ANARCHY AND ITS CURE
ANARCHY AND ITS CURE
Pray against disorder and chaos because of unwillingness to recognize authority, and pray that our government will submit to the authority of the Lord.
Anarchy takes many forms.
A mob protesting a planned speech by Breitbart writer and self-styled iconoclast Milo Yiannopoulos turned ugly as 1,500 gathered. Some were coaxed there by Occupy Oakland, whose website called for people to āShut Down Milo at UC Berkeley.ā
Some protesters wore black, used paramilitary tactics, threw bricks and fireworks at police, committed vandalism and started a fire. Two hours before the speech, the college administration pulled the plug.
But the mob was not done. āEven after the eventās cancellation, hundreds of protesters spilled off campus into the city streets, where the violence continued as they confronted drivers, engaged in fights, smashed storefront windows and set fires,ā the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Several of the āfightsā were beatings of suspected Trump supporters.
That evening, Occupy Oaklandās twitter feed proclaimed: āWe won this night. We will control the streets. We will liberate the land. We will fight fascists. We will dismantle the state. This is war.ā
Bear in mind that U.C. Berkeley is where anti-war leader Mario Savio and others launched the Free Speech Movement in 1964. They wanted to lift a ban on campus political activities and demanded freedom of speech and academic freedom. Todayās leftists apparently donāt see any irony in shutting down a speaker at Berkeley with whom they disagree.
That would include a dozen faculty members who signed a letter calling for cancellation on the grounds that students might be subjected to āharassment, slander, defamation and hate speech.ā
Of Mr. Yiannopoulos, a young woman interviewed by a TV station after the riot said, āHis words are violent, or a form of violence.ā Another smugly proclaimed, āThe power of the people has spoken.ā
In the upside down world of leftist activism, speech is violence while actual violence is an appropriate response.
Another form of anarchy is the violence done to language in the name of ideology. Without common understanding of the meaning of words, we cannot communicate, much less engage in meaningful dialogue.
The enemies of civilization in America figured out long ago that they could control debates by controlling language. In order to avoid the smear of āextremismā and to get along, most people reflexively adopt the new terms. You know, turning homosexuality into āgay,ā abortion into āchoice,ā gambling into āgaming,ā smut into āeroticaā and government spending into āinvestments.ā
One reason that Donald Trump evokes such fear and hatred among progressives is that he avoids politically correct phraseology. Itās not that he didnāt get the memo; he tore it up and sent it back in tiny pieces.
Now onto moral anarchy. Itās the logical destination for a culture where words no longer mean what people know they mean and truth itself is abandoned.
The latest exemplar is the Boy Scouts of America. Despite winning every court case over defense of their values, they caved to corporate and media pressure in 2014 to allow homosexual boys. In 2015, they actually opened up Scout troops to homosexual leaders. Now, they are accommodating girls who tragically think they are boys.
This is not just an adjustment to modern trends. Itās a complete surrender of their raison dāetre, which is to raise boys to be men. Hereās Christian blogger Matt Walshās take on the Scouts:
āYouād made every concession demanded by the LGB, now it was the Tās turn. They didnāt have to fight too hard. You were already on your knees, groveling and whimpering. Youād already decided to abandon the ākeep myself morally straightā part of the Scout oath. Why not dispense with the rest of it? Why not utterly dismantle everything that has defined you for over a century? Why not defeat the entire purpose of your organization for the sake of an infinitesimal fraction of the population? Well, I can think of a few reasons why you shouldnāt: logic, sanity, decency, reality, morality, etc. But youād punted those particular footballs a while ago. So here we are.ā
Fortunately for Americaās boys and their parents, a new organization has risen that is keeping the Scoutsā original promise and even strengthening its Christian roots. Trail Life USA, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, and now in 48 states, offers everything Scouting has, minus the political correctness and cowardice.
A few days ago, Trail Life unveiled the Respect Life trail badge. Boys will ālearn by actionā how to āstand for the unborn, sick and helpless . Adopting a Christian worldview backed by science, the badge encourages a critical look at cultural assumptions about the value of life with emphasis on manās creation in the image of God.ā
The mobs at Berkeley and the go-along-to-get-along leadership of the BSA might regard themselves as the vanguard of a cultural revolution, but theyāre just peddling their own forms of anarchy. While they drift into nonsense, a quiet revolution is taking shape below the radar that aims to reestablish respect for the permanent things of faith, family and freedom. Not to mention sanity. (Contributor: By Robert Knight for The Washington Times – Robert Knight is a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union.)
āHave confidence in your leadersĀ and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over youĀ as those who must give an account.ā (Heb. 13:17)
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