This is a defitional retreat. The Frankfurt School were Marxists trying understand the psychology of the masses who went along with the "wars if the elites." The turned to, and incorporated, the insights of Freud. See the work of Philip Reiff for more on this. Marcuse, also a Marxist, recognized that would never be able to recruit the masses in the U.S. (because capitalism [of a flavor] was actually working to lift the lower classes out of poverty -- so he turned to "the ghetto" and the marginalized. The Critical Theorists, also avowed Marxists, took up this Marcusian focus. That's only a small part of the story, but one can draw a straight line from Marx to the -- I say again -- cultural Marxism (Gramsci) of today. See the work of Eric Voegelin and Augusto del Noce, or of James Lindsay, for more.

[Antonio Gramsci: the Godfather of Cultural Marxism](https://fee.org/articles/antonio-gramsci-the-godfather-of-cultural-marxism/) @ FEE

I also think there is such a thing as "cultural Marxism"-- i.e., Marx as refracted through the Frankfurt School (esp. Marcuse) and as applied by Gramsci. We saw this in China: "Mao did what Gramsci thought." We've seen this variant in our schools, which are almost completely ruled by Paulo Friere, and we're seeing it take over all the other institutions Gramsci targeted when he called for "seizing the means of *cultural* production." To say we're seeing *classical* Marxism in the U.S., for example, is technically incorrect--but to say we're seeing its modern-day variant (a Hegelian sythesis of postmodernism and Neo-Marxism) and is not wholly incorrect.

For all his faults, Marx was actually a proponent of sound money. "At least he wasn't a Keynesian."

### Psalm 42:1-11 KJV

To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me,

Where is thy God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

gm #plebchain #coffeechain

>This is the day that the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

[Psalm 118:24](https://esv.org/Psalm+118.24)

#CarpeDiem #CoramDeo #ContraMundum

### Heidelberg Catechism

Q. 80. What difference is there between the Lord's supper and the popish mass?

A. The Lord's supper testifies to us, that we have a full pardon of all sin by the only sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which he himself has once accomplished on the cross; and, that we by the Holy Ghost are ingrafted into Christ, who, according to his human nature is now not on earth, but in heaven, at the right hand of God his Father, and will there be worshipped by us. But the mass teaches, that the living and dead have not the pardon of sins through the sufferings of Christ, unless Christ is also daily offered for them by the priests; and further, that Christ is bodily under the form of bread and wine, and therefore is to be worshipped in them; so that the mass, at bottom, is nothing else than a denial of the one sacrifice and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and an accursed idolatry.

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

### Heidelberg Catechism

Q. 79. Why then doth Christ call the bread "his body", and the cup "his blood", or "the new covenant in his blood"; and Paul the "communion of body and blood of Christ"?

A. Christ speaks thus, not without great reason, namely, not only thereby to teach us, that as bread and wine support this temporal life, so his crucified body and shed blood are the true meat and drink, whereby our souls are fed to eternal life; but more especially by these visible signs and pledges to assure us, that we are as really partakers of his true body and blood by the operation of the Holy Ghost as we receive by the mouths of our bodies these holy signs in remembrance of him; and that all his sufferings and obedience are as certainly ours, as if we had in our own persons suffered and made satisfaction for our sins to God.

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

### Heidelberg Catechism

Q. 78. Do then the bread and wine become the very body and blood of Christ?

A. Not at all: but as the water in baptism is not changed into the blood of Christ, neither is the washing away of sin itself, being only the sign and confirmation thereof appointed of God; so the bread in the Lord's supper is not changed into the very body of Christ; though agreeably to the nature and properties of sacraments, it is called the body of Christ Jesus.

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### Heidelberg Catechism

Q. 77. Where has Christ promised that he will as certainly feed and nourish believers with his body and blood, as they eat of this broken bread, and drink of this cup?

A. In the institution of the supper, which is thus expressed:

"The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and: said: eat, this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying: this cup is the new testament in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

For, as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come." (1 Cor 11:23-26).

This promise is repeated by the holy apostle Paul, where he says "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." (1 Cor 10:16,17).

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

### Heidelberg Catechism

Q. 76. What is it then to eat the crucified body, and drink the shed blood of Christ?

A. It is not only to embrace with believing heart all the sufferings and death of Christ and thereby to obtain the pardon of sin, and life eternal; but also, besides that, to become more and more united to his sacred body, by the Holy Ghost, who dwells both in Christ and in us; so that we, though Christ is in heaven and we on earth, are notwithstanding "flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone" and that we live, and are governed forever by one spirit, as members of the same body are by one soul.

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

### Heidelberg Catechism

Q. 75. How art thou admonished and assured in the Lord's Supper, that thou art a partaker of that one sacrifice of Christ, accomplished on the cross, and of all his benefits?

A. Thus: That Christ has commanded me and all believers, to eat of this broken bread, and to drink of this cup, in remembrance of him, adding these promises: first, that his body was offered and broken on the cross for me, and his blood shed for me, as certainly as I see with my eyes, the bread of the Lord broken for me, and the cup communicated to me; and further, that he feeds and nourishes my soul to everlasting life, with his crucified body and shed blood, as assuredly as I receive from the hands of the minister, and taste with my mouth the bread and cup of the Lord, as certain signs of the body and blood of Christ.

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

Interesting podcast on the love/hate relationship between "[Christianity and Cognitive Behavior Therapy](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly90d29hZ2Vzb2pvdXJuZXIucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vZmVlZC54bWw/episode/MzlmODk3OTctNmI2MC00YzQ3LTlmZWYtNTYyZTY5NjVjMTRk?ep=14)"

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

It's possible to be:

- allies in one thing;

- co-belligerents in another thing; and even

- "enemies" in yet another thing

And true friends can do this without wrecking their underlying friendship

#plebchain

>[JUST] AS

>... every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof; upon which, and the forsaking of them, *he shall find mercy*;

>SO [ALSO]

>...he that scandalizeth his brother, or the church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession, and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those that are offended, *who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him*.

[WCF 15.6](https://opc.org/wcf.html#Chapter_15)

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

>Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man’s duty to endeavor to repent of his particular sins, particularly.

[WCF 15.5](https://opc.org/wcf.html#Chapter_15)

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

Hence was born the study of how to limit power...but laws don't maintain themselves..."our form of government was meant for a moral people, it is not fit for any other" -- as we now see. Our foundations have been destroyed from within.

So now what?

How do we recover our moral foundations?

1 preach the gospel

2 push / propagate / argue for natural law

3 show the insanity of the alternative

4 ?

How broad exactly are your search words, nostr:npub15vp0h3dfhu07m840rznsk45xfuywch6ns9wfehpfd738c2uf7wgswjre7p, that *this* post made your re-note list?

ACTUALLY NO

DON'T ANSWER THAT

Yes. This:

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Yes, despite digging myself out once (college & credit cards), twice (April '09 mortgage), now mold and medical and inflation put me wayyy back under again.