Yes, I know all the anti-Semites who have crawled out of their caves will call me a Jew-lover for asking the question. Or, worse, they’ll call me a dispensationalist, assuming I’m premil and a Zionist. Not true.
And yes, I know the Reformed church is filled with this recrudescence of anti-Semitism right now.
Hear me carefully: I abominate these young dudes and the older fools so adept at manipulating them.
Don’t kiss off my question. We can work towards detente, for sure. And we should. But facing what Iran is saying to us right now, should the US abandon Israel?
I’m sure IL Democratic voters who elected Mike Madigan just found guilty of bribes/racketeering are saying they’re absolutely shocked.
For half a century, the people voted him into IL House. From 1983-2021 his fellow pols voted him Speaker.
Reflecting moral character of Chicago metro’s electorate, Illinois is perpetual political cesspool. Anyone remember the great Mike Royko?
Don’t spend a single second arguing identity politics.
Once was a Man who refused to argue identity politics. Who refused to join zealots calling for revolution against wicked Rome.
He was insanely powerful, but the men of God’s church were furious He wouldn’t “Do something!”
Confronting Him, they went nativist, declaring “Abraham is our Father!”
To these men of God’s covenant, He responded, “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father.”
Don’t spend a single second arguing identity politics. Let the dead bury the dead. You feed God’s sheep.
Someone asked me to explain the previous post a little, so…
Look at all the arguments on socials that credulous young Christian zealots today love. Try to find a few that aren’t identity politics of the sort the political and religious zealots among God’s covenant people engaged in 2,000 years ago. Think along the well-established ruts of “We are…!” and “My ancestors were…” and “Your ancestors weren’t…” and “Wicked your people/Righteous my people." Stuff like that.
Identity politics in the time of Jesus and still today are righteousness by group, and therefore bitterness and selfishness and fury by group.
Nationalism by genetic sacraments. All Israel is Israel” and “circumcision is everything.”
Fewer readers after this post, and that’s a good exchange for exposing healthcare lies promoted within the Church. It must be admitted, though, that the distrust of healthcare authorities has regular reasons that justify it:
“By 2023, a series of clinical trials had already proved beyond a doubt that ivermectin won’t reduce COVID symptoms or mortality. But these findings mattered little to its fans, who saw the drug as having earned the status of dissident antiviral—a treatment that they believed had been suppressed by the medical establishment.”
…I see our institutions captured by interests which aim to remove people of European descent from polite society, to remove them from the best jobs, and replace them with those who fit the racial ideals of the leftist zeitgeist. At the same time these same institutions are aiming to demographically challenge the European majority through migration. From a purely pragmatic view, since as a society we have abandoned meritocracy, it is clearly in the best interest of white people to act with common objectives, before it gets to the point where we lose an electoral majority…
I respond:
Dear (brother), it would be good to concentrate on the sins and failures of the people of God and your own people when assigning blame for the present position of Whites and people of European descent, politically, rather than the sins and failures of liberals and Blacks and Jews and undocumented immigrants. Biblically, it is the habit of God’s Own to see the discipline of their Heavenly Father in their suffering of invasion, defeat, and captivity to foreigners. That this is never the cry of young Christian reformed men or their rabble-rousing heroes is telling.
Why do such men not assign the blame of shifting religious and genetic descent in our electorate to God’s people’s wickedness in the practice of child-murder in the womb? The radical dwindling of the votes of Christians cannot be blamed on Democrats when we ourselves have resolutely refused to obey our Lord and Master’s command to be fruitful and multiply. This is just one example of the habit of Christian belligerators to blame shift, turning from their own sins and the sins of their fathers to liberals’ sins and Jews’ sins and Blacks’ sins and Muslims’ sins and feminists’ sins and… It never ends…
This article couldn’t get one line in without being tendentious.
From the article: “Remember ivermectin? The animal-deworming medication was used so avidly as an off-label COVID treatment during the pandemic that some feed stores ended up going out of stock.”
According to Wikipedia, ivermectin was approved for human use in 1987. Its discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015–which I assume they don’t hand out for veterinary uses.
With experts like this, who needs snake oil salesmen?
For the record, I have no idea if ivermectin was an effective treatment for Covid or for anything else, but I’m quite sure this article wasn’t written to tell me the truth about ivermectin. Or anything else.
Forget the rhetoric, although both sides are equally flame-throwers and the side Atlantic throws from might well be right. Anyhow, read the studies. That’s the point, and it’s very clear. Love
By law, the UK is a Christian nation. King Charles is Supreme Governor of his Anglican “Church of England.” UK’s civil authorities bequeathed us Westminster Standards. UK is quite white.
But days ago UK govt passed law protecting baby-murder, and today they legalized assisted self-murder. PM Starmer voted in favor.
The true problem in the UK is not the government, but the Church. The shepherds are faithless in their work, and naturally, those w/the calling of civil authority legalize baby-murder and self-murder.
Like priest like people.
Who would expect anything else from nominal Christians?
I am sorry for the part of this post I have removed. It was rude to say publicly. If it means anything, I have said this privately in person before putting it up here publicly. Some very slight consolation though, I know. So again, I apologize to Ross and Aaron (both of whom I love). Please forgive me. Love
PS: Earlier today, I received a request to preach in Germany, and I wondered what and where on earth I had said the things that prompted the email? It seemed to have come out of the blue, and then hours later I read the part of this post I have deleted, and REALIZED! I simply want to record that I was concerned with what has been obvious to me for a long time, that the reformed in the UK look down on American brashness, as they see it, and would only make common cause with the pastors in the US who are notable for their tameness (good manners) in preaching and writing.
As I see it, this is part and parcel with their disinclination to preach and lead in any working class way aimed at working class people. I share this judgment here, not to start an argument, but to say that disdain for the MAGA/red collar world is not limited to outside the church, but is alive and well inside the church and testifies to itself to the sort of preaching and writing for which the UK is notable.
I think you’d actually be really encouraged by UK Christians over the last year. They often feel the temptation to despair and apathy over political matters; after all, they don’t have the numbers to influence anything politically. But this time Christians rose up, pastor and church member alike. There was remarkable coordination of both teaching efforts and praying efforts, and that across a pretty wide swathe of Bible-believing Christians. It was a reawakening of the moral consciousness among Christians in Britain like I’d never seen.
And they were close to getting this thing stopped. Really close.
But both bills still passed, and the temptation to return to a retreatist mindset will be stronger than ever. After all, it doesn’t really make a difference to the wider culture what we believe, does it?
Pray for our dear brothers and sister across the Atlantic. This is a very troubled time for them. And if they’re not as vociferous on ethical/moral issues as some Americans are, they’re usually also not as prone to the excesses of American Christianity either.
Two objections to “Christian Nationalism.”
The first is obvious: the Christians’ love of fatherland is a different thing than “nationalism”—just as presbyteries are a different thing than denominations.
The second is not as obvious: what is the specific definition of “Christian” being used to define this “nationalism?”
It seems inevitable it will be the Roman Catholic sacramental nominalism of the Holy Roman Empire. In other words, Christian Nationalism is simply a cry for the return of that form of “Christendom” established by the “Holy Roman Empire.”
I have a hard time not seeing Protestant proponents of Christian Nationalism as simple naifs unaware they will come more and more to resemble my good friend E. Michael Jones whose lifelong project has always been ultramontanism.
