The Tartarian Millennial Kingdom?

The older we get, the more we come to the sobering realization that we only “really” know what we’ve read or been told. We are presented with text books from established authorities that show the history of our world. Later we learn that winners write the history. So who are we following? Are we the winners or only our leaders who write the textbooks?

This understanding has destroyed the faith of some. Others of us still soldier along trying to figure out what is going on. Not many make it to this point, especially in our Huxleyan society of endless entertainment and distractions. In past eras, people didn’t have the time for this exploration because they were simply too busy trying to survive. Or they get caught up in a war. Not a lot of time for thinking on the battlefield. But we have that luxury so follow with me as we reconsider where we are or more precisely, WHEN we are.

Much of our culture is steeped in visual story telling. Movies have been a splendid way to indoctrinate people to a certain mindset. I am no different. It’s only when you see that other messages are also embedded that the real adventure starts. You’ve no doubt read that our overlords have some sort of pathological need to reveal what they are doing. Whether that is due to some sort of metaphysical law or simply their own pride and hubris is immaterial. Bread crumbs are being laid out for those with eyes to see.

The most popular awaking movie in my generation was The Matrix. It was so chock full of references from mythology, esoteric religions, and modern philosophy that only the willfully ignorant remained blind to some of the underlying messages. For me it was a large slap in the face. I was astonished none of my friends saw what I saw. They just wanted to talk about the action, the newly developed special effects, and how hot Trinity looked in that black body suit. The curious thing for me is the very first statement from Morpheus to Neo when he wakes up. Start there and place yourself in the protagonist role. (You’re meant to) Neo’s first question is “Where am I?” Morpheus responds.

 

Neo: Morpheus, what’s happened to me? What is this place?

Morpheus: More important than ‘What?’ is ‘When?’ You believe it’s the year 1999 when in fact it’s closer to 2199. I can’t tell you exactly what year it is because we honestly don’t know. There’s nothing I can say that will explain it for you, Neo. Come with me. See for yourself.  

In light of recent leaps of inquiry about Tartaria, this scene jumped into my mind early this morning. Ah, but this isn’t the only movie to explore it. A lesser known movie was produced a few years earlier than the Matrix, Dark City. Those familiar with the movie will see the same pattern. People going about their lives, but with no real memory of where or when or even who they are. The main character has a memory of Shell Beach that only a few others remember. I won’t spoil the rest of the movie for you. I highly recommend watching it.

So how does this apply to our own reality? Why are these ideas inserted into the fiction of our day? Are they just musings of talented screen writers? Or were these writers connected with the esoteric societies we know exist in our world and directed to lay out some bread crumbs? Think about how The Simpsons has been eerily prescient.

In some ways, even the Bible approaches things this way. One of the tenets that led me to full faith in God is the renown of the prophets predicting events that would not come to pass for years or even centuries later. God tells us plainly that He will not do anything unless he tells it to his messengers first. Amos 3:7 – “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” Perhaps that is a rule for the spiritual enemies of God as well? One thing you know if you are reading this:  Everything is not as it seems or as it has been taught to us. We know this is true in the following areas:

	Mainstream View	Alternative View
Our world	Globe	Not a globe, perhaps flat
Money	Dollars backed by gold issued by US government	Fiat currency backed by nothing issued by a private corporation by creating debt through a ledger entry
Economics – Capitalism	Free-trade works and has produced prosperity	Oligopolies exist in every industry to maintain the status quo; insurmountable barriers to entry for all except the connected
Politics	US is a free Democracy with free speech and freedom of religion	US was originally established as a Republic where Senators were elected by the State legislatures, not popular vote. Each state had a religious test for office.
Energy	Oil is a fossil fuel and limited	Oil is abiotic and produced due to natural geologic processes in abundance
Food	Corn is yellow and is the best variety	All other varieties of corn were pushed out of the supply chain by the oligopolies
Medicine	Allopathy – treat symptoms individually with one size fits all drugs	Homeopathy, Naturopathy – treat the whole individual with comprehensive protocols that include diet and nutrition
Biologic Origins	Evolution – earth is billions of years old	Creation – earth is at most 10,000 years old
Physics (these views about light are interchangeable)	Light is a wave	Light is a particle
Quantum Mechanics	Recent discovery with new tools like the electron microscope	Pulled directly from Kabbalah and repackaged for our time
Gravity	Unknown mathematically derived “force”	Density and buoyancy
Religion	Catholicism is the one true Christian church	Martin Luther –> Protestantism -> back to Torah
History	12,000 to 20,000 years of recorded human history observed through extant records from manuscripts and archaeology	??? Could all of medieval history been falsified to cover up the Millennial kingdom of Yahusha?!?

