Archive for August, 2005

Gluttony and Sexual Obsession

Posted by Bob in Bob on 8/14/2005

Not a day goes by when I don’t think about C.S. Lewis’ little book, “The Screwtape Letters.”

That little book is a collection of letters from the Senior Demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood. The letters are advice on how to tempt humans into Hell.

Why do I like it so much? If you spend your life in politics, any good, thoughtful advice on wrestling with the Devil is welcome.

I mentioned below one of the great insights Screwtape had. It was about the sin of gluttony. Screwtape says Wormwood should keep people believing that gluttony is just eating too much. Screwtape points out that gluttony has nothing to do with how MUCH you eat.

The sin of gluttony, the one that gets people into Hell, is ANY obsession with food. The little old lady who sends an overworked waitress back to the kitchen to get her “Just a LITTLE bit of food” is practicing the kind of gluttony Screwtape wants.

Thinking about that, it occurred to me that you don’t have to have sex all the time to be sinful. If you are obsessed with NOT having sex, that is just as good as being a sex addict.

Screwtape points out the person who thinks he is not being a glutton by eating too much will realize why he is faced with the Pit of Hell. But the person who spends his life making life hard on other people because he is obsessed with just the right amount of food thinks he is being an angel. He will be astonished, too late, when he finds out the truth.

Not only do they come to Hell, says Screwtape, but they are more amusing when they get there.

A Cautionary Tale

Posted by Bob in Bob on 8/14/2005

I don’t suppose I have to tell you that if you don’t choose your roommate carefully, you’ll pay for it big time.

The guy I stay with is not judgmental about other people, but he won’t give me a break. Everybody but me has a reason for what they do, but not me. You know the old Army motto, “Be all you can be?”

This guy expects me to be more than I can possibly be.

If I give what he would consider a “reason” from somebody else, he calls it an “excuse” when I say it.

The man calls me names he would never call anybody else. He never completely forgives me when I make a bad mistake.

Many times I would like to kick him out of here, but I can’t.

I live alone.

America’s Two Southern Borders

Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 8/14/2005

The Rio Grande is the only place on earth where the first world borders directly on the third world. But our other southern border is interesting too.

Our other southern border is the only place on earth where you go directly from America into Europe.

No, I did make a typo there. When you cross our NORTHERN border into Canada, the states you leave behind, New England and the Northwest, are totally European. There is absolutely nothing American about Canadian attitudes. When you go into Canada going north you are going from one part of Europe into another.

But exactly the same thing is true of the Northwest and New England. Accepted attitudes in Canada are exactly the same as accepted attitudes in Britain and France. But the same thing is true of New England and the Northwest. A New Englander, a Canadian and a Frenchman could sit down and talk and, from what they say, you couldn’t tell who was from where.

Alaska votes conservative Republican. You would play hell finding any other state on the Canadian border which is conservative Republican. As I said below in “One America, Two Europes” there is absolutely no difference in accepted opinion in our “red states” and accepted opinion in Europe, including Canada.

Alaska is American in the extreme. It repudiates the environmentalism which has replaced socialism as the accepted attitudes of Canadians and Frenchmen. Alaska has the highest percentage of members of the National Rifle Association of any state in the Union.

I have no more personal identification with Washington State or New England than I do with Paris, France. And they have less personal identification with me than they do with any non-American anywhere. To them I have nothing to do with “America.” They say loyalty to America has nothing to do with loyalty to Southerners or other Americans.

They say they are loyal not to a particular people but the PRINCIPLES of America. And every principle they are talking about is the total European loyalty to Political Correctness.

No, I said that America’s SOUTHERN border is the only place where America is side by side with Europe. In order to drive to the “lower forty-eight” an Alaskan must cross his SOUTHERN border into Canada.

At that southern border, many Alaskans have been detained because they have Hate Literature in their cars. In Canada as in the rest of Europe, you can be jailed for having Politically Incorrect literature in your car.

As in Europe, you can be jailed for not telling the Thought Police at the border that you have illegal literature in your car. As in Europe, the banned literature is burned and you are billed for the cost of destroying it.

As in the rest of Europe, any weapon you have in your car will be immediately confiscated without compensation. Once again, if you do not tell the Thought Police about the weapon in your car, you are headed straight for prison.

