Dirt Roads Scholar: Tolls on the Road to Shangri-la - Commentary by Michael Kilpatrick

Michael Kilpatrick

Michael Kilpatrick is a painting contractor in Macon, husband of one wife, father of nine children. He is a firearms enthusiast, troubler of the 'progressive' elite, and a Christian, Southern, Constitutionalist.

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Dirt Roads Scholar: Tolls on the Road to Shangri-la – Commentary by Michael Kilpatrick

"William James invented Pragmatism to accommodate the belief that Darwin killed God; with it, religious truth became whatever believers willed. Liberalism [the politics of pragmatism] therefore puts government in God's throne to the extent that it believes that, as a matter of principle, no challenge is beyond the reach of Leviathan." --Jonah Goldberg, National Review 5/23/05

Anyone with children knows that without clearly defined boundaries, children get anxious. Anxiousness leads to misbehavior, for which it is hard to define a proper, effective response because... there are no defined boundaries.

Culturally boundaries are disappearing too, and since we have rejected God as our parent and author of the rules, we turn to our illegitimate step-father, the federal government. It seems all too obvious (to at least some of us) that 'step- daddy' does a rather dismal job of keeping his own house, much less yours.

"How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!" --Matthew 23:37

Via, veritas, vita

"Irony of ironies, [-] Today, an aging, dying Christian West is pressing the Third World and the Islamic world to accept contraception, abortion, and sterilization as the West has done. But why should they enter a suicide pact with us when they stand to inherit the earth when we are gone?" --Patrick Buchanan, "The Death of the West"

Native populations in Europe are below replacement rate and have been for some time. The U.S. has just recently joined them. Of the approximate 4000 plus abortions per day in America, 1500 of those are Black babies, while at the same time Blacks account for only 12% of the population. Barna research reports that there is no statistical difference between the abortion rate among professed "Christians" and their secular counterparts. The only rationale for "Jihad" would seem to be....impatience.

Veritas Vos Liberabit - The Truth Shall Set You Free

"With an almost poetical fancy, he [the liberal] strives to live each day as if it were his first, and he believes that to form a habit is to fail." Michael Oakeshott, "Rationalism in Politics, and Other Essays" , quoted in "The Conservative Bookshelf"

Could a more unreasonable constitution than history de jour be employed to set ones worldview on? To scatter the foundation stones each morning, and arrange them anew according to political fad, philosophical whimsy, or murderous ideology, will only produce rubble. Sin and decay walk hand in hand, skewing plumblines and levels till no stone will rest long upon another.

Esse quam videri -- To be, rather than to appear

"[for the Rationalist], political activity is...the imposition of a uniform condition of perfection upon human conduct." --Michael Oakeshott, "Rationalism in Politics, and Other Essays"

If we arrange things just so...we can achieve utopia.

Let's parse that phrase for clarity - "We"; meaning those of sufficient intellect and vision to be willing to condescend to play god with lesser creatures' lives (for their own good of course). "Arrange things"; meaning imposing 'morals,' ideals, and laws of an ever changing variety, using incomprehensible criteria, with a deliberate disregard for consequences. "Just so"; the belief that since utopia must be possible, and has not yet been achieved, that if existing forms and habits (and perhaps the odd million or so people here and there) are destroyed and replaced willy nilly with ever newer and heretofore unknown structures, at some point Shangri-la will spontaneously appear....or anarchy...or whatever.

Veritas Vos Liberabit - The Truth Shall Set You Free