December 25, 2016 The case for Christmas Luke Ford No sacred cows.

The case for Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

Ricky Vaughn writes: “Stephen Miller is the most based Jew of all time.”

Stephen Miller writes in 2006:

It’s the most wonderful time of year-but you wouldn’t know it looking around Duke’s campus.

You’d probably find more Christmas decorations at your local mosque.

A pretty sad showing for a university that boasts a Divinity School and a Trinity College-and which is in the heart of a nation where 96 percent of citizens celebrate Christmas, a federal holiday.

There is absolutely no single logical reason why we shouldn’t have a Christmas tree on the quad and a Nativity scene in the Bryan Center. Eighty-five percent of our nation is Christian and every single one of us, Christian or not (I’m a practicing Jew myself), is living in a country settled and founded by Christians and benefitting daily from the principles of Christian philosophy on which our forebears relied.

Christianity is embedded in the very soul of our nation.

Yet its presence is visibly absent from our campus.

As a service to its students and staff, Duke should take it upon itself to recognize this crucial American holiday. Of course, the messiah is likely to come before that happens, so the burden falls on student groups.

I urge every group of Christian faith on campus to do whatever it can to bring the Christmas spirit publicly and passionately to Duke. There are sure to be many roadblocks, and I know the secular left has tried very hard to make you feel ashamed to broadcast your beliefs (while they so irritatingly broadcast theirs), but bringing Christmas to our campus is something that desperately needs to be done.

Sadly, there is nothing exceptional about Duke ignoring Christmas. It’s symptomatic of the larger anti-faith movement sweeping across our country. Somehow, a small group of bitter atheists and secularists have convinced otherwise sane people to call trees that are bought for Christmas, decorated for Christmas and displayed on Christmas, not Christmas, but holiday trees; have purged Nativity scenes from public spaces even as courts have consistently upheld their constitutionality; have removed Christmas songs, Christmas displays and all things Christian from many of our nation’s schools; have scared major national retailers from permitting the words “merry Christmas,” to be shown or spoken on their premises; and have done this while launching no attack on the religious activities or symbols of other faiths.

Now I’m sure some of you are saying, what does it matter? Why is it so important that our society acknowledge and celebrate Christmas?

Christmas has come to represent and embody all that is good and righteous about the people of this country; it celebrates the values of charity, compassion and goodwill. In contrast to the brutally cold hedonism of the atheist view, Christmas is a time filled with warmth and spirit.

It reminds us of the need to be good and caring, and to look to our creator for strength and courage. From the founding of our country to the earliest abolition movement to civil rights to our recovery and resolve in the wake of Sept. 11, it is faith and religion on which our society has depended to become and to stay the world’s most free and just nation.

As our country celebrates debauchery and debasement more and more, it is vitally important at this time of year to celebrate the values that have made our nation great and call upon everyone in society, whatever their faith, to renew their commitment to uphold in their lives what is just and good.

I’ll let the facts speak for themselves: New polling data shows religious Americans donate four times more than secular Americans, and those who attend church are a staggering 23 times more likely to volunteer.

Atheists may talk about humanism and justice, but when you don’t believe in a soul or the ultimate truth of goodness and morality, then why live your life except in whatever fashion most plainly and immediately benefits you?

No just society can survive which abandons God.

It’s of course up to you where you stand on the Christmas issue, so I’ll end with two representative proclamations about what this time of year means and you can decide which one speaks for you:

The first was placed by the Freedom from Religion foundation in the Wisconsin state capitol as part of the Christmastime displays: “At this season of winter solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”

The second is a letter from our 22nd President, Calvin Coolidge: “To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.” 1

Where do you think hopes lies?

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The Alt Left

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

Chaim Amalek writes: I am starting a new political grouping in America: the alt-Left. Our politics will be economically liberal to the point of embracing some aspects of socialism (people before profits), yet also nationalistic. American people before profits. We aim to become the center of American Social Nationalism, a safe space for gentiles and Jews alike who want to overthrow the plutocracy. It is fitting then, that on this day, Christmas 2016, future historians will note the birth of the Social Nationalist American Workers Party.

And why am I doing this? Because only Nixon can go to China.

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Symptoms Of Underearning

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

Here is how they have manifested in my life:

1. Time Indifference – We put off what must be done and do not use our time to support our own vision and further our own goals.

