I have always defined liberty as total freedom less that portion we cede to government for the maintenance of a civil and just society.
But over the years something has changed in that equation, and it seems to me to be something at once far more personal AND far more sinister.
I’ve been struggling with what that aspect was for better than a decade now as we have witnessed our foundational institutions and our bulwark of religious beliefs beginning to crumble and I have concluded it is this:
The idea that in exchange for liberty we not only give up bits of our freedom, but bits of our eternal souls as well, is not something that should ever exist, and yet it does.
For several years now, there are forces that have pushed the false idea that liberty means the freedom to literally do anything, even things that shock the conscience and things that have been defined and recognized by centuries of Western civilization as destructive to human existence.
Look at what we are told we are asked tolerate – or in most cases – celebrate in exchange for “freedom”:
Pedophilia: It’s just “minor attracted persons”, nothing to see here. Remember Allyn Walker, the transgender professor who finally was forced to resign in 2021 from his teaching position for pushing the idea that pedophilia was just natural? In May of 2022, Walker was hired by a Johns Hopkins University center aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.
Transgenderism: People can choose their sex, after all it is only a social construct, not a biological reality. Seems some controversy surrounding this is on the news every day – down to biological males competing with biological females in high school and college athletics and children being “transitioned” without the knowledge or permission of their parents – situations like these are being written into law.
Bestiality: I mean, pets are people too, right? They just need love. Just this past August, a Florida woman was arrested for allegedly committing sexual acts with her dog over an eight-year period, while her ex-boyfriend, who was also arrested, recorded it on video.
Hypersexualization of tender age children: From Drag Queen Story Hour and “family friendly” drag shows to minors accessing graphically pornographic literature in their own school libraries (and in the teacher curated bookshelves of their classrooms).
In 2012, I first wrote about how NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, had attached itself to the LGBQ (it was before the “T”) movement in demanding their “rights”. I’ve always been for civil unions because I believe marriage is a religious concept and to force the word “marriage”, something defined as a union between a man, a woman and God, would be to destroy it.
I also seem to remember when “evil religious zealots” such as myself said that changing the definition of marriage to appease the demands of the LGBQ community would place America on the slippery slope toward all sorts of degradation - pedophilia and bestiality among them. I must admit, I never saw the transgender phenomenon coming.
The response?
All the smart people laughed and called us bigots, homophobes and said what we were saying would never happen.
And yet, here we are.
I’ve said this many times, paraphrasing the French philosopher, Albert Camus, just because everything is allowed does not mean nothing is forbidden. That everything is allowed is a dangerous fiction, and those who accept it as truth do so because they lack the ability to govern themselves.
What is also true is that people incapable of self-governance are never to be allowed to govern others.
The concepts of debauchery and acts that shock the conscience are being sold as “freedoms”, as “rights” that are guaranteed by our Constitution, but the cost of these things goes far beyond the surrendering of our rights in order to allow others to have these “rights”, this is not a corporeal bargain, it is a price paid in supernatural and spiritual coinage of the human soul, the one thing that sets the human race apart from animals.
In truth, this bargain is not for freedom at all, this is merely the exchanging our souls for an upgraded, albeit eternal, prison cell.
Making such a Faustian Bargain, one when parts of your soul are demanded in exchange for such “freedom” is the one price free people should never be asked to pay – and demanding such a price should bring about revolution.
It is hard to keep up with the new terms being bandied about by followers of the Father of Lies. Nearly 50 years ago, the APA removed homosexuality as a mental disorder in the DSM and redefined it as a "sexual orientation disorder". In 1987, the American Psychiatric Association removed that rather tame definition and disclosed their new ruling that homosexuality was normal.
Since then, we have been harangued with this LGBT tag and it now has been updated to LGBTQIA+. It is only a matter of time until Pedophilia and Bestiality are included in that abomination.
Gender has been redefined and any hint that white Europeans ever invented anything or that they created the world that we live in is met with derision and hisses of "bigotry" and "racism".
America's public education system and that of the European Union have been destroyed by radicals who tell us that logical thinking and mathematics are evil white inventions and must be destroyed in favor of the new racism.
All empires end at some time and that is what we are seeing throughout the Western so-called democracies of the world. It seems crazy, but Russia may be the only hope for Christian values and reason.
Couldn't agree more.