By Selwyn Duke

“Government must see to it that conversions, whether open or on the sly, must be stopped,” opines writer Sumit Paul. “Mankind has already had enough of God and religion. Give it breathing space.”

Paul is passionate about this position, too, so much so that he devotes a goodly amount of picturesque prose to trying to convert us to his position.

Interestingly, he doesn’t mention if it should be legal to convert people from Republican to Democrat or vice versa, though.

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By Selwyn Duke

While I used to quip before the millennium’s turn that “I’m a real man of the ’90s — the 1890s,” the truth is that I’m more like Mayberry Meets the Middle Ages.

It’s not so much that I hate new ideas (insofar as such things exist) or love old ideas, but that I yearn for eternal ideas. I thus very well could turn back the clock to the days of chivalry, when virtue was exalted and “values” (the term) unknown, faith was fact and “atheism” (the term) unheard, and “equality” was applied only to weights and measures. But while I could, I can’t. This brings me to the matter of women and the draft.

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By Selwyn Duke

Anyone who ever pooh-poohed the idea of a slippery sexual slope should meet Joseph Bruno — that is, during one of his honest moments. Then you might hear the “educator” say what he revealed in a recently released video:

He has sexual devolutionaries give his school’s students sex toys and instruct them on “queer” sex.

He’s proud of this, too, calling it “a really cool part of my job.”

Very effeminate and sporting painted fingernails, Bruno, the “dean of student life” at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, was secretly….

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By Selwyn Duke

“The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values,” reads a short bio under the by-line of a Saturday New York Times article on guns. Strangely, though, that “expertise” and “research” didn’t inform the editorial board that they probably shouldn’t use shotgun-shell images to promote an article inveighing against AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles. After all, trying to fit a shotgun shell into a standard AR chamber is a bit like Michael Moore trying to get into your five-year-old’s bathing suit.

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By Selwyn Duke

"I was used…. I was very naive; I was in a really bad way, and I got taken advantage of.” So said Chris Beck, who for about a decade went by “Kristen Beck” after claiming to have transitioned to being a woman.

Beck was a convenient poster boy for the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) cause, too, with two decades of U.S. Navy service that included being on SEAL Team Six, a baker’s dozen of deployments, and earning more than 50 service-related medals and ribbons. But now he says,

“Everything you see on CNN with my face, do not even believe a word of it.”

Beck made his comments to conservative commentator Robby Starbuck in an interview published early this month. He has come forward to undo the damage his former testimonials have done and to issue a warning: MUSS-related “services” are destroying children.

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By Selwyn Duke

In 2017, Time magazine followed up on its 1966 “Is God Dead?” cover with one asking, “Is Truth Dead?” Since these two things are related, perhaps it’s surprising it took them so long.

Truth, properly understood, can’t die, of course. But people’s belief in it can. This has long been happening and is why, as my longtime readers know, the Truth vs. moral relativism/nihilism issue has been a continual theme in my writing ever since I unsheathed the pen of punditry in 2002. Yet now, suddenly, this matter is becoming a more common theme in commentary in general. The reason?

The West’s departure from Truth has become so obvious, and its consequences so dire, that people are increasingly recognizing it as what I’ve long called “the characteristic philosophical disease of our time.”

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By Selwyn Duke

“Haters of humanity,” the Romans called the early Christians, whom they infamously would sometimes throw to the lions. Much later in history, the French revolutionaries would try eliminating Christianity by, in part, creating a new calendar with 10-day weeks excluding the Lord’s Day. Mexico’s revolutionary government, beginning in 1926, instituted anti-clerical laws that prescribed the arrest of priests for wearing clerical garb in public or criticizing the government. Spain’s “Red Terror” (1936-1939) saw the execution of more than 6,800 clergy and religious people and the persecution of religious communities. The Soviets imprisoned and executed religious leaders and introduced “scientific atheism,” while the Nazis aimed to replace Christianity with neo-paganism and, as a ploy to seduce people away from the authentic faith, trumpeted what they called “Positive Christianity.” (It portrayed Jesus as a Nordic character persecuted by Jewish authorities.) 

Yet there’s a notable point of history here: These Roman, French revolutionary, Mexican- and Spanish-leftist, Soviet, and Nazi persecutors are long gone.

Christianity remains.

Eternal Faith

Rome’s poets famously dubbed their metropolis the “Eternal City,” but what the persecutors among them didn’t know was that they were tangling with the eternal faith. (Or perhaps some did know — or at least did thus fear.) But all the victimizers became the vanquished and, if we could anthropomorphize these movements, we could say that they form Christianity’s blessed trail of dead bodies.

One of the many things that should give Christians hope and bring them joy….

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By Selwyn Duke

While conservatives sometimes like to say that Bill Maher is getting red-pilled, it’s more like he’s getting pink-pilled: He increasingly recognizes the insanity of today’s Left, but still accepts liberalism’s basic suppositions. In this vein, being unlikely to value-signal, Maher doesn’t act as if shows of style are substitutes for the substance prescribed by leftist orthodoxy. Then again, he’s apparently also not amenable to always embracing that substance personally. A good example of this occurred on the HBO host’s Club Random podcast last week, when he featured as guest fellow comedian Dana Carvey.

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By Selwyn Duke

Since I’m going to be criticizing a now widely accepted phenomenon, this piece may evoke eyerolls from some supporters. So be it, because certain things need to be said.

I must confess that with the way many of my fellow adults behave today, it can make me ashamed to be one. I almost sometimes feel as if I want to apologize to the children for the example the contemporary grown-up world now sets. We often lament, and rightly so, how disrespectful many modern youths are, yet a prerequisite for commanding respect is being respectable. There is little respectable about modern American culture.

Whether or not communist activist Willi Münzenberg (1889-1940) actually said “We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks,” he might as well have. It’s not just that adults now show children indecent images in sex education’s name, rubber stamp elementary school Satan clubs in deference to “religious freedom” and tell kids they can switch sexes just by willing it. It’s also what the “good” people fighting these abominations often do.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s a shocking story.

Imagine you complain on Facebook about your child’s school curriculum. You then get some feedback:

An army officer calls you an “extremist” and writes that military “leadership have had the Security Forces working with multiple state and local law enforcement agencies to monitor” your situation.

Sure enough, the local police chief then pressures you to delete your social media post.

You might wonder if the scene of this incident, which did occur, was China or Russia. Except for one thing: Your complaint was about your 7-year-old daughter being exposed to “pansexuality,” something that, for all of Beijing’s and Moscow’s faults, you’d never find in their schools.

In fact, this happened in these United States of America.

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