A Few Words on the Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School was endowed by a German Millionaire’s son Felix Weil. The original name for the school was “Institute for Marxism” but upon reflection, the founders decided it would be better to hide their identity and renamed it “Institute for Social Research.” Thus we have proven that Cultural Marxism — that which flowed from the Frankfurt school — was indeed Marxist even if not of the classically Marxist nature.
Those who insist that Cultural Marxism doesn’t exist are either fools or agents of misinformation.

Georg Lukacs, a Hungarian who was a major villain in the short-lived Hungarian Communist Government of 1919, saw the Frankfurt School (Cultural Marxists) as the answer to the question: ‘Who shall save us from Western civilization.’

The views of those who were the animating forces behind the Frankfurt School (Cultural Marxism) were that the Biblically informed culture of Western societies was acting as a block on the Communist Revolution. Their resolution — a methodology differing from Classical Marxism — was to attack the undergirding cultural substructures of Western Civilization hoping to alienate a large percentage of the population from the culture they inhabited having convinced that portion of the population of the putative inherent injustice and wickedness of the Biblical categories that undergirded Western civilization. The goal here was, in the words of early cultural Marxist Willie Munzenberg, “We must organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink.

The cultural Marxists sought to offer up cultural revolution by means of boring from within. This was revolution by an incremental evolutionary process — a technique the Fabian-Socialists long advocated and practiced. The expectation here was not invasion from without, nor by some kind of political process alone. The Frankfurt school desired to kill the host West as a parasite sucking the life from within. Think of the Sigourney Weaver film, “Alien.” Slowly, surely, incrementally the parasite takes over the host until it kills the host culture by boring within.

Joseph de Maistre, at the beginning of the 19th century, characterized it as follows:

“Until now, nations were killed by conquest, that is by invasion. But here an important question arises: can a nation not die on its own soil, without resettlement or invasion, by allowing the flies of decomposition to corrupt to the very core those original and constituent principles which make it what it is?”

This is exactly what has happened to the West via the successful machinations of the Frankfurt school. First setting up their home base at Columbia University the Frankfurt school exercised massive influence by slowly but steadily salting the whole American University system nation-wide as combined with an ambitious publishing agenda wherein previous Western categories of thought were reinterpreted through a Cultural Marxist grid.  Toss in the sexual revolution pushed by the work of Cultural Marxists Ordono and Horkheimer and it becomes clear that the Frankfurt school has been instrumental in successfully making the West stink.

God Owns The Land

“God is cast in the roles of Creator and ‘supreme landlord’ in the Pentateuch. The land owes its existence to Him, and he creates its inhabitants, continually monitoring and supervising their behavior. He allocates land to people: *Adam is placed in *Eden (Gen. 2:8), Canaan is promised to the *Israelites (Gen. 15:16-21) and there are references to the allocation of land to the Edomites (Dt. 2:5), Moabites (Dt. 2:9), and Ammonites (Dt. 2:19). Conversely, He removes people from land when they do not behave in a worthy manner: he expels Adam and *Eve from Eden (Gn. 3:23-24), scatters the tower builders over all the earth (Gn. 11:8), and earmarks the Canaanites for expulsion from their land when the level of sinfulness warrants it (Gn. 15:16).”
 
Dictionary of the OT Pentateuch
Entry under “Land”
From “Who is My Neighbor”

As God does not change this has prompted me to consider;

1.) The fact that each of us lives where we live is not by chance or happenstance. We are where we are physically located by God’s ordained decree. We can find comfort in this truth when we end up in zip codes that we loathe. I remember when we first moved to Charlotte I kept waiting for God to send us an unexpected check in the mail so we could move from what I thought then was a God-forsaken location. I should’ve taken more comfort that God wanted me in Charlotte for reasons that were His own even if inscrutable to me. Saint, you are where you are because God has placed you there.

