VICTIMHOOD, THE OVERTON EFFECT & WHY THE SO-CALLED ALMOST-CHRISTIANS ARE MOST LIKELY GOING TO HELL—NOT MY RULES, BUT GOD’S ASTHE WAY TO HEAVEN IS STRAIGHT & NARROW & FEW FIND IT

         Perhaps some may find my assertions provocative, some may think I am cruel, but I really don’t care, trust me on that.  You can’t hurt me.  Moreover, I love humankind enough to tell them the truth of Jesus’ words.  My book this week, along with the daily digestion of the Bible, is Gad Saad’s “Suicidal Empathy” such an amazing intellect, author, and unique perspective.  If you don’t read, shame on you, even if you disagree with the topic, it is well worth it to expand you mental and philosophical horizons.  Toxic empathy, even suicidal empathy, is meaning we are destroying our own Christian culture that founded our Constitutional Republic, has fallen prey to everyone being lauded as a “survivor” of the being the victim of something external to their control.

         Being a victim effects traditional power structures.  Traditional power in our Constitutional Republic required competence, achievement, or some type of dominance in order to gain, sustain, and maintain power.  Victimization allows this to be questioned and taken away using the tactic of weakness and perceived and fabricated oppression.  This means there are challenges to validate power rather than threaten it.  Victims occupy a small moral category where normal rules of accountability just don’t apply.  You can’t challenge them without appearing cruel—God forbid you are the “bad guy.”  In today’s society and guilt window you can’t hold these so- called “victims” to standards without appearing oppressive.  If we speak out against anything anti-Christian and anti-American and God forbid you point out their blatant manipulation without that accusation becoming evidence of their victimization that they originally claimed.  Their position is unfalsifiable by design.  So, what do we do?  We lower the bar.  Boot camp, Ranger School, the Infantry Officer Course gets easier.  The Bell Curve in grades gets larger and a C is now an A. 

         See how this is used against social dominance—we can look and observe the real world at the people who claim to be victims who cry when they run out of logical arguments or run away because they have no intellectual capacity to defend their position.  We have MILLIONS of sick, lame, or lazy who collect some sort of Social Security every year that I have paid into for over 40 years that I probably will never see when I elect to collect these self-paid benefits.  These types of people will frame anything that doesn’t put them on top as oppression and discrimination.  Oh, and dear Lord, don’t you dare speak of it from the pulpit…you’re a bully for holding people accountable to Scripture and the commands of Jesus…how dare you!

         You can see how powerful this concept is by how it works right now.  Today, the most powerful position someone can hold does not come from strength or status—its victimhood—“I’m a survivor!” they cry.  “I am self-diagnosed with “fill in the blanks”.”  The moment someone establishes themselves as oppressed, they become immune to criticism, accountability, and, of course, consequences.  Sadly, if anyone questions these amathian retards, well, they would get destroyed.  They use name calling as their main weapon.  The only names I use are based in truth, logic, etymology and definition—probably because I have the intellectual prowess to use them properly—took a ton of work.  If I call you retarded, it means you are slow in intellect or understanding—kind of like my walking ability.

         Now, how has this so easily moved through society and the church?  I analyzed the Overton Window in that ideas move from the unthinkable, to the radical, over time to the acceptable, which in turn makes the original radical idea sensible.  When it is sensible (or false logic or doctrine) it becomes trendy, cool, and popular.  It is easy after that for the lie to be perpetuated into public policy or organized church dogma and papal edicts.  Sadly, the goats are too stupid and retarded to realize it is happening to them.  Why?  No one reads their Bible and just want to be bottle fed from their pew on a Sunday by a social libertarian theologian.

         If I analyze the discourse in my own house, it is nothing less than fascinating.  Not in a bad way, but worthy of credible analysis.  This is what my wife said to me tonight… “Shut up,…you’re an idiot…!”  Did she hurt my feelings?  Am I a victim?  She simply wanted me to shut running the hole under my nose, and yes, I accept that as at times I am indeed an idiot—another truth.  Was her argument logical?  Admittedly, yet, although infused with pathos but with sufficient logos to make it stick.  Every argument we get into we end up laughing at the end.  Sometimes when she is on a roll I have to turn my head because she said something really clever, biting and horribly funny, but I know if she sees me laugh I won’t have the grounds to continue the argument with a straight face.  My wife can both take a give a good intellectual right cross punch to the psyche.  Perhaps this is our sport, but there are certainly no victims in our home.  As humans we use pathos in an argument but confine our debates into the realm of logos.  My advice, quit being a victim or survivor of some random crap.  Absolutely, NONE of us have encountered what Jesus did his last 48 hours!

         As for my church body…I have watched them seriously go through the valley of the shadow of death to a person.  They don’t whine, complain, they man and woman up.  Farmers watching the commodities on bean prices, blue collar guys fighting against the unions, nurses and teachers working their butts off, single dads fighting the fight for their kids.  No victims here…and I love it because we all have faith and confidence that God has us in the palm of His hand.

         Its funny as when we do prayer requests on Sunday, the vast majority of my church, unless it is something deeply concerning for corporate prayer just stays silent as an unspoken request.  Why?  Because they are tough Christians who focus on their situation with God.  Never victims, but quiet survivors.

         Last note…watching FS2 and World Cup “friendlies” in Spanish—Mexico versus Serbia.  Now for all of my Latina friends, you women speak way too fast counter the caballeros que hablan mas despacio.  I can speak Arabic, Russian, and Spanish with some relative capability.  But women speaking la lengua es deficile.  Am I a victim?  Heck no.  I just have to increase my speed.  O como mi buen amigo Senor Martinez cuando estabamos jugando dominos…simple, escucha.  No victims, no crime.

         Having a doctorate in literature, I find this fascinating, Nietzsche wrote: “You should never be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books, you should fear someone who has only one book and he considers it sacred but he has never read it.”  That is what so-called Christians do with their Bibles.  They just don’t read it and wonder why things go wrong in their lives.  Jesus doesn’t want victims—he wants victors.