Lux Lucet

That this is happening under the Jesuit-connected, Roman Catholic Biden Regime should come as no surprise.  When it’s been in the position to do so, Rome has never tolerated free speech and has a long history of gladly imprisoning and murdering those who do not agree with its doctrines – political and religious – and speaking out against them.

In his book Light from Old Times, J.C. Ryle as the question, “Why were our reformers burned?”  Ryle answered:

But I pass on to a point which I hold to be one of cardinal importance in the present day. The point I refer to is the special reason why our Reformers were burned. Great indeed would be our mistake, if we supposed that they suffered for the vague charge of refusing submission to the Pope, or desiring to maintain the independence of the Church of England. Nothing of the kind! The principal reason why they were burned, was because they refused one of the peculiar doctrines of the Romish Church. On that doctrine, in almost every case, hinged their life or death. If they admitted it — they might live; if they refused it — they must die!

The doctrine in question was the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the consecrated elements of bread and wine in the Lord’s Supper. Did they, or did they not, believe that the body and blood of Christ were really, that is, corporally, literally, locally, and materially, present under the forms of bread and wine after the words of consecration were pronounced? Did they or did they not believe that the real body of Christ, which was born of the Virgin Mary, was present on the so-called altar, as soon as the mystical words had passed the lips of the priest? Did they or did they not? That was the simple question. If they did not believe and admit it — they were burned!

So, either believe the astounding absurdities of the real presence of Christ in the mass or get burned.  That was the position of Rome in the bad old days.  And Rome claims to be semper eadem – Latin for always the same.  If the Woman Who Rides the Beast ever gets the opportunity to murder her religious opponents again, know for certain that she will.

But Rome is not the only medieval religion to make war on free speech.  Judaism also does not tolerate free speech.  The ADL – the ADL is a Jewish group that previously was known as The Antidefamation League of B’nai B’rith (B’nai B’rith is Hebrew for “sons of the covenant”) – has a long history of defaming anyone who disagrees with its political agenda as “antisemites.”  As a recent example, Jonathan Greenblatt, the National Director and CEO of the ADL called for Tucker Carlson to be fired on multiple occasions and celebrated when he did. 

When Carlson finally was fired, Greenblatt wrote on Twitter,

It’s about time. For far too long, Tucker Carlson has used his primetime show to spew antisemitic, racist, xenophobic and anti-LGBTQ hate to millions @ADL has long called for his firing for this and many other offenses, including spreading the Great Replacement Theory.   

In Greenblatt’s mind, when millions upon millions of foreigners pour into the United States and permanently alter the demographics of the nation along with its political and religious makeup, nobody is supposed to so much as raise a question about it.  And if someone does happen to notice what’s going on and dares to point it out, he’s labeled by Greenblatt and the ADL as “antisemitic,” “racist,” “xenophobic,” etc. 

It would be worth asking Greenblatt and his supporters whether they would tolerate such a thing being done to Israel, millions of non-Jews flooding into the nation and permanently altering its culture.

In the New Testament, the Pharisees and Sadducees certainly didn’t believe in free speech and proved it by murdering Jesus to silence him.     

Judaism, it would seem, is not all that much different from Roman Catholicism when it comes to its view of free speech.  You either agree with the official organs of Jewish opinion or you are history.

Islam certainly doesn’t welcome free speech as the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi shows.  Khashoggi was a prominent Saudi journalist.  As the BBC notes,

For decades, the 59-year-old was close to the Saudi royal family and also served as an adviser to the government.

But he fell out of favour and went into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017. From there, he wrote a monthly column in the Washington Post in which he criticised the policies of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the son of King Salman and Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler.

In his first column for the Post in September 2017, Khashoggi said he had feared being arrested in an apparent crackdown on dissent overseen by the prince.

Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2, 2018.  Some say that his murder was done on direct orders of Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. 

And don’t even think about criticizing Islam as the French learned when the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo published a cartoon mocking Mohammad.   Islamists responded by killing 12 people at the publication’s Paris headquarters.

To those of us in the West, the idea that people should be able to debate issues openly without prior restraint is taken as a self-evident truth.  But clearly, it is not self-evident.  If it were, the whole world would not fight against it.  

It is no accident that free speech found its home in the Protestant West.  The words “How shall they hear without a preacher?” as well as other passages of the Bible imply free speech.  The Bible also implies that people should be free to disagree with the gospel message.  When Jesus sent out the 70, he didn’t order them to kill those who wouldn’t listen to them.  He told them to leave and shake the dust off their feet.

But as John Robbins pointed out in his Foreword to Gordon Clark’s A Christian View of Men and Things, “the West” – including the principle of free speech developed in the West – “is disappearing because Christianity, on which Western civilization was built, has already virtually disappeared in the West.” And to be clear, when Robbins speaks of Christianity disappearing, he’s referring to the Biblical faith recovered at the time of the Protestant Reformation in the 16^th century. 

This satanic-level attack on free speech by the Jesuit-controlled Democrats would never have been possible if American Christians had not become so compromised over the past 100-plus years.

Apart from a new Reformation in the churches, there is no hope of restoring the American republic, or even of conserving what remains of it. 

Shut up and do what you’re told.  That’s the state of the West in 2023.

May the Lord have mercy on his people.   

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