2.) Of course, there is a macro application here as well. People groups inhabit where they inhabit because of God’s ordination. Further, people groups are removed from their homelands and places often (not always) due to disobedience. Traditional WASP Christians are being removed from their homelands and who could argue that it is not because they have rebelled against God’s Law-Word and sown the wind with their gross covenant violating immorality.

Our removal is internal. By that, I mean God is removing us though we remain in our homeland. God is removing us via the recruit and dilute methodology combined with sub-replacement birth rates.  Western man has sown the wind and now is reaping the whirlwind. We are being slowly genocided and genociding ourselves and so are being removed from the land.  Scripture underscores this phenomenon when God warned Israel that the results of disobedience would be,

43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

3.) Overall this reminds us again of that stout Reformed doctrine of God’s exhaustive sovereignty. Our whole lives are structured and ordained by the Omnipotent God. Every breath we take, the very ground we inhabit, the tightness of our family units, the careers and jobs we have; all this is from the hand of a sovereign God. To God’s people, all of it is to our good. To those people who oppose God all of it is for their judgment.

In conclusion, the only way that Western man finds an end to God’s judgment of removal from our lands is to repent of our sin of rebelling against God and His Christ. We have need to repent of rebelling against God’s clear Law-Word. Only National repentance as led by repentance among God’s people will end the sure genocide and so replacement of Western man.

Some Thoughts on How the Cultural Marxists Weaseled Their Way Into The Church Leadership

After the lesson on Critical Race theory last night a young mother asked me what connection the contemporary church is using as a segue to connect Christianity with Cultural Marxism so as to read Christianity through a cultural Marxist grid (template, prism).

I believe we get pointed in the right direction in what follows;

1.) Cultural Marxist sells itself as being the champion for the oppressed. The Cultural Marxist comes to the clergy and says…”See, you say God is for the oppressed and now you know that we are for the oppressed, therefore, Cultural Marxism is a good fit for Christianity.

 I believe in part the answer to this is as follows;

a.) God is not universally for the oppressed. God is only for His people who are oppressed. Those who are oppressed and are also rebelling against God, God is judging them via their oppressions.

b.) The oppressed that God is for are the righteous. The oppressed that the Cultural Marxists are for are the sodomite, the feminist, the disaffected minority, and the member of anti-Christ religions. Therefore, we see this meme of “oppression” is not common ground between Cultural Marxism and Christianity but the clergy are too stupid to get it.

2.) The Fatherhood of God over all men and the brotherhood of all men. The Cultural Marxist plays on the emotions of stupid clergy by talking about the necessity to “love” all men. And the Christian agrees that we must love all men but insists that loving the wicked means proclaiming their sin and resisting their attempts to subjugate Christians by taking control of the social order. The Christian insists that love to all men means treating them consistent with God’s revealed law and God’s revealed law calls for some pretty stiff sentences for many that the Cultural Marxists are telling us we must love by accepting. However, overwhelmed by this mantra of “the Fatherhood of God over all people, and the brotherhood of all men” the Cultural Marxist dupes the stupid clergy into thinking that when they are not resisting the Cultural Marxist proletariat they are at that point showing love.

3.) The Cultural Marxist plays on the alleged guilt of Christianity of yesterday. The Cultural Marxist finds Christianity guilty of any number of sins in the past and tells the stupid clergy that they can make it all up by reinterpreting Christianity through their anti-Christ grid. Of course, much of what the Cultural Marxist comes up with as against Christianity is just so much false guilt but again … the clergy being stupid doesn’t know history and is too lazy to do the work that is required in order to expose the false guilt heaped on them by the Cultural Marxist.

4.) Much of the weakness that Cultural Marxism is currently exploiting is due to the Church being unwilling to construct a Biblical doctrine of benevolence. Because the Church and its mission sending agencies, by their financial support, work to the end to overturn God’s connection between obedience and blessing and disobedience and cursing the Cultural Marxist is able to come along and worm their way into the Church and Mission sending agencies because the Cultural Marxist also desires to overturn God’s connection between obedience and blessing and disobedience and cursing. The Church continues to create “rice Christians” by the way it practices benevolence. God’s means of drawing and destroying is bound up with the blessings that come from obeying the Gospel and the cursing that comes from rebelling against Christ. Man-centered churches think that their way is more higher and loving than God. Our supposed help is typically not helping but working against God and distorting a clear view of reality and this distorting a clear view of reality by seeking to be “nicer than God” is right up the Cultural Marxists alley.

