The Musings Of The Consensus

 Now, before I begin the post proper, I am going to attempt to emulate the style of the following website: https://www.badassoftheweek.com/ However, while I do like how Ben Thompson takes the subject of history and makes it entertaining for the people who would otherwise zone out at the issue, I shall refrain from the profanity and as much crude humor as I can, though I will attempt to emulate his signature bombast and larger than life writing. FYI, before I continue, I do want to say, despite a few differences I have with Ben as a fellow student of history (primarily minor nitpicky stuff really), he is a legitimate historian, and writer of several excellent books on the subject, and I do appreciate how he tries to make the subject of history appeal to a wider demographic. With that out of the way, let's begin. The Bible has long been a font of all sorts of interesting information. Ranging from religious instruction to legal codes to life stories to random wisdom, there is somethin

 Recently, an alliance of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have come out in opposition to what they see as the excesses and depravity of the transgender movement lobby, specifically, against the "grooming" by the transgender lobby of impressionable minors into getting body-altering drugs and surgery to become transgender themselves. Given said lobby advocates against parental consent and often want to separate children from proper supervision by their legal guardians to involve children in discussions of sexual activity and the permanent alteration of their minds and bodies with surgeries and hormones as an apparent panacea for the stresses and rigors of adolescence, this alliance of the LGB have come to view the transgender lobby as a threat and believes such things should be legally barred from anyone who is not a consenting adult or at least such activities should only take place with the active knowledge and participation of parents, with the parents having veto power over t

Recently, TheGamer covered a controversy where a modder replaced some instances of rainbow flags appearing in a Spiderman game with the American flag. https://archive.ph/dpMAf As expected, the thin-skinned LGBT crowd shrieked about this being homophobia and hateful and raised the trumpets of flatulence over something someone with more sense, less ego, and a thicker skin would not care about. Now, the article above takes the side of the LGBT up in arms crying about how this is hateful to them and all, and I just have this rebuttal. How does a mod you do not have to endorse, look at, or download for your own game accomplish this? Now, to be fair, the modder in question decided, in their infinite stupidity, to try uploading this on Nexus Mods, where they had to ban modders causing a stink about IRL politics before, so this was just begging for trouble and should have been uploaded elsewhere, so in that regard, the modder was not very bright. But that said, and I say this as a person who g

 This post will be half a historical lesson and half biblical commentary. The reason is because of the fact this post will draw from a historical source and the historical background is both interesting on its own merits and ties into the biblical content. This commentary will draw on the scholarship of Henry Wager Halleck, Major-General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, from a book on military history, tactics, and strategy he wrote while he was still a 1st Lieutenant called  Elements of Military Art and Science.  While most of the text is concerned with matters utterly unrelated to the Bible, the very first section examines the reasons and justification for war and draws on moral precedent offered by the Christian faith for his arguments on the topic. It's worth noting Halleck was never much of a battlefield general, his record in that regard being, on the whole, uninspiring and mediocre at best. His credentials as a scholar and military bureaucrat, however, were i