A NEW YORK TIMES writer takes his Passover meal with an oyster, inspiring this excellent discussion at VFR. This sort of irreverence – shellfish is prohibited under Jewish law – is typical. The liberal Jew sees himself as superior to his ancestral faith and scorns it every bit as much as he does Christianity. 

As one commenter remarks:

These people, be they liberal Jews or liberal Christians, are always liberals first, and their liberalism consciously or unconsciously is used to undermine their religion. Thus all the anti-Semites who think Jews are out to undermine Christianity ought to be sent the NYT article. The liberal Jews undermine and desecrate their own religion in the name of their One True Faith, which is transnational progressivism. Just as liberal Christians are not somehow “duped” by Jews, but undermine their own religion in the name of their One True Faith, which is also transnational progressivism (a.k.a. universalism).

IN THE PREVIOUS entry, a reader wondered at the popularity of the term “beta man.”

Vishal Mehra wrote:

Regarding this alpha-beta thing, we don’t see this usage in any older writers. So either they used different words for this phenomenon or the phenomenon of beta men is itself novel. Or the phenomenon itself is illusory and this classification is wrong and incoherent.

One characteristic of the beta man may help explain why the term has become so common. The beta man is white. No one refers to a non-white as beta. The need for a new name for the spineless white man may have been prompted by racial reality. Never has the white man been so weak. The beta man is not weak vis-a-vis women so much as he is weak vis-a-vis his own ancestry and heritage.  He is the dispossessed, a stranger in his own land, passively assenting to the decay of his civilization. Read More »

AT THE Last Supper, Christ bade a tender farewell to his dearest followers. “He loved them unto the end,” John tells us. His words and actions – the washing of the feet and the offering of his body and blood  – are those of a man who has reserved his greatest expressions of love for the end. Those present hung on his every word.

This was a feast for men. It was no accident that only men were there that night. “I appoint unto you a kingdom,” he tells the gathered disciples. Christ wanted men – and men only – to lead his following when he was gone.

However, the idea that in selecting men over women, Christ was conferring privilege is a gross simplification. It was not privilege first but responsibility he gave them.  At the meal, the apostles question the meaning of authority. As Luke tells us, “there was also strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.” And Christ explains what authority, or greatness, means. Read More »

ELLEN LEWIN, a professor of feminist anthropology at the University of Iowa, responded to a civil e-mail from College Republicans by telling them to “eff-off.” This is the sort of elevated discourse one can expect from the ideological storm front of gender discourse.

Personally, I would not wish to participate in a correspondence with Ms. Lewin, who was educated at Stanford and the University of Chicago. These rarefied degrees, combined with the unadulterated insanity and evil of women’s studies, are likely to produce not-so-nice manners. Something tells me Ms. Lewin would beat up a housewife, or like to. Below is a description of her work on the university’s website. Ms. Lewin believes men can be mothers – no, she believes men, preferably homosexual men, should be mothers – and the moon is made of blue cheese. Everything she promotes would be remarkably funny. If only it was a joke. Her foremost ideal appears to be the “gay father.” I wonder how much Prof. Lewin is paid to spread these insanities and evils into the tender minds of the young. Surely, it’s in the six figures.  Read More »

LAWRENCE AUSTER writes at VFR:

The Philadelphia Inquirer is running a series, “Assault on Learning.” Part 3 of the series is “Young and Violent, Even Kindergartners.” The article is largely a catalogue of violent attacks by young children on their teachers, though there is also a section on sexual misbehavior. The situation in Philadelphia’s black public schools as portrayed in the article is a nightmare that Dante would have had trouble conceiving. Read More »

HAVE YOU ever seen a negative news story in the mainstream media about Earth Day, with its ritual obeisance to the God of Recycling? NewsBusters compares the coverage of Earth Day with the coverage of Easter.

PAULA KIRBY writes in The Washington Post of the depiction of women in the New Testament: Read More »

P. TRUSTER writes:

Regarding the post on “Two Kinds of Love,” it’s not clear to me whether all males are divisible into alpha and beta, winners and losers, or whether there are additional categories — gamma, delta, epsilon, etc.

