Many of the builders of the modern internet are beginning to reflect on the odious direction of the modern culture the internet has spawned. Recently, we saw Jack Dorsey come out and say that he regrets his role in transforming the internet into what it is today. Elon Musk is becoming more vocal. Peter Thiel remains vocal.

Paul Graham is a British programmer and tech industry venture capitalist. Along with writing his own programming language, as a founder of Y Combinator, he provided seed funding for reddit.

He is also an essayist, responsible for the “Hierarchy of Disagreement” pyramid that was widely used by redditors in ye olden days.

Along with reddit, he seed-funded such companies as Dropbox and Airbnb. He’s a very influential figure in terms of technology and capital allocation.

Last week, he published an essay effectively denouncing the entirety of the modern culture, most or all of which is a result of the internet landscape which has been hijacked and redirected from its original purpose by nefarious forces. This shift from such a prominent figure in the tech industry is an omen of the direction that the key players in the founding of the modern internet, who still have the money, are moving in.

In a post called “Heresy,” he writes on his website:

One of the most surprising things I’ve witnessed in my lifetime is the rebirth of the concept of heresy.

In his excellent life of Newton, Richard Westfall writes about the moment when he was elected a fellow of Trinity College:Supported comfortably, Newton was free to devote himself wholly to whatever he chose. To remain on, he had only to avoid the three unforgivable sins: crime, heresy, and marriage.

The first time I read that, in the 1990s, it sounded amusingly medieval. How strange, to have to avoid committing heresy. But when I reread it 20 years later it sounded like a description of contemporary employment.

There are an ever-increasing number of opinions you can be fired for. Those doing the firing don’t use the word “heresy” to describe them, but structurally they’re equivalent. Structurally there are two distinctive things about heresy: (1) that it takes priority over the question of truth or falsity, and (2) that it outweighs everything else the speaker has done.

For example, when someone calls a statement “x-ist,” they’re also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion. They do not, having said this, go on to consider whether the statement is true or not. Using such labels is the conversational equivalent of signalling an exception. That’s one of the reasons they’re used: to end a discussion.

If you find yourself talking to someone who uses these labels a lot, it might be worthwhile to ask them explicitly if they believe any babies are being thrown out with the bathwater. Can a statement be x-ist, for whatever value of x, and also true? If the answer is yes, then they’re admitting to banning the truth. That’s obvious enough that I’d guess most would answer no. But if they answer no, it’s easy to show that they’re mistaken, and that in practice such labels are applied to statements regardless of their truth or falsity.

The clearest evidence of this is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn’t work that way. The same statement can’t be true when one person says it, but x-ist, and therefore false, when another person does.

The other distinctive thing about heresies, compared to ordinary opinions, is that the public expression of them outweighs everything else the speaker has done. In ordinary matters, like knowledge of history, or taste in music, you’re judged by the average of your opinions. A heresy is qualitatively different. It’s like dropping a chunk of uranium onto the scale.

Back in the day (and still, in some places) the punishment for heresy was death. You could have led a life of exemplary goodness, but if you publicly doubted, say, the divinity of Christ, you were going to burn. Nowadays, in civilized countries, heretics only get fired in the metaphorical sense, by losing their jobs. But the structure of the situation is the same: the heresy outweighs everything else. You could have spent the last ten years saving children’s lives, but if you express certain opinions, you’re automatically fired.

It’s much the same as if you committed a crime. No matter how virtuously you’ve lived, if you commit a crime, you must still suffer the penalty of the law. Having lived a previously blameless life might mitigate the punishment, but it doesn’t affect whether you’re guilty or not.

A heresy is an opinion whose expression is treated like a crime — one that makes some people feel not merely that you’re mistaken, but that you should be punished. Indeed, their desire to see you punished is often stronger than it would be if you’d committed an actual crime. There are many on the far left who believe strongly in the reintegration of felons (as I do myself), and yet seem to feel that anyone guilty of certain heresies should never work again.

There are always some heresies — some opinions you’d be punished for expressing. But there are a lot more now than there were a few decades ago, and even those who are happy about this would have to agree that it’s so.

