Core Lessons: Introduction

In my dealings with a serial troll over at FreedomFolks, I've been challenging him to back up his rantings by writing expository pieces on where his so-seemingly muddled ideology comes from. Not giving in to the tempation to hunt snipes with him, or respond directly to his ad-hominem-dependent way of writing, I've attempted to nudge him into giving us a hint about what his core beliefs are and to explain to us what it was that led him to internalize them...and perhaps what possesses him to stalk bloggers.

Alas, he's just a troll. We can't expect him to skip out from under the bridge to write cogently about what stirs his soul, what drives his intellect or what truths he holds sacred. Surely if had the nerve, he'd be starting up loving conversations with the Kos-sacks.

But if I am to challenge him, perhaps I need to let it all hang about a bit more here. And so I shall.

The ideas that led to my creating what was first a web site that morphed into a blog obviously did not simply arrive as my ideology one day out of whole cloth. All of my early writings on this site - especially the pre-blog version - were of those things I deduced from experience, the ideals imparted to me by my family, those that emerged as I allowed my sense of stewardship to guide me toward the works of great Western Conservative minds, and, of course, what my exposure to people who stood for or promoted things with which I disagreed but piqued my curiosity to study despite my aversions.

With this in mind, because I think it's always good to revisit an earlier self and because there is just a lot of stuff I wrote before the Internet provided a broad and tag-word attracted audience, I'm going to start posting some of my older work and will continue to do so until I've picked through all of my older work that I'd like to re-examine. I'll post it unedited from it's original form. There will be things with which I now disagree, and there will be things I know more about now. Comments are welcome. Trolls are not; if you have something critical to offer, please include some background regarding how you came to your point.

What follows in this post is the original introduction to the old web site. While it is not close to being the earliest work I'm going to republish, I think it's the best place to start.

So, warts and all, here goes:


Introducing the Journal of The American Kernel

Dear Readers,

January 1, 2002 was no ordinary New Year's Day for me. It was life-changing! My wife woke me, a little white plastic stick in hand. A thin pink line was visible through its window. At 42, I was going to be a first-time father! Happy New Year! The first few days of 2002 were filled with a joy that allowed no intrusive deep thought. But soon I began to contemplate what kind of father I would be. And there were questions: What kind of life will she have? What will I do to nurture her growth? What kind of person will she grow up to be? In the aftermath of September 11th, what kind of world, and more importantly, what sort of America am I leaving for her? The questions came one after the other and they kept on coming for many days.

My daughter's ancestors had a hand in the sowing the seeds that grew into this great nation, not just in one, but all three of the major colonial groups: the northern, middle and southern colonies. All of her ancestors and relatives were duty-bound to carefully hand down family traditions with a sense of pride, responsibility and solemn stewardship.

I realized that this duty was now in my hands and that I had a long-standing commitment to take it very seriously.

So, I began to consider how I would handle my mission. What is the best way for me to make sure that I pass down the things I consider to make up my true "American soul?" My daughter is integrally connected to the blood, toil and sacrifice contained in each and every seminal event that made this great nation. It is important that this thread remain unbroken. How do I make sure this is so?

Well, one of the things that I think I do best is put words on a page. The advent of the Internet offers the opportunity and the means for me to establish a permanent record in a manner that my ancestors did not have. So, I have decided to keep an ongoing record of my thoughts about both my ancestry and current events viewed through the lens of what I know in my heart to be things true to the "real" American traditions.

What is "The American Kernel?"

I believe that there began a unique culture that sprang forth very early in the American colonial era. The people who were ancestors of those who fought to free this land and found a nation were diverse only in the narrowest of senses; they shared far more commonalities than differences. The hardships of frontier and geographic isolation from the nearby foreign influences common in the rest of the world soon produced a people who were more "American" than they were anything else. These hearty people cobbled together something different from anything that came before it in the history of the world. With a nod both to history and to technology I decided to call this essence "The American Kernel."

With all these things in mind, I dedicate this site to my daughter and, hopefully, the rest of my children and their descendants. I have decided to communicate to them in a series of letters. In addition, through this web site I will entertain and post the thoughts and ideas from others who share a similar desire to cherish and preserve the American Kernel.

So, let us begin.

