The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The conspicuous apathy when it comes to the murder of Christians by Muslims is nowhere more obvious than in Nigeria, where the bloodshed is savage and everywhere, and has been for 15 years. But it is focused on Christians, because that is what Muslims do. They are a bit more than 50% of the population of Nigeria, and their playbook is ancient and clear...convert, pay, or die. And since Nigeria is a poor country, and its Christian population is committed to actual Christianity, rather than the post-modern mess of Christianity in the West, they are killed.

They are killed because they are Christian. They are killed because they are devout. They are killed because the revolutionary political philosophy that is Islam will tolerate no other social construct, especially one that recognizes the individual.

But mostly they are killed because they are poor and black and conservative Christian, and the West simply does not care about the deaths of poor black Christians, because they do not fit into the hierarchy of class and race and colonizer status that elevates an Arab rock-thrower shot by Israeli soldiers to the top of the grievance list.

If Mainstream Christianity wanted to elevate the murders of 100,000 Christians to a prominent place in its discussions of every other social issue, it could. Perhaps it could supplant the pressing issues of giving communion to adulterers, or performing marriages for polygamists, or ordaining two-spirit, non-binary, gay transsexuals.

Look close to home...at the carnage of our inner cities. Blacks murder blacks at an unimaginable rate, and nobody cares. Jews are beaten in the streets of our cities, and nobody cares. Christians are harassed and condemned by Muslims in Dearborn, and nobody cares.

Conservative religion is anathema to the post-modern West; they see it as perhaps the most significant enemy of their overarching goal of the destruction of traditional culture and Judeo-Christian philosophy. And, of course it is! Accepting traditional interpretations of scripture and accepting its authority, personal morality guided by that scripture, traditional views of marriage, abortion, etc! That repulses our elites, and they will not defend it. Add blackness to the mix, and we see the current situation in Nigeria as the culmination of three generations of post-religious thought.

President Trump was absolutely correct in calling out the government of Nigeria. There is a genocide brewing there (and, sadly, in other places), and pushing back against Islam in Nigeria would be a welcome addition to the efforts of Israel in the Middle East.

Because it is a war, and only a few in the West recognize it!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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