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No day that passes is inconsequential, or beyond the Sovereignty of God. Note some previous August 9th events:
1792 French revolutionaries prepare an early morning raid to arrest for execution King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
1942 Edith Stein was murdered at Auschwitz.
1943 Franz Jägerstätter was guillotined by the Wehrmarcht at Brandenburg-Görden Prison. Minutes before his execution, he was given the option to sign a document to save his life and join the Nazi army. He declined, abjuring any complicity with the Nazi regime. Jägerstätter’s last recorded words before his death were, “I am completely bound in inner union with the Lord.”
1945 Americans kill approximately 70,000 civilians with an Atomic Bomb in Nagasaki.
1969 Manson chaos-cult members murder five Hollywood professionals.
1974 American president Richard Nixon is hounded out of office by media pressure. Gerald Ford is sworn in.
2023 Members of congress purposely destroy evidence of the unjust “January 6” trials.
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
