President
Joe Biden represents in many ways what Dixie is not.
One of his
oft-repeated refrains is that the united States should lead the world in some
sort of ideological contest between democracy and autocracy, as though there
were no other ways of organizing politically than around the ideas of
disconnected, autonomous individuals and the absolute rule of a single, all-powerful
strongman.
The South by
herself is proof that there are other legitimate kinds of political structures
– in our case, it is a broad participation in political life combined with a
deference to an aristocracy of proven virtue (rather than rule by a self-anointed,
‘educated’, Gnostic elite as at the North).
But the
Biden obsession with democracy/individualism gives birth to even more dangerous
ideas than those involved with political forms; it leads to confusion about
even the most basic facts of human nature:
that there are only two sexes, man and woman. A comment of his on
Twitter in 2020 removes all doubts about this: ‘Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil
rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise when it comes to
basic human rights.’
Alas, this
is the way it goes with Yankees (and not just them, but also with their
offspring/fellow-travellers – assorted coteries of scalawags, globalists, transhumanists,
and the like), wedded to a notion of Progress that extols change for its own
sake without any identifiable stopping point or end goal to temper its
‘creative destruction’. This derangement
has reached such an absurd level that the Silicon Valley Yankee Mark Zuckerberg
is literally inviting everyone to
become a demiurge in his digital simulacrum of reality called the
metaverse.
This
contrasts vividly with what Mr Luke Brown, in his prize-winning
essay, notes about the South: ‘[Dr
Russell Kirk] said the South had “impulses” in a “distaste for alteration”, a
“determination to preserve…society”, and “a love of local rights.”’
Great as
they are, these impulses have been and remain under relentless assault from the
united forces of Big Government, Big Business, and woke religion. They are in serious need of shoring up lest
they collapse and disappear completely.
Where can we turn for help in this essential work?
To a family
that will be unfamiliar to some: to the
Maccabees, whose lives are recounted in the books that bear their name in the
Old Testament of the Holy Scriptures.
The Maccabees – Matthias,
Judas, John, Simon, Eleazar, Jonathan, and John Hyrcanus – were kinsmen who led
a small band of Jews against the mighty empires of Egypt and Syria in the 2nd
century before the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem. The rulers of those two latter empires at
various times attempted to either exterminate the Jews or to change their
customs. But through the faith,
integrity, and boldness of the Maccabees, they failed each and every time. Thus, for Southrons, they are invaluable
guides and examples for us as we try to defend our own lives and inheritance
from extermination by evil powers.
In one of
their encounters with Antiochus, it is related that
Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom
that all should be one people, 42 and that each should give up his customs. 43
All the Gentiles accepted the command of the king. Many even from Israel gladly
adopted his religion; they sacrificed to idols and profaned the sabbath. 44 And
the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah; he
directed them to follow customs strange to the land, 45 to forbid burnt
offerings and sacrifices and drink offerings in the sanctuary, to profane
sabbaths and feasts, 46 to defile the sanctuary and the priests, 47 to build
altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and
unclean animals, 48 and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make
themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, 49 so that they should
forget the law and change all the ordinances. 50 "And whoever does not
obey the command of the king shall die." 51 In such words he wrote to his
whole kingdom. And he appointed inspectors over all the people and commanded
the cities of Judah to offer sacrifice, city by city (I
Maccabees 1:41-51).
Now, anyone
who has even a lick of knowledge about the South after the War will recognize
that this destruction of culture is precisely what has been going on in Dixie
also via the Yankees et al. But we have
had few who will defend it with any vigor.
It was the same with the Jewish people in the time of the Maccabees. But God gave them help. When faced with the extermination of their
way of life given to them by God through the Patriarchs, the Law, and the
Prophets, their God-inspired leaders answered with ringing words that should
inspire all faithful Southerners:
. . .
The rest is
at https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/lessons-in-hope-from-the-maccabees.
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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