As in the rest of Europe, they have every right to search your vehicle without the slightest authorization from anybody.

So America has two southern borders, both unique in the world. The Rio Grande is the only place on earth where the third world lies directly beside the first world. America’s other southern border is the only place on earth where Europe lies directly beside America.

Luther and Calvin

Posted by Bob in Bob, History on 8/13/2005

I have always been fascinated by the history of the Reformation because I, like the Reformers, have always been pitted against the Great Authorities and Established Institutions.

How can one man be right when all the Authorities are wrong?

Many and many a time I feel the same thing Luther felt at Worms when he said to the Emperor, “Here I stand. I can do no other.”

One thing that tripped up the Reformation at its height was the vicious infighting between its leaders. Luther hated Zwingli, the brave leader of Swiss Protestantism who died in battle, with a passion.

Luther said, in my loose translation:

“When my prayers lack passion, I think of Zwingli and the pope, and my fervor returns.”

He apparently hated Zwingli MORE than he hated what he called The Whore of Babylon!

Although the Lutheran Church skips over it, Luther was every bit as much a believer in predestination as Calvin.

I am always subject to correction. In fact, that’s a major reason for the blog. But from my considerable reading of history, Calvin never denounced Luther and Luther never denounced Calvin. Considering how strong their opinions were, that surprises me. Calvin looked upon Luther as the founder, and said repeatedly that Luther’s doctrine was incomplete, but he never denounced him.

I prefer Luther because he had such a giant sense of humor. The man laughed all the time:

“When I break wind in Wittenberg, Rome hears it.”

Luther was raised in the sand hills, just as I was. His father owned a factory, just as mine did, but Luther was raised among the peasants just as I was. He had a giant education, just as I do, but it did not change his fundamental, Bible Belt attitude. He looked the Emperor and the Church Authorities straight in the kisser and said, “That is not what the Emperor says. That’s not what the Pope says. I stand by what the BIBLE says!”

Luther was a man I could get inside of.

On the other hand, I get the distinct impression from his friendliest biographers that nobody could get inside of Calvin. Calvin the man was much, much kinder than his doctrine. He was only responsible for helping execute one heretic in his entire life, though he had a degree of civil authority Luther never held.

But no one ever mentions his ever laughing out loud the way Luther did.

And Calvin was not, as everybody says, “The theocratic dictator of Geneva.” He was not even made a CITIZEN of the place until late in life. It is to Calvin’s discredit that he approved completely of the burning of Severtus, which I mention in my book. It is not true he ordered it. He couldn’t have.

Calvin was probably the greatest theologian who ever lived, but I have little use for theologians. I come from a line that goes back to the Reverend Alexander Whitaker, the son of a Cambridge don who came to America in 1609 “to convert the savage Indians.” This reaches right down to my grandfather who was a circuit-riding country preacher and my sister, who was a Director of Religious Education.

In other words, my tradition is the preacher who begs everybody to come to the front and accept the Lord, not the theologian who is careful to be sure that only Worthy People are allowed into the church.

Calvin stood in the doorway of the church, making sure that only the Worthy came in. Considering his hatred of Zwingli, I am sure Luther did the same thing. But Luther’s image, the laughing welcoming evangelist, is the one I identify with.

“Suffer the little childen to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.”

It is hard to imagine anyone less like children than the sour-faced Puritans who had a special place in their churches for the even more sour-faced, humorless, elderly Elect.

My approach in politics is the same as my ancestors’ approach to religion:

Get them baptised and get them INTO the church. THEN you teach them what is right. That’s what the church is for.

I am sure a lot of people are a bit bothered by my reaching out to all the wrong people and my making irreverent remarks.

Blame it on my blood line.

When Jesus sat down with the Evil Sinners He probably even LAUGHED with them. That is NOT the Calvinist picture of Christ. The Puritan would have been right there with the self-righteous Temple Jews condemning Him.

We used to have a saying on the brick plant, “We laugh, we joke, but we don’t PLAY.” You do your work and you can crack all the jokes you want to. But jokes are there to make the work go easier. They are never to substitute for the job at hand.

Jesus had a purpose and He had a sense of humor.

Or at least that is what my blood line tells me.