 

There are other topics that could be added to the above list, but the point is that there is an alternative view EVERYWHERE you bother to peel back the first layer. Many books and volumes have been written and will continue to be written about the above and more. We all know something is “off.” We feel it in our innermost being. Why?

I hope I am not being herded. I hope all of these areas of exploration are not rabbit trails designed to keep us distracted and unmoored from reality. That is the hope of all of us. With that as background, I still have some questions regarding Tartaria as the Millennial Kingdom. I’m going to start from AD70 with just the history that comes to mind and walk forward to about 1800. The scope and sweep is far too broad to provide the references, but those aren’t important. Let’s take a big picture view as we step through it.

The aftermath of AD70 includes the continued reign of Rome. The rule of the Caesars. They changed every few years. Some as long as twenty, others as short as a month. All of that is a lie? Don’t we have busts carved of stone for many of them? Didn’t Marcus Aurelius write Meditations? Were Christians not thrown to the lions? Diocletian didn’t have his turn to persecute the Church? What about Ignatius and Polycarp? Augustine’s City of God? Alaric didn’t lead the army to topple Rome? This is just the first 400 years. What else was going on in the world. It is more than our Western civilization. What about the Far East and India?

A.D. 1-100

• Silk first seen in Rome

• Buddhism begins to spread from India into Central Asia

• Roman Syria develops the technique of blowing glass. The industry expands

• Chinese General Pan Ch'ao defeats Xiongnu and keeps the peace in the Tarim Basin. The stability of the Silk Route popularizes the caravan trade into two routes – north and south

• China sends the first ambassador to Rome from Pan Ch'ao's command, but he fails to reach Rome

• A.D. 17 – Major earthquake – many Asian cities destroyed

• A.D. 47 – Parthian (Parthava) ruler Gondophares displaces northern Sakas in Gandhara

• A.D. 20-200? – Kushan empire reaches its peak in the reign of Kanishka (A.D. 78?-120?) who initiates Saka system of dating (still in use in India today) and builds Peshawar. Sogdians trading on Silk Route

• c. A.D. 50 – Establishment of direct sea trade between Rome and India, bypassing overland route middlemen

• A.D. 52 – Legendary date of arrival of St. Thomas in India

A.D. 100-200

• Roman empire at its largest, becomes a major market for Eastern goods

• Buddhism reaches China. For the next few centuries, Buddhism flourishes, becoming the most popular religion in Central Asia, replacing Zoroastrianism

• The four great empires of the day – the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Chinese – bring stability to the Silk Route

• c. A.D. 100 – Indian embassy to Trajan

A.D. 200-300

• Parthian Empire's trade routes were extended in the maritime ports of Southeast Asia as far as the Malay Peninsula's international port of Tun-sun

• Han dynasty ends. China splits into fragments

• Chinese alchemists invent gunpowder

A.D. 220 – Han dynasty falls and China disintegrates

A.D. 300-400

• Xiongnu invade China again. China further dissolves into fragments

• Dun Huang grottos start to appear and become the world's largest Buddhist caves

 

The above is just a smattering. If we are to take the 1,000 year reign seriously, it doesn’t just invalidate early and medieval history in the West, but also the East. All of those dynasties just never happened? Moving forward to the Middle ages, are all of these events just fantasy? I’ll be all over the timeline here as this is just meandering through the history I’ve read over the years.

