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I offer the link so you can make sure that I am not mistreating Dr. Lucas.

I do not like Dr. Lucas. I have read enough of his material, scanned some of his course syllabi, and have viewed some of his teaching sessions online to know that Jude would have labeled him as “a blight among your love-feasts.” If, as Michael Dukakis said about Ronald Reagan in the 1988 Presidential campaign, “a fish rots from the head first,” Dr. Sean Michael Lucas is just one example of how our Seminary Leadership is a rotting fish. This article screams support of all those observations.

In this column, Dr. Lucas is reviewing a book from a Calvin University Professor who teaches Gender studies at Calvin. (Women Professors at Calvin who teach Gender studies is certainly going to be the first place I go to enrich my reading.) The book is titled, “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.” Now, even the title here would set off a Geiger counter adjusted to locate radioactive Cultural Marxism. However, our Dr. S & M Lucas wades right in approvingly.

Lucas starts the piece off by informing us that he has the street cred to legitimately hate Biblical Christianity. He attended Bob Jones University. Lucas then spent some time at Falwell’s Liberty University. He did some work under Bill Gothard, He was a Presbyterian Pastor in a denomination that opposed women in office. We clearly get the impression that Dr. S & M Lucas was scarred by his conservative affiliations along the way and that the rest of this piece is going to be his payback for how those terrible people hurt his feelings in days gone past.

Dr. S & M Lucas insists that the book authored by a Gender Studies Professor at Calvin College is spot on in her analysis,

And especially true and irrefutable is Du Mez’s main contention. In trying to explain the pervasive evangelical support for Donald Trump, Du Mez argues that this support “was no aberration, nor was it merely a pragmatic choice. It was, rather, the culmination of evangelicals’ embrace of militant masculinity, an ideology that enshrines patriarchal authority and condones the callous display of power, at home and abroad”

Especially true and irrefutable?

I would refute this as especially false by noting that Evangelicals had just lived through 8 years of Obama’s promise to “fundamentally change America,” and after 8 years they decided they didn’t want Obama’s change. I would refute Du Mez’s especially false claim by noting that in voting for Trump Evangelicals embraced the militant survival instinct. The Economics of the Obama administration was transferring wealth to the top 1% and so wiping out the Middle Class while at the same time showing a profound commitment to elimination of any and all National and social-order identity by an essentially open borders policy.

Also, I would like to point out that Scripture teaches that patriarchal authority is God’s norm for social-orders, starting with God’s patriarchal nature of Father and continuing with creating the woman for the man. So, DuMez’s and Dr. S & M Lucas’ disgust with patriarchy is something they are going to have to take up with God. In point of fact, a healthy Presbytery would be investigating Dr. S & M Lucas’ contretemps for patriarchy by bringing him up on charges. But alas … Presbyteries don’t do discipline any longer.

Finally, concerning that quote above, let’s keep in mind that Trump projected American power abroad fewer times than any President in recent memory and, speaking only for myself, I would have loved to have witnessed some of that alleged callous power at home during the summer of 2020’s riots in American cities.

So, we see that what Dr. S & M Lucas calls “especially true and irrefutable,” is complete bunkum. DuMez’s claims are especially not true and are easily refutable.

Now, keep in mind that I did not vote Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 and counseled from the pulpit that Christians had no business voting for Trump. However, I understood that many of the people I serve as well as many of my friends would ignore me and vote for Trump because he represented a safe harbor from the escalating cultural Marxism as seen in people like DuMez and Dr. S & M Lucas.

Lucas next complains about Billy Graham. He doesn’t complain about Graham’s Arminianism. He doesn’t complain about Graham’s shallowness. He doesn’t complain about Graham’s parlor tricks to manipulate people to respond to his insipid messages. No, what Lucas complains about is that Billy Graham was trying to “bring revival to America through a restoration of order to families, churches, and eventually nations.” Now, of course, Graham was never going to be successful at that given his methodologies but was it really so bad of Graham to desire a restoration of order to families, churches, and eventually nations? Lucas seems to think it was a bad thing for Graham to want that.

Lucas and DuMez place White Evangelicals in the dock repeatedly. Lucas, citing DuMez approvingly writes,

“At the heart of this realignment (in the ’60s) were attitudes toward civil rights, the war in Vietnam, and ‘family values,’” Du Mez wrote. “For conservative evangelicals, a defense of white patriarchy would move to the center of their coalescing cultural and political identity” (33).

