Take No Prisoners

Moral reasoning is the master of all human knowledge. Without moral valuation, nothing else matters, because nature itself objects to moral vacuity. Reality will crush you unless you first establish a heart-led moral frame of reference. And the heart-mind alone is competent in moral reasoning; the intellect has no anchor point at all within itself for such consideration. Reason knows only the mechanism for finding what pleases itself, and that pleasure arise entirely from the various lusts of our fleshly being — Lust of the Eyes, Lust of the Flesh and Boastful Pride of Life.

The intellect is inherently pretentious. It cannot see clearly in the mirror of its own reason, but proclaims itself a separate party from the competing desires from below that imaginary floor of reason and clear thought. It pretends it can umpire between the various mindless demands of the fleshly appetites, when in reality, it only moderates them with crafty tactical considerations. The final question the intellect answers is, “What can we get away with?” Once the intellect accepts a demand from the lusts, it internalizes that demand as inherently good-right-and-just, and projects that outward as some kind of cosmic moral imperative. In the mind, reality itself demands this thing he or she wants.

No civilization in human memory has so thoroughly fallen for this deception as the West. Western Civilization was the first to discard entirely the supremacy of the heart-mind. Instead, it ensconced the intellect as lord of all. No other civilization rests so completely on the self-deception of reason. We have this vast, smothering pretense that reason alone is competent in all matters worth any thought at all. That each and every individual holds competing answers to life’s questions serves to indicate some presumably obvious need for the rise of a reasoning priesthood to establish the baseline for everyone else.

What no one seems to notice is that the flavor and shape of this alleged baseline of what is judged “reasonable” reflects the bias of whomever cares most about subjecting everyone else under their viewpoint. It’s that busybody impulse that rules Western society because the vast majority would rather back off, just live and let live. So the busybodies rule and their narrative is the default. Despite being an obvious minority, they insist that theirs is the majority viewpoint because no one else has that evil impulse to seize control and dominate the conversation before things can get out of hand. “We can’t just let people do what they want!” They seize the dominance without any of God’s moral justifications. Indeed, they demand to hold the authority of the shepherd without the slightest inkling of accountability for the sheep.

We reject this state of affairs. Not that we can dislodge the prissy busybodies from their dominance of Western society, but we are under no moral obligation to buy into their narrative. Indeed, the truly Christlike answer is to wisely consider from the heart that there are times to raise a prophetic ruckus against it. Given that the busybodies claim to own Jesus, too, we know better than to engage in debate about it. We learn that this sick blindness is equivalent to demon possession. Don’t argue, just act. And when you do, never apologize. Never regret, because that’s just buying into the Devil’s lie.

Genuine compassion is moral superiority. The compassion that gently binds up wounds is the same compassion that roughly snatches someone from the fire. It’s all one. It’s the same compassion that slaughters any army attacking your God-given dominion. It’s merely a question of tactics. What does it take to obey your divine call? What does it take to glorify His name in this context? Shape your answer from biblical morals, not from Western mythology.