Modern Politics as Degenerate Calvinism

Preliminary Spiritual Commentary
Islam
Puritans
TULIP
Christian Meaning
Secular Meaning
Repulsive to Catholic Cultured peoples
Turing the Bible into a Koran

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Oh sons of Calvin!

Oh ye apostates! 

Did you not know you were doomed to the flames! 

Weep, you Shining City on a Hill! 

Your god is dead, and now, you shall die. 

Evil wretches who thought you were the Elect! 

You knew not that you were wretches and your enemies the Elect? 

The Blessed Virgin protected you once, but, no more. 

Ye fools! Ye sorcerers! 

Thou hast called judgement upon thy heads and upon the heads of thy children! 

Weep for ye will be utterly destroyed with flame and sword!

Anyone who studied American history knows the story of the Puritans.  They were the elite of Massachusetts and New England, and after the Civil War, became the WASP elite of the United States.  They still are the elite of the United States today, but they are now secular atheists.  Those who wish to dive into origins, and how they morphed into the Ivy League colleges, are encouraged to look into the works of Mencius Moldbug, whom anyone can easily find with the Google search engine.

Now, as secular atheists, they still hold on to their old culture, but the expression of it today is a Decadent Calvinism devoid of Christianity.  We will look at the Five Points of Calvinism and comment on how it is used today among the American elites to rule the world, and impose a strange world order using oppression, violence, intimidation, and murder.  One strange and identifying feature of their rule is known popularly as Virtue Signaling.  We shall speak in some depth about their degenerate theology and connect this with strange modern American imposition and rule, and discuss some facets including Virtue Signaling.


The common way to remember Calvinist theology is the acronym TULIP: Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints.  We will discuss each topic in this essay.

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Total Depravity

Total means that everything about man is fallen, corrupt and contaminated with sin.  This includes his will, body, mind, heart, etc.  It is one reason we get ill and die.  Thus, the sinner needs to be regenerated throughout his entire being by the power off Holy Spirit, which changes the heart.  However, even this cannot completely rid us the consequences of sin, so we have to wait until after death to be completely glorified in the complete elimination of sin.

This is the Calvinist doctrine of Original Sin.

What distinguishes Calvinist theology from tradition theology is the word "total."  For Calvinists, man is rotten to the core.  My personal thoughts generally go toward the concept of man being made in God's image to be in contradiction to such an extreme view as this doctrine.

This actually explains a lot of the use of guilt among this sect.  The secular version of this doctrine would claim that we all have hidden biases like racism, sexism, etc, of which we are not even conscious of.  So we are evil until we "confess" our guilt and demonstrate salvation through helping the starving kids in Africa, or saving the whales, or saving the environment.  These strange acts of contrition bring the sinner toward secular salvation, which is necessary because everyone is Totally Depraved!  Are you supportive of the environment?  Minorities?  If not, you are not saved from your evil depraved nature, and you are an evil person!  You must demonstrate your salvation from Total Depravity by these public acts proving you are not one of the Depraved Ones (or deplorables, or rednecks, or racists, etc).

In conclusion, everyone is an Evil, Depraved piece of garbage, until the secular gods show you the way to salvation through strange rituals of involving questionable charitable acts toward people and things far, far away.

So, we can see how this Christian doctrine, when used for secular purposes, is used as a weapon of intimidation and social pressure to conform at the risk of being ostracized because one is considered Depraved, i.e., a "Deplorable," a redneck, or a "racist" in modern political terms.

Unconditional Election

This doctrine means that God has chosen some for salvation, and some for hell, and there is nothing either group can do to affect this Election.  The Chosen Ones are chosen by God for no good reason.  the damed ones are chosen to be damned by God for no good reason.  God, in his mightiness and sovereignty, just made the choice!  Also, since you are a Depraved sinner anyway, you ought to be glad that God flipped his coin and saved you, you lucky little bastard!

So God chose who would be saved and who would be damned and nobody can change this.  How do we know who is saved?  You better show people if you are saved, or they will think you are one of the Depraved sinners and not one of the Chosen Ones!  Are you a Chosen One?  Well, you better show people you are one of the Chosen Ones, or else!  How do you show this?  Well, through wealth, charity, etc.  But wait!  Really?  Yes, really.  Whatever the Chosen Ones say is an outward sign of salvation is what you need to show to prove you are a Chosen One also.