 

·         Britannia (Rome)

·         Founding of Islam in 622 when Mohammed visits Medina

·         Formation of Germania and Francs

·         Viking raids on England

·         Viking discovery of North America (Yes, there are stories about it)

·         Catholic persecution of the Waldenses and Albigenses?

·         Geoffrey Chaucer

·         The Crusades to retake Jerusalem – all of that was fake?

·         The anti-biblical pragmatism of Machiavelli’s The Prince was published right in the middle of the Kingdom of Christ?

·         Muslim raiders were allowed to expand for hundreds of years?

·         Battle of Tours in 732 (http://chrisritchie.blogspot.com/2014/09/charles-martel-should-have-been-pacifist.html)

·         Elizabethan England

·         King James’ Bible

·         Tyndale

·         Pilgrims – devout Puritans were not part of the Millennial kingdom?

·         Colonization of the rest of the world by European powers?

·         Islamic slave trade

·         Atlantic slave trade

 

I could go on and on. The point is that a re-imagining of history would require reams of proof. Tartaria as the Millennial Kingdom is certainly interesting, but the propaganda of our current timeline runs very deep. We can’t even convince people there is a problem with the Federal Reserve or that perhaps, just perhaps, macro evolution is a fantastic lie and we did not evolve from apes. With the thousands upon thousands of books written on the history of the last 2,000+ years, I don’t see Tartaria = Millennial Kingdom as a valid interpretation. What Tartaria was is still up for debate. At this point, I don’t believe it was the Millennial kingdom. There is far too much evil and war that we seem to know about for it to have been allowed. The only plausible explanation is that it was a limited kingdom. Many, perhaps most, people were never allowed in. The rest of the world was left to its own devices and the history we see and have studied. I can believe that more than a complete cover-up from AD70 to our present time.

 

Flat Earth, Disinformation, and the Eternal Search for Truth

I'm writing this as a stopping point in my search about evidence for the flat earth. It is intriguing. There are two people that I trust at this moment with their research. One is the originator of the current controversy, Eric Dubay (At least as I understand it). He published his book, The Flat Earth Conspiracy, in 2014. The other is Rob Skiba - more from him in just a moment. Rob's site and many other sites latched on to his fresh look at this with new technologies. You can find Eric at his website, The Atlantean Conspiracy. It is a bit of an older controversy however.

For thousands of years EVERYONE believed we were on a flat earth, irrespective of religion or culture. The Bible describes Earth as a flat circle, or a a disk. The two people I cited above have excellent articles and videos on this fact.  Samuel Birley Rowbotham published his book on Zetetic Astronomy in 1881. The debate raged from before Copernicus right up to the beginning of the 20th century. Perhaps it stopped because the powers that be had finally managed to capture the educational systems through compulsory schooling. But that is another story.

The other person I found who conducts excellent research is a Christian, Rob Skiba. He is open and honest with his research, doing it all in public. He is not a flat earther, but is questioning the official narrative. You can find him here and here.

It is interesting to me that Christian and non-Christian alike are questioning this and have some very valid perspectives.

By the way, please stay away from the co-intel agents already infiltrating the discussion and seeking to control the narrative.

One other site not mentioned in the above link is Mr. Survive and Thrive. I  have watched only a few of his videos, but he seems credible thus far. He has a youtube channel with many more videos.

He mentions the Michelson-Morley experiment and Einstein's development of the Special Theory of Relativity in response to the results of that experiment. Here is the established, mainstream view of the experiment: Michelson-Morely

Here is the alternate explanation: 3 Experiments disproving the spinning globe. I'm not sure what it proves because the point of the experiments were to prove the "aether." They failed. One other experiment worth mentioning is the Airy Experiment. I don't know how much of a cover up this is other than simply another failed experiment.