Why? Why has this antiquated-sounding religious concept come back in a secular form? And why now?

You need two ingredients for a wave of intolerance: intolerant people, and an ideology to guide them. The intolerant people are always there. They exist in every sufficiently large society. That’s why waves of intolerance can arise so suddenly; all they need is something to set them off.

I’ve already written an essay describing the aggressively conventional-minded. The short version is that people can be classified in two dimensions according to (1) how independent- or conventional-minded they are, and (2) how aggressive they are about it. The aggressively conventional-minded are the enforcers of orthodoxy.

Normally they’re only locally visible. They’re the grumpy, censorious people in a group — the ones who are always first to complain when something violates the current rules of propriety. But occasionally, like a vector field whose elements become aligned, a large number of aggressively conventional-minded people unite behind some ideology all at once. Then they become much more of a problem, because a mob dynamic takes over, where the enthusiasm of each participant is increased by the enthusiasm of the others.

It’s very encouraging to see someone so influential communicating these ideas in such a direct (although polite) way.

We may be at the beginning of a shift. People with money and power who are not directly connected to the weirdo pervert technocratic establishment are finally beginning to see that we have created a world that will not be suitable for anyone’s children, and that we need to not only hit the brakes on the cultural transformation, but shift to reverse.

Everything is a culture war. Obviously, it’s well understood that economics is the backbone of any society, but the direction of any society is driven by culture. Everything that is happening, the world over, can be framed in terms of this culture war.

The lines of the war are very simple: it is the heretic-hunters that Graham identifies versus everyone else. I’m certain I don’t agree with everything Graham believes, but we are now nonetheless on the same side in that we oppose the enforcement of a strict social and cultural orthodoxy, which crushes human freedom.

"Are you ready for the New World Order?" asks Global Government Summit 2022. pic.twitter.com/1pwnDjy7BW

— Aytan Gahramanova (@AytanGahramano1) April 5, 2022

Just so, one might not agree with everything going on in Russia, China, or India, but they are nonetheless standing in opposition to this emerging global uniculture, which demands absolute adherence to a very strict set of rules regarding the norms of social interactions.

These norms being enforced all lead in the single direction of the establishment of a new global order which an unimpeachable financial and political elite sits atop, by a kind of divine right of moral virtue – adherence to a cultural system they themselves created for the purpose of the suppression of free thought and free behavior. This allows them to do literally anything they want by invoking heresies and stirring up moral panic, as an army of true believers will march against anyone who dares question their orthodoxy.

⭕️ Herr Schwab at the World Government Summit 2022:

“Ve do know zee global energy systems, zee food systems, and supply chains will be deeply affected.”

He knows because he helped plan the disruption to the supply chains.

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What they have done is hacked the moral fabric of the human psyche, replacing the in-born drive toward a religious social consensus with a secular pseudo-religious doctrine that exists in a vacuum and can therefore be reshaped and redirected at will by those who control the media and governments of the West.

This has all been obvious for quite a while, but people who were in denial about it, or were simply not paying close enough attention, are reaching the point where they realize they need to pick sides. For my part, I will align with anyone who is against the dominant Western authoritarian secular morality system, regardless of any other disagreements I may have with them.

Jason Hoelzel, religious literacy and media specialist of the DeeperDive Institute, top left, moderates a panel on youth advocacy and ministry, hosted by GLAAD and Beloved Arise.

The solution to God hating fags is for Christians to all become a bunch of fags.

AP:

Jessika Sessoms grew up in a conservative Black evangelical family, attended Christian schools and often heard that being gay was an abomination, until she understood that she was queer while studying to become a missionary.

The 23-year-old from Florida came out publicly last year and has found healing and a sense of community after joining Beloved Arise, a Christian nonprofit dedicated to celebrating and empowering LGBTQ youth of faith.

Maria Magdalena Gschwind, 20, from Germany, credits the U.S.-based group for inspiring her to study Protestant theology in college at a time when she had doubts about whether her sexuality would conflict with her faith. Samuel Cavalheiro, 21, a Brazilian living in Mozambique, feels so connected to the group’s members that he calls them his “chosen family.”

