What is Christian faith? Repent. Believe on Jesus. Be baptized into His Church. Marry. Have babies. Raise up a godly brood of children. Die looking to Heaven.
Yes, they’re all very hard, but God will be with you and send His Holy Spirit to help you. #2baChristian
Child trafficking is the worst human trafficking, right? Horrors! Abortion is baby trafficking and it’s bought & paid for in your supermarket pharmacy. Horror of horrors! #noUnionwithabortionists
Compare legal/financial corruption of Presidents Biden & Trump. They’re perfectly matched pair. Only 1 is being hauled into court b/c hatred of Dems has reached lunacy. Avg American commits 3 felonies p/day, but libs out of their minds abt Pres. Trump. Amazon.com
Democrats have now charged President Trump with forty felonies: 34 for accounting procedures, 3 for keeping some classified papers, and 3 for speaking disinformation.
Democrats have been sharpening their knives for Trump from before his inauguration, and now years later, their most serious charge against him is that he lied when he claimed election fraud.
None of this is about justice. The courts are doing Biden’s bidding producing forty Trumped up charges. We are a banana republic. Our rule of law is a farce. And trust me—I’ve never been a fan of President Trump.
Democrats are engaged in civil war by judicial means.
If you’re scandalized by my saying we have no rule of law, then using weaponization of judiciary against our former prez as my example, don’t ever forget that Democrats’ highest judicial priority is always the protection of their baby slaughter.
Want to be clear. I know Donald Trump is a chronic liar. I have no doubt he’s done many of the things he’s being accused of. No man should be above the law. What I am opposed to is Lady Justice peering at who’s before her and weighting her scales. True justice is impartial, and in the case of President Trump, the Democrats are not just prosecuting a man, but also every American who voted for him. Make no mistake about that. Their lunatic fury knows no bounds.
If we want the rule of law to be restored, we will all begin saying, “No union with abortionists,” and work towards separation, nationally, from Democrats’ and their bloodlust for babies. Rule of law is judged by nation’s protection of vulnerable. #noUnionwithabortionists
English Civil wars show us what Christian nationalism would be:
“Parliamentary faction formed to oppose king, together with military force it assembled and put under leadership of Oliver Cromwell, consisted mostly of Puritans. The fighting between parliamentary and royalists lasted nine years with estimated 200,000 deaths—greater as percentage of England’s population at the time than what took place in World War I three centuries later. Looking back from the 1720s, Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels referred to the period as ‘a heap of Conspiracies, Rebellions, Murders, Massacres, Revolutions, Banishments.’” (“Religion and the Rise of Capitalism” by Benjamin M. Friedman.)
Recently I came across a Youtube video called, “Christendom 2.0”, put together by a Reformed group called, “Right Response Ministries”. They were not especially clear as to how they would get there, though they had a clear enough idea of what it would look like once they did. It was certainly superficially attractive - but there was a catch.
CS Lewis once observed that “Mere improvement is not redemption” (the extended context of this quote can be seen here, if anyone is interested). Applying this logic at a general level is not difficult; yes, with a Christendom 2.0 we would have a very much improved society. But it does not mean that the people in that society would necessarily be redeemed - and the historic evidence is not that encouraging.
At the very least, Christian nationalism is putting the societal cart before the Gospel horse. As usual, am welcome to feedback and disagreement.
To have a Christendom 2.0, we first need a Christendom 1.0. A mythical origin story to make young men’s hearts burn, and make them willing to sacrifice for the cause of “re-Christianizing” the fallen West.
By which I mean, it’s concerning how often the CN advocates prop up Roman Catholic Europe and its idolatrous, bloodthirsty past as the exemplar of Christian culture. What is “Christian culture” to sensuous minds? Cathedrals? Hymns? Renaissance art and architecture? The Crusades? To have a great mass of unregenerate men chanting, “The temple of the LORD…” (Jer. 7:4)?
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I wonder if the appeal of the past is that while it had its vices, and Christendom had plenty, they weren’t the vices we are dealing with now (Ecclesiastes 7:10, perhaps?)
About right, Joshua. Well said.
The problem with reformed young belligerents today is they know nothing abt history; just a few talking points. They haven’t read history and it shows in many, many ways. No matter what scheme they propose, it’s simply taken for granted that they or their heroes will be competent to lead it. Yet they lead nothing—not even their own county out in the middle of nowhere comprised of 45,000 people. None of them have the slightest experience governing anything consisting of anybody but sycophants. This is the reason I found the bio of Cromwell so depressingly helpful. He spent his life trying to stop orthodox Christians killing each other, and when he was successful stopping it here, it popped up again there. Love,
Something for your consideration:
Fascinating piece on President Barack Obama. Prior to interviewing the President for the biography he was working on, David Garrow is warned by Obama’s lawyer: “Whatever you do, don’t ask him about his father.” (H/T David W.) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama
Horrors! Apple Music’s “New Music” classics version just started playing the most garish and appalling aria. My hair stood on end. My skin crawled. Listen: Franco Fagioli - N.Porpora 'Passeggier che sulla sponda', Semiramide Riconosciuta, live 2013 - YouTube
To proclaim “God hath said” followed by “I wish God hadn’t said” undercuts God’s authority and Words. Who trembles at My Word (2) - Warhorn Media
Thanks for sharing this. It was wide-ranging with lots of things I’d not heard before.
The thought is “If you can’t be my child, you won’t be anyone’s child. In fact, you won’t live.” It’s exactly what drives mothers to murder their unborn children, rather than allow them to be adopted. New York City cancer doctor kills herself and her baby, police say
Oh absolutely! It’s a long read, but well worth it, and the contrasts with MLK make for an interesting read as well.
Some may not understand my posting a countertenor singing 2b “appalling.” In culture drowning in sexual anarchy, it’s hard work to reclaim God’s manhood/womanhood. Part of that hard work is learning to love them. Part of it also is learning to hate the counterfeits. Do that work.