The math is what really intrigued me. The first thought was about flight paths on a spinning globe. You can see an excellent video here by Eric Dubay. The other attempted scientific approach of this was from Brian Mullin. The video is hosted by Globe Skeptic. I will say more on the flight paths question in a moment.

The other mathematical problem that seems to be completely without dispute is the curvature of the earth. The curvature of the earth is not visible. From anywhere. From any real picture. The NASA photos are composites. They freely admit as much on their website. Based on the stated circumference of the flat earth, the earth and your line of site should curve away from you as the distance from the observer to the target increases. The accepted figure is 8 inches per mile. Here is the formula:

r = earth's radius
^2 = squared
Horizon Miles: Sqrt of ((r + height / 5280) ^2) - r^2

This has been proven in experiments to be false. The flat earther's see this as a function of perspective, which comes from the science of optics. Based on the math, you absolutely should not be able to see a building or ship shorter than 600 feet at 30 miles away. Why? because according to the basic math, the horizon has dropped from your perspective by 600.16 feet. Thus, a 100 foot tall building or a 20 foot tall ship from the waterline to the top should not be visible at 30 miles away. It should be physically impossible. Yet if you get binoculars, the ship or the building comes back into view, accounting for the change in perspective due to optics.

Now the established answer uses magical terms like refraction and mirage to explain this. And it isn't easily explained. See here and here. I don't think the articles address it at all. You be the judge.

Yet even with all that, here is the objection I still have. I work in a scientific field. I studied Aerodynamics, Astronautics, Orbital Mechanics, and Physics. My first job out of college was as a Satellite Operations Officer in the Air Force. The math works out for a globe model. I have seen the telemetry first hand from our geostationary satellites. 

Back to the flight paths question. As I was reviewing the math related to that, I reviewed the equations for Small Scale Ballistic Missiles (SSBM's) and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM's). There is a correction for a moving earth in these equations. I researched it a bit more and realized I should review rotating coordinate systems and the equations of motion. As I was looking for texts online, I came across this link: Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean. This is part of a joint program between Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and MIT. It is part of a Master's and PhD track. The point is, the mathematics are advanced. And it is taught as truth by our most renowned institutions. 

As I began working through the equations, I realized that due to what was described above, our relationship to a moving ball earth has been explained by relativity, advanced fluid dynamics and coordinate systems, and a viable space program with satellite and missile tests every year.

I just can't believe there is a conspiracy to cover up this math and that the rest of our fellow human beings, who are incredibly smart, are compartmentalized to the point that they can't see the simple mathematical fallacy. The opposite must be true because we have used that very same advanced mathematics to launch satellites in near and far earth orbit.

Something else could be going on, but if you try and negate the globe earth with math, you will fail because we have 100+ years of math and science models that say the globe is correct. My question is how would a satellite stay in orbit if the earth is a flat disk?

Then it occurred to me. Since either we are moving or the stars are moving, we absolutely cannot know for certain which it is until we could see from a third person perspective. Relativity will give us different results. It could very well be that some other mechanism is holding up the satellites. But I want to focus back on the spiritual and philosophical perspectives.

With Copernicus and those that followed, we invented our own mathematics (Newton invented Calculus, though it is up for debate if von Leibniz beat him to it). The same observations can be explained by both a flat earth model with the stars spinning and the globe earth model with the earth spinning. The only difference is that God has been removed from necessity if the earth is a globe. Wouldn't it be just like Lucifer to cleverly drive man to an idea that doesn't need God, just like has been attempted with the unproven theory of Macro-Evolution?

I think this is a distinct possibility. We can make the math work that says a plane flying from east to west experiences inertial forces that delay its track over the earth so that it arrives when it does by simple time and speed calculation. We see the same observation though if the earth were flat with only wind resistance to deal with. So which is right?

This whole debate is interesting because in every area of science since the Renaissance, God and the need for Him has been progressively removed. Why would that be?

