Tea at Trianon: Sacrilege at the White House

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

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Sacrilege at the White House

From Jan Greenhawk at The Easton Gazette:

Of all the days of the Spring, this White House chose to degrade what is considered by many Christians to be the most important religious holy day of the year, Easter Sunday, with this proclamation from a President who claims to be a Catholic.

Are they stupid? Are they tone deaf?

Neither.

This is clearly being pushed by an administration with an agenda that dismisses all people's religious beliefs as secondary to their courtship of the transgender, LGBTQIA Marxist left. We have seen them promote people like Rachel Levine, who thinks he is a woman, male members of the military who think they are women, and other mentally ill people while confusing our children about the truth; men and women are different and one cannot be the other. Worse, they promote mutilating children and addicting them to a lifetime of hormone blocking drugs which have proven to have devastating effects.

The Biden Administration isn't doing this to be caring and inclusive to these sad individuals, they are doing this to give, as Dan Bongino says, the double-barreled middle finger to Christians across this country and the world. And Biden, who is clearly controlled by outside masters, gladly goes along so he can pretend to the leader of the free world.

And, they know that many churches in our country will not fight back against this. Why?

In his book LIVE NOT BY LIES: A MANUAL FOR CHRISTIAN DISSIDENTS, Rod Dreher explains how the Marxist, Progressive Left have to replace traditional religion of any kind with their own religion. They cannot reconcile their own vision of Utopia with the views of Christians, so they set out to first infiltrate them, then change them, then demolish them. He states, " In our time, secular social justice has been shorn of its Christian dimension. Because they defend a particular code of sexual morality and gender categories, Christians are seen by progressives as the enemies of social justice."

In this scenario where a Progressive government/society is in charge, churches have to make a decision. They can either stand their ground and stick to their values and beliefs or concede to the cult of popular insanity that has increasing followers thanks to the constant messaging from media and the internet. If they stick to their values, they may come under fire by a totalitarian culture that promotes silencing and erasing those individuals and organizations that disagree. (Read more.)