Peter Thiel calling anyone else the Antichrist is:

To be fair, I hope that it doesn't take another world war followed by a baby boom to resolve our demographic predicament.

Plus, "Judaeo-Christian" often involves a selective American Protestant appropriation of the elements of Judaism that can be domesticated for American Protestant purposes.

And they respond with the same calm and measured rationality if anyone so much as questions their right to do as they please with their chosen implement of destruction

I wish there were more “spam” like this.

Seems appropriate to end with the statement issued by the first Ploughshares action in 1980, when eight activists entered a General Electric factory and damaged nosecones destined for nuclear ICBMs. They got sentences of up to 10 years each.

But not on charges of 'terrorism'.

Direct action has a long history in Britain - from the DAC, the Committee for 100 & the Spies for Peace, to the Greenham Common Women - and that's only the peace campaigns. That's the history Palestine Action is part of - and it will continue no matter what the courts eventually decide.

It doesn’t match the iconography of the blood libel, of which plenty exists from the 15th and 16th centuries as a comparison. The blood libel didn’t involve accusations of eating children, even though it did involve accusations of bloodletting and murder.

This kind of attitude was ubiquitous in NZ Charismatic churches in the 1980s. It would be interesting to know if it’s making a come back here as well - or never went away!

As moral justification it carries about the same force as “I was just obeying orders.”