L: Over the past four years, I’ve probably only averaged about 30 hours a week of work. I could have gotten off my butt and looked for more work and made more money. I could have been clearer about my vision for my life and spent more time and taken more steps towards making it real. I’ve wasted a lot of time in fantasy, in narcissistic delusion. I’ve liked to numb out to movies or TV or watching sports or chasing women.

2. Idea Deflection –We compulsively reject ideas that could expand our lives or careers, and increase our profitability.

Yes, that has been huge problem for me. I have compulsively rejected ideas that could have expanded my life and increased my profitability.

3. Compulsive Need to Prove – Although we have demonstrated competence in our jobs or business, we are driven by a need to re-prove our worth and value.

Yes, this has been a constant problem for me. I’m not at peace with myself. I have to try to prove myself to others. I’m insecure.

4. Clinging to Useless Possessions – We hold onto possessions that no longer serve our needs, such as threadbare clothing or broken appliances.

Yes, I’ve had this problem in a mild way.

5. Exertion/Exhaustion – We habitually overwork, become exhausted, then under-work or cease work completely.

I have had this problem. I over-worked at age 21 and at age 22 I collapsed into years of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This year I over-worked and in my exhausted state I made some bad decisions that cost me thousands of dollars.

6. Giving Away Our Time – We compulsively volunteer for various causes, or give away our services without charge, when there is no clear benefit.

Yes, this has been a tendency of mine. I love causes and indulge in them at a cost to my own welfare.

7. Undervaluing and Under-pricing – We undervalue our abilities and services and fear asking for increases in compensation or for what the market will bear.

Yes, I’ve never asked for a raise in my life. I have even said, “That’s too much” when I’ve been offered a good deal for my services. In some ways, I value myself, and in other ways, I don’t. I just throw myself away.

8. Isolation – We choose to work alone when it might serve us much better to have co-workers, associates, or employees.

Yes, this has been a major problem in my life. I tend to isolate.

9. Physical Ailments – Sometimes, out of fear of being larger or exposed, we experience physical ailments.

Ouch.

10. Misplaced Guilt or Shame – We feel uneasy when asking for or being given what we need or what we are owed.

True.

11. Not Following Up – We do not follow up on opportunities, leads, or jobs that could be profitable. We begin many projects and tasks but often do not complete them.

True.

12. Stability Boredom – We create unnecessary conflict with co-workers, supervisors and clients, generating problems that result in financial distress.

True. I love stirring people up and then they don’t want me around because I’m too much aggravation.

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Santa Monica Synagogue Smeared with Feces in Attack on Chanukah

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

Breitbart: SANTA MONICA, California — A local synagogue entrance was smeared with feces and food in an apparent antisemitic attack on the first night of Chanukah on Saturday night.

Congregants arriving for prayers on Sunday morning at the Living Torah Center, a synagogue affiliated with the Orthodox Chabad movement, were shocked by the vandalism, which one of the rabbis cleaned as best he could before services.

Some feces remained lodged in the upper corner of the building’s facade, and marred a window facing Wilshire Boulevard.

Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz told Breitbart News that the attack was not random. Assistant Rabbi Dovid Tenenbaum, who serves as a chaplain with the local police department, called in a report.

The synagogue may have attracted additional attention because of the menorah lit in the window. Jewish law dictates that the Chanukah menorah be placed in a window facing the outside world in order to publicize the holiday.

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When Jewish Pols In the Diaspora Sought To Maximize The Majority’s Rights

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Luke Ford

Ari Ben Canaan points out the 19th Century Jewish politician Lewis Charles Levin (November 10, 1808 – March 14, 1860). According to Wikipedia: “Shortly after the 1844 Philadelphia riots, Levin ran for Congress and was elected on his party’s platform: (1) to extend the period of naturalization to twenty-one years; (2) to elect only native born to all offices; (3) to reject foreign interference in all institutions, social, religious, and political.”

Benjamin Disraeli is another example of a Jewish politican in the diaspora campaigning for majority rights. Disraeli was very much a race man. “No one may be indifferent to the racial principle, the racial question. It is the key to world history. History is often confusing because it is written by people who did not understand the racial question and the aspects relevant to it… Race is everything, and every race that does not keep its blood from being mixed will perish… Language and religion do not determine a race—blood determines it.”

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