8/13/05 Bob’s Weekly WOL Articles

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Weekly WhitakerOnline.org Articles

August 13, 2005
Our Established Religion
O’Reilly the Retard
The Collapse of the Communist Priesthood

Our Established Religion

The discussion in this week’s Saturday Internet radio program that can be linked at: Townhall will be entitled, “America’s Established Religion.”

Our established religion is Political Correctness.

Let me repeat that:

America’s established RELIGION is Political Correctness.

The reason they are able to get away with this is because of a myth pushed by respectable conservatives and preachers. This myth is that Political Correctness represents secularism and science.

Since the first amendment to the United States Constitution forbids the establishment of any RELIGION, the religion of Political Correctness is OK because it is not a religion. So every conservative goes into the debate saying that Political Correctness cannot violate the first amendment, whereas regular religion can.

Like all respectable conservatives, they have already surrendered before the debate begins.
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O’Reilly the Retard

I was fighting what is called the secularist agenda thirty years ago. I was marching, organizing marches, and doing press conferences against anti-religious textbooks the NEA was pushing. That was a generation ago, and all the conservatives thought I was being unrespectable.

As usual, decades later everybody is now discovering what I was doing a generation ago, and declaring it is good.

Even that poor little retard Bill O’Reilly is now denouncing the “secularist agenda,” which he discovered after everybody else had long since seen it.

But I didn’t fight the education establishment’s agenda because it was non-religious. I attacked it because I had infinitely more respect for the deep wisdom of the Bible Belt, with all its faults, than I did for the hair-brained kooks who called themselves “intellectuals.”

When Bill O’Reilly says that Political Correctness is secular, he is handing the professor-priesthood the first amendment on a silver platter. No matter how you try to talk around it the first amendment does NOT ban the government establishment of any form of secularism. It bans RELIGION.

Religion is not a bunch of people sitting in a church or synagogue or mosque. Scientology has the status of a religion, but it has no god. When Catholic priests first reached Asia they were astounded to discover that Buddhism was a religion with out a god.

Religion is a set of beliefs based on faith.

Political Correctness is a set of beliefs based entirely on faith. Every university requires you to do homage to “diversity,” though there is no evidence whatsoever that this “diversity” has any value at all. That is a belief enforced on the basis of faith, but the professor-priesthood is able to enforce its faith because conservatives insist that the religion of the professor-priesthood is some kind of science, not religion.

Tens of millions of young people spend their entire lives paying for the professor-priesthood. Right now tens of millions of young people are paying off the back-breaking student loans they had to take out to pay to go to college.

I do not know a single one of them who doesn’t know he was cheated.

But that is just the beginning.

After wasting four years of their lives in college taking courses they scarcely remember and ten years paying off their student loans, some of them are in their mid-thirties hoping to have families. But every child they have is going to require their putting aside huge piles of money, not for a home or for retirement, but for tuition.

All this is backed by government. College degrees are required by government. Government enforces accreditation, which is the life-blood our professor-priesthood lives on.

A generation of young people will spend their entire lives in vassalage to the professor-priesthood.

A whole generation of young people is ripe for rebellion.

They are not interested in O’Reilly’s drivelings about secularism versus religion.

They want their FREEDOM.
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The Collapse of the Communist Priesthood

When I went to a Communist country I crossed the dead line. There were land minds and guards with automatic weapons who would kill escapees. Inside the country there were long, long lines at any store that happened to have something for sale.

When I left the country, nobody outside seemed to notice those things, least of all the anti-Communists. They were busy theorizing about evil atheistic Communism versus their own religious values.

Everybody remembers Ronald Reagan’s famous words, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

What they do NOT remember is that Reagan’s respectable conservative staff removed those words THREE TIMES from his speech and he has to reinsert them himself each time. They did not want him to talk about the Wall he was standing in front of. They wanted him to talk theory.

People in Communist countries wanted FREEDOM from an insane rule by the Communist religion. Nothing in the Communist faith WORKED, but no one was allowed to doubt it. So hundreds of millions of people were enslaved by it while conservatives dribbled theories to each other in National Review.

Today a generation of young people wants freedom from the unbelievably silly professor-priesthood. But National Review and O’Reilly want to dribble theories about a secularist agenda to each other.

It is time for us to tear down the wall in front of us. This insane priesthood must go, not because it is secular, but because it is a priesthood to which our government enslaves us.

It is time we remembered what the Constitution and especially the first amendment to the Constitution, really means.

