We are told that "by their fruits you shall know them". In similar vein, we are told that "wisdom is vindicated by her children". The implication of the latter is that folly and Unbelief is exposed and condemned by its children.
The modern husting-hugger seems to believe that public anger conveys genuineness. It apparently magnifies the horror and evil of whatever they happen to be protesting and shouting. Outrage substitutes for argument, but somehow that is a good thing, because passion, even inchoate passion, sprinkles an aura of authenticity to a cause when rational argument fails. Passion therefore cloaks itself as truth.
Of course there is nothing wrong with passion, provided it is grounded in truth and righteousness. But what our modern protesting shock-troops fail to grasp is that the tenuousness of the cause is being exposed by the antics. The children are shaming the parents. The actions illustrate the evil of the underlying beliefs.
When the "Occupy" movement had its half-life of public attention the media was captivated by the prospect of a genuine, grass-roots, little-person rebellion. A few more headlines and sales dollars for the media beckoned. But before you could say, "Down with the capitalists" stories began to filter out of the "spontaneous" protest camps about rape, dirt, filth, drugs, public defecation, and general lawlessness. Ah, said the fellow-travellers--that shows its a genuine protest movement concerned about real evils.
What the Occupy "movement" actually showed is the highest, most committed flowers of Unbelief. The children were shaming the parent--which in this case was the doctrine that God is dead. The protesting children began publicly to live as if God really were dead. Since they did not fear God, they did not fear man. They were free to abuse, shout, spit, rape and steal.
There was recently another manifestation of the fruits of Unbelief--this time in Australia.
Miranda Devine describes the inchoate, senseless, unreasoned passion of the zealots of Unbelief as they went on public display recently.
It makes sense that those who have made a career out of refugee activism, like barrister Julian Burnside, would applaud the March in March protest over the weekend. All over Australia, from Perth to Belmore Park, the grab-bag of placards waved by protesters ranged from silly to sinister, but they were a tremendous showcase for the incoherent, impotent muddle the Left finds itself in now that conservatives are ascendant. . . .
But there were two unifying themes. One was refugee activism — more of that later.
The other was a visceral hatred of [Australian Prime Minister] Tony Abbott, with scrawny young men wearing black “F... Tony Abbott” T-shirts walking alongside children dragged along to learn how to hate.
“F... Tony Abbott F... democracy” read one banner. The Abbott-hating ranged from “Our country has been hijacked by terrorists!” and “Abbott is a weapon of mass destruction,” to “Resign dickhead” and “I vote for retroactive abortion on Tony”.
There were echoes of Scott Ludlam in “We want our country back.”, “I want a government I can be proud of” and “Tony stop embarrassing Australia” banners. Abbott is a “racist sexist elitist homophobic fascist” read another placard. Melbourne feminists even knitted a banner saying “Misogynist KnitWit: Not PM Material”. Insults ranged from “Tony is Abutt” to a sign featuring Abbott’s face with a close up photo of a penis tip affixed to his head. There was a placard showing Abbott’s face with a pig’s nose and the word “OINK”. “It’s our planet Tony you ignorant pig” read another. In Canberra a woman wearing an “Ask me about your rights at work” union T shirt carried a placard of Abbott’s face with the words “Ditch the Drongo”. . . .
And in Sydney a young tattooed woman wearing what looked like a blonde wig carried a sign saying “#KillABBOTT” and the words “Campaign?” and “Pozible”, which is a fundraising website for random causes. Presumably she was drumming up support for a crowd-sourced assassination of the Prime Minister, an incitement to violence worth police investigation. In Newcastle, union leader Gary Kennedy took to the stage with a Scottish accent to tell protesters Gina Rinehart was a “filthy animal” and “”despicable human being”.
Then the Newcastle Trades Hall secretary went well beyond the realms of acceptable protest. Qantas boss Alan Joyce, he said, “should be shot somewhere in the back of the head.” He apologised yesterday, but it’s too late. An already discredited union movement has flicked the switch to “crazy”.
This is the sort of scene that Greens MP Adam Bandt, who met protesters outside Parliament House, described as “the compassionate, humane and generous heart of this country”.
On social media, barrister Burnside also looked on approvingly as the Marchmarchers brandished “Free the Refugee” posters. He re-tweeted another tweeter’s glowing endorsement of this placard: “If Tony Abbott and (Environment Minister) Greg Hunt were drowning any you could only save one of them what pub would you go to?” Ha ha. . . .
But they seem angrier than ever.
It makes sense only when you look at some of the people who are being foiled by the Abbott government’s border protection policies. Take Iranian Arash Sedigh, who was the star of the ABC’s 730 program on Monday night, appearing in footage taken by asylum seekers who were being towed back to Java in what they angrily called a “f...ing orange boat”.
Sedigh admitted he had been refused entry to Australia through the skilled migration program and so: “We decided to go there in illegal way, to make them accept us.” But when the people smuggler’s boat he was on was intercepted by the Royal Australian Navy he was outraged. “I couldn’t tolerate. I told them, ‘I will kill you if you don’t take us to that ship. I have nothing to lose. I will kill you’.” Finally we see this charmer atop the orange lifeboat which is chugging back to Java after being cut loose by the Australians.
“They put us in this f...ing orange boat and sent us back to Indonesia. F... Australia. If later on you said, ‘Why they do that to America on September 11?’ you should know the cause of it is your very deeds. Remember 9-11 for United States. All the world should know why. Australian government, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, Immigration — all of them are the smugglers.”
Then the footage shows two of his compatriots giving the finger to the camera: “F... Australia!” So there you have it: “F... Australia”. “F... democracy” “Kill Abbott”.
It’s the exact same attitude of angry unjustified entitlement, which the Marchmarchers exhibited all weekend.
So, let's recap. What is being vindicated by these children of Unbelief? Murder, rapine, rage, profanity, and a being besotted with depraved sexuality. It is a living portent of Hell. By their fruits you shall know them.
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