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Welcome to Another Cavalcade of Conservatism

Now, for another honor roll of Internet tidbits, blogging brilliance and other general Conservative crispness **:

LinknZona: From High Positions

At what point does [Bush's] stubbornness in disdain for his country and its supporters and in love for and support of a foreign power, Mexico, cause many American patriots to lose faith in their president? I don’t know, and I doubt if anyone does. But sometime between 9/11 and 2006 it happened. Many came to wonder how effective it was in protecting America to fight a war on terror in one part of the world and encourage everyone, including those same terrorists, to cross our borders at will.

Let's hope that enough people stop drinking the Kool Aid to stop this man of mundane intellect on a fools errand from ruining the nation we leave to our children.

Becoming American

The question of American national identity and the strength of our attachments to the American national community is, given our diversity, perhaps the most important domestic national question facing this country. Some dismiss these concerns as being based on “outdated theories.” Others urge Americans to accept other possible platforms for solidarity like “new diasporas, transnational civil society, and other identity groups” and the “thinning out of national ties” and argue that “it is time to accept an America . . . whose bonds are secondary to other forms of association.”

For the sake of the viability of this republic and its people and institutions, let us hope not.

There's a key point here: There are a lot of Americans - even a lot of Conservatives - who must be disabused of contemporary and too widely accepted leftists beliefs that diminish the importance of Citizens having primary and sole allegiance to this nation if they are to be truly American, and for America to continue to exist.

UN opposes proposed Nigerian ban on same-sex relationships - Africa

Four UN special rapporteurs on racism, violence against women, xenophobia and related intolerance said in a statement that the draft bill is 'an absolutely unjustified intrusion of individuals' right to privacy' and goes against the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The same folks who want to force the world to pay for global warming want to be the definers of what is morally proper. Nope, no global government aspirations to see here folks. Move along.

Free Trade and Funny Math by Patrick J. Buchanan - HUMAN EVENTS

Economic nationalism is the policy of rising powers, free trade the policy of declining powers. For great powers have ever regarded trade as an arena of struggle in the clash of nations. It is no accident all four presidents who made it to Mount Rushmore were protectionists.

That's powerful. Right now, being protectionist is not in favor. Why? Because those who control the information flow are pure, free-trade globalists who think the concept of a "soveriegn nation" is quaint.


Townhall.com::Prosecutor's discretion::By Debra J. Saunders

Last month, when Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean began serving 11-year and 12-year prison sentences, respectively, for shooting at a fleeing drug smuggler, many Americans were outraged that the federal government would prosecute two agents for doing their jobs. Their trial uncovered policies that seem designed to undermine success -- such as the rule that prohibits agents from pursuing a speeding suspected smuggler without a supervisor's authorization.

Drug smugglers know that if they speed to the border, they'll likely get away. Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Ham points toward the location at Fabens, Texas, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, where former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean shot drug smuggler Osvaldo Davila last year. The agents began serving prison sentences in January after their convictions in the incident.

But the real outrage in this story is how federal prosecutors used their discretion to shelter a drug smuggler and go after two men who, at the worst, should have been fired for shooting at the smuggler and then not reporting what they had done. The outrage is that this case ever came to trial.

Once this is cleared up, can we shoot the freaking prosecutor in the ass with salt-buckshot in the public square? When I was a kid, there was a kooky old lady in the neighborhood who would shoot kids in the ass with the stuff if they rode bikes on her property. While I was never hit, I recall seeing the results. Painful.


Atlas Shrugs: KENT STATE:IN THE NAME OF OBL. THE YEAR OF ISLAMIC VICTORY!" YourTaxdollars at Work

He was drawing a paycheck from the people of the State of Ohio while trying to launch a Jihad against people like me. In fact, just five minutes before I called he posted an entry under the title "Crusaders Can’t Take Anymore in Afghanistan!"

Two Word Solution: National Guard


Lincoln Tribune - Bank Boycott Coalition Releases List of Illegal Alien Banks - Politics - News

A coalition of over 100 anti-illegal immigration groups that are boycotting Bank of America are releasing a broader survey of banks, in order to assist consumers in relocating their money to banks that are not in the business of aiding and abetting illegal aliens!

They should at least change their name to Scumbank of America.


Muhammad Dressup

Praise Allah! It's the Prophet Muhammad riding his flying donkey up to heaven, and he wants you to dress him up in something special before he gets there! It's so easy! Just drag the items to him with your mouse and they'll snap right into place.