In secular terms, this can turn evil really fast.  If a group of these people determine that they are the Chosen Ones, and everyone else is damned to hell, a sinner, a deplorable, a racist, or whatever, what then?  The Damned are to keep their mouths shut and stay away lest the Chosen Ones choose to punish the Damned with destruction, and even death!  The Damned do not even matter in terms of decision making and politics since they are depraved and evil, so once they prove they are damned, we can completely write them off.

The implication here is that we can write the Damned off as Subhuman.  I will write that again, the implication here is that we can write the Damned off as Subhuman.  Again, if people demonstrate that they are Damned, then they are Depraved, and Totally and utterly evil creatures.  So, when the Chosen Ones designate certain people as Damned, they no longer matter.  Anything can happen to them, and well, they deserved it because they are Depraved and evil.  Do you see where this is going?  Do you hear echoes of this in the political speech of the United States?  So, if someone is designated as a Deplorable or a "racist" this means that if they get killed, then they got what  they deserved, and we should look the other way because another sinner got what he deserves!  Those evil depraved sinners!  They want to destroy the environment!  They want to oppress [insert popular minority here]!

So, with the Chosen Ones as the rulers of the United States, if you get on their bad side, even if you are a good person, you will be called a nasty name like "deplorable" or "racist" or something that designates you as one of the evil Depraved sinners damned to a secular hell.  After that, if you die, they do not give a crap about you, you damned sinner!  You can hear the echo of National Socialism here, and its potential nastiness.  Use your imagination, and you can see where this leads to the killing fields.  These rulers of the world can kill millions if these millions are Depraved sinners.

We should all tremble that Secular Puritans rule the United States and they have nuclear weapons at their disposal.  These are really scary people, when they write off any group as Depraved.  Nuclear holocaust?  They do not give a shit.

Limited Atonement

For this doctrine, Jesus dies only for the Chosen Ones.  He died for specific sins of specific sinners.

With Limited Atonement, we find a restriction again, as is becoming the pattern in Calvinism.  So, the Cross, the death of Jesus, and everything was done for the Elect, and not for anyone else.  One can see how anyone other than the Elect are essentially non-persons.  They do not matter in any meaningful sense.  Even Jesus, the Son of God himself did not die for those Depraved unregenerate sinners.  Perhaps in this view, Jesus did not give a damn about the Damned people.  Screw them!  They are lucky God lets them live their wretched lives!

In secular terms for a Degenerate Calvinism, how does this work out in politics and society?

We now see a pattern.  Degenerate Calvinism not only separates the Elites from the non-elites, it dehumanizes the non-elites.  Is there any noblesse oblige?  Are not the elite of every society supposed to act in the best interests of the less fortunate of the particular society?  

As we dive further into this strange theology in its now degenerate form, one sees increasingly that if one falls on the wrong side of the line between saved and damned, one has no standing or status as a citizen, and in some case, no status as a human being.  You see more speech codes designed to keep Deplorables (or racists or rednecks, etc) out of political discussions, you see targeted lists of "dangerous" groups from various paranoid websites, you see harmless things deemed anathema like the confederate flag, and many many other harmless symbols that the Faux Elites use to separate the damned from the saved Chosen Ones.

One strange thing, is when you block off legitimate people from political participation, you get wild events like the French Revolution, mass killings of elites in revolutions, et cetera, as people without voices will turn to violence when things get intolerable.  Seriously speaking, these Degenerate Puritans are playing with fire - gun fire and the guillotine.  They are fools for taking their strange theology this far and this extreme.  This will be their downfall, unless they repent.

Irresistible Grace

Irresistible Grace continues the theme of separating the damned from the saved.  The saved ones are forced to serve god.  This means that those who are saved are doing something that demonstrates they are chosen by god by force to be the saved of the world.  So, if they demonstrate outwardly that they are the saved Chosen Ones, it means god drafted them into his army, so to speak, and they are untouchable for that reason, among many other reasons.  There is no free will whatsoever between the saved and the damned.  Thus, it darkens the world among the damned as Hopeless.  It brightens the world of the Saved to the point of an insane Hubris, Pride and Vanity, in its secular and degenerate form we see today among the Elites of the United States.

To elaborate, if you are one of the saved, you are saved forever, and you are drafted into the army of god, so to speak, and cannot change this.  If you are the damned, you are hopeless, and can never change your state, and will burn in hell for all eternity, for sure, and without any hope of salvation.

