“WHILE it is true that the race or the people, the State or a particular form of government, the representatives of the civil power, or other fundamental elements of human society have an essential and honorable place in the natural order, nevertheless, if anyone detaches them from this scale of earthly values and exalts them as the supreme norm and standard of all things, even of religious values, deifying them with idolatrous worship, he perverts and falsifies the order of things created and constituted by God, and is far from true faith in God and from a conception of life in conformity therewith … our God, is the personal God, transcendent, almighty, infinitely perfect, One in the Trinity of Persons and Three in the Unity of the Divine Essence, Creator of the Universe, Lord, King and ultimate purpose of the history of the world, Who does not suffer and can never suffer any other divinity beside Him … only superficial minds can fall into the error of speaking of a national God of a national religion, of foolishly attempting to restrict within the narrow confines of a single race, that God, Who is the Creator of the world, the King and Lawgiver of all peoples, before Whose greatness the nations are as small as drops of water in a bucket.” [bold added.]

This profound and truthful statement was made by Pope Pius XI in his 1937 Encyclical, On the Condition of the Church in Germany, in which he condemned the racial idolatry of Nazism.

Pius XI’s statement is important for those of us today because he not only warns against deification of race, but he clarifies the important truth that love of one’s own race is natural and good.

Interestingly, the political phenomenon of multiculturalism suffers from both extremes essentially warned against by the Pontiff.

Multiculturalism causes Westerners to disparage excessively and to a neurotic degree their own race, therefore eliminating the “essential and honorable place” race has in the natural order. At the same time it perversely causes them to idolize other races, creating a “national God” of race … and “foolishly attempting to restrict within the narrow confines of race” that Supreme God.

White nationalism which makes the white race a God is deeply wrong and should be avoided at all costs. But then so should a mystique of race applied to non-whites, with the constant suggestion that they can do no wrong and are untainted by original sin.

Christian Zionism is another example of racial idolatry today. (more…)

PUTIN appears to be trying to unleash a new "migrant crisis" in Europe. Read more at US News.  

  CHRIS R. writes: Happy Veterans Day. As a frequent reader of your (often musical) blog, I thought that you might appreciate that I am a classically trained baritone/bass-baritone. I still fondly revisit the music you shared of the soldiers in San Francisco singing Eternal Father. Hauntingly beautiful. Here is my version. +JMJ Laura writes: Thank you. Beautiful! You have a wonderful voice! Let's pray for all veterans today. And let's pledge to do anything and everything in our own small ways to prevent war. Thank you again.   Prayer for those in the Armed Services O God, we implore Thee, watch over those exposed to the horrors of war and to the spiritual dangers of a soldier's, a sailor's or airman's life. Give them such a strong faith that no human respect may ever lead them to deny it, or fear to practice it. Do Thou by Thy grace, fortify them against the contagion of bad example, that, being preserved from vice, and serving Thee faithfully, they may be ready to meet death whenever it may happen, through Christ our Lord. O Sacred Heart, inspire them with sorrow for sin, and grant them pardon. Mother of God, be with them in battle, and, if they should be called to make the supreme sacrifice, obtain for them that they may die in the grace of thy Divine Son. May their guardian angels protect them. Amen.

"Miserable the sinner who hardens his heart and resists the divine calls: His heart shall be as hard as a stone and as firm as a smith's anvil. Instead of yielding to the graces and inspirations of God, and being softened by them, the unhappy man becomes more obdurate, as the anvil is hardened by repeated strokes of the hammer. In punishment of his resistance to the divine calls, he will find his heart in the same miserable state at the very hour of death, at the moment of passing into eternity. 'A hard heart shall fare evil at the last.' 'Sinners,' says the Lord, 'you have, for the love of creatures, turned your back upon Me.' They will have recourse to God at death; but He will say to them: 'Why do you invoke me now? Call on creatures to assist you; for they have been your gods.' The Lord will address them in this manner, because, in seeking Him, they do not sincerely wish to be converted. St Jerome says that he holds, and that he has learned from experience, that they who have to the end led a bad life, will never die a good death." --- St. Alphonsus de Liguori, "The Sinner at Death"

  THIS WAS a very good, amateur video that was mysteriously removed from Youtube, along with the rest of the channel by someone named "DJ." There was nothing inflammatory about this video. DJ warned viewers to watch television news no more than once a month. He said people should direct their attention elsewhere and read and study issues in depth. I agree with that. The news is too managed to take seriously, similar to how it was in the Soviet Union. Perhaps the censorship here was because this Youtuber exposed shills on the alt-right -- people such as Stefan Molyneux and Adam Green -- in his other videos.  

FROM THE COLLEGE FIX: A Romania-born academic says he recently left his tenured position at Columbia University because the Ivy League school is “on its way toward full blown communism,” according to a Romanian TV interview translated by a Romanian-American immigrant. Prof. Andrei Serban, an award-winning director, complained about the increasing social justice demands he faced in the theater department in the interview, which aired on Romania’s TVR1 Oct. 26. One prominent example he gave: pressure to admit a transgender applicant who auditioned as Juliet from “Romeo and Juliet.” Andy Ionescu, a native Romianian speaker who immigrated to the United States in 1999, told The College Fix in a Twitter message that he translated the interview. Read more.