This is actually kind of fun to play around with!


blonde sagacity: A Rape Tree Grows Out West

It seems that when woman employ the "guides" that take you across the Mexican -U.S. border (called "Coyotes"), one thing these women must endure is the routine practice of being raped and as a visual reminder to all that come after --her bloodstains are left in the dirt and her panties are hung from the branches of a tree.

This was news to me. You've gotta see the pictures!


From My Position... On the way!: What Carren thinks of Senator McCain

Senator is not a word I would use for McCain. JERK (or asshat, as Chuck usually says) is more like it. When Chuck was in the hospital, Jerk came to "visit" us.

A quick story before I tell you what happened: A few weeks before Chuck was wounded I watched a TV movie that protrayed Jerk's time as a POW during Vietnam. I was intrigued by the story and developed a lot of respect for what he endured, and the fact that his wife waited all those years for him to return home. I knew bits and pieces of the story before watching the movie, and I knew his arms were badly damaged due to the torture he received. I had a lot of respect for the man... then I met him.

When he first walked in I was honored to meet him. He shook my hand and Alice's hand, then walked over to Chuck's bedside. After a lousy 5 minutes or so, the Jerk said (and I quote):

"Well, we all know what we're here for... let's do the photo op."

EXCUSE ME!!!??? The PHOTO OP???!!!!

What an effing loon...and he want's to be your president!


American Chronicle: Amnesty The Day Bush Killed America, If 30 million Ilegals are Good, Why Not 300 million?

President Bush, you defined your legacy well. Your name will live in perpetual infamy as the man that killed America. You have already replaced Benedict Arnold as the example of traitorous behavior but you have not gone as low as you can go. The ignoble day legislation granting amnesty or guest worker status to millions of illegals is passed, will go down in history with recognition equal to the day John Kennedy died, the Alamo, Pearl Harbor, 9-11, and Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time” declaration. All will remember where they were when Bush killed America. Mark that day well; you will need to explain to your children why you did nothing to stop it.

Bush is actually worse than all of those formerly breathing traitors put together. But let's not quibble about degree when we're so far immersed in Hell.


American Chronicle: Approve Amnesty? Then Drop the White House American flag, Spit, Piss on it, and burn it.

If Bush, Specter, McCain, Kennedy, Reid and the other Bushite corrupt leaders in congress pass a bill that conforms to Mexico’s demands, they should sign it in front of the Capitol Building with a big background “Mission Accomplished’ banner. At the same time they can lower the American flag to the ground, spit and piss on it, burn it and replace it with a white flag of surrender along with a Mexican, North American Union and World Trade Organization flags. Let them all be there for the photo-op so we will know who is lying when they blame our country’s ruin on others.

I want to start a rock group in which all the performers wear masks of politicians who want amnesty. The name of the group? How's "Deep Fried Surrender Monkeys" sound?


Democrats Worried About Offending Illegal Aliens!

As if the Democrats' mad rush to remake America into a third-world colony of Mexico were not bad enough, now a mindless liberal actually wants to scrap the First Amendment by banning use of the term "Illegal Alien" in what used to be the Great state of Florida.

Fredericka Wilson, the bill's sponsor, is probably the dumbest ball of lint excuse for an elected official I've ever had the pleasure of avoiding meeting at a social event.


The Sun Sets in the West by Patrick J. Buchanan - HUMAN EVENTS

In the early years of World Wars I and II, Europeans implored us to come save them from the Germans. We did. In the early Cold War, Europeans welcomed returning GIs who stood guard in the Fulda Gap. Now, with the threat gone, the gratitude is gone. Now, with their welfare states eating up their wealth, their peoples aging, their cities filling up with militant migrants, they want America to continue defending them, as they sit in moral judgment on how we go about it. This isn't an alliance. This isn't a partnership. Time to split the blanket. If they won't defend themselves, let them, as weaker nations have done to stronger states down through the ages, pay tribute

Pay up, Euroweenies!


Globalism: Enemy of the Middle Class -- February 2007 Phyllis Schlafly Report

Globalism is the enemy of the middle class. Globalism preaches that the world is flat; that nations should have no borders; that labor, capital, goods and services should flow freely between countries. Globalism's mantras are "free trade" and "abolish protectionism." Globalism forces American workers to compete against people who work in other countries for 30 cents an hour without benefits. Competing with such low wages means the end of the American middle class. Americans relish competition, as our national fixation on sports contests proves every day. But global trade is not played on a level playing field — our opponents don't play by the rules and the umpire (the World Trade Organization) is biased against us.

