmatic and ideological way. But the problem has it's roots in what these people BELIEVE.

Our problems stem from the rejection of Christianity by the West since the Enlightenment. While it may not be possible to convert everyone around the world our shared Judeo-Christian belief system still gave us the wherewithal to take the necessary steps to contain and control bad behavior. There was a consensus that there was a concrete right and wrong and someone who wanted to plunder another's goods was to be constrained. Now, with moral relativism, we actually sometimes think it is good that people steal because of "systemic racism" or some other such b.s.

Wherever Christianity has taken root it has civilized. That's because if you are Christian you follow the very civilized behavior of Christ. You don't rape or rob your neighbor if you are Christian.

Until we remember who we are, our religious and cultural roots, we will continue to become more and more like these Third World hellholes.

But, but, but..many ghetto areas in the U.S. have a lot of storefront churches and loud-praying people and THEY remain dirt poor! Yes and no. Many of these loud-praying Southern Baptist churches (or whatnot) are actually more about Prosperity Theology than anything else and this takes it's toll. These are people not praying to God for their spiritual improvement so much as seeing God as a cosmic ATM, a great Santa Clause in the sky. They think prayer will earn them good things in this life. But they do not reform their lives.

Some do, but most use it as a sort of magic. It's not about changing into a new creation but in feeding the old.

That is the problem. Most Christianity these days is about the corporal works of mercy, and reject the spiritual. Churches have become mere charity organizations, often very political in nature. They assume the afterlife can take care of itself. But without the fear of Hell and hope for Heaven people will act as they please - and that means they will sink back into the mud from which they crawled. We are all sinful, animals by nature. Christianity offers the way out but you have to accept it and live it.

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom, the Bible tells us. The Bible is right. And fear of the Lord is the beginning of all decent civilization is the logical corollary.

So what we need to do to fight the rising socialists and other looters and vandals is to first remember who we are, why we are here, who it is who protects our civilization (America in particular was founded as Christ's refuge and as was pointed out by Otto von Bismarck — 'God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.'. That was because our Independence was a true miracle, and our defending of this country was likewise. Miracles occurred during the War of 1812, and even the Mexican War was expected to end quite differently, which would have seen American expansion westward stopped as we would have had to give up Texas and other western territories.)

We need to restore the Christian faith to it's rightful place in society, and in so doing we need to make our laws and our customs in line with that belief system. Only then can we expect to succeed.

All other efforts are doomed to failure. We have rebuilt our nations on a foundation of sand.

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