Let that sink in for a moment.  Did you go to an Ivy League school?  Then you are among the saved - forever!  Did you not go to an Ivy League school?  Then you are damned forever!  Again, let this evil wicked idea sink into your head.  This, my friends is Degenerate Puritanism.  It is Degenerate Calvinism.

Perseverance of the Saints

Again, this doctrine continues - and deepens - the separation between the saved and the damned.  If you are saved, you are guaranteed by god and by the Bible, that god will keep you safe until the end! You are guaranteed to win!  God will never let you become damned, and he will demonstrate this through you showing off your Virtues - Virtue Signaling.  You demonstrate this by feeding children in Africa, saving whales on the beach, and making sure that tap water does not contain the piss of the Redneck Deplorables!  The Earth is so fragile, and it needs the help of the Chosen Ones to protect it against those damned Deplorables!  The Chosen Ones will win against the evil, depraved Rednecks!  The Chosen Ones will triumph over those crazy Russians!  It is guaranteed by god himself!  You can never lose if you attended an Ivy League school!  You will always win!

So, tell me the last time you noticed anyone in the Ivy League that was thrown in jail.  Tell me the last time.


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Side Note: At this point, things are getting a bit weird, as it usually does in a lot of Protestant theology.  There is always a lot of shuffling about with, "Let me explain what this means," or "in other words," or something to the effect that this does not mean what it plainly says, but this is how to look at it, etc.  Theology is not easy, but there is a lot of forcing the issue and forcing scriptural interpretations into a specific form, and even the attempt to argue logically, and in a proof-text manner to get a point to fit scripture and vice versa.  This is of course, insane.  We Westerners are idiots when we interpret theology in this manner.  

I assert the following: spirituality is never to be debated, and neither is scripture.  It is only to be explained, where the two communicating have had the same spiritual experience.  Spirituality is an experience.  Only those who have experienced the Christian initiation and mystery can speak about it to each other.  The Trinitarian doctrine was not argued using logic and proof-texting.  Rather, men who had the Christian experience came together in common and expressed their experiences in words corresponding to the Spiritual experience.  Those who did not understand what they were saying were deemed heretics, since their experience claim is called into question if they did not get the Trinity.  The Trinity is a lived experience, and the foundation of all existence for the Christian.  If someone does not intuitively get the Trinity, then they have either not had a Spiritual experience at all, or the experience was of a different faith like that of Judaism, Islam, or any other religion with a Spiritual experience.  The Trinity is the expression of the Christian experience.  Modalism, Arianism, and all other heresies were rejected because they do not reflect the specific Christian Spiritual experience of the divine.

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Random Notes 20170529

Debate versus Controversy

Sometimes there are Controversies about subjects about which there is no Debate.  Controversy ensues when some sector of the population finds a particular subject uncomfortable, or some more intense emotion related to discomfort, such as offensive or despicable.  However, when there is Controversy on any subject, this has nothing rationally to do with whether or not there is a Debate on the subject.  Often Controversies on which there is no Debate upon a particular subject arise from three sources: (1) Those ignorant of a subject, and (2) Those of insufficient intelligence to understand a subject, (3) Those who are the Dishonest Politically Correct.

Furthermore, philosophically, for many who are not ignorant of the subject and who are of sufficient intelligence to comprehend the subject, it comes down to the topic of the next section.

Fact and Value

For you lawyers and the like, I am not speaking in legal terms here where "Evidence is provided in support of a Fact."

I am speaking of Fact as something that happened or something that exists.  So, a Fact can be for a happened or happening event, i.e., Lee surrendered at Appomattox; or, it can also be for the report of an actual existent, i.e., this book is right here.

Value is the common meaning of the term: something of value - anything.  In rational debate, the most common frustration with regard to Fact and Value is the Value of Political Correctness.  This particular Value can cause what above is described as Debate versus Controversy.  Such as, one who values Political Correctness above Fact, will tend to devolve into Controversy, regardless of whether or not there is an existing Debate.  Thus, the Politically Correct person will have to perform a dishonest maneuver upon the clash of Fact with one of their Values within Political Correctness.  They will have to obfuscate the Controversy and pretend there is a Debate, when there is none.

The Honest Politically Correct will establish that they are speaking of differing Values, and not Facts.  The dishonest Politically Correct will create obfuscation using Drama, Intimidation, and Social Ostracizing techniques designed to out-group the opposition.

