JESUS VS. THE CHURCHIAN RIGHT

      So, an article has been floating around in the Controlled Opposition press exhorting American Christians to be more like the Gay Mafia and Black Lives Matter and become more aggressively active. Titled Christians Must Get Serious if They Hope to Challenge the Leftist Culture, the author excoriates the Churchian Right for not adopting the tactics of the Churchian Left. The author is a disciple of celebrity preacher Eric Metaxas. Metaxas was a strong supporter of Mitt Romney and a never-Trumper until Trump's election and he switched sides and has become a vocal Trump supporter since. His most famous act of support was beating up a counter-protester at the 2020 RNC. Let's all hope that this is getting serious about challenging the Leftist culture enough!

     In a Church where the New Testament has largely been rejected and replaced with the Talmud, and Christian testimony is going berserk in public and attacking statues with an axe, it's not surprising that an article like this one would gain widespread support. 

    After an opening paragraph promoting Metaxas' newly-released film, the author tells us: "The left is a wall. And that wall, standing for some nutty idea it wants to make mainstream, begins by saying to those of you who stand in front of it, albeit at some distance, 'Hey, meet me halfway.' So, you take a couple of steps closer. But the left, just like a wall, stays right where it is because it is immovable. Then, a little while later, the wall again says, 'Hey, meet me halfway.' And, again, you comply. Pretty soon, it begins to dawn on you where this is going. That leftist wall has not moved an inch, but you are now standing right up against the wall."

    In the first place, it's a bad analogy because the Radical Left is not a 'wall' it is more like a wave, always advancing while our side is always retreating---or in today's Red Pilled Churchianity, demanding the Government engineer a bigger wave. Of course, the truly Conservative Christian position would be to build a dam and institute some flood-control, but that wouldn't be Alpha enough. 

   That leads to the second error: the implication of this analogy is that debate or dialogue is foolish and weak and that nobody can be convinced by reasoned argument. That of course, is the Red Pill influence again, which meets brute force with brute force:

   "Ask yourself these questions: Did the Apostles just wander around the cities only preaching the Gospel? Did they confront the culture and the politics of their day (whether in the public square or in the synagogue)? Did they end up being beaten and thrown into prison because they played it safe?”

    Actually the Apostles weren't persecuted for opposing the Romans, they were persecuted by the Pharisees (you know, the forefathers of the same group that the Churchian Right now supports in the Palestinian Civil War). As far as 'confronting the politics of their day' the author seems rather ignorant of both History and Scripture. The Roman Empire wasn't exactly a participatory democracy. Rome was a highly stratified society where the Aristocracy and Citizenry were considered two entirely different things, and one didn't mix with the other. Nobody at the Apostles' social level confronted the politics of their day. I don't see anywhere in the New Testament where Jesus teaches anything other than My Kingdom is not of this world, and that Caesar is to be honored and that Christians are to live as good citizens. 

     Our Founding Fathers strongly supported Religious Liberty and opposed the idea of the tyranny of a State religion. In the modern era, Christians have an obligation to safeguard that Liberty---something few of them did during the recent Scamdemic when Governors (including Republican ones) were padlocking churches and jailing pastors. The concept of a Political Church betrays again the malignant influences of the Red Pill philosophy that has crept into the Church. Postmodern Christians seem to envision God as the Great CEO of the Universe who holds his middle managers (governments) accountable while absolving the people of any personal responsibility. 

    The author complains about Rainbow Churchianity and Woke Ideology in contemporary Christianity: he and others like him ought to reflect that the existence of such movements proves that the church can't even manage itself, let alone an entire nation. 

   "Did Jesus not upset a few big wigs in the upper echelons of power by turning over money-changing tables in the synagogue," he disingenuously points out, "sending demons into a herd of pigs, and healing the child of a Roman centurion, a man responsible for enforcing the laws of an occupying government?"

   These examples, especially that of the Roman Centurion, shows again that Christ's actions were spiritual and not political in nature. If contemporary Christians wanted to follow the example of throwing out the exploitative money-changers, a good place to start would be standing up to the Financial Octopuses. But given that the author's boss, Eric Metaxas is syndicated by Media Conglomerate the Salem Media Group, it's doubtful that we'll hear much about about that kind of getting serious about confronting the Left; especially since a substantial chunk of Salem's stock is held by very woke Corporations like WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner, Blackrock and shady Beltway lobbying powerhouse Renaissance Technologies among others.

    

    The author goes on with some typical Neocon historical revisionism, which only deserves comment because such nonsense so routinely turns up in Controlled Opposition articles. "We have gotten to this place in our society and our government because we have not heeded the warning signs of the cantankerous 1960s," he pontificates, apparently ignoring that Richard Nixon won by electoral landslides then and the public overwhelmingly supported the Vietnam War; or that Nixon's successor Gerald Ford was the last American President to challenge legal abortion. Oh, and we did have a higher percentage of the population attending religious services then too. "The film Letter to the American Church reveals some stark and undeniable similarities between the German church of the 1930s and 1940s and the Church here in America over the past decades;" although the film may say that, history says otherwise: the German churches of that period overwhelmingly supported the Nazis, and that's where we really should fear some similarities. 

    "Let’s be encouraged. Scripture gives us our marching orders with many uplifting, bold reminders...Will there be victory? If we do our part, we shall see. Ultimately, the battle belongs to the Lord.”

    The New Testament doesn't give anybody marching orders and this militaristic rhetoric is positively dangerous. I have followed the Red Pill movement for a long time, and there is no doubt in my mind that these people actually desire conflict, violence, and ultimately domination as we outlined in our previous article. If it comes to this, it will lead to disaster and has a better chance of provoking a crackdown from the Deep State a lot more than any chance of these fanatics actually taking power themselves.

    Instead of shoveling responsibility for building strong communities and families onto an authoritarian government, what Christian Conservatives should have been doing all along is focusing on sustaining our traditions at the local and familial levels. The author snorts that being nice is not the way to win the lost and that staying on the sidelines is an excuse otherwise we give the devil a foothold, without realizing that this is exactly what he's advocating. We give the devil a foothold the minute we politicize the church. That's where Rainbow Churchianity went off the rails, and it's hardly a solution for our side to emulate.