That's the big thing that most middle class supporters of globalization don't get: If it really happens all the way, then there won't be a middle class anywhere on earth. Those who are currently are American middle class workers by default will fall to the bottom. Nobody at the top will look out for their interests.


Auto Graveyard by Patrick J. Buchanan - HUMAN EVENTS

The world is witnessing the passing of the United States as the greatest industrial power and the most self-sufficient republic the world had ever seen. Yet, no one acts. Why? Ideology is one reason. Free-trade fanatics are like those devout Christians who will not undergo surgery, even if their malady is killing them. Second, there are the obtuse who simply cannot see that our "trade partners" have found a way around the rules and are skinning us alive. Third, to gain and hold high office, candidates of both parties depend on the contributions of a monied elite, whose salaries, bonuses, stock options and golden parachutes depend on a rising share price, which means constantly cutting costs by moving production out of United States and getting rid of high-wage American workers. There are rewards for economic treason.

I hate it that we are being so badly hosed while most of my neighbors and friends remain ignorant to what is really going on.


Gates of Vienna: Running Scared in Red House

“Yeah, he used to be all gung-ho and say things like ‘we’re not going to put up with this crap’ — he was all ready to take ’em on. But not long ago he ran into one of those Muslims down at the convenience store [at the corner of Rolling Hill Road and SR 727] and got into an argument. And would you believe, that sucker went to his van and pulled an assault rifle on him. Ever since then he’s been keeping a low profile — he doesn’t want anything else to happen to him, so he’s laying low.” This is a textbook example of mau-mauing in action. But it’s the most hardcore example of mau-mauing I’ve ever personally heard of. The Great Jihad operates by stealth. The knife at the throat is not its primary weapon of aggression; it prefers to erode our defenses incrementally, using social pressure, legal action, media manipulation, subversion, and good old-fashioned intimidation.

There's some scary crap going on in rural Virginia. I kid you not.


The Freedom Fighter's Journal: American Traitor Of The Week: JULIO PINO

The Second Award of "American Traitor Of The Week" goes to the vile and disgusting Julio Pino, an alleged professor and intellectual, who somehow wormed his cowardly way into a job at Kent State in Ohio. A pity we can't send the Ohio National Guard to the Kent State campus for a military style execution at sunrise tomorrow, as this piece of subhuman scum so richly deserves. Are there any patriots active in this part of Ohio? I have the address of some trash that needs to be taken out and dumped at the county landfill.

Ah! Yes! The National Guard!


Liberty Counsel News Release March 2, 2007

The students gathered in the cafeteria before school to pray, but a Satanist student went to the school office and complained. As a result, Vice Principal Otoupal told the Christian students they could not pray in the cafeteria but would have to go outside. After the students insisted on praying in the cafeteria because of inclement weather, Otoupal suspended them for ten days.

So, a Satanist can walk into a principal's office and be taken seriously? We're in bigger trouble than I thought...

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**WARNING - not intended for consumption by leftists, ignoramuses, anyone with a smarmy web moniker like "Hannitized," or anyone who thinks that AlGore deserves the Nobel Prize because he won an Oscar.

The State of Our Unraveling Union

Tonight, Jefedente Bush will deliver his seventh annual State of His Progress Toward Unraveling the Union Address. Unfortunately for America, he has sunk to such a pathetically low stature in the minds of even his loyal Conservative base that he can offer no plan on any substantial issue with a chance of getting traction in Congress; that is, except for his onerous immigration plan. It sickens me that the man truly believes that he will be doing right by future generations if he takes radical action to revise the ancestral foundations of our culture. And he's staking his legacy upon a plan the Democrats lust over because they know it will lead to perpetual domination by the left of our Federal Government as today's illegal alien criminals become tomorrow's most-government-dependent classes.

