Burned Alive

Today we found out that the Jordanian pilot, held by ISIS and used as a bargaining chip in negotiations for the release of terrorists, was, in fact, murdered even before "negotiations" began.

The horrific nature of this felonious premeditated first degree murder has people asking what in the world ISIS hopes to get out of it.

Sane people (which leaves out the current American administration infestation, of course) will obviously no longer take them seriously when they propose prisoner swaps or other negotiations.

And they have demonstrated even beyond the sawing off of live people's heads, their fundamentally barbaric nature.

I feel rather bad (using that word for the pond scum that are the members of ISIS) for actual historical barbarians, as many of them had a sort of honor we, the civilized, can actually recognize as such.

Obviously the same cannot be said for the virulent pollutants that are the followers of the Satanic Death Cult known as Islam.

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The other thing that some of us are wondering is why the repulsive dregs and their hilarious, laughable, pathetic "religion" appeal to seemingly normal Western young men (and women!) who leave the considerable wealth, security and prosperity of their home countries, families and friends, to join this putrescent rabble in their meaningless, pointless, made-up war against no-one in particular, and everyone in general, that offers nothing but the opportunity to splatter and spray as much innocent blood as possible, and destroy and dismember as many people in the most vile and feral ways as possible.

It occurs to me that the problem may be in the soulless West as much as the filthy Middle East.

In Europe and America, and I suspect, the rest of the Anglosphere, we have determinedly rejected "old-fashioned" values.

We have "freed" ourselves from the "limitations" of sexual restraint, personal responsibility, discipline, honor, faith, conscience, religion, social norms, decency, modesty, humility, charity, even true hope.

Is it any wonder that without the foundation all these virtues create and define, our children are left shiftless and groundless in a meaningless, hostile universe...and will be drawn to anything that will give them a sense of meaning, of connection, of belonging, of purpose?

Something that feeds your spirit (no matter how idiotic, profane and dangerous) is better than nothing when you are starving spiritually...and your culture has nothing to offer but big-butted twerkers as celebrities, and Miley Cyrus as "entertainment".

Children may not understand that this is starving their souls; but they feel the pain. And often will try anything to fill the emptiness. For some, it's murdering people in the name of Islam.

Maybe if we spent a little more time preserving and professing, inculcating and passing on our own culture instead of destroying it in the name of "multiculturalism" and liberalism/progressivism/marxism/atheism, and abandon the intellectually vapid and absurd idea that our culture is not "superior", but rather just "different" than others...we might actually win against the zombies at the Gate.

But then, maybe that's just me...

The Gunslinger