Once a Politically Correct person has been identified as Dishonest, it is indeed acceptable and ethical to use their own weapons against them: out-group them, use Drama and Intimidation, and psychologically destroy the person, if necessary to establish peace or to attack a power play from these nasty people.  The better method is to avoid these types since they should already be second-classed within rational social circles.  Politically Correct dishonest people are second class citizens, and must be treated as such, and dispensed with with any practical means necessary.

Puritanism and Political Correctness

Degenerate Puritanism is responsible for a lot of the Intimidation and social out-grouping strategies of Political Correctness within the United States.  For those familiar with Puritan theology, we can briefly take a look at the common mnemonic TULIP.  (1) Total Depravity, (2) Unconditional Election, (3) Limited Atonement, (4) Irresistible Grace, (5) Perseverance of the Saints.

Without getting into formal theology, we must consider the social implications of these strange doctrines of Puritanism, which is now the degenerate ruling class of America, albeit of an atheistic characteristic.  Taken in a Christian context, these doctrines could practically work.  Taken in a secular context, these doctrines are simply pure Bigotry, or more commonly, Political Correctness.  Outside of Christianity, these doctrines are Pure Evil, and have a lot of the nastiness of National Socialism when you look at it carefully.

In a secular context, these doctrines mean, as follows:

All men are depraved and deserve a horrible fate.  Nature has chosen the Anointed Elect - those whom nature wishes, apart from any virtue or work they have performed.  Nature has chosen a limited number of people to be among the Anointed Elect.  Those among the Anointed Elect cannot even resist this appointment, even if they wanted to (they are so Awesome and Great!).  Nature shall protect and keep the Anointed Elect safe from all of the Deplorables, the Savages, and the un-elect.

This, my friends is the Plan of Salvation - the Creed - of the American Ruling class.  Its links to National Socialism are quite explicit: instead of racial superiority, we have class and social superiority.

How does this work in the real world?  Consider a fashionable idea in the last 10-20 years.  Let us take the most obvious: Gay Marriage.  The ruling classes did not support Gay Marriage 10 years ago. But, the Ruling Classes began to support this when Barak Obama had his famous speech about changing his mind on the subject.  The Ruling Classes then accepted this idea.  After some time, the Ruling Classes decided collectively that this idea is one of the doctrines that established a person as one of the Anointed Elect.  Thus, if one is one of the Anointed Elect, he publicly supports Gay Marriage at this time.  If you do not support Gay Marriage, for whatever reason, you are not an Anointed Elect, and you are a deplorable, a savage, and an un-elect that is completely depraved and deserves a horrible fate.  It is Puritanism without Christianity!

It is not so much that the Elites support anything like Gay Marriage, but it is an public Confession and identification of one's status of Anointed Elect.

Where have we see this before?  Virtue Signaling!  My friends, I have just explained to you the concept of Virtue Signaling by the Degenerate Puritan elites of the American Ruling class who seek to rule the world, no matter how many people they kill.  They do not care.  Puritans are the Chosen Ones, and everyone else can die a horrible death.  They really do not give a shit.  Hussein?  Kill him - even if we get 10, 000 Americans killed, and millions of dead civilians, we must kill him! Qaddafi?  Kill him an sodomize him, and bring slavery back to that country, but we must kill him!

Putin?  Oh, wait, Putin is a Russian and he has nukes, and Russians will fight to the death.  Oh, shit!  Wrong move ye Puritan Apostates!  Touch Putin, and God will kill us all!  (Don't say I didn't warn you!)

In all seriousness, Putin and the Russians have been very professional and patient with America's insane and depraved ruling class.  They are drawing a line at Syria at this point. The Russians sent a warning and walked in and took the Crimea in response to the Ukrainian NATO provocation.  The ruling class is playing with fire - nuclear fire.  Russia, Syria, China, Iran are now hardening into a solid alliance.  America's insane ruling class can have peace on earth or a consuming hot fire.  We can only hope someone reigns in these stupid Puritan fuckers before they set the world on fire.

In conclusion, we have described how the American Ruling class is possessed of a Degenerate Puritan ideology akin to some 20th Century totalitarian ideologies who really do not care how many people get hurt, because the Anointed Elect will always be protected, because they are special!  That is, until the Russians nuke Boston and kill them all (We pray for God's forgiveness and mercy that this never happens.).

