Tea at Trianon: When Truth is Abandoned

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, December 22, 2022

When Truth is Abandoned

From Return to Order:

First, a person is limited by nature by not being God. Each person was born in a specific time and place, to a particular pair of parents, with certain specific biological traits—including those that determine sex. Individuals share a human nature that cannot be changed. Some are born male, and others are female. There is nothing in-between.

To argue otherwise is to say that God made mistakes when He made each person. No one who believes in an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God—as all Christians do—can assert that God errs when making all either male or female. He would not be so cruel as to place a male in a female body or vice versa.

Therefore, only by acting within those limitations can each person find happiness within God’s perfect will. The pretense of being something else ultimately destroys the soul. It leads the individuals to fantasies that eventually lead them to imagine God in their own image and likeness or as “transsexual,” as found in the blasphemies of Dr. Heath. (Read more.)