I still believe God even if the Earth were a globe. Jesus still came to a globe earth or a flat earth. Jesus still rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father on a globe earth or a flat earth. The Bible still correctly predicted many prophecies and Jesus' birth, life, and death. All of that is not up for debate with me. But it will call into question the claim of biblical inerrancy once again.

Vox Popoli: Inside the Syrian war

Vox Popoli: Inside the Syrian war

In this day and age of misinformation (Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread UNINTENTIONALLY. It is distinguished from Disinformation, which is INTENDED to mislead.), disinformation, and Propaganda, a first-hand account is refreshing. Please take a look at this article linked above from Vox Day.

Vaccine Freedom Under Fire

I came across an article shared on Facebook about vaccines - "Why I Chose Not to Vaccinate My Son." It was posted by a Homeopathic practitioner, Michele Brookhaus, RSHom(NA), CCH. You can find her website at http://beyondwell.com. Yahoo had picked it up on the 25th of July 2015. When I looked for it on the 28th of July, it was gone. I had to use web archive to try and find it. Fortunately, it had been captured and I found the original site or I never would have found the article or her site.

In the article, Ms. Brookhaus presented a cogent, rational argument on why she chose not to vaccinate her son. It was backed up with research. But when I went to the comments, the only thing I found were ninety percent negative against what she was saying.

What I'm learning is that despite someone's best efforts at rational discourse, people are going to believe what they want to believe. The commenters, instead of testing her theories and looking up the information she presented, simply dismissed them out of hand as the ravings of a quack doctor. They only have questionable studies that prove the efficacy of vaccines. They presented no information to refute the fact that eczema is listed in the vaccine insert as a side effect of the vaccine. They presented no reason why it is a good idea to force people to conform to their view of mandatory vaccination. Here are some references for those who are willing to look. In those articles you will find the references to journals that support a cautious approach to vaccines.

Herd immunity is a myth.

Outbreaks are more common in vaccinated populations than in unvaccinated ones.

Nutrition and hygiene were more strongly correlated with a decrease in disease than vaccines because all of the vaccines were introduced late in the trends. This is most true in the case of Measles.

There have been zero measles deaths in the last 10 years compared with 108 deaths from measles vaccines.

But none of this matters to the people who support vaccines. They don't care about the evidence, only their own indoctrination.

It does no good to post in Facebook comments. No one is changing anyone's mind through comments. Someone said this: "Just because something happens around the same time as something else doesn't mean it's related." They said that trying to claim no relationship exists between the Eczema and the vaccine. Yet, they won't see the same logic in refuting the claim that vaccines were not responsible for the decline in disease - good nutrition and hygiene was.

People have their minds made up until it happens to them. Logic doesn't win arguments - emotional reactions do. Only when people are confronted with tragedy will they change their cherished beliefs. The indoctrination from the medical establishment (see the Flexner Report) is just too strong. Yet it is amazing the number of people who turn to "alternative" medicine when the pharmaceutical drugs fail them and even hurt them.

All I can say to Ms. Brookhaus is be encouraged. There are many of "us" on your side. I will speak the truth as much as I can. I will post the truth in articles for the world to see and ignore the trolling comments. I found her article and agree with it. I will ignore the hatred coming from the comments toward her.

Homeopathy has worked for our family. It will work in the future. Allopathy is a failed model. The people who hate Ms. Brookhaus for what she wrote are ignorant of the truth. They don't understand that the whole health model was dominant until Allopathy was forced upon the American people at  the turn of the twentieth century through the financial support of Rockefeller, Carnegie, and others.

History of AMA
Medical Mafia

They haven't yet been touched by tragedy. They don't know that the medical community is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. That link is from the Huffington Post in 2014. Their cognitive dissonance and pride prevent them from considering another viewpoint. I pity them.

But they become the enemy when they insist on forcing their totalitarian views on us through forced vaccinations. This is nothing more than Eugenics repackaged.

I long for the day when we can return to reasoned debate. Unfortunately, the pro-vaccine side is so woefully ignorant that reasoned debate will be impossible in the near future. Until then, let's agree to disagree and let freedom reign. Our bodies - our choice. Forced medication is nothing short of tyranny.

