THE DENIALIST DILEMMA ONCE AGAIN

          Since about last Summer or so, I've largely quit following a good number of so-called 'Christian Conservative' blogs and websites, for reasons outlined here. Their sites simply have degenerated into non-stop Praise-a-Thons for everything and anything that this Administration does or says: even when it wholly contradicts every value that they once stood for---and more importantly, even when it contradicts the clear teachings of Christianity. 

         Yesterday, Color Storm had a reasonable post decrying some of the rhetoric being spread on both sides about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. My own opinion is that ICE shouldn't have been there in the first place, and we should be debating the extent of powers that the Administration has assumed. That aside, however, I do agree with Color Storm that there should be a thorough review, although I have serious doubts that that actually will happen. The Administration has already pronounced a verdict without an investigation, via NSPM-7. As for the Democrats, Governor Tim Walz certainly has no moral high ground to stand upon either when it comes to engineering politically-motivated show-trials, or deploying armed stormtroopers onto Minneapolis streets; and neither does Minneapolis Mayor and AIPAC tool Jacob Frey, who sympathizes with the Israeli Genocide in Gaza and has suppressed pro-Palestinian demonstrations himself. 

        Reading through the comments at Color Storm's and looking back at a few of these blogs that I used to follow what I saw there was simply appalling. Since last Summer, they've largely gone from rationalizing and whitewashing the Regime (we can call it that because that's what it essentially has become) to outright applause for its thuggery and totalitarian policies. They've completely embraced the whole empathy is a sin rhetoric of Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk; and tell us that not challenging Authority is a Christian virtue, and other such things. Now that the Christian Nationalists have come into positions of power, suddenly they stand with Top-Down Big Government.

     Let's be candid here: Christian Nationalism is a cult. One of Ten Commandments states that "thou shalt have no other Gods before Me," and contrary to what Peter Thiel and JD Vance say, "other Gods" includes the State, no matter who runs it. 

        The Postmodern American Christian Right, however, is far more concerned with the Seven Mountain Mandate than they are with the Ten Commandments, and it naturally follows that if they are hypocrites about following the First Commandment, they'd have no qualms about violating all of the other Nine---and do so on a regular basis. Many of these so-called 'Christian Conservatives' are poring over the lifestyle of the victim of the ICE attack. While I certainly don't approve of her private life, these same people haven't a word of criticism for say, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant---an elder in a Rainbow Church who lives with another man and two adopted boys---and who, incidentally, is a contributor to Thiel's Rockbridge Network which aims to consolidate all of these Christian Nationalist cults into a unified movement (i.e., a de facto National Religion). Thiel himself is a flaming homosexual, widely suspected in Europe in the suspicious death of one of his catamites; yet nobody seems concerned about any of this. This Administration has more open homosexuals employed in it than the Biden/Harris one did; and Renee Good at least bore three children, something to consider after the most pro-family Administration in History vowed to veto bans on abortion. 

        The list of their hypocrisy could go on. They praised the Administration bombing Yemen for interdicting cargo ships--- bound for a country that Yemen actually was at war with---and they support massacring Venezuelan boaters and seizing oil tankers by our own Pentagon. They praise the Gaza Genocide---and even encourage it---while defending dismantling what's left of a social safety net here. It's not surprising that they would defend the murder of Renee Good, since they've defended people who've killed protesters in cold blood before; as well as rushing to the defense of other violent thugs and making abject apologies continually for Neo-Nazis. 

       As we pointed out in our August article, there's really no point in engaging in any kind of rational debate with such people. Cultists and fanatics are immune to any kind of reasoned discourse. The best that we can really do is expose them and guide others not to fall for the deception.