A READER sent me a long e-mail from a Republican Party official in Fairfax County, Virginia. In it, she recounts the losses of conservatives in this past week’s election. (See the e-mail below.) She says George Soros and his operatives may have been involved in the outcome.

She may be right, but, let’s face it, as the reader pointed out, is George Soros anymore radical for his day than Thomas Paine?

Remember, the American Revolution was a revolution. 

If Fairfax County sees “after-birth abortion,” isn’t that the inevitable outcome of the Masonic universalism represented by Paine and his revolutionary ideals?

Paine, who supported the French Revolution, which legalized abortion in France, wanted to inaugurate a New World Order by overturning traditions of Western civilization, including monarchy, aristocracy and the “political superstitions” of organized Christianity. For him, society should be guided by human reason alone, as he wrote in his book The Age of Reason:

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. [Source] bold added

He also later wrote:

“The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally paid to the sun”. [Source] (more…)

“I SHOULD LIKE to make clear, therefore, that although I consider the concept of mental illness to be unserviceable, I believe that psychiatry could be a science. I also believe that psychotherapy is an effective method of helping people — not to recover from an “illness,” but rather to learn about themselves, others, and life.

“In sum, then, this is not a book on psychiatry, nor is it a book on the nature of man. It is a book about psychiatry — inquiring, as it does, into what people, but particularly psychiatrists and patients, have done with and to one another. It is also a book about human conduct — since in it observations and hypotheses are offered concerning how people live.”

— Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct, Harper and Row, 1960 (more…)

E. MICHAEL JONES argues in this interview that “white” is not a social identity, but a political trap.

Sorry, Dr. Jones, but you are wrong.

While it would be better to use the term “European American” because it is less stigmatized, the mere fact that people can intelligibly identify as “Caucasian” or “white” on medical and census questionnaires shows that the term is a biological reality and existing social identity. Genetic studies back that statement up. In a world where other races aggressively pursue their group interests by identifying as black or Mexican or Asian or Jewish, it is morally imperative for those with European ancestry to have some race consciousness — not, by any means, excessive racial pride or race hatred — lest they be culturally subjugated. The category of “white” is broad and genetically complicated. It is wrong to make one’s race the most important part of one’s identity. Race is most definitely secondary to theology. But race is real. Christians especially must shed a neurotic fear in order to preserve what’s left of Western civilization.

Read Lawrence Auster’s new book, Our Borders, Ourselves to understand why white identity is essential. (more…)

ANOTHER young girl bites the dust in an inclusive school bathroom.

"THE sexualization and homosexualization of children in general -- and the [feminizing] of boys in particular -- is by deliberate design of the 'usual suspects' behind Globalism who, via their Fake News, Academia and 'entertainment,' are spreading this mental/moral cancer like a fungus. We already have kids in drag appearing on TV, Drag Queen Story Hour in libraries, boys as young as seven 'transitioning,' and gender confusion being taught at educational levels from K-college. Normalization is almost here. "What is the motive -- the ultimate aim which most well-meaning social conservatives cannot, or will not, see? Answer: To engineer a nightmare society of dumbed-down, degenerate, confused, obedient, twisted, alienated, rootless, raceless, familyless, Godless, powerless, cultureless weaklings and weirdos good for little else but working, "consuming," paying interest, and paying taxes -- all to support the top tiers of the Rothschild pyramid structure enslaving a debased and hopeless humanity -- forever. "'Marlboro Man' will rebel against tyrants --- 'Mascara Man' will bend over for them. It's that simple." -- The Anti-New York Times  

  CHRISTOPHER Dummitt, a major author of gender theory in the 1990s, pleads guilty to having made the whole thing up: The problem is: I was wrong. Or, to be a bit more accurate, I got things partly right. But then, for the rest, I basically just made it up. In my defence, I wasn’t alone. Everyone was (and is) making it up. That’s how the gender-studies field works. But it’s not much of a defence. I should have known better. If I were to retroactively psychoanalyze myself, I would say that, really, I did know better. And that’s why I was so angry and assertive about what I thought I knew. It was to hide the fact that, at a very basic level, I didn’t have proof for part of what I was saying. So I stuck to the arguments with fervor, and denounced alternative points of view. Intellectually, it wasn’t pretty. And that’s what makes it so disappointing to see that the viewpoints I used to argue for so fervently—and so baselessly—have now been accepted by so many in the wider society.