Now keep in mind that in the 1960’s America was 84% white. Should it be surprising that white Christians who love their family and people would defend white patriarchy? Would we fault the Japanese for defending yellow patriarchy? Next, everyone knows of the demonic attack on “family values” that occurred in the 1960s via the sexual revolution. Why would it be untoward for white Christians during this time to defend white patriarchy? What DuMez and Lucas are asking us to embrace is that somehow esteeming Christian white patriarchy was somehow a weakness in light of the Civil Rights movement as animated by a Marxist worldview and in light of the 60’s sexual revolution. DuMez and Lucas criminalize that which is most estimable.

Throughout the piece John Wayne takes it on the chin for being the embodiment of White Evangelicalism. This is humorous given John Wayne and his three marriages. Over life Wayne married a Mexican, Panamanian, and a Peruvian, and so was hardly someone who was a white nationalist, and yet John Wayne is the villain. Go figure.

Dr. S & M Lucas complains that white Evangelicals during the Reagan era 80’s thought;

“The Soviets were evil, Ollie North was a hero, and Americans were under siege. In order to preserve the next generation, the Christian homeschool movement rose up to equip parents in the training of their own children away from the godless factories of public education. The homeschool movement reinforced the linkage between evangelical Christianity, patriarchy, and Christian nationalism.”

This is quote really is quite shocking. Does Lucas think that the Soviets were not evil? Maybe the next book that Dr. S & M Lucas might read is “The Black Book of Communism.” Does Lucas not believe that Government schools are not godless factories that Christian parents in the ’80s were right for eschewing? The literature all across the ideological spectrum testifies to the abject worthlessness of Government schools. I thought it was love and not white patriarchy that motivated parents in the ’80s to home-school their children.

While we are at it, let us note the assumption of Dr. S & M Lucas’ that Christian nationalism is an evil to be avoided. Says who? Dr. Sean Michael Lucas? HA! Would Dr. S & M Lucas prefer Muslim Nationalism or Jewish Nationalism? I’m sure he would. These upside-down presuppositions are shot through this article. White patriarchy is bad. Christian Nationalism is bad. Home-schooling is bad. ‘Family Values’ are bad. Restoration of order to families, churches, and eventually nations, is bad. The 1960’s civil rights movement is good. Do you see the upside-down, inside out, anti-Christ worldview in which Lucas dwells?

Lucas goes on to complain that too often Evangelicals often allow other apriori ideological and cultural commitments to serve as glasses through which they read their bible and form their theologies. Lucas never contemplates for a moment that instead, he is the one guilty of letting his Cultural Marxism apriori commitments and presuppositions to be that which is shaping his theology – such as it is, and which shapes his bitching and moaning about Biblical Christians fondness for white patriarchy, Christian nationalism, home-schooling, and ‘family values.’

Really… I don’t know where Lucas finds all these kinds of Evangelicals he complains about. I suspect that anybody who isn’t as far left as Lucas is is automatically one of these evil Evangelicals. Personally, I find a large percentage of Evangelicals to be as far left as Dr. S & M Lucas.

Lucas sees himself as someone who is “daring to question the status quo.” What a joke. Lucas is the status quo. The overwhelming majority of the leadership in the Church is exactly where Lucas is. They hate all patriarchy, which is to say they hate the whole backdrop that allows the Scriptures to make sense. They prefer either matriarchy or eunuch-archy. Strong white men scare the Hades out of effeminates like Lucas and the Seminary leadership kaffeeklatsch crowd to which he belongs.

Dr. S & M Lucas closes by accusing his mystical Evangelicals of voting out of fear, which Lucas tells us is un-biblical. But I have another explanation for the voting habits of those Lucas loathes. I contend that those who voted Trump, though misguided, were voting in keeping with Romans 12:9; “Hate that which is evil and cling to that which is good.” Those who voted for Trump were voting out of the biblical instinct of hating Cultural Marxism. They voted for Trump because they hated Feminism, hated Globalism, hated “It takes a village to raise a child” thinking, they hated the loss of borders, they hated the thought of disinheriting their children. They were not voting out of fear per Lucas. They were voting out of a Biblically inspired hating of evil.

I think they were misguided in voting that way but I think that because I was