Vox Popoli: Christianity's killers

Vox Popoli: Christianity's killers

As usual, Vox has a great discussion about Christian culture. Highly recommended read.

Apologetics are for Christians, Not the Unbelievers

Trying to argue for the existence of a standard moral law to which all humans should adhere is exhausting. I came across another blog today where the author was confidently proclaiming that people should adhere to his version of chivalry and self-sacrifice because - Natural Law!

When challenged on that assumption, the debate inevitably degenerated to a discussion of

"My god can beat up your god!"
"Nuh Uh! You can't say that! The Bible is just an old book!"
"Oh Yeah? Well you're just stupid!"

That's not what was said, but sadly that was the rationale between the warring factions.It's sophomoric. It's juvenile. It is the state of debate when people aren't even equipped to understand debate and rhetoric.

As a Christian, I tire of the back and forth. The appeal to "Reason" as the highest good. The demand for evidence that must adhere to "scientific" standards when the people asking for that evidence don't realize that observational evidence is only one type of rational evidence in the field of epistemology.

A commenter on the post recommended I watch a debate between Dr. Greg Bahnsen and Dr. Gordon Stein. Good stuff.

Then it occurred to me that the Apologetics, the evidences, the legal rationale, etc. aren't for the unbelievers. They're to reassure the committed Christians that they are on the right path. And this is ok. The Bible has 1 John to tell us what a true Christian looks like.

• He doesn't try to say he has no sin
• He confesses sins
• He loves his brother. If he doesn't, then he isn't really a Christian
• He walks in the Light
• He keeps God's commandments
• He does not love the World
• He does not deny Jesus is the Christ
• He practices righteousness
• He helps his brother in need, physically - not just spiritually
• He has the Spirit of God

There are more, but these are apologetics from 1 John. I've lived awhile now, and NEVER have I seen an unbeliever from one of these debates come to Christ because of it. I can do a fair job of representing these ideas, but no one has ever fallen to their knees in abject appreciation for the message and "proofs" I've given them. No one has ever come to Christ from anything I've said in a debate.

What does that mean? The older I get, the more I think the Calvinists are right: No one can come to God unless God first calls them. The only thing I ever really had against them was the idea that someone can live as they pleased but were always saved. Yet just from observational evidence, it is clear that most people just don't want to hear the Gospel. God isn't calling them.

Presenting the Gospel to a willing heart is one thing. Trying to win a debate is another. But I'm pretty sure it is a small percentage that are won as a result of the debate.

Love alone doesn't win people to Christ either. Without an effective presentation of the Gospel, all the good works in the world won't win a person who is not ready to hear the message. They will gladly take your free food, free clothes, and warm beds for years and NEVER come to Christ for anything.

So far, it looks as if the Calvinists are right. The only way people are won is by the working of the Holy Spirit in their lives. If they aren't being drawn, then they are lost. They not only WON'T hear, they CANNOT hear. They don't have spiritual eyes and hearts to see.

I don't want to waste any more time on people who aren't looking. I want to find the people that are looking for God. They come first.

The PC War on Christianity - Ironically on a Men's Rights Site

So I decided to wade in to the manosphere yesterday. For those that don’t know what that is, here is a link or two:

http://www.mgtow.com/manosphere/

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/manosphere

http://www.returnofkings.com/category/manosphere

http://vivalamanosphere.com/

I’m not advocating for or against any of those sites. But I do have to take issue with one particular site:

http://www.avoiceformen.com

I commented on this article recently:

Generation Porn - The Real Reasons Why Men are Shunning Marriage

It was a youtube video of an excellent discussion of why millenials aren’t choosing marriage at the same rate as previous generations. I would argue that economics plays more of a role than social changes, but that’s an argument for another post.

I commented on the article in the same way that I do most articles: forthrightly and unapologetically. You can click through to see my comments. I thought I had found a small band of brothers. I thought I had found men that were Christians that saw things as I did. We seemed to agree on some of the issues surrounding marriage and family.

