That which is worth preserving, and that which is worth resisting

Christmas Eve 2014 finds Western civilization as imperiled, defiled and fractured as it's been in my lifetime.  Europe is rubbed raw with Jew-hatred and the sense that its hope for revived economic robustness is gone.  And it's been served notice that its time for existing in any kind of recognizable form is growing short:

The radical terror group ISIS has claimed that it is only a matter of time before its fighters conquer Europe. The claim was made by the spokesman of the outfit to veteran journalist Juergen Todenhoefer, who undertook a risky visit to the the ISIS controlled areas in Mosul of Northern Iraq. 

"We will conquer Europe one day. It is not a question of we will conquer Europe, just a matter of when that will happen. But it is certain. ... For us, there is no such thing as borders. There are only front lines," the spokesman identified as a German ISIS fighter told the German journalist. 

Religious Cleansing 

Defending mass enslavement and beheadings, the ISIS spokesman said it is planning to carry out "the largest religious cleansing campaign" in history and will not hesitate to kill hundreds of millions of people, if required, reported the Christian Post. 

"Our expansion will be rapid and perpetual. The Europeans need to know that when we come, it will not be in a nice way. It will be with our weapons. Those who do not convert to Islam or pay the Islamic tax will be killed," the spokesman said. Todenhoefer visited the Iraqi city of Mosul, which had a large Christian population before it was taken over by ISIS in June and clamped Islamic laws on the land, forcing people to convert to Islam or face death.

Latin America, as was illustrated in the post below from Monday about the Uruguay-Cuba connection, has decidedly moved leftward again, and is host to plots to weaken the US as much as possible.

In the US - more accurately called post-America at this point - race-card hucksters have whipped up a frenzy of police hatred across the land.  Borders and sovereignty mean nothing.  No sooner was the nation's health care sector put on a socialist footing than the scheme became unworkable.  A huge portion of the economy is devoted to addressing a nonexistent atmospheric trend, and people who demand to be taken seriously perpetuate the fiction, trampling those who would point out their mendacity like cockroaches.

And a post-American film studio, owned by a Japanese conglomerate, has its computer system hacked by a nation that, in a world stinking with evil, surpasses all other agents of evil, if that can be imagined. Said nation has a growing nuclear arsenal, and is currently threatening to attack the White House, the Pentagon, and the entire post-American mainland.

How evil is the nation in question?  This evil:

Horrific detail has emerged from a UN report on human rights abuses in North Korea suggesting prison officials in the state "cooked" a female prisoner’s baby and "fed it to their dogs".

The alleged "unspeakable atrocities" were published for the first time in February when a 372-page report by an independent UN panel of inquiry into the North Korean regime was released.

Even more disturbing detail was brought to light on Monday however, when members of the UN Security Council put the issue of human rights abuses in the state on the agenda for the first time.

Among the many accounts described in the Commission of Inquiry report were recollections of rapes, mass starvation and forced abortions.

In Monday's meeting, US Ambassador Samantha Power cited even more shocking accounts from defectors who fled prison camps in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) - accounts Pyongyang has dismissed as fabricated.

"Ahn Myong Chul, a former guard at Prison Camp 22, spoke of guards routinely raping prisoners," she was quoted by Reuters as saying. "In one case in which a victim became pregnant and gave birth, the former guard reported, prison officials cooked her baby and fed it to their dogs."

How dark is the heart that does this?

Mr Ahn also described another occasion where a guard “sat on a chair and used a fishing rod, baited with pork fat to entice a nude female prisoner to crawl like a dog and jump after the meat”.

And still one finds social-media posts by moral preeners who want to make the Senate Intelligence Committee "report," composed entirely by the committee's Freedom-Haters, into a statement on the shameful nature of America's attempt to prevent attacks of the kind it has already suffered, in 2001.  These self-congratulating  poseurs take the liberty of lecturing us on the proper morality with which post-America ought to conduct its affairs, saying that "we stoop to their level" if we "torture" those who plot incessantly to wreak catastrophe on our cities and security infrastructure.

For centuries, up until quite recently, Western civilization served as a beacon to the rest of humanity on how to live with dignity and reverence, how to unleash natural human curiosity in the service of advancement in scientific knowledge, philosophical understanding, artistic refinement, and wisdom and humility.  It led the world, and rightly so.

And at the core of what made the West the leader of human advancement was a message about a sovereign Lord with infinite patience regarding the foibles of His creatures.  That message tied together all the rest of it: the science, the philosophy, the art.

It was always a fragile arrangement, and, indeed, came undone to a large degree a few times throughout history.

We are at such a juncture once again.  We are so debased that we can no longer recognize the jewel of incomparable worth that has elevated our lives beyond the naked crawling after pork fat that human life otherwise amounts to.

We need a Savior.  The good news is that we have one, but the question is whether we are equipped to avail ourselves of His grace.