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8/13/05 Insider Letter

Posted by Sys Op in Insider Letter Archive on 8/13/2005

(Reprinted to Blog from email list of 8/13/05)

*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***

The Emperor’s Clothing Store

Does anybody remember how that old story, The Emperor’s New Clothes ended?

A little boy said, “But he doesn’t have any clothes on.”

At that point, everybody was shamed. They had been told that if they did not see the New Clothes, it just showed they were not Worthy. When a little boy said what they could all see, they were shamed to realize they had been made fools of.

But the Professional Market Analysts and the Modern Artists are ALWAYS being exposed. As I keep pointing out on my radio show the Wall Street Journal regularly reports scientific studies that demonstrate that monkeys throwing darts do just as well as professional market analysts.

The Andy Warhol who cracks a commode and sells it for a million dollars is a fraud everybody knows about, but he is not the only person who gets the million. The Professional Art Critics and Art Professors live like kings, too.

And nobody notices.

Nothing professors require us to believe in ever works. But nobody minds. The next time they raise tuition everybody will complain, again, that tuition is being raised too much.

Our professor-priesthood, they say, is asking for too much more pay.

Nobody ever points out that there is no reason to pay them at all.

The end of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” ought to be different.

The kid said, “He doesn’t have any clothes on.”

“The people said, ‘We can all see that. When is the Emperor going to raise our taxes and order an even BETTER set of clothes that don’t exist?’”

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They Saved the World

Posted by Bob in History on 8/12/2005

Chris Matthews and Bill O’Reilly and Shawn Hannity keep insisting, along with Tom Brokaw, that “The Greatest Generation Saved the World.”

When the World War II Memorial was being planned, I offered a suggestion to give them full credit for their accomplishments:

“They Saved the World by turning a third of the human race over to Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha and the builders of the Berlin Wall.”

I was just trying to give The Greatest Generation credit for its dedication to Social Progress and Leftist Idealism.

Would you believe that I didn’t even get a reply?

Answer to Elizabeth

Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 8/12/2005

Elizabeth responded to my discussion of the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation and the Jewish religion of self-pity. She pointed out that someone who says only he has it harder than anybody else belongs in an institution.

Well, Elizabeth, that’s true of THEM.

But I keep trying to turn myself in at institutions.

They keep telling me that I would upset the other inmates.

When my application to the Institute for the Criminally Insane was turned down, I knew I was in deep trouble.

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.

Well, like my heroes, The Greatest Generation, one thing I’ll never do is complain.

Silent as the tomb, that’s me.

Enemies of the Enemy

Posted by Bob in Bob on 8/12/2005

The theme of The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) that appealed to me most was Galdalf’s constant reminder:

“We are all enemies of the Enemy.”

Most of us HATE to have our picture taken, but we don’t know why. The reason is that getting your picture taken involves dishonesty.

Every time someone takes my picture, it always starts with, “OK. We are ready to take it now.”

“Oops.”

“Where do you push the button? Oh, THERE.”

“OK, now everybody SMILE, we’re ready to take the picture.”

So you put on that fake smile again, and…

“Oops. Where did you say you push the button?”

Finally that wonderful Click.

Then they say, “Tom wasn’t in the picture. Now you move just a little to the left. That’s it. All right now, SMILE.”

I HATE standing there with an idiotic fake smile on my face.

Do you want a picture? Then take the damned picture already.

Do you want a memory of when we were all together or do you want a pose?

We are all together fighting the Enemy.

Do you want a picture or do you want a pose?

I do not agree with you on most things. I don’t want to stand and smile in a particular place with a particular expression on my face. We are fighting the enemy, not posing for a harmonious photograph.

The Village Atheist

Posted by Bob in Bob on 8/11/2005

I was raised in the Bible Belt and I always thought of myself as kind of the village atheist. I did not believe in the six-day creation or banning the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday. I am sure everybody will concentrate on this and miss what I am about to say.

The thing about the village atheist was that he was the VILLAGE atheist. You can be an atheist too, but you had better not attack the VILLAGE. You will find no nastier enemy than the village atheist if you attack the village itself.

Those who insulted the Bible Belt were absolutely astonished when I hit back with everything I had. Those Bible belters are MY people. When the self-styled “intellectual” attacked Bible-believing people like the people I was raised with, I hit back hard.

