As the fighting moderates, Mount the Lone Bullwork, February 5th, 2024.

Introduction.

Oscar Wilde once defined a gentleman as someone who never insults

anyone else accidentally. There's a principle here that Christians can take and reapply in other situations,

a gold from the Egyptians kind of scenario.

Last week I wrote a couple of pieces that stirred the pot in what I consider to be necessary ways.

In the first, in my response to Alice Turbig, I used a couple of celebratory events that Christians could not attend in order to to and a man gave to introduce his girlfriend, for whom he touched his wife of 30 years,

and also the case of a man with a problematic alt-right website that went big,

and they were going to start up a print magazine of the white nationalist sort,

and you were invited to a grand opening barbecue.

My answer was that of course you would not attend either one of these, but that the Tranny reception

was far more of an ethical debacle than the other two. All of them would be bad to celebrate, but you should make a point of not going to the Tranny event, you know, like five or six times. This resulted in some murmuring on the internet, and you all know how important it is that murmuring on the internet

be addressed. So I followed up with a piece critiquing the principle that is currently circulating

among some conservative hardliners, which is that of no enemies to the right, Nettor.

I believe that our guiding principle should be that if God has enemies to my right,

then I have a moral obligation to have enemies to my right.

But I did grant a measure of wisdom to the netter impulse.

We must not denounce anyone to our right simply because we are feeling emotional pressure

from the screeches on the left, those who never cease demanding that we do so.

They will not be modified in any case, and so it is important never to try. There are a number of

important threads here and so I ask you to stay with me.

Churchill's dilemma. An old English proverb says that he who sups with the devil

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