It's Easter Sunday 2024. Will Islamists, Men In Frocks & Cultural Marxists Please Go Take A Hike - But Not In Northumberland National Park Please
Astounding. There’s a word for this which I can never remember - it basically means the cancellation and usurpation of a religion via the hijacking of its major symbols and festivals; stealing them, aggressively re-appropriating them in service of the new, displacing, incoming religion. It’s a time-honoured tactic. The Christians did it with the old Pagan religions of Great Britain, eager to supplant the ‘barbarous’ and incoherent sacred rites and practices of the Anglo-Saxons with the new, unifying Christian religion and its one true God.
Such is the case with Islam in Britain today. Such is the case with the cultural marxists’ preferred Woke rainbow religion. The most sacred day in the Christian calendar is under attack from the far left and from radical Islam. You might think that this is poetic justice, considering the missionary zeal with which the Christians expunged the Old Religions from these Isles 1400 years ago. You might be right. But if you think that gender ideology and/or Islam can deliver the 1400 years of sometimes faltering, but overall spectacularly successful cultural, industrial, economic, social and technological progress witnessed in this country under the largely benign gaze and guidance of Christ the Saviour, then you are wrong, very very wrong. The new kids on the block offer only the Chaos of hell, not heaven.
Labour, in particular, are at the vanguard of this move to expunge Christianity from these shores. On Easter Sunday, they post this:
Besides the obvious insult to Christians and even right-thinking non Christians everywhere in Britain, by hijacking the most sacred day of the Christian calendar with some Woke nonsense, it’s the ocean-going stupidity of it that gets me. I mean, WTF? Surely the whole point of transitioning to a gender in society opposite to that of one’s biological sex is to become invisible, i.e. to blend in peacefully, inoffensively, and innocuously into one’s chosen gender role? But of course, if you’re a compulsive narcissist, nursing a celebrity-sized ego and/or you’re a man in a frock, then of course you are going to be highly visible and indeed you will crave visibility. To demand recognition of this ‘right’ on the day that Christians celebrate the Resurrection and to have our glorious leaders publicly and enthusiastically endorse that cause, is way, way beyond the pale and if I was a Christian, I would not be turning the other cheek, that’s for sure.
Likewise, the Labour Mayor of London has put up Ramadan celebratory lights in central London, which is a huge kick in the teeth to all Londoners who might think it more appropriate to have Christian symbolism on prominent display in the nation’s capital during the most important Christian festival of the year.
So please all you Islamists and men in frocks and assorted other cultural marxists trying to replace the national religion with your own ideological beliefs, go take a hike, but preferably not in the Northumberland National Park because that’s the one ‘green desert’ refuge and ‘racist colonialist white space’ which we sane people have left in this country, where the likes of eco-zealots like Ben Goldsmith fear to tread and would rather go abroad (not by flying I presume):
If Labour are elected with a huge majority - courtesy of a brain-dead electorate - at the forthcoming General Election, then be afraid, be very afraid. They will use that huge and unassailable majority to drive through changes in this country which will obliterate our social, cultural and religious heritage and they will enact draconian laws to make sure there is no dissent to those changes from the public. Imagine a Woke, rapey, violent, Islamified, eco-communist, deindustrialised, poverty-stricken, totalitarian hellscape and that will be Britain at the end of a five year Labour term - which please note is most definitely not an endorsement of voting Tory.
“..transitioning to a *gender* in society opposite to that of one’s biological *sex*…” - I know others have said what I’m about to say a thousand times before, and probably many times better, but I am compelled to respond.
In one phrase you have used both the terms gender and sex (thereby implying that they connote something different, or you mean to connote something different by then) yet talked of transitioning between the two despite their conceptual difference.
From the perspective of pure logic - if not biological sense or reality of which there is none - transitioning must mean moving from being biologically male to biologically female and vice versa, a bit like a light switch transitioning between its mutually exclusive and mutually exhaustive states of being either on or off. We all know that this is impossible. But logically, transitioning must mean going from State A to State Not A, which in the binary situation of sex means State B.
If gender purportedly means (for the sake of the argument, which of course I reject as guff) one’s inner sense of sexual identity, the “sex soul”, as opposed to its biological reality, there is no transitioning involved; it just is what it is, an ongoing aspect of one’s personality. One can’t transition from State A to State A because nothing has changed.
To conflate the two and speak of transitioning from the biological reality of sex A not to sex B but to sex soul B makes no sense at all. Transgenderists merrily use this conflation all the time to confuse; sceptics shouldn’t play their game!
That quibble apart, your article is as ever on the money and a pleasure to read!
The credentialed classes will continue to virtue signal as long as they believe they are acting in a moral way. It's only when they realise that their actions have made them the objects of public scorn and derision that this will end.
I believe you have correctly interpreted the playbook of belief modification. The Christians cleverly built their churches on ancient burial mounds to show that their God was more powerful than the old ones, to capitalise on the visibility of those ancient sites and to say "there, we're so moral and forgiving that we have given your ancestors a decent burial on our holy ground". Of course, they also burned heretics at the stake - to save their immortal souls.
My beloved country, Scotland, has now reverted to a belief in witchcraft, something we thought had been debunked centuries ago. It's as if the Scottish Enlightenment had never happened. It's now known as hate speech and is solely in the ear of the listener. It's coming to a jurisdiction near you soon.
The Free Speech Union has started a crowd funder to fight cases brought under these new witchcraft laws so please make a donation if you can!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-free-speech-unions-scottish-fighting-fund