I have to hand it to stubborn son of a bitch. He has Faith....all of it misplaced. If you care about this nation's future and desire it to be a better place for your kids and descendants, then the things in which Bush has Faith should scare you:

• He has Faith that adding 100 million people - becoming more than 20% of our population in my daughter's lifetime - from, mostly, a single-source alien culture will not radically alter or diminish ours.
• He has Faith that Meztizos are as culturally compatible with us as a the Europeans who made up the vast majority of all American immigrants prior to 1970 and that they won't pose the long-term problems that our Hmong, Bantu and other exotic ethnic imports pose.
• He has Faith that this nation will somehow become one with aliens we have not known through the ages despite our never having proved capable of assimilating large groups of newcomers who were not from folkways with which the majority of us and our ancestors could readily identify.
• He has Faith in bureaucracy to manage a plan substantially larger and infinitely more more complex than the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli reform, which up until now has been the most miserable bureaucratic failure since the programs of the Great Society.
• He has Faith that the numbers of illegal aliens currently here are lower than feared by many reasonable people and that it won't be soon learned the number granted initial amnesty is to be double the officially projected numbers, as it became known after the passage of Simpson-Mazzoli.
• He has Faith that his "No Foreign-Born Alien Left Behind" plan will not act as a magnet for additional waves of illegal aliens that will be larger and more desperate than this one.
• He has Faith that when these amnestied criminals leverage "family reunification" laws to bring four or five times more people from the third world it will not bankrupt us or impact our middle class in any negative way.
• He has Faith that creating a permanant cleft between citizens based on primary language preference will somehow enrich us, when history tells us that people that speak different languages cannot share a single culture...or a nation.
• He has Faith that America's current ethnic majority will not react to the the threat of being displaced in the franchise by joining together into groups to promote their own ethnic agendas, nor will any of these groups promote radical agendas to restore what Bush so ignorantly threw away.
• He has Faith that the anger sure to come, once it dawns on those who believed the spin, can be contained by political correctness and more blather about multiculturalism.

I've hardly scratched the surface with this. But I hope you, dear reader, get my point. I wish it were as simple as saying "we don't know what will happen if Bush gets his way on immigration." That wouldn't be half as bad as the truth. The truth is, we do know a lot about what will happen, and none of it is good for anyone on the right who isn't a corporatist desirous of instant financial gratification at the expense of the future. Nor is is good for anyone on the left who isn't politically motivated to create a permanent underclass of compliant, government-dependent serfs. Or is there something I don't understand about what happens when the nation with the largest per-capita carbon footprint grows by 25% in a single generation.

Have you noticed that Bush never talks about history, except when he is attempting to argue the validity of a logical fallacy? He only mentions the word assimilation in passing, but he is quick to mention the family values of our never-successful-at-republican-democracy neighbors to the south. If the family values of Mexico or Venezuela or Colombia are so compatible with ours, then why aren't they already living in nations and cultures with rich histories of stable liberty, like ours? If the family values of those with whom Bush wants to share our ancestral franchise, forever, are so admirable, then why aren't their nations doing so well that almost nobody wants to leave?

I've come to the conclusion that Bush either does not believe that there is a unique American culture, or does not believe that there should be a unique American culture. Either way, he must dislike something very fundamental about the ethnic majority or he would not be doing this to us.

With that, I'll leave you with one of the very first pieces I wrote for this web site, long before it had a blog:

Yes, there is a "unique American Culture"

Patriotic Americanism must continue to prevail over the desires of those who wish to deny that there is such a thing as "a unique American culture." Our ancestors anticipated attempts to lead our nation down a path to balkanization and expected us to stand fast against them. We must consistently refute lies that contend America was founded by and populated by people possessing broadly diverse perspectives and ideals. The ideas behind concepts like multiculturalism and diversity were anathema in the America of 1776 and for nearly 200 years thereafter.In their faith, habits and principles, the first American citizens were a most narrowly diverse lot, separated only by slight variations in Christian denomination. In their ethics, morals and values, the first Americans could only be described as virtually homogenous. It was the similarity not the diversity of our forefathers and founders that set the stage for America to become a great nation.

Those who advocate diversity and multiculturalism as being historically important to this nation's greatness are dangerously wrong. Using their twisted logic, we are to believe that the ideals driving Islamic terrorists to fly planes into buildings are societally compatible with the motivations that drive Presbyterian women to have fundraising bake sales. Diversity theory places Christian Baptism on par with Animist ritual mutilation of baby girls' genitalia. Diversity theory blindly accepts into our midst hordes of incompatible, poorly educated, virtually aliterate (if not outright alingual) illegal alien border-jumpers from third-world Kleptocracies because it is supposedly in keeping with "the things for which this nation stands." There is no doubt that our founders would be nauseated by such absurd notions.