They are among hundreds of young people worldwide who have joined Beloved Arise during the coronavirus pandemic to worship, sing and bond virtually. The group celebrated its second annual Queer Youth of Faith Day on Wednesday — the last day of Pride Month — with podcasts, concerts, online panels of teens and seminars on LGBTQ history and churches.

“We wanted to do something that would be there to uplift and honor … queer youth of all faiths,” the Rev. Ashley DeTar Birt, program coordinator for Beloved Arise, said during one of the panels.

“Something that would let them know that there’s no contradiction between being a queer and trans person and being a person of faith … that those things can go together.”

Across the U.S., circumstances vary widely for LGBTQ youth seeking religious engagement.

Some major denominations, including the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention, condemn same-sex unions and say all sexual activity outside of a marriage between a man and a woman is sinful. But thousands of houses of worship, including many mainline Protestant churches and synagogues, have LGBTQ-inclusive policies.

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Beloved Arise was founded in Seattle in February 2020 by Jun Love Young, a former board member of Christian development agency World Concern. He grew up in a Catholic family in the Philippines and kept quiet about his queer identity until his mid 40s.

“And it was due to religious pressure, which is why I created Beloved Arise, so that other kids wouldn’t have to wait until their forties,” he said.

“I was so surprised in my forties to learn that what I thought I knew about the Bible was gravely misinformed, and I just want young people to be aware that in every faith tradition there is a progressive faith that has searched the sacred texts and has created an open space for queer identities,” he said, adding that he felt safe to come out thanks in part to affirming theology.

Young said his nonprofit aims to empower and provide resources for young LGBTQ people, “who often face rejection and shaming at home, at schools and in their faith communities.” He said the group has grown to more than 400 members and expanded its social media presence during the pandemic to tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and TikTok.

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Beloved Arise holds popular weekly youth gatherings online where its members pray, sing and discuss scriptures.

Their YouTube channel has a video titled “The God of Pleasure: A #sexpositive and #queeraffirming message with a Coach Yeamah.”

“God of Pleasure,” “sex positive,” and “queer affirming”?

Oh yeah?

Brittni De La Mora, also known as Jenna Presley

It’s not enough to put whores into positions of authority in the political sphere — Progress demands that goo-holes infect the spiritual sphere, too.

Fox News:

Brittni De La Mora spent almost a decade in the porn industry — until she found Jesus.

She met members of XXXchurch, a ministry that helps people overcome pornography addiction, and they helped her discover her sense of worth, she said.

Now, she’s set to lead the church with her husband, Richard, at a time when the two are expecting their first child.

“My husband and I will be the new faces of XXXchurch.com,” De La Mora shared on the website. “We are humbled and honored that God has called us to this ministry.”

This whore didn’t just waste her youth being a whore; she also contributed to the perversion of our society by renting her body to porn producers. She gave her best self indiscriminately to whoever could pay, and now she’s forcing some poor guy to play husband with her in order for him to access her filthy whore-cave.

Marriage is an insane price to pay for a used-up, ruined womb-container.

Craig Gross, who recently launched ChristianCannabis.com to start a broader dialogue about pot and faith after his own journey of healing, made the announcement last Friday on the XXXchurch website. He had led the online parachurch group for 17 years.

“I have seen this ministry grow beyond my wildest dreams. From our very first outreach in 2002 at the largest porn show in the nation to the millions of people struggling with addiction that have found a safe place of hope, healing, and recovery here,” Gross said in a statement.

It’s something that has been on his mind since 2013, and earlier this year he said he heard the Lord tell him: “Give XXXchurch to Brittni and Rich De La Mora to lead.”

Some degenerate drug dealer named GROSS is saying God told him to put a whore in charge of something so he can go promote a drug known to have detrimental effects (1, 2, 3).

This is some next-level heresy.

De La Mora shared she heard about XXXchurch while she was still active in porn.

“I used to call them the ‘Jesus Loves Porn Stars People,'” she said. “This message pierced my heart. I used to wonder, ‘Could Jesus really love me? Because I sure don’t deserve it. I sell myself for money. How could He ever love me?’

