THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

BAPTIZING FETUSES | 2010-11-23

The whole question of when life begins revolves around baptism. Originally the Church accepted I think Aristotle's idea that a fetus was a plant, and that during pregnancy it evolved through each level of being until the end, when it was human.

Yes, fetal evolution!

I even remember a horror movie in the 50s that talked about this theory and the story line was about a duke who had been born a frog.

Later the Church adopted a Middle Ages philosopher's idea that the embryo is as human as the baby.

This was critical, because the official dogma of the Catholic Church was then and is now that an unbaptized baby carries Original Sin to Judgment. The doctrine of Limbo was created to blunt the brutality of this, but few people know that official Church doctrine says that after the Day of Judgment there are only two destinations for the human soul, Heaven and Hell.

And, with apologies to Dante, Hell is not fair.

In the Middle Ages there was a device that looked like a grease can, with a long snout, which was used to baptize babies who were dying in the womb. It is still true that the Church considers babies who die in the womb to be damned, but it is beneath the dignity of a modern priest to do that and the law wouldn't let them if they wanted to.

In Mexico many babies die unbaptized because they can't pay the fee to the priest. They think their babies are damned. Actually, a parent or anybody else, male or female, Catholic or atheist, can baptize a child.

According to Church doctrine, every aborted fetus goes to Hell eventually.

In Calvinist doctrine the chosen few live a life that shows they are among the Chosen. All babies, regardless of baptism, go to Hell.

Today's Pro-Life Movement takes none of this into account. For all its shrieks about religion, it is entirely secular. Catholic pro-Life forces, and they are by no means the entire movement, never mention baptism, because it would be beneath their dignity to admit they believe in things Mommy Professor would laugh at.

In Screwtape, CS Lewis did say the Devil was a liar. But the examples Screwtape gave, of a man who avoided evil company because he liked to eat rotting fish and went to Heaven, sound like the purely serendipitous way Judgment is decided.

There is simply no way for a person to say that he believes in Heaven and Hell and impress his suburban neighbor that he is logical, reasonable and beyond all respectable.

If you believe, there is no place for Pride, which is now called Respectability. It is a deadly sin, to the baby and to you, if you believe in the doctrine of the Church.

I do not believe the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Satan cannot build with something he does not have. But he has plenty of Pride.

JUMPED-UP WHITE TRASH | 2006-12-09

The "society" column is not what it used to be. There is a section of the paper usually dedicated to "Society," but now it means society in the anthropological sense. "Society" used to be run by certain people who were known as uppah clahss.

The major last book about this kind of Society was written by Cleveland Amory in the 1950s. It was entitled, "Who Killed Society?" Amory was a New York-Washington liberal -- no other writers let their politics be known in the 1950s -- so one of his conclusions was particularly surprising. He concluded that the only place where an upper class "society" existed was in Charleston, South Carolina!

He almost said it in plain English, "Charleston has an aristocracy. Everybody else has turned into jumped-up white trash."

One of the most amusing (and least emphasized) examples he gave was when the Four Hundred Book Publisher came to Charleston. There had been a book describing the four hundred families who made up Society in New York, then another on the four hundred families who made up Society in Philadelphia.

Being popular, this Four Hundred Book idea spread to Chicago, Boston and on down the population scale. Then they showed up in Charleston. The scout who was to find out about the four hundred in Charleston was directed, of course, to a little old lady on the Battery. He went to her and he told her about the book, which every where else had met with gushing enthusiasm.

The Charleston lady was not grateful, she was puzzled, "Why are you doing this?"

The man replied, "So people in Charleston will know who the leading families here are."

The lady replied, "We know that."

There was never a South Carolina Four Hundred.

When integration came, our Charleston Society led the fight against it. When Mississippi was invaded by Kennedy, the Charleston paper said, "We should fight on the campus, we should fight them in the trenches. This is war."

The New York Times took the other side. The Atlanta Journal took the other side. Charleston didn't give a damn. And being so confident of your loyalties that you don't give a damn what others think is one of the major factors that separates aristocrats from naciocrats.

Everywhere else, the "upper class" in Atlanta or New Orleans fought for integration. They wanted the kind of approval that comes from New Yorkers who published the Four Hundred.

In Britain, the Queen says all you need to live in the UK is to be loyal to HER. Her birth as Queen is important. The average Brit being born on the island doesn't mean a damned thing. All peasants are equal.

The son of the Prince (Elector) of Liechtenstein came to America and married a black woman.

Charlestonians, the only real aristocrats left, were leaders of THEIR people, which is what aristocracy is all about. Louis Andrews, an old ally of mine who publishes the web page, "Tracking the Wild Taboo" is one of the last of that breed. I am sure that the rest of the Charleston "upper crust" has joined Atlanta and New York.

So what we call aristocracy and the uppah clahss today is jumped-up white trash.

SIEGECRAFT: THE DAY OF FITTING IN IS PAST!! | nationalsalvation.net

If you READ THE COMMENTS, you will find Dave and Simmons dovetailing on the point that it is time for us to stop fitting into some long-vanished political Right or whatever.

For example, I am getting very, very tired of reading people in Stormfront talking about protecting Obamastan's borders. They are militant about keeping the Hispanics here who vote for their Brother Hispanics right to come here.

Hell, at least THOSE Hispanics have a set of consistent loyalties I can understand. There are already PLENTY of nonwhites here to make an end to whites through the Glorious Assimilation conservatives worship, so why in the Hell should I back some anti-whites in camouflage jackets protecting this ridiculous border?

The horse is out of the friggin' BARN, for God's sake. But we have all these people yelling about closing the door.

The new politics cannot be aimed at the imaginary alliance I fought for in the pre-Reagan days. That did its job. It destroyed the USSR.

But the new job is to save our race. This is a new age. There is no coalition here. We must become spokesmen for the powerful white minority.

The turning point for the Communist Party in Russia came when the Czar had fallen and the elected Duma represented conservatism and the Soviet represented the "workers." A compromise was in the works. The President of the Soviet, which then contained a huge number of revolutionary parties, asked what he thought was a rhetorical question: He said, "We must compromise. After all, is there any party here that would be willing to take on full responsibility on itself alone?"

Lenin, head of the small Bolshevik delegation, stood up and said, "There IS such a party!" From that day, it was Lenin versus non-Lenin.

I played the coalition game when it was relevant. Anyone who reads about the period knows I was a major player in it.

I tell you the Day of the Coalition is OVER.

Someone must speak for the white race, beginning with its SURVIVAL, beginning with the Mantra.

Fitting In is Yesterday. "There is such a party" is Tomorrow.

YOUR CONSPIRACY | 2007-11-08

I am still trying to figure out what the opposite of "paranoid" is.

I love the feeling I get when I read the comments that people are conspiring behind my back to do me GOOD. I read things about how Bob's writings need to be put into a format, or this needs to be done with them. Not, "Bob, why don't you do this?" but "Why don't WE do this?"

Then there is BoardAd, who just flat DOES it.

This is, honestly, as good as it GETS. After a lifetime of plugging alone or with one or two indispensable people – I dedicated my first two books to my wife – it is a relief to see the baton being carried. And, of course, unlike the heroic Dr. Pierce, and heroic is the least I can say about him, I will not feel that my way of thinking will die with me.

No other compliment can be as satisfying as this one. Being told how smart you are in a lifetime of abuse is balm to the soul, but when people discuss how to extend what you devoted your life to, when they DO it, as BoardAd has – it makes my heart swell.

What I feel is the opposite of paranoia. Since it is a good thing, we naturally don't have a name for it. That shows how rare, and therefore how precious, it is.