“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)

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Steve Apfel—Refugee divide denudes clever progressives:

The eggshell cracked when the contest for the White House went to the wrong candidate. The clever progressives derided ‘low information voters’ or, more derogatively, a social underclass, for electing him. Brutes put the brute in power. The papers that progressives read led or echoed their skulking defeat. Women who voted for Donald Trump, said the Guardian, suffer from “internalized misogyny.” The Forward paper for Jewish progressives looked down on Trump fans: “You can compare them to Rust Belt voters,” it sneered. “They are hardworking people, not college educated.” The Editor of New Yorker described the new Ambassador to Israel in terms of, “Trump’s daily bankruptcy.” The Editor’s snooty nose took offence at a bankruptcy lawyer raised on old working class values.

Is the clever elite for real? In all likelihood it would snub that question for underplaying bigger pretensions than cleverness. Progressives look in the mirror and love what they see: courageous, compassionate, deeply humane people who take on the forces of Trumpian darkness. In a well rounded human a good heart complements a good head. They’re a cut above the rest, clever people, and not modest about it.

Then President Trump made the executive order not to issue visas when countries sponsor terror, or are failed states without functioning governments, or allow terror groups to flourish. Cracks and fault lines began to run through the elite. We began to hear dumb comparisons and ankle shallow historical warnings. College freshmen – anyway those back in the days before political correctness put a thinking head on ice – could tear the clever arguments to shreds. Out of the progressive papers and the CNN’s and BBC’s, poured a load of manure.

The cartoon is a biting comment on Franklin D Roosevelt’s policy of denying a safe haven to European Jewry being ghettoized and entrained to death camps. …“But those were foreign children, and it really didn’t matter.” So reads a mother a bedtime story to her kids. Printed on her high necked dress is the slogan, “America first.” The lesson: at the time of dire need America slammed its door tight shut.

Whether or not media moguls had this cartoon in mind, they took the message and ran with it. The New York Times spoke for all in writing that “Anne Frank today is a Syrian girl.” It was the ubiquitous one-on-one comparison with the Holocaust era. It was the dumbed-down, sentimental, naive or malicious cocktail against Donald Trump’s halt on visas for some Muslim countries. The big Satan had gone and slammed America’s door shut at a time of dire need.

Making such equivalence innocently involves more than shallow thinking; it involves babyish thought. On the other hand making it consciously involves a type of Holocaust denial. About this babyish comparison – the crises of yesteryear and today bear no resemblance.

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SnyderTalk Comment:

Steve is from South Africa.  He has a good grip on the meaning of “liberal progressive”.  Regrettably, people who proudly assert that they are either are, in fact, neither.

I can remember when words used to mean things.  Stealing a word and applying it incorrectly to cast a positive light on darkness is not my cup of tea, but we have let them get away with it.  When a person tells me that he or she is a “liberal” or a “progressive”, in my mind it registers as narrow-minded and ignorant at best and very likely stupid.

Other words have been abused, too, but I’ll stop there for now.

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“If My people who are called by My Name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7: 14)

Change that Yahweh calls “good” begins in the hearts of believers—people who are recognizable because they are different.

We are different because we belong to Him and are called by His Name.  We are Yahweh’s people, His followers.

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SnyderTalk Comment:

Those who haven’t spent much time around colleges and universities in the U.S. lately probably don’t realize that higher education ain’t what it used to be.  Universities have become indoctrination centers.

Most college professors who call themselves “liberal” and “progressive” believe that their view of the world is the correct view.  Students who challenge their views are taking a great risk, and they know it.

Full disclosure: I was a professor at the University of Virginia for 25 years.  Today, I am a chaired professor emeritus.  I was tenured after 3 years, promoted to full professor after 8 years, and promoted to chaired professor after 13 years.  That’s called rapid promotion.

I am not ignorant about what goes on at our universities.

As an aside, it tickles me when someone tells me that UVA is a “conservative university”. When I hear it, I know for a fact that the person saying it knows nothing about UVA.  Since the person is boldly making a false statement, I am forced to conclude that he or she is a dilettante.

Thankfully, if I called him a dilettante to his face, probably he would take great pride in it.

Food for Thought

A Harvard student comes to Charlottesville for a football game, but he doesn’t know where the stadium is.

He stops a young man and says, “I can tell by the way you are dressed that you are a UVA student.  Can you tell me where the football stadium is?”

The UVA student says, “Just follow this road until you come to a traffic light and take a left. You can’t miss it.  By the way, you must be a Harvard student.”

The Harvard student beaming with pride says, “That’s right.  Could you tell by the way I’m dressed?”

“No,” says the UVA student, “I saw your ring when you picked your nose.”

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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)

See “His Name is Yahweh”.