  PLEASE join with me in welcoming the publication of Our Borders, Ourselves: America in the Age of Multiculturalism by the late Lawrence Auster, a friend and mentor who died of cancer in 2013 and left a long unpublished manuscript, which I agreed to bring to his devoted fans. It took six years (six years!) to make that happen, but here at last is an abridged version of the book, published by Vdare. From the back cover: At its founding, immigration was integral in the formation of the United States of America. The melting pot was the essence of our beginning. The blending of diverse people overwhelmingly from Europe made the country an extension of the greatest of civilizations. When immigration was measured, when assimilation was demanded, and when our borders were controlled, America thrived. This diversity within limits enriched America. But in the last half century or so, when uncontrolled immigration from the world over was pushed upon us, when balkanization was encouraged, America faltered. "Diversity" became a deceptive catchword and a force hostile to cultural and natural distinctions. Illegal immigrants were welcomed by the millions. Eventually, we saw racial profiling in college admissions, politicians pitting groups of people against each other, and white becoming a bad word. In Our Borders, Ourselves, genius conservative essayist Lawrence Auster details the fraud foisted upon the American people in the name of diversity. Published posthumously, Our Borders explains how the Immigration Act of 1965 led to the erasing of white…

FROM The Contemplative Observer:

We look, in our current political debate, at all kinds of people who – at times, frivolously – advertise themselves as “conservatives”. But are they? What is it that they defend? What is it that they stand for? Do they practise what they preach? At a time of permanent, unrestricted, asymmetrical war, that needs dedicated, sincere, but also competent and knowledgable warriors: are these people the ones, to paraphrase Comrade Obama, we’ve been waiting for?

It may be an attractive career to be a “conservative” media icon giving eloquent speeches peppered with the most entertaining polemics. But if such conservative heroines (or “paleo-conservative” living monuments) don’t even remotely understand that the Russian bear of today is still the same deep-red communist bear as ever, what then are these “public figures” ultimately good for? Especially as the damage they do is twofold: They cannot see the beast for what it is, number one, and instead praise it as the new hope for Christian civilisation, number two! Maybe these people should stop writing books and start reading books instead!

Let’s not mince words here – and today we MUST expect from a true, valuable conservative to be “holier than the pope”, because, well, just look what has been going on in Rome ever since Pius XII was succeeded by “good pope” John XXIII: (more…)

  A MAN remembers his "Mammy's" lullaby in this sweet 1921 song, which I hope you enjoy. Source  

FROM Oliver Heydorn at Social Credit Views: One of the difficulties that tends to be characteristic of the contemporary Christian milieu in particular, is the belief, more or less unconscious in most cases, that engaging with questions of money, economics, finance and so forth is ‘mundane’ and therefore of no interest to Christianity, which is ‘otherworldly’. There is, in the minds of some people, a strict separation between the religious/spiritual/supernatural sphere and that of profane concerns, a separation which is somewhat analogous to the liberal democratic principle of ‘separation between Church and State’. One manifestation of this compartmentalizing is the notion that “all is fair in love, war, and money”. In other words, because money and economics are profane they are essentially neutral, just like football, the weather, and food preferences. One can do with them anything that one pleases within the broadest of parameters … the underlying assumption being that Christianity has nothing of particular importance to say about the rights and wrongs of money and economics, i.e., has nothing of substantial doctrinal import that could or should be brought to bear on such subjects. Indeed, in some streams of Protestantism, both historical and contemporary, one is heartily encouraged to ‘do business’ and to store up treasures with wanton abandon. Such an attitude may even be taken so far that behaviours which would be regarded as sinful in other circumstances, such as theft, rise above any suspicion if they occur…

  "DRAG KIDS is an intimate journey into the lives of four child drag queens from around the world. Stephan, Jason, Bracken and Nemis have never met, but they’re united by a shared passion for drag, and they’re about to come together for the first time – to perform Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ at the world-famous Montreal Pride Festival. As they prepare for the big show, each faces their own unique challenges, as well as challenges they have in common – deep feelings of isolation (most have ever met another ‘drag kid’ before) and the struggle of trying to claim a place of your own on the fringes of a fringe culture." --- Guelph Film Festival  

  THE PIOUS Job gives us the finest example of real patience and resignation to the will of God. He was a wealthy, respected, and at the same time god-fearing man in the land of Hus, he was father of seven sons and three daughters, and lived peacefully and happy. God wished to try him and permitted the devil to vent his whole rage upon him. Job was deprived of his children and all his property, and, finally, he was himself afflicted with the most painful disease of leprosy. But in the midst of all these dreadful misfortunes Job remained calm. Naked, covered only with a few patches, he sits on a dunghill, a picture of misery, and yet no sound of murmuring comes from his lips, he does not curse, does not blaspheme God, but says resignedly: God hath given it, God hath taken it away, God can give it again; blessed be the name of the Lord. To all this misery was added the baseness of his own wife, who came and mocked him, and of three intimate friends, who instead of consoling him, judged him falsely and said, that his misery was just punishment from heaven. And still Job did not murmur against God's wise dispensations; with unshaken patience he held out with confidence in God, and God did not forsake him. He rewarded him well for his fidelity and patience. For He made him well again…