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Random Notes 20160518

The Immorality of Virtue Signaling

Traditionally, Virtue was the manliness of men; in common language, it means balls.  In modern degenerate American Puritanism, Virtue means the following: Emotional self-indulgence in the expression of False Pity for a Target group that the indulgent person knows said target has some repugnant characteristic.  In some sick way, the repugnant characteristic of the target group is directly proportional to the amount of virtue signaled.  

The expectation is that the Virtue Signaler will not expect a challenge to the signal.  When the Signal is challenged, the Virtue Signaler will use Shame on the challenger to perform a one-upmanship procedure with the desire of Confession of Sin on the part of the Challenger.  

Virtue Signaling is an Inquisition using Intimidation and social ostracizing to attack the Challenger.

In any situation of Virtue Signaling, when you identify the culprit and decide go on the attack, the attack must be ferocious, deadly, and Machiavellian in the sense that the Virtue Signaler will suffer from mental anguish for weeks from your attack.  Virtue Signalers must be given no quarter and Zero Tolerance.

Never attack a Virtue Signaler unless you intend to psychologically destroy your target.  Go in for the psychological kill or say nothing.

Trump the Deadly Machiavellian

So far, he has been able to identify some of the Deep State leakers with the firing of Comey. And, the Russian meeting was deliberate, designed to infuriate and generate leak leads. He is managing a Sting Operation, and it is going beautifully. Comey may have even been blackmailed into helping Trump. Only the fools will attack him now, and by their attacks, reveal their hand, and he can take them out. Only fools and those with nothing to lose are on the attack now. Pure Machiavellian. It is a beautiful sight to see. If he can get a guy like Bernie on his side, that would be the icing on the cake. Here is the thing: Trump has an unlimited tolerance for Stress, which his enemies do not understand. They have not read his book, obviously. And, he is a genius for timing - getting the high stress shit out of the way before any major election campaign for midterms. So, he will be brutal and deadly up until the midterm campaigns begin. Do not expect him to let up on all the nasty Machiavellian things until then.

80% of Winning is Psychology

Tony Robbins said this once.  It is true.  You can be the smartest person in the world, and do everything "right," but if your psychology is not right, you will repel people who are trying to help you and attract people who will bring you down.  Misery loves company is a harsh Truth.

A deadly and magnificent combination is High IQ combined with a winning psychology.  We see this in guys playing at the highest level whom refuse to lose, and will always find a way to win, no matter what, and even with what many around them think are impossible odds.  A winning psychology loves when the odds are against him, because he knows he is playing for a big upside if he wins.

Always find a way to win, and win big.

Psychology Findings and Power

Over the past 10-20 years, the findings in psychology have been enormous.  It is now scary when one understands the power of psychology over unsuspecting people.  The other problem is that it also has power over everyone regardless of intelligence and regardless of whether or not the people know anything about it.

Many writers in history have written that Charismatic people change the world.  People with a high level of psychological understanding combined with the will to use power are typically unstoppable.  Some examples where opponents were helpless include: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Donald Trump.  Powerful people without Charisma who were taken down include the following: Dan Rather, Hillary Clinton, Patrick Buchanan, Trent Lott, and James Comey.  Doing everything correctly and acquiring tons of power is not a defense against a charismatic individual who is ready willing and able to exercise his power.  Historical figures include Hitler, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Napoleon, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, Disraeli, Oscar Wilde, and the list goes on.  In the above list, we only need to list the last name, and we instantly know the person spoken of.  This is the power of charisma.

Studies done in the last few years have deepened our knowledge of psychology, and we can now train people to increase their charisma to a high degree.  We can train people to capture control over the minds of others and manipulate them.  And, the targets will never notice what happened.  We see similar effects online where there are algorithms running in the background of Amazon, and other places that match our past purchases, reviews, and search terms with advanced Bayesian Statistics to produce targeted marketing of items to us, which we seem to be unable to resist often.  This is the power of modern psychology.

There is a lot of benefit and risk to the findings of modern psychology - especially behavioral psychology.  The upshot is that we are closer to robots than we think.  The shocking truth is that with knowledge of some of our key psychological characteristics, we can program ourselves and others.  This is not exaggeration or hyperbole.

We have the ability to reprogram our minds to achieve unseen levels of success and achievement.  The down side is that there are tons of ways to exploit others using this knowledge in a Machiavellian fashion.

Nobody really knows the limits of psychology at this point.  We have only scratched the surface.  And, the strange thing is that more scientific minded people do not even believe the findings.  This is why the findings are not as well known.  People just cannot allow themselves to believe that we are programmable robots - with no exaggeration.

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