“But XXXchurch showed me with their continuous acts of love and kindness that YES, Jesus really did love me,” De La Mora continued. “In fact, He loved me so much that He refused to leave me in my misery. Who would have ever thought that in my sin, God would connect me with a ministry that many years later He would ask me to lead? Certainly not me, but this is the grace of our God.“

I believe the word of God over whatever a random whore and a perverted drug dealer named Gross say.

They are heretics mocking the divine.

No self-respecting people would allow drug dealers and prostitutes to have any kind of authority over them. Our institutions have been turned into a parody. Everything is a joke. The world is upside down.

We have to ask God for guidance.

Yearn for Jesus.

Diego Berrio, Edwin Giraldo Cortez – sodomite “priests” caught sucking ding-dongs.

I see this, and I think of one and only one thing.

CBS Miami:

Two Chicago-area priests were charged Monday with Lewd and Lascivious behavior and Indecent Exposure after being caught performing a sexual act inside a car parked on a Miami Beach street.

According to Miami Beach Police, 39-year-old Diego Berrio and 30-year-old Edwin GiraldoCortez were in the front seat of a car performing oral sex.

Police got a 911 call about a lewd and lascivious incident taking place in the 1300 block of Ocean Drive.

When officers arrived, the police report states, the two were performing sex acts on each other “in full view of the public passing by on Ocean Drive and the sidewalk.”

It was 3:20 in the afternoon.

“Yesterday, we received a call indicating that two men were performing a sex act inside of a car. This is in broad daylight, 13^th Street and Ocean Drive. There are no tints on the window,” explained Miami Beach Police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez.

When police arrived, it was still going on.

Imaging being the police, and having to see stuff like this.

Insert stock image of cop, captioned: It only you knew how bad things really are.

Police said Berrio and GiraldoCortez were so engaged, they didn’t even notice that police were there.

“We observed the two males performing the sex act, the officer had to tap on the window to get their attention,” said Rodriguez.

Both men were placed under arrest without incident.

The arrest reports state both men are priests from Arlington Heights, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago.

The address they gave comes back to the Mission San Juan Diego Parish in Arlington Heights.

Autists, I need you to tell me what is going on in that Parish. Are there children here? Because, lemme guarantee you – if these two priests are corrupted, the whole Parish is probably corrupted.

We need an Inquisition.

Late Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Chicago released a statement regarding the two priests.

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“Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, has removed Fr. Berrio from ministry and withdrawn his faculties to minister in the Archdiocese of Chicago, effective immediately. The archdiocese will appoint an administrator for the Misión San Juan Diego as soon as possible.

“Archdiocese representatives have been in contact with Fr. Cortes’ home diocese of Soacha, Colombia and informed them that Fr. Cortes will not be granted additional faculties to minister in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

Let’s unpack this – one guy got removed from his post but not from the Church, another will not be given additional jobs in his archdiocese.

These faggots will just be moved around. This Cardinal guy, Blase J. Cupich, is going soft on them.

I want to see this church lose all credibility and I want to see Italy seize the Vatican. I want to see the church made whole again, and Europa purged of the Moslems and Jews.

False priests who practice sodomy must burn.

And now, an email from an anonymous reader in Chile:

Dear Daily Stormer,

I want you to know that everyone in Chile has been watching about the pope on the national television. It is a widely held belief that the church has become corrupted. I have told everyone I know at school and at work and in my family that the church is full of a satanic pedophile cult, and no one will disagree with me.

In the capital there are many old churches which were made by the first conquistadors, great beautiful buildings of stone, old like time, which held the Cross above these brutal sky scrapers.

The beautiful old churches of stone have been covered with satanic graffiti, as have lay sectors of the Capital city itself. There are inverted crosses, pentagrams, occult symbols, symbols of femininity, and statements on abortion.

Inside one of these churches, I saw rainbow propaganda promoting a scheduled event to promote sodomy among the religious. I have not gone into another.

The church delays in cleaning the satanic graffiti from its exterior.

I want to see these old stone buildings made beautiful again and pure.

This wanting is written into my heart.

Every day, this world falls further from Grace.

God have Mercy on us.