{"id":2636,"date":"2018-10-29T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2018-10-29T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:14:25","slug":"skaat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"SKAAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 Sept.. 2018<\/p>\n<p>Society for Kicking the Asses of Anti-Trumpists<\/p>\n<p>The nation is in need of the formation of SKAATs in every town.\u00a0 The increased volubility of puerile punks, foul-mouthed fools, and generally derelict Democrats has reached an intolerably irritating high. \u00a0As recently displayed in the national news during various political events,\u00a0 when matters do not favor the yearnings of the Left, &#8220;activists&#8221; (supporting the Democratic party) have turned to various forms of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Unwilling, if\u00a0 not unable, to control their emotions, their behavior takes them to unseemly juvenile antics.\u00a0 Such fits if incontinence, it is fair to assume, would have been cured had they been corrected by blows from a wise and diligent parent &#8211; as has always been the case in civilized, Christian cultures.\u00a0 But our age of rampant divorce, abortion, broken families, and the attendant dereliction in good parenting has left us with the current puerile and fitful &#8220;participation&#8221; in the political discourse process.<\/p>\n<p>There is a simple Bible principle which may inspire the establishment of these societies nationwide.\u00a0 It is quite popularly known by the aphorism:\u00a0 &#8220;Spare the rod; spoil the child.&#8221;\u00a0 But the wisdom does hearkens back to the text in the book of Proverbs: &#8220;A rod for the back of fools.&#8221; \u00a0Yes, the human spirit is corrupt, selfish, and utterly stubborn.\u00a0 And there are those children and those particular situations\u00a0 for which the remedy is simply a sound thrashing.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment of nationwide chapters of SKAAT would promote and provide such a remedy.\u00a0 Societies would organize a stick-carrying presence of members who would maintain the civil discourse and allow us to maintain the robust discourse which must accompany the deliberations of a free people under Law.\u00a0 Indeed, as our anthem declares, our Good is crowned in brotherhood and our liberty in Law.\u00a0\u00a0 Ultimately that Law must be identified as the Big Ten which prohibit blasphemy and murder.\u00a0\u00a0 We must never reject the divine origin of Law and that foundational to any civilized society is the right to life.\u00a0 The life of innocents, especially the most innocent of all &#8211; children in the womb &#8211; is sacred.\u00a0 And without the protection of the least of these, none are safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Sept.. 2018 Society for Kicking the Asses of Anti-Trumpists The nation is in need of the formation of SKAATs in every town.\u00a0 The increased volubility of puerile punks, foul-mouthed fools, and generally derelict Democrats has reached an intolerably irritating high. \u00a0As recently displayed in the national news during various political events,\u00a0 when matters do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-family-matters","category-political-ministry-of-the-churches-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}