{"product_id":"rules-for-retrogrades-book-timothy-j-gordon-9781505115932","title":"Rules for Retrogrades","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat is a retrograde? \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A retrograde calculates, night and day, how to return the world to: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e the Old Order of moral and sexual decency, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eclassical masculinity, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enational sovereignty and national borders, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efaith and hope and charity, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003egoodness and beauty and truth, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristian civic liberty, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand most importantly, the social kingship of Christ. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the words of Shakespeare, a retrograde is one of God's spies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The retrograde has the unique capacity for understanding the stark chasm between the degenerate, socialist-infiltrated world of decay on one side and the well-meaning, good-hearted, but clueless Christian world on the other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a time of such profound decay, being one of God's spies is a last resort and a pure necessity: it involves not deep cover,--i.e., acting like the enemy--but rather half cover acting as a contra in the secular arena, a crypto-Christian counterinsurgent willing to fight like a Navy Seal and to think like a counterintel officer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Retrogrades . . . to the streets: our aim is to reverse the deliberate, deuced machinations of radicals like Saul Alinsky who, by penning the rulebook of radicalism, threw down a challenge that has, until now, gone unanswered. Rules for Retrogrades is the handbook men of good will need to win the culture war  Here is a sampling from the call to action found within these pages: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo truth is off-limits; we must never be ashamed to be candid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a damnable lie that humility disallows Christians from standing up (for what they believe) in the cultural and political forum \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eControl of language is control of thought; don't let radicals control the language.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNever trust a man who is unwilling to have enemies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRadicals form coalitions but retrogrades form fellowships.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe root of cultural decay is feminism: end feminism to end radicalism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578076111121,"sku":"GOR012885380","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49852075671825,"sku":"CIN1505115930G","price":4.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50508418842897,"sku":"CIN1505115930VG","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50988188270865,"sku":"NIN9781505115932","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1505115930.jpg?v=1751179850","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/rules-for-retrogrades-book-timothy-j-gordon-9781505115932","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}