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Title: Go Figure, You Nonbelievers
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URL Source: http://takimag.com/article/go_figur ... evers_taki/print#axzz3um2pZKtF
Published: Dec 19, 2015
Author: Taki Theodoracopulos
Post Date: 2015-12-19 08:48:30 by Ada
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Views: 302
Comments: 6

Have we ever needed Christianity more than today? It’s a rhetorical question, for sure, because the loss of our faith and the inability to confront Islam have never been greater. When I was a little boy during the war, my mother assured me that if I believed in Jesus everything would be okay. This was during the bombing by the Allies on Tatoi, the military airfield where the Germans concentrated their antiaircraft guns near our country house. My fräulein, the Prussian lady who brought me up, was more practical. She handed me a beautiful carved knife that made me feel safer than my prayers ever did.

Today, of course, 74 years later, my prayers are far more likely to help my peace of mind than a knife in my pocket. That’s the difference between being five and seventy-nine years of age. Mind you, now I pray only for the safety and welfare of my children and their mother. My soul I sold to the devil long ago. No prayers will save that loser. At times, during Christmas and Easter, when I go to church, light a candle, and sit alone in a pew, all these memories come flooding back, especially my fear of the noisy Anglo-American bombs that rained down around us, and how only the steel in my pocket gave me courage. “God is what makes us understand the difference between good and evil, take it from Taki. ”

Atheists seem to be le gout du jour nowadays. Our celebrity culture has no room for faithful people, especially Christians—only Islam enjoys that privilege. In 1966 Time magazine shocked its readers with a cover that asked whether God was dead. I remember it well because Henry Luce died soon after. Was there a hidden message somewhere, I wondered? But Luce was a devout Christian and a great believer in the Almighty, unlike Christopher Hitchens, whose favorite targets were priests, Mother Teresa, and God, a Christian God whose followers turned the other cheek. The Hitch had very little to say against Allah because he knew the latter’s followers did not take kindly to cheap remarks against him. Hitchens deplored Christmas, “the collectivization of gaiety and compulsory bad taste,” as well he should have, being an opportunist. Atheism gets you in through the front door, Christianity is reserved for the trade entrance. He hated the “confessional drool” that families mailed to one another, especially simple people who believe in love and forgiveness.

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is an atheist hard to dislike. He’s charming and never a bully, learned and intelligent. Ditto for some ancients—here I rely on the ancient Athenian Taki and his epigrams—like Socrates and his ilk. Also Voltaire and Mill and so on. The first modern to go atheist and announce that God had had it was Nietzsche, who predictably went bonkers. Terrific shits like Freud and Picasso were atheists, as were French fries like Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan, and our very own H.G. Wells. And James Joyce and Philip Roth. One thing I noticed all these talented writers and thinkers have in common except for their disbelief in the Almighty is great physical ugliness. That alone should explain it.

The great 20th-century theologian Paul Tillich wrote that to believe that God is active at all times—being out there somewhere, dwelling in a special place and being affected by events—is a shallow supposition: “The literalism of God deprives God of his ultimacy.” That’s where “There is no God,” the cry from the heart of those who have lost a loved one, comes from. Ditto the old saw that you need God in order to be good. God is what makes us understand the difference between good and evil, take it from Taki.

The ultimate irony, needless to say, is that Charles Darwin said he believed in God. Let’s face it: Most intelligent people believe in God, as did most world leaders in the past. My uncle, a war hero in the Albanian campaign when we wiped out the Italians, once told me that he had never seen courage like that shown by priests and medical orderlies in the thick of battle. Unarmed and without helmets, they would give the last rights to the dying and tend to the wounded. While soldiers dived into their foxholes, they would go out in the open field and make the sign of the cross over the fallen. God, in most cases, protected them. Go figure, you nonbelievers.

This is my 38th Christmas column, and of course it seems like yesterday that I wrote the first one. It was in my father’s London office on Albemarle Street. I used clichés galore and never mentioned God, just Christmas parties. I have probably come full circle. When Thomas Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal,” he called the proposition self-evident. It was a very Christian thing to say because not all men are created equal. They have equal rights under God, and only a Christian God ensures the latter. Just look at what Islam is doing to its adherents, how it has cheapened life to the extent that people volunteer to blow themselves up in order to get some rice and some virgins, and compare that with Christianity. The preciousness and equal worth of every human being is largely rooted in Christianity. Have a very happy Christmas and defend our faith. And if need be, carry a knife.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

As a child in the 50's I was told that if you believe in G-D, prayed to him, follow his laws, everything would be wonderful. Total BULL SHIT.

Darkwing  posted on  2015-12-19   9:53:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ada, Cynicom (#0)

The great 20th-century theologian Paul Tillich wrote that to believe that God is active at all times—being out there somewhere, dwelling in a special place and being affected by events—is a shallow supposition: “The literalism of God deprives God of his ultimacy.” That’s where “There is no God,” the cry from the heart of those who have lost a loved one, comes from. Ditto the old saw that you need God in order to be good. God is what makes us understand the difference between good and evil, take it from Taki.

As Cyni often says, "there are no atheists in foxholes." We almost all cry out to God in times of great distress.

christine  posted on  2015-12-19   10:03:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Darkwing (#1)

Life wasn't a day at the beach for Jesus so why should it be for the rest of us?

Ada  posted on  2015-12-19   10:06:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: christine (#2)

I knew an old guy in Chicago that was a cannoneer for Patton during WW II. He told me that he would walk into a French bar room with a pistol and say, "Ilene y'e voux!" or "Line up!" He would rob them all. Then, I knew a guy that traveled in Europe. He said France was the only place they tried to cheat him. I wonder why? ROTFLOL

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2015-12-19   10:09:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Darkwing (#1)

As a child in the 50's I was told that if you believe in G-D, prayed to him, follow his laws, everything would be wonderful.

If by "wonderful" your teacher(s) meant that you wouldn't have any problems or ever suffer emotionally or physically, then they really weren't being very honest. Jesus said "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." - John 16:33

Personally, I have found that following God's law does make life better in many ways. But there is admittedly a heavy price to pay sometimes for following Christ, especially in these days.

StraitGate  posted on  2015-12-19   10:17:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Several (#5) (Edited)

Your elders withheld from you the true, gutsy, gory, glorious Gospel. Well, whose don't?

The blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sins, but not to sit back and consider ourselves religiously caught up and leave it at that. "Establish justice in your city gates"; "putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor;" "rescue those being unjustly dragged away to death", "not giving heed to Jewish fables" -- these are smidgens of the rest of the real story.

What a world it would be if only we made 'em the center of attention instead of preachers telling us how all-fired SAAAAAAAVED we are for 20 minutes every Sunday year round. When was the last time Charles Stanley or Chuck Swindoll preached anything the IRS wouldn't want them to?

Texts they never exegetize: Rev. 2:9 and 3:9. Texe Marrs is shouting these warnings to his hearers, David Duke is, even MADONNA is. When will the PEACHERS get around to it? The light ain't gonna get any greener! Of course the hated Christian Identity expositors have, but they're a tiny percentage of pulpiteers.

www.mad- eyes.net/disco/tic/the-beast-within.htm

Pleasantly surprising Taki recognizes the centrality of the Faith. Is he going to turn his site over to proclaiming it now? 'Twould be a major change of feel.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-12-19   20:47:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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