Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

“See? We Can Make New Words too!” … or … “Should Convicted “paedovores” be Burnt Alive?”

By James Fox Higgins of the Rational Rise. [T]his quote is a favourite decontextualised soundbite on the web. Those who have read the classic Russian novel of course know that this theme of new words is taken from Rodion Raskolnikov’s essay in which he justifies the amorality of the exceptional; the dispensing with moral principles by those who prove themselves worthy and willing to act without limit in the pursuit of revolution. Dostoevsky readers also know that, while brilliantly composed and not without shades of truth, Raskalnikov wrote this piece while descending into a murderous insanity. Have you noticed how much the Regressive Left love to assert their “progress” by inventing such New Words? It’s not enough to be male or female anymore; now we must clarify whether we are cis- male, or trans- male. It’s no longer acceptable to simply be sceptical of the catastrophic effects of this spurious scientific orthodoxy known as “climate change”. You are a climate change denier. Contempt for the barbarism practised and preached in accordance with the Islamic Qur’an is now called Islamophobia, and the adherence to a Biblical view of sex and marriage is now called homophobia. Like so many of the terms which divide and vilify the natural and Christian worldviews, these are all new words. Continue Reading at the Rational Rise…

“See? We Can Make New Words too!” … or … “Should Convicted “paedovores” be Burnt Alive?”

By James Fox Higgins of the Rational Rise. [T]his quote is a favourite decontextualised soundbite on the web. Those who have read the classic Russian novel of course know that this theme of new words is taken from Rodion Raskolnikov’s essay in which he justifies the amorality of the exceptional; the dispensing with moral principles by those who prove themselves worthy and willing to act without limit in the pursuit of revolution. Dostoevsky readers also know that, while brilliantly composed and not without shades of truth, Raskalnikov wrote this piece while descending into a murderous insanity. Have you noticed how much the Regressive Left love to assert their “progress” by inventing such New Words? It’s not enough to be male or female anymore; now we must clarify whether we are cis- male, or trans- male. It’s no longer acceptable to simply be sceptical of the catastrophic effects of this spurious scientific orthodoxy known as “climate change”. You are a climate change denier. Contempt for the barbarism practised and preached in accordance with the Islamic Qur’an is now called Islamophobia, and the adherence to a Biblical view of sex and marriage is now called homophobia. Like so many of the terms which divide and vilify the natural and Christian worldviews, these are all new words. Continue Reading at the Rational Rise…