5.) The Cultural Marxists showed up in the Church speaking of “Social Justice.” The churchmen said, “sure, we’re for justice” without asking what the Cultural Marxists meant by the term. Now Cultural Marxism defines justice in almost all the churches. This is a worldview issue and reveals a continued unwillingness on the part of the Church to understand that words only mean what they mean as existing in a particular weltanschauung. The Church cannot continue to lend credence to people who show up bleating about “Social Justice” without demanding a worldview examination of what the bleaters mean by “Social Justice.” If that question had been asked and the responding answer closely examined the Cultural Marxists would not have taken over the modern Church in the West.

6.) An unbalanced, distorted understanding of the “Golden Rule” is probably the most common vehicle that Marxists use to subvert Christian thinking. By interpreting Matt 7:12 (Golden Rule) as a mandate for radical egalitarianism rather than a standard for equal treatment under God’s law and Biblical justice, then any situation where one party (e.g., white men) is in a higher position of authority or status or wealth relative to the other party (e.g., people of color), can be caricatured as a violation of Christian ethics.

Because of this wrong reading of the Golden Rule, the Cultural Marxist has been able to come inside the Church by the means of demanding that the Church follow the wrong definition of the Golden rule as provided by the Cultural Marxists. Take patriarchy as an example. The Cultural Marxists in the Church are now railing against patriarchy with the allegation that people who believe in biblical patriarchy are not following the Golden Rule because they are not doing undo women what they would want to be done unto them. Nevermind Scripture teaches male headship, leadership in home, church, and the civil order.

Carol Swain and “The New White Nationalism”

The most impressive study by far on this topic comes from the Princeton scholar Carol Swain and her book “The New White Nationalism in America.” Published in 2002, Swain argued that what she called the new white nationalism is different than the white supremacism of old, which intuited whites as biologically, genetically, and intellectually superior to non-whites. The new white nationalists are instead motivated by something entirely different: they’re making the case that the current project of multiculturalism is unfairly and arbitrarily discriminating against white people and white interests on behalf of non-white constituents whose interests are taking a priority in terms of national policy. In other words, if we are society that is increasingly built upon the leftist notion of identity politics, where blacks have their own political interests and Hispanics have their own political interests and Asians have theirs, then it logically follows that white people must have their own unique political interests as well. And yet, when whites assert such logic, they are scolded for exemplifying bigoted and racist sentiments!
 
Swain argues that concern over this blatant double-standard goes way beyond white nationalists; it resonates deeply with the wider white population and is causing significant resentment and backlash. A recent study found that more than half of white Americans believe that “whites have replaced blacks as the ‘primary victims of discrimination.’”
 
Dr. Steve Turley
Excerpts from Newsletter
 
I would only add here that we have to keep the ideological aspect of all this before us as well as what Turley brings out. At the end of the day, this isn’t only about Identity politics as if people from different races can’t be in opposite racial camps then what the identitarians insist only exist for particular races. For example, there are HUGE numbers of White people who are identifying with minorities in the BLM movement in this country, and that because the minority political movement is ideological as much as racial. Black Lives Matter is a Marxist movement and what it is achieving is it is convincing a large percentage of the black community (93% plus) that to be black or minority is to be Marxist. The resistance to that Black Lives Matter movement is found primarily in the white community, which ideologically speaking, is Anti-Marxist. However, there are plenty of white people (in the Academic, Feminist, Pervert, Journalism, and Ecclesiastical communities) who support BLM and the Marxism it shovels. So the Identity politics does not fall exactly along racial lines. What is really going on underneath reveals itself when people of other races cross Identity politics lines to join people of different races in order to support their majority ideology in those racial movements. In brief, a small percentage of the minority community hates the Marxist movement(s) and a substantial percentage of the white community (via perversion, Academia, Feminists, the Church etc) support the Marxism characterized by BLM and anti-fa.
 