Imagine my surprise when my comment was immediately contradicted by an “agnostic.” What galls me about these people is that they look down their noses at Christians, while not understanding that their pseudo-intellectual arguments against God, the Bible, and Christianity in general have been absolutely demolished and discredited by serious books and research into the historicity, evidence, science, and philosophy surrounding it. Christianity is in fact a more rational and logical approach than Atheism or Agnosticism. But don't try and argue that--the Atheists don't have the understanding of Rhetoric and Logic that they think they do.

I’m not going online to proselytize, I’m really not. I know the futility of that effort. What I was trying to do is show that the Christian tradition does have a credible, well-documented, and historically verifiable answer to the question of marriage roles. It was in line with the theme of the article. What do I get in return for the olive branch in my hand? A bloody stump where my hand used to be.

I don’t understand the Christian church’s fascination with allowing itself to be ridiculed and spat upon in the market place of ideas. That isn’t love—it’s surrender! It’s rolling over like a whipped dog and admitting defeat. This doesn’t encourage people to come to Christ.

My attempt to share my own marriage observation was met with vitriol and banishment. Why? Because they follow a false god of moral relativism. The un-believers not only don’t believe in God, they don’t even believe that there can be one truth. And they’re oh so certain of their tolerant moral superiority.

What they don’t realize is that the ultimate fruit of their post-modern worldview will be abject disgrace, ugliness, hopelessness, and despair. Francis Schaeffer displayed the results beautifully in How Should We Then Live. The end result isn’t beauty, it’s apathy and despair. But they literally CANNOT see it because they are blind. 

"But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, ⁴ whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them." 
2 Corinthians 4:3-4

What is skipped in the entire discussion is the Reformation. And when did that start? It started with Martin Luther in 1517 and with Guttenberg’s printing press 67 years before in 1450. The principles of property rights and liberty for the individual were also influenced by the Christian understanding. Too much credit is given to Locke and Hobbes on those ideas. Schaeffer argued that Locke appropriated his ideas from Samuel Rutherford’s, Lex Rex (Law is King) and discarded the Christian foundation for those views. Noah Webster also argued a similar rationale. The godless Renaissance and Enlightenment elevated Man to the same level as God. Man became his own measure.

But they don’t know what they don’t know. Their college educations were limited to only Hume, Nietzsche, and others who disputed Christianity.  This is what happens when you try to have an educational system devoid of the Bible. You create graduates ignorant of the very foundations of Christendom and Western Civilization that led to prosperity for the common man unheard of in the history of the world. The sad part is they feel triumphant in their ignorance to the point that you can’t even reason with them. The books and arguments are out there. Start with Augustine, move on to Aquinas, then look to the modern day philosophers such as Schaeffer, Plantinga, William Lane Craig, G.K. Chesterton, Paul Copan (His book, Is God a Moral Monster? is an excellent answer to many common Old Testament objections), Norman Geisler, Greg Koukl, C.S. Lewis, David Marshall, JP Moreland, Jonathan Morrow, Ravi Zacharias, and N.T. Wright. Evidences and legal justification can be found in the works of Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel. 

All you need to do is read William Bennett’s The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators and Robert Bork’s Slouching Towards Gomorrah to see where those ideas have led us. Also check out Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence. Those books give example after example of the end game of post modernism. [Sigh] but yes, these secular humanists know better than us backwards Christians.

Back to the article at hand, I merely said that a Christian marriage has made me happy. For that I am labeled a “tradcon.” I had to look that up. It means one that follows a traditional conservative mindset. Guilty as charged! (One caveat-I read Dean Esmay's article on Tradcons vs. Feminists; I agree that the more traditional family is extended, not the artificial construct of one man at work and one woman at home that was created in the 40's.) Pardon me for believing that committed Christians in loving homes produce great families, happy children, good citizens and a prosperous society. And yes there is ample research to support those claims. Look here, here, here, and here. It’s practically a priori for the first century and a half of the U.S. as well as other Christian countries in the West. Why don’t the muslim countries have that prosperity and freedom? Oh that’s right, because ostensibly “rich” countries like Saudi Arabia are too busy cutting off people’s heads. Yep, that’s Islamic progress for you.