Thomas Jefferson expressed concern about this issue in "Notes
on Virginia" (brackets added for clarity):

"…But are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale against the advantage expected from a multiplication of numbers by the importation of foreigners? It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies [the equivalent of today's despots, tyrants and kleptocrats]. yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."

Jefferson chafed at the thought that we could, by inaction, surrender our homogeneity and he was greatly concerned that we might! All this banter about diversity and multiculturalism would have given him fits.

Nothing exemplifies how far we have strayed from the intentions and dreams of our founders more clearly than our current immigration policy. Yes, immigration is an important part of our history. But nobody from the pro-immigration camp wants to discuss the fact that the none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were immigrants, they were colonist and British subjects. Every member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789 except Alexander Hamilton was born in the colonies. The absolute truth is that the vast majority of our first citizens were Americans by birth and the vast majority of Americans have always been "citizens by birth." We have never had as many as 15 percent of our residents being of foreign origin.

Cast in this proper light, the "nation of immigrants" mantra to which we are constantly subjected becomes tritely idiomatic. If we are to be strictly precise, our history is one forged by colonists who became the first American citizens via revolution. These originals were augmented by immigrants who were eager assimilants: All Americans. Before and until the immigration reforms of 1965, between one quarter and one third of all migrants to this land could not adapt and ended up leaving. Those who came here "seeking a better life" without possessing the all-important corollary "dream of becoming American" were roughly cast aside by a society that was decidedly intolerant of selfish opportunists who didn't want to "get with the program." Promoting diversity for the sake of diversity is as accepting of malignancies as it is of the benign; it will always be an utterly stupid practice.

The only way in which we can assure America's long-term continued success as a sovereign nation is to establish new policies promoting American cultural homogeneity via imposing strict limits on the number of immigrants, demanding rigorously-enforced visa and border laws and insisting that all new arrivals submit to and successfully complete compulsory "patriotic assimilation" courses soon after their arrival. Those who cannot accept our unique culture, mores and values as their own, forsaking all others, should be summarily returned to their countries of origin.

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Merry Christmas, Y'all

God rest ye merry gentlemen (and women), let nothing you dismay...

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Fourth Circuit affirms Christian Clubs' free speech rights

I've spent a bit of time reading the thoughts of some atheist leftists in the blogosphere in an attempt to gain some perspective on why they seem to hate Christians so much. It occurs to me that there probably is no such thing as a "conservative athiest" because conservatism requires thought based on the premise that there are moral absolutes to which a culture and a nation must defer, in all instances.

I'll bullet point out my observations after bringing you some yuletide cheer:

Liberty Counsel: Doors Now Wide Open for Christian Clubs at Nation's Schools

"I think it's ironic as these schools hassle the Good News Clubs, because they're great organizations," Staver shares. "They teach character, they teach morality, they teach right and wrong, they teach respect, and they do it all from a Christian viewpoint -- and the kids' lives are literally changed."

• Athiests are afraid. Only fear can raise such bile and vitriol in opposition to the very things that are the undisputable starting point for the culture and the freedoms they have.
  
• Athiests must not be very deep thinkers, despite whatever conflated inflation of their own selves they might believe. Seriously. Try as I might, I cannot find an instance of an athiest even pondering an explanation for "first cause." Do they ever go down this path, or do they consider the starting point for the universe to be truly uninteresting and so devoid of merit that they won't discuss it?
  
• Athiests approach arguments with a markedly adolescent point of view. Whenver I read their rants against religion I always get the feeling that some part of them is stuck in their teen years. The tone of their mocking is a spot-on rendition of the all-knowing everyteen lament that parents are backward and don't know anything that might be of value to them for the future.
  
• Athiests are among the most intolerant of all people. They've made up their minds that anyone who believes in God isn't worthy of respect. I'll grant that some of them don't wear their scorn on their sleeves so clearly, but I'm convinced that those who athiests who don't immediately start mocking theists for their faith immediately brand the faithful as idiots as soon as a person's faith persuasion is determined. Maybe they don't say so, but they think less of us.
  
• Theists, at least those who come from Christian upbringings, generally don't have such automatic feelings when they learn of someone's athiesm. And I think that's because there is nary a Christian who hasn't suffered a crisis of faith and recovered; the default thinking mode that a Christian assumes when confronted by the athiest is "well, there is hope that this one might come around."

That said, hooray for the Fourth Circuit. I know I'll probably never be able to say that for the Ninth!

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