At the same time many a Bible Believer found himself a nice, convenient quote in the Bible to excuse himself for taking the attackers’ side.

So when Bob Jones decided to demand that the Confederate flag come down, he found a nice convenient quote from the Bible to justify it. I pointed out that that flag had been flying over the South Carolina State House for almost forty years when Bob Jones suddenly discovered that Bible verse.

I pointed out that that Bible verse had been there for almost two thousand years. But Bob Jones suddenly discovered that flag and the Bible verse the day that the Big Conservative Money turned on the flag.

The fact is that the village atheist isn’t a very good atheist. He likes to question the Bible, but if you insult Jesus he is likely to jump all over you.

The village atheist isn’t a very good atheist, but he also makes a lousy traitor, too. He can’t hide behind the bible the way a Bible Belter can.

No book can protect the village atheist from his conscience.

Butterbur

Posted by Bob in Bob on 8/10/2005

Over the past thirty years I have read the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) trilogy, plus The Hobbit which preceded it, at least a dozen times.

One of the light characters in the Trilogy is the innkeeper Butterbur. He is always run off his feet and forgetful and funny.

But one of the main characters in the LOTR made a remark about how Butterbur would not know something, and Gandalf, the ultimate wise man, replied, “Don’t underestimate Butterbur. His mind is slow, but in time he can see through a brick wall.”

One of my advisors is a multimillionaire who is embarrassed that, compared to mine, his IQ is low.

Well, he’s right about that. My IQ is very high. I am also a genius, which means I not only have a high IQ, but I am creative, which is something entirely separate from intelligence.

But I have another quality I am proud of. It is the kind of wisdom Gandalf displayed in speaking of Butterbur. It is harder to define than a high IQ or creativity.

It is certainly not humility. I have little or none of that. But I am able to appreciate and USE the ability of someone who can see through a brick wall.

My advisor’s mind does not move at fast as mine does. At least 95% of what he comes up with I have already thought of.

But what I have difficulty explaining to him is that 100% of what high IQ people say I have already thought of. This makes talking to THEM boring beyond endurance.

The first thing I get out of him is that he often has come up with a way to say what I have come up with in a much better way than I have.

The second advantage is that he does in fact come up with insights I had not thought of.

The third advantage is that he fills in the cracks. He is not as confident as I am that he is right. He builds his conclusions slowly, carefully. He is aware that all those people I ignore may have a point. They usually don’t, but when they do I look ridiculous.

To put the third point another way, he does a lot of intellectual WORK that I don’t.

What really impressed me about Gandalf was that he LEARNED from the Hobbits. All the other Wise Men ignored them.

Saruman, the Leader of the Wise Men who ignored the Butterburs, lost his soul.

Gandalf saved his world.

Snaggle Bob

Posted by Bob in Bob on 8/8/2005

I just got my first adult tooth pulled. It’s way over at the top right so I don’t miss it, but it is the first time I have been missing a tooth for fifty-five years. It is amazing how painless dentistry is these days.

When it comes to real pain, women are far braver than men. A man would pass out at the pain of childbirth, but women want to SEE that human being they have been living with for nine months.

Also it is a part of a man’s function NOT to put up with pain. Men are supposed to fight back. If the man doesn’t fight back, who is going to, the women and children? Women learn patience for their role in life, but they are in bad trouble if the men who are supposed to fight back learn to accept whatever comes.

Macho Muchissimo

Posted by Bob in Bob on 8/8/2005

Right now I wish I were a member of the group that calls itself “The Greatest Generation.”

I have been in pain for a week but didn’t think much of it. Friday I went to the dentist for my regular tooth cleaning and discovered that I have an cracked tooth under a crown. My gum is about to rupture from it.

I will see my regular dentist today for a root canal. In the meantime the dentist on duty gave me heavy antibiotics and the pain pill you put in the peanut to stun an elephant.

I was in serious pain, but I marched on.

If I were one of those who call themselves The Greatest Generation, I could announce that this was just one more proof of how no man has ever been as brave as I am.

Unfortunately, I was raised around the “Greatest Generation” and I am sick to death of their macho crap.

I like to make fun of myself largely because I got tired of that crowd taking themselves so seriously.