The unfortunate thing here is that the political fault lines do indeed end up being largely racial in terms of who is and is not in the different Marxist vs. Anti-Marxist camps and when that happens generalities pile up to the point that people in all races just begin assuming on the basis of race alone that the people they are seeing automatically belong to the ideological camp that is most often associated with their race.
 
And to be honest, while may not be ideal this is understandable. When conflict begins to heat up generalities are a good thing to operate by if one has to make snap decisions upon which the survival of one’s family may depend.

In Praise of Merriment

In the book of Jeremiah, we hear God saying

34 I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.

And again in Isaiah 24

The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
All the merry-hearted sigh.
8 The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down;
Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.
11 There is a cry for wine in the streets,
All joy is darkened,
The mirth of the land is gone.

In both cases, there is a correlation between God’s judgment and the ceasing of merriment, of gladness, and of feasting. For the past year now our joy has been under siege by the attack on the places of our merriment and feasting. With the scamdemic restaurants that are characterized by fellowship and laughter among friends and family have been locked down, churches, where we are specifically called to assemble with the purpose of feasting on Word and Sacrament, have been shuttered, weddings constrained as attendance is often a matter of Zoom, and even the comfort that is found in the gathering of people to sustain one another as found in the funeral service has been checkmated.

The means of expressing joy and merriment has been blanketed by the demands of clothing our smiles and dimples. The constant barrage of news reporting death rates and screaming danger has sucked the normal merriment from the body politic. Further, awareness of the planned evils as hatched by the elite has threatened to suck a resolved merriment and joy leaving in its place the broken spirit that the writer of the Proverbs writes about.

A merry heart does good, like medicine,
But a broken spirit dries the bones.

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance,
But by sorrow of the heart, the spirit is broken.

We should say at the outset here that the broken spirit that is spoken of by Solomon is not the same as being poor in spirit in the sense spoken by Christ in the Beatitudes and called blessed. If we were to make careful distinctions we might say that there is an evangelical brokenness of spirit that is characterized by a heaviness that God’s truth is cast aside. What the writer here speaks of is the brokenness of spirit that bespeaks a brooding spirit of despondency which seems to believe that God has abandoned the believer.

Charles Bridges writes here,

“Too often does a mischievous gloom worm itself into the vitals of a child of God. The melancholy victim drags on a weary, heavy laden existence, clouding a distinct feature of his character and one of the most attractive ornaments of his confession.”

The Christian is told that a broken spirit drieth the bones and obviously the writer of the Proverbs is warning against the absence of merriment and the presence of dry bones. This proverb is given that the reader might resolve not to be characterized as one with dry bones and a broken spirit.

So, the Christian has to find a way to rise above all that which would suck out of us merriment and joy and find the ability to have merriment despite the presence of genuine joy sucking times as littered with professional joy suckers.

Of course, one option to resolution is to bury our heads in the sand and ignore reality as if ignorance is the path to merriment and joy. It is not for no reason that we have a maxim that teaches, “Ignorance is bliss.” But of course who could ever agree that the foundation for our merriment and joy should be set upon ignorance as a virtue?

So how should we avoid the broken spirit and dry bones? Where do we find merriment and joy in troubled times?

One way to do so is to remind ourselves that God’s judgment has already fallen on us in Christ. Those OT passages we read at the outset were indeed about God’s promised judgment upon His unfaithful people yet we need to remind ourselves that these merriment sucking times are not God’s judgment upon His Church and at worse are His discipline. We need not fear God’s judgment for it has passed in Christ and we ought to find merriment in the fact that God disciplines those He loves. God has not abandoned us. We have His favor.

Because we know that we know that we have the Father’s favor for the sake of Christ we can begin to find merriment and joy in times when it otherwise might be difficult to find merriment.