I’m just not buying into the PC arguments anymore. The “enlightened” agnostics, humanists, and atheists at A Voice For Men banned me for “bigotry and general contempt for the work AVfM.” What they really banned me for was daring to suggest that the traditional Christian view of marriage might be something to look into. After all, if it is true for me, then perhaps it can be true for you? I was banned for a truth claim that Jesus was right when He said,

"...I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
- John 14:6

Truth claims are not allowed on that site. I didn’t realize it because yesterday is the first day I’ve ever visited the site. And no, I didn't read the comments rules at all. I didn't realize that the site was so touchy about who commented and how. I know better now.

And here is the crazy thing: I was banned by a FEMALE moderator on a MEN’s site! Oh the IRONY! She stated, “We ban people for disdain and bigotry, including religious bigotry.” So a truth-claim for Christianity is now religious bigotry. Do you see how that happened? That is a direct assault on freedom of speech and a prime example of how PC apologists try to capture and change the definition of terms. This steers the argument in their favor because they know they can't win on the merits of their arguments alone. I understand speech discrimination is allowed on a private site, but it is still discrimination against a form of speech they don’t like. And here I thought PC was all about tolerance. What it really says is tolerance for me, but not for thee. They can't have it both ways. They can't claim to be fair minded and equal when they are censoring viewpoints.

See, the World wants all of the benefits of God’s blessings with none of the trials. So what has the Christian church done? Dumbed it down and removed every reference to God to produce their success manuals. John Maxwell, Norman Vincent Peale, and others try and state that you can have success without God. Well, not without a price. That success is coming at the cost of having given your allegiance to the prince and power of the air, Satan. Here's Bob Dylan cryptically admitting as much.

I’m losing compassion for people who remain willfully ignorant and prideful.

"...for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."
- Hebrews 11:6

These people need God, but they don't even want to consider the Christian perspective. It's "bigotry." The Christian church needs to be a little more militant and a little less cowed by claims that we don’t know what we’re talking about. We’ve been shamed into subservience to a world that desperately needs God but rejects all overtures. The people commenting on the article wring their hands over what to do, but reject time-honored advice like the following:

^"22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. ²⁴ Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, ²⁶ that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. ³⁰ For we are members of His body,^[d] of His flesh and of His bones. ³¹ “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”^{[e] 32} This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. ³³ Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."
- Ephesians 5:22-33

Instead, this is what we get: “It is AVfM’s official position that men’s issues are neither a matter of partisan alignment nor aided by religious doctrine,"

I disagree, and a couple of thousand years of Christian history beg to differ.

Blessings follow not just in the U.S. but everywhere Christianity is embraced. Running water, help for children, and help for the poor. I could go on and on. Check out the book, What if Jesus Had Never Been Born by Kennedy. Yeah, there would be no hospitals and we’d go the way of Rome and Sparta practicing infanticide were it not for Christianity. As an aside, Christianity also greatly enhanced the status of women in the ancient world. See here and here. As I said, the world loves the benefits, but not the costs of following Christ.

The non-believers love to try and quote scripture back to Christians and try and throw it in our faces. The fact though is that the non-believers simply can't grasp things because they are spiritually discerned. Finally, they have no place to judge us. They aren't of Christ. They don't love Christ and keep His laws. Here is the Bible's answer on that subject:

¹³ These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy^[a] Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 
1 Corinthians 2:13-15 

In conclusion, their assertion that religious doctrine does not aid in the discussion of men's issues, and by extension, family issues, is patently false. The purpose of the article was to discuss marriage, about which the Bible has a lot to say as I quoted earlier. They suppress opinions they don't like. Doesn't sound very fair-minded to me.