I have met many people in the burn ward who would give anything if they were able to take a little while off from their agony and invade Normandy. History is full of people who suffered a lot more than “The Greatest Generation” did.

My mountain ancestors faced conditions all their lives that made World War II and the Great Depression look like a picnic. They took on the Indians face to facce and it takes unlimited gall for someone to claim that they are the Greatest Generation because they fought a war abroad.

What other people call Macho is what I call trashy.

White trash is always getting drunk and moaning about how hard they have it and how easy everybody else has it.

If people of a certain age do the same thing they are called “The Greatest Generation.”

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8/6/05 Bob’s Weekly WOL Articles

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Weekly WhitakerOnline.org Articles

August 6, 2005
What is Truth?
Do You Say Something Because it is True?
I Know What Truth Isn’t
The Truth Offends

What is Truth?

My program, “What is Truth?” only talks about Pilate and Christ for a few minutes. The overwhelming majority of it is dedicated to examining what truth is NOT.

Truth is not what you want to believe. And truth is not something that offends no one.

Free speech is not the right to say anything that doesn’t offend anybody. Every slave in the Old South had the right to say anything he wanted to so long as it didn’t offend anybody.

So the Modern Inquisition excuses its oppression by saying it only suppresses discussion that offends people. You can accuse American troops of routinely killing and raping people, but if you say that less than six million Jews died in the Holocaust or that races aren’t equal, you are being offensive. You must go to prison in Europe or be professionally ruined here if you say the wrong thing.

Obviously that is the excuse but that is not the reason. We all know the REASON for punishing free speech. Political Correctness relies heavily on the Holocaust and on the evil of white people to empower its professor-priesthood extortion racket.

They have a reason to say what they say.

So I have a reason not to believe them.

That is the question I discuss in this week’s Saturday Internet radio program that can be linked at: Townhall

The reason Pontius Pilate asked this rhetorical question was because he wanted to get Jesus off His obsession with what Pilate thought was an impractical, theoretical, unimportant point. Jesus was talking about truth, and he was forcing Pontius Pilate to crucify him for it.

And here we can begin with a truth.

Who crucified Christ?

Christ used the bigotry of Jews and the Roman obsession with law and order, but in the end He knew precisely what He was doing.

People like to say that WE crucified Christ with our sins. That is a nice Politically Correct, Christian-sounding phrase that leaves the Jews out of it. But we could not force Jesus to go onto the Cross for our sins.

We were the REASON Christ died on the Cross. Jewish bigotry and Roman Law were the MEANS by which Christ was put on the Cross. But until the last minute Pontius Pilate asked that question, the TRUTH of the matter is that Pilate was trying desperately to keep Jesus off the Cross.

The truth of the matter is that only one person was capable of crucifying Jesus Christ.

We were the reason, Jews and Romans were the means.

But in the end it was Christ who crucified Christ. We were the cause, but we never had that kind of power.
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Do You Say Something Because it is True?

Notice that I explained WHY people say, “We all crucified Christ.” They say it because it is so Politically Correct.

They do NOT say it because it is TRUE.

If you have a reason to say anything then I have a reason not to believe you.

When people debate whether the Jews crucified Christ or the Romans crucified Christ or we all crucified Christ they are forgetting the most important point a Christian must keep in mind:

They are forgetting who is in charge here.

Each group has a reason to say what he says. Anti-Semites want the Jews to be responsible. Politically Correct people want the Romans or all of us to bear the responsibility.

If anybody has a reason to say what he says, then I don’t believe what he says. So I came up with a very useful theological reminder, but not because I know theology. Every Bible Belt teenager knows all the facts I recited here.

I understand the situation because I understand people. I can identify with Pilate, I cannot identify with Christ. Pilate could not understand why Christ was going to the Cross on purpose, for something Pilate considered abstract and theoretical.

Going to the Cross was something that did Christ no good at all.

In other words, Pilate was in the exactly the same position I am.

As C. S. Lewis said, “Christ was God or He was a madman.”

Jesus went to the Cross for no reason except that He chose to do so. He had nothing in mind but truth.
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I Know What Truth Isn’t

Old Bob has no insights to offer into the mind of Christ. But my experience has taught me very well what was in the mind of Pilate and the Jews. The Temple Jews were being challenged, their power, their wisdom, their entire reason for being was being attacked by a young fanatic.

