Idris Elba Accused of ‘Helping Racism’ After Ditching Identity Politics
“I don’t want to be the first Black. I’m the first Idris.”
Victorian MP’s Maiden Speech Was a Reckoning for the Political Elite
“Lessons on tolerance were being replaced with lessons on inclusion. It wasn’t enough anymore to just accept each other’s differences with respect. Now students were required to affirm and celebrate beliefs they did not share.”
Preparing for the Coming Coercion
“We must remember that we are part of a faith that turned the cross, a symbol of terror and oppression, into a symbol of hope and salvation.”
Forced Speech Fascism Comes for Jordan Peterson: It’s Woke Re-Education Camp or Else
The outcome of Peterson’s “people’s court” trial will either see reason and conscience liberated or purged into oblivion.
Freedom and the Fate of America
“The cause of freedom and faith must be passed on, which is why the left hates things like history and family.”
To Understand the Diabolical Nature of the Davos Deities, Read This Book
“The satraps of Davos don’t want to simply reset a post-Covid world. Or a post-fossil fuels world. Or even a post-racial world. They want to run it, forever, and while they no longer have need of a god, they’ll always need an enemy. They may not believe in a power higher than themselves, but they certainly believe in demons, and their most irksome devil is you.”
Lidia Thorpe Humiliated by Alex Antic
“Someone who can deny the legitimacy of the Senate while continuing to sit in it and take a pay check clearly has some super-special level of logic that us poor plebs have yet to approach.”
London Street Preacher Arrested for “Hate Speech” Cleared of LGBTQ+ Blasphemy Charge
Sherwood’s alleged blasphemy against the LGBTQ+ political religion was simply reading from 2,000+ years of Biblical Christian teaching.
The Pending Russian Invasion of Ukraine Reflects the Biden Administration’s Incompetence
“Joe Biden’s apparent optimism is a smokescreen for the arrogant under-estimating of the Russian president, and an over-estimation of the abilities of his own administration.”
Putin on Wokeness in the West: “We Saw This in Soviet Russia”
“The Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of other opinions,” Putin added. “I think this should remind you of something that is happening … in the Western countries.”
When Did the Archibald’s Become the Marxibald’s?
On a deeper level, what is missing in so much of today’s art is the goal of what Roger Scruton argued is, ‘reclaiming beauty’.
Cancel Culture Can Only Be Stopped By Courage Culture
Heed Chavura’s call, because he’s right: “Courage is the only way forward.”
Year in Review: Rod Lampard’s Top 10 Articles From 2020
Here are 10 of my most popular Caldron Pool articles from 2020.
Black Lives Matter Founder Says, ‘We Are Trained Marxists’
Queer activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter has said the underlying ideology driving the movement is Marxism. Patrisse Cullors made the admission during a 2015 interview, detailing the background of the movement after the interviewer raised concern that Black Lives Matter lacks a clear ideological structure. “We actually do have an ideological frame,” she said. “Myself and Alicia [co-founder] in particular, we’re trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super versed on ideological theories.” Is it any surprise that self-professed Marxists would use the death of a black man at the hands of police officers (half of whom…
The West Is Burning Because We’ve Pandered to Paganism, Revolutionaries and Reactionaries
Carl F.H. Henry’s ‘Twilight of a Great Civilization: The Drift Toward Neo-Paganism’ (1988) is chillingly accurate. He admonishes complacency, retreat and inaction without slipping into an apocalyptic moralistic rant about a wayward world. The value here, at least for me anyway, is found in its prescience, and Henry’s focus on truth vs. falsehood, as opposed to Right vs. Left; sinner vs. sinless. Henry pivots his entire discourse on a Socratic question, asking readers to note, reflect, and deflect neo-paganism’s self-evident cultural contamination of the West through Secular Humanism. Centre-stage is the salvific importance of the revelation of God in Jesus…
Answering Cancel Culture with Unconquerable Joy
In a brief five minute video posted to Desiring God’s YouTube channel, John Piper rips apart the cultural control of ‘cancel culture’. The small segment was taken from a talk given in January called ‘Serious Joy, Cultural Conflict, & Christian Humility: Thoughts on Christian Education.’ Piper’s argument is one of the best I’ve heard so far from Christian leaders – Voddie Baucham’s lengthy, but poignant takedown of ‘Cultural Marxism’ being the only exception (as has been discussed by Caldron Pool’s Editor Ben Davis, here). Like Baucham, Piper turns the light on where few seem willing to do so. Leaning on…
The Evolution of Social Justice Warriors
From Mao Xe-Dong’s genocidal regime in China, to the Third Reich’s extermination of the Jews, the history of Darwinian evolution is a path marked with human destruction. Various ideologies that surfaced during the nineteenth and twentieth century are evidence for the devastating effects of Darwinism when applied to society, and these continue to the present day. This has produced a new breed of social justice warriors, which has polluted the political waters creating turmoil and disunity. It stems from an acceptance of evolutionary theory, breaking down absolute truths, and replacing a moral compass with pluralism and the individual subjective experience.…
Female Privilege: Researchers Say Men Are More Disadvantaged Than Women in Developed Countries
Recent studies in the US and UK have revealed that men in Western and developed countries are more disadvantaged than women. Generally speaking, the modern feminist feeds off the idea that males are somehow more privileged than females in almost every aspect of life, from the “gender wage gap”, to the ridiculous notion that men should no longer be able to stand while urinating in public toilets. Researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of Essex believe that previous methods of measuring gender equality have been too focused on women’s issues and not holistic in the application of certain life…
Where God’s revelation meets the West and all the rest
Karl Barth and Roger Scruton make unlikely conversation partners. Barth, was a Reformed Swiss theologian, who held up the distinction between theology and philosophy, and Scruton, is a British philosopher, talks theology, but knows his limits on the subject. The meeting between the two takes place in Barth’s On Religion and Scruton’s, The West and All the Rest. Together they provide a telescopic view of modern religio-politics and the socio-political landscape of contemporary Western society. One big theme for Scruton is the relationship between the ‘social contract’ and Creed communities (or communities bound by religious law). One clear example of…
Three voices that shouldn’t be ignored: Peterson, McGrath and Hitchens on faith, society and ideology
There’s no real need to give you a one thousand word commentary on the following lectures. This is because the content in each speaks for itself. I’ve watched all three; each of them reflects what I’ve written about or questioned here and on my other social media platforms. When it comes to anything posted by or about Jordan Peterson, I am a cautious and curious listener. He has a grasp of the major issues that few, including most theologians and pastors, do. That’s a sad indictment, but the reality is most theologians and pastors show up as left-leaning and thus…