“Good Morning Missus Levine”: Wherein it is Argued that Justice Alito’s Charge of Government Scripturalism Constitutes Fear (indeed Hate) Mongering.
“Male and Female created He them” (Gen. 5:2).
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“Good morning, class.”
“GooooOOdmOOOrrnniiing, Missus Levine."
“And how do you like my new dress, children?”
“Weee like it veeeery goooood, Missus Levine.”
“Isn’t that Richard…” asked the husband at the family dinner table that evening.
“Hssssst,” whispered the goodwife hoarsely, “not in front of the children…..”
“Psychological Terror,” cries Cardinal Muller in Germany. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany, which pounces at the first signs of extremism. “Buchstablich,” (literalists) they shriek. The children, being exposed to bothism in kindergarten, will never know. Everyone knows that Putin will kill their children later as cannon fodder, but they look to Orbanism as a possible political blueprint. For no child could survive this. The EU Supreme Court sides with the German government against the distraught parents. And few countries offer asylum to extremists. Pope Francis sees Cardinal Muller and Justice Alito as extremists. They’re scared out of their wits. There’s no place to go. It's everywhere. Global background noise.
“Government imposing its own interpretation of Scripture,” raged Justice Alito, when the Manhattan Yeshiva case landed on his desk.
Everyone knows that the Church-State issue is one hand clapping in the First Amendment, which all but guarantees Statist Atheism, or ideological Secularism: the wording is so strongly anti-established church rhetorically, that arguments simply fall by the wayside. They'll have to prove that (large "S") Secularism is no longer neutral secularism, but religious atheism with an aggressive ideology that differs little from theology. Which is like trying to prove a negative. The other hand clapping is right next door in the Second Amendment, which is a hair-trigger aimed at politicians deemed tyrannical. Again, the wording here is so strong that gun control can be dismissed out of hand.
Secularism was never an issue because the US was, until recently, a Protestant theocracy: you couldn't get elected without showing your church credits. If all the politicians go to church, Church and State are one . Likewise, the Second Amendment was little more than a “hunter’s clause” until the Culture War. America was the custodian of Reformation doctrine, the purest and final distillation of the Bible, and her last task would be to shepherd the Return of the Jews, which, in turn, will herald the Second Coming. And this was always on the horizon--we were the final act, because Protestantism was the final definition of Christendom. How then could it be cast off like an old wine skin into the graveyard of denominations, and the Church expand under a different blueprint? We were here to stay, the last Final Chosen on God's calendar, standing sentinel against the infidel to the very end. Hence the call for a “strong military” in American pulpits, and aid for Israel. Evangelicals were the military. Why even bother with the 2nd Amendment, then? How could the (inward) gates of Hell prevail against church America? But now radical Secularism has run the Church out of Government, and the 2nd Amendment is the only Commandment Evangelicals have left, and it is the kingmaker of kingmakers. It’s a powder keg to blow up the Government, and all they have to do is wait and keep their powder dry. Let the Left wear themselves out with arguments. Orban does not argue. Putin does not argue. You cannot argue with Globalism, because they have made themselves custodians of the dictionary.
The 1st and the 2nd are at daggers drawn now. Remember the decadent art in the eighties–all protected by “freedom of expression” (1st Amendment)? Nothing was too vile, and Conservatives could do nothing. They tried to clean up TV. “You’ve got a button,” the Left sneered. “Just turn it off.” But now, as they demand access to bathrooms (Biden’s Jo’s, or Groomjo’s), you have no escape. Not with compulsory public education (as in Germany). The Agenda is now background noise everywhere. In New Jersey all a male prisoner has to do to end in a women's prison is to pronounce himself a woman (this is the new law). Incidentally, if they were examined by Justice Jackson’s biologists, they would be sorted by the old Wall method (1 Kings 14:10). In “the Christian cake” case, the Government argued that anyone who engages in commerce must observe Government cultural dictates. Failure to do so forfeits your right to “buy and sell.” You will now forfeit access to the institutions you pay for with your taxes. You’ll pay double for everything. A religious school which takes Government funding must grant atheists all the privileges it grants to Orthodox Jews. In short, Yeshiva must pass-on State funding to support an atheist club, and thus advance the cause of atheism. Why are atheists there? Because they can be. You took the king's shilling. And the Christian Cake-meister? He can close his shop. And go work for Macdonald’s? What if manager Richard Levine insists on being called Rachel? Well, his legal documents show him as Rachel, and the law is the law.
Now because Catholics Alito and Muller were taught to anchor their doctrines in Scripture, where do you think their thoughts land when confronted with this? Until the modern age, everyone would have landed squarely in the first chapter of Genesis. Thus they are being asked to deny what is clearly taught in the Bible. In short, they are being called upon to blaspheme. Until the modern age, blasphemy was a mortal sin. In Catholicism, it still is. This is what Cardinal Muller means by “psychological terror.” If you think this abomination has become inescapable background noise in America, in Europe, it’s the EU's national anthem. And no one sings it more gladly than Franziskus himself.
Is Pronounism blasphemy/idolatry?
How does Justice Alito address man-in-dress Health Secretary Richard Levine at State functions without committing blasphemy on the one hand, or igniting a Constitutional crisis on the other, if he refuses to abide by Biden dictates? What exactly is the issue at Yeshiva with the pronouns? Why did Yeshiva ban all clubs to avoid allowing a new one? Because Yeshiva believes it is being forced to commit blasphemy, or worse, idolatry. But the State said nothing about religion or Scripture. This is the psychological terror: the thing is so invisible and sinister, and appears so innocent that to speak against it makes you sound like a hysterical maniac. "Buchstablich," Germans shriek. But, says Muller, they're playing mental war games here. Conform, and you'll soon end up running from your guilty conscience. They're trying to make you commit spiritual suicide.
What do you think? Good, because that’s what it is. Whatever you think it is, that is. Agnosticism for everyone else, except for themselves. Das Ding an Sich, as the Germans would say. Man in situation, at one with his act. I don’t know, Justice Jackson said. I don’t know either, says David Brooks of the NY Times. Facts are so yesterday. Today, only opinions about opinions may or may not exist--pure subjectivity.. You decide. I think, therefore I am, or was, or who knows. Unknowledge is the fashion. “To the Unknown god,” confronted Paul in Athens. The author of confusion. Beelzebub.