I have to say that some of the alpha males I’ve known have been loathsome people, regardless of their ability to attract and entrap women who, as often as not, didn’t seem to be terribly happy with their men, in the long run anyway. Read More »

HERE is the recipe for Strawberry Devonshire Pie that I promised as part of my suggested Easter menu. It is easy to make though I recommend making the crust from scratch yourself. I’m not a fan of those gargantuan shipped strawberries, but even they work well in this recipe. This is a refreshing contrast to Easter lamb and is another recipe from a family cookbook compiled by my mother, who incidentally was one of the first female computer programmers in America and worked on computer calculations for the hydrogen bomb before becoming a housewife and raising seven children.

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THE obliteration of childhood has brought dramatic increases in juvenile crime. That especially includes crime among girls, which more than doubled between 1985 and 2007, exceeding the rate of inceases for male crime. Fatherless America, the land of institutionalized matriarchy and casual neglect of the young, is producing hardened and violent girls. This 16-year-old and her friend are charged in Illinois with handcuffing and sexually molesting a 17-year-old mentally retarded boy. This is the face of a girl whose innocence died centuries ago.

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WRITING in response to this post about a woman’s disappointment with her husband, Jeff W. writes:

There are two kinds of love: human love and God’s love. Sometimes these two kinds of love are called by the ancient Greek terms eros and agape.

Eros and agape are very different. One main difference is that eros recognizes value in its object and loves it, while agape loves and then creates value in its object. In other words, eros recognizes an alpha male and loves him because he makes her feel safe, protected, and feminine. Agape, however, can love any person, even the most loathsome and disgusting. This is the kind of love a Christian may have for a diseased and dying beggar from the streets of Calcutta, or even (though it may seem unbelievable) a beta male husband. Through agape love, a loathed and rejected person becomes the beloved.

There is a good summary of the qualities of these two kinds of love on page 159 of this book (scroll to the bottom). Read More »

JEN WRITES:

I would like to be one of the many readers to let you know how much your site is appreciated. I hope you continue this endeavor for an extremely long time. I hope to meet women in my life that hold the same conservative beliefs as you do, but until then, I live my life for my children and husband. My upbringing was horrible to say the least, so I’m still learning how to match these innate, conservative beliefs God blessed me with to real life where I literally feel like I’m learning from scratch, especially when it comes to marriage.

Which brings me to my problem. I recently typed this in a mother’s forum to get other mothers’ opinions: Read More »

FRED OWENS writes:

“We’re pregnant.” This might not bother anyone else too much, but I’m a writer, and I live and die by my words — which is why, when I overheard that phrase the other day at the cafe, I wanted to get up and choke the fellow.

He said, “We’re pregnant.” I wanted to say the hell you are. Read More »

MARK writes:

I visited the Faith & Heritage site and I read the article in question, along with the comments, and from what I can gather, these folks are for the most part not the same people Lawrence Auster had in mind when he was speaking (broadly) of American evangelicals, whom he correctly describes as the Jews’ best friends. 

Yes, as you and Auster rightly observe, the Jews have an unfair revulsion toward evangelical Christians, and for what they represent politically. However, when people like “Generation 5” start using the Bible as a weapon against other people, and lift the words of Christ out of context to smear all Jews as “a brood of vipers,” then that’s just rank Jew hatred, and it’s no wonder Jews would feel antagonized by such a dehumanizing attitude. Read More »

AQUINAS wrote in his Summa of Mary’s suffering at the foot of the cross. He said that the Blessed Mother felt, in the words of a translation by Father Philip Hughes, “a staggering of the mind.” She knew the complete goodness of her son and witnessed his complete disgrace and torture.

“[H]er mind swayed, for she saw Him the victim of such vileness, and yet knew Him for the author of such wonders.” Her suffering was enhanced by her own perfection.

Mary is an example to mothers everywhere. To be a mother is necessarily to suffer and sacrifice for one’s children. An essential part of a mother’s role is awareness. This is the keen awareness of, and the vicarious experience of, a child’s hardships.

In contemplating Mary’s awareness, we are elevated, as if she conveys some of her fortitude. A mother’s awareness never ends, but with it she is brought along the steep paths of divine contemplation.