The Temple Jews did not try to persuade Pilate they were right about the truth. They tried to make Pilate believe that his power and the power of Rome were being attacked just as theirs was. They did not concentrate on whether Jesus was right or wrong. They concentrated on explaining to Pilate why he should believe that Christ was wrong.

That is how truth is normally attacked.

In Europe you go to prison for attacking any aspect of the official version of the Holocaust, but not because the official version of the Holocaust cannot be wrong.

The official version of the Holocaust has changed repeatedly. Andy Rooney, who everybody now knows is a leftist fanatic, declared that he had seen the “death camps” in Germany.

Actually the officials have long since admitted there were no “death camps” in Germany. All of the officially designated death camps were safely behind the Iron Curtain, where the only information one got was from the government.

But a person who had said that in Germany there were no camps specifically dedicated to the extermination of Jews, the so-called “death camps,” would have gone straight to prison. Until this was declared Gospel by today’s Holy Inquisition of Political Correctness, you went to prison for telling the truth.

When the Holy Inquisition of Political Correctness admitted that, it admitted that it had sent people to prison for telling the truth.

And nobody noticed but me.
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The Truth Offends

My program, “What is Truth?” only talks about Pilate and Christ for a few minutes. The overwhelming majority of it is dedicated to examining what truth is NOT.

Truth is not what you want to believe. And truth is not something that offends no one.

Free speech is not the right to say anything that doesn’t offend anybody. Every slave in the Old South had the right to say anything he wanted to so long as it didn’t offend anybody.

They have a reason to say what they say.

So I have a reason not to believe them.

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8/6/05 Insider Letter

Posted by Sys Op in Insider Letter Archive on 8/6/2005

(Reprinted to Blog from email list of 8/6/05)

*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***

The title of my program this week on Internet Radio is “What is Truth?” linked at:

The title “What is Truth” sounds abstract, but it is intensely practical. The program is not about what the truth is, but how to tell that something is NOT the truth.

If you want to know what the truth IS, you go to a scientist or a prophet.

But if you want an expert on how to tell what is NOT true, you go to a professional in politics.

And here I am.

No one would last a day on Capitol Hill or in any other responsible position if he did not keep firmly in mind what is NOT truth. If a person has a REASON to say something, he is almost certainly deviating from the facts.

In other words, if you are on Capitol Hill and you assume a lobbyist is telling the strict truth, you had better find another line of work.

Fast.

But this is not just true in politics. If someone is trying to sell you something you do not assume he is being 100% straight with you. The minute you know what he is after is the minute you stop treating him as an objective observer and a reference.

But in some areas of life, we forget this.

If someone says you should not believe something because it makes you a Nazi, he is not saying it is the truth. In fact, the minute someone says you should not say something because of its IMPLICATIONS, he is telling you he is perfectly willing to lie about it.

For the public good, of course.

For your own good, of course.

But the bottom line is that he is justifying a lie.

When someone says that questioning the Holocaust is evil because it offends people or because it has bad implications he is saying the present version of the Holocaust must be believed whether it is true or not.

When someone says you must not believe that white gentiles have a right to survive as a group because believing that makes you a Nazi and offends people, he is also saying that you must believe it whether it is true or not.

He is saying you should lie about it.

You have to use he same logic in politics that you use when you buy a house or a car. Remember that taxes cost you a lot more than your house and your car put together. When someone says you should believe in government programs because they MEAN well, not because they WORK, he is selling you a bill of goods that makes your new car look cheap.

Always remember this:

When someone has a reason for saying something, he is not saying it because it is true.

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Bob

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Posted by Sys Op in SF Townhall on 8/6/2005

THE UNTRAINED EYE

SF SATURDAY Townhall Web Radio Listen from 2 to 3 PM Eastern Time:WHEN **LIVE** ON AIRhttp://67.43.157.31:8000/listen.pls[You may need to copy/paste that URL into your media player's "File" "Play URL" box to go directly to the server. If it stops for some reason, re-click the .pls link above to be sure you are connected to the broadcast server.]Bob will be on Stormfront answering questions from there or the blog comments.SF Townhall Forum (August 6th) with Bob Whitaker and then at the upper right of the posting area near the top, hit “Last” to get the to the last page where he’ll be posting.
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August 6th – What Is Truth?

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