Luther occasionally fell into these kinds of fits. As a rule, he was a cheerful man, but he had terrible fits of depression. He was at one time so depressed that his friends recommended him to go away for a change of air, to see if he could get relief. He went away, but he came home as miserable as ever; and when he went into the sitting-room, his wise wife Katey, was sitting there, dressed in black, and her children round about her, all in black.

“Oh, oh!” said Luther, “who is dead?” “Why,” said she, “doctor, have not you heard that God is dead? My husband, Martin Luther, would never be in such a state of mind if he had a living God to trust to.”

Then he burst into a hearty laugh, and said, “Kate, thou art a wise woman. I have been acting as if God were dead, and I will do so no more. Go and take off thy black.”

If God be alive, why are we discouraged? If we have a God to look to, why are we cast down? Let us rejoice and be glad together and rediscover a merry heart.

Come come, my friends … if Paul and Silas as unjustly chained in stinking rat strewn and disease-ridden ancient prisons (Acts 16:16f) could find merriment and joy so that they were singing we ought to be able to find the same ability to avoid dry bones and broken spirits in times that are comparatively far less trying. I suggest the beginning of that lightness of heart is found in knowing that the favor of the sovereign of the Universe is set upon us for the sake of Christ.

Is this not, in part, what the table proclaims? It reminds us that the reasons for God’s opposition have been sunk in the finished work of Jesus Christ in our stead. The Eucharist while a time for sobriety is also a time for merriment and even laughter. As we smell and taste forgiveness and eternal life in the sacramental bread and the wine ought not our broken spirits be revived with swelling waves of mirth driven by knowing that the Father favors us?

We should be saying with the Psalmist,

Psalm 43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

Another solution to our lack of merriment and the brokenness of our spirits is found in losing our grasp on the promise that God’s enemies will be defeated. Ought not there to be merriment found in the prospect of God’s enemies most certainly being vanquished?

This is a point that modern nice Christians have been convinced is not polite. And yet the Scripture is awash with merriment that comes with the destruction of God’s enemies,

Proverbs in 11:10

When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; they shout for joy when the wicked die.

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf! Rev. 18:20

In Deuteronomy 32:43 we hear this clarion call to corporately rejoice:

Rejoice, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people.

And I haven’t mentioned some of the Psalms which get quite explicit on this score.

So our hearts ought to find some merriment in contemplating the end of the wicked. The end of baby murderers, mass murdering Magistrates, those who have sought to destroy God’s design for the family by the legislating of all kinds of perversion, for teachers and professors of Cultural Marxism who have poisoned the minds of our children. Yes, we pray for their conversion first and foremost but if they will not repent, if they will continue to seek to overturn the Kingdom of God why should we not find merriment and the ability to rejoice in the prospect of their utter and final defeat?

This prospect of comfort and so joy found in the coming defeat of the enemy is held out by St. Paul to the Thessalonians.

 it is a righteous thing with God to repay with [c]tribulation those who trouble you, 7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

So yes… we can find merriment and joy … a delivery from despondency by talking to ourselves reminding ourselves that God is not mocked and so those who sewed the wind will one day reap the whirlwind.

Conclusion

So let us feast and make merry. Let us laugh and rejoice without ceasing. Let merriment characterize our fellowship. As the Psalmist says, Let the high praises of God be in our mouths, and a double edged sword be in our hands. Let us ignore the storms gathered around us being confident that the Lord God omnipotent reigns. Let us keep before us the truth that these light and momentary afflictions are nothing as to be compared with the weight of glory that is set before us. Let us fix our eyes upon Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy set before him despised the cross, enduring the shame. Remember the eternal joy promised us, and again I say rejoice.

Keep in mind saints that the gloom of the servants reflects poorly upon the Master as if He was a hard man. Set aside the broken spirit that can be the result of fretting and worrying over what might be and sing with Paul and Silas despite being surrounded by trouble. By faith fix your mind on Beulah land where your anticipated joy will be never ending reality.

Hab 3:17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

Hab 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Hab 3:19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.