COEXIST

 

Do you remember those annoying COEXIST bumper stickers? Sure you do, along with their vapid dropped-on-head-as-infant assumption, if only we could all agree to get along then there'd be world peace. Behold 2000 years of Western thought devolve to the level of a Miss World contest. And the problem with this is that it's utterly wrong. 

There are, unfortunately, bad actors running around; Jihad head-chopping third world savages can't coexist with civilized people. Kali worshipping Thugs can't coexist with people who believe murder sacrifice to a demon is a bad thing. Suttee widow burning can't ride alongside Christian people who value life, and neither can a Moloch worshipping culture of death.

You get the point, COEXIST has great rainbow pony potential and's guaranteed popular with every 16 year old girl or Bristol U undergrad, but it's rubbish. All religions, cultures and people aren't the same, they're often diametrically opposed. So when you throw them together what happens?

Belfast wakes up to an eye-gouging beheader Sudanese savage. Austin Metcalf gets stabbed in the heart at a sports event in Dallas. 13% of our US population commits what, 50 or 60% of violent crime, maybe more. Lee Rigby, remember him?, gets beheaded/macheted in greater London and on.

Point being, diversity is not our strength, unity is, unity around what's good, right and true. COEXIST doesn't give us that, but the Faith which built Europe and it's colonies, the Anglosphere, does. The West has effectively rejected that since at least 1945 and look where it's got us. Nowhere good and it'll surely get worse. Time to correct that.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

On The Other Side

 

Well that was a lot of fun. Spirited Easter Masses followed by the roast beef of Old Texas, Yorkshire pudding, carrots, roast potatoes, outrageously heavy English silver, Gerrards thank you very much, and general mahogany pounding all 'round. Great result, Christ has risen.

Then today. Wake up, amble downstairs and survey the kitchen. Marvel at the fact of its cleanliness. Yes, we cleared up after last night's celebration, make strong coffee and head out onto the back porch. Check the news on your phone and... lo and behold, the Pope's dead.

Well he was 88, to be fair, he also hated the Latin Mass and loved mass immigration into the West. I love the Latin Mass and hate mass immigration into the West, so we disagreed on that. But I won't bang on, may he rest in peace, even if he was a behind-the-times Vatican II empty the pew com/symp Liberation Theology Jesuit.

Who knows, maybe Ignatius Loyola will give him a stern talking to. And who knows who will succeed him? I don't and don't pretend to, though perhaps you do. Feel free to weigh in, no rule. In the meanwhile, leftover beef is being transformed into a beef and mushroom pie. Stand by for updates on this exciting culinary adventure.

Your Old Friend,

LSP

A Parable

 

Have you noticed that an Italian artist has sold nothing for 18k? Make of this parable what you will. In the meanwhile, here's a random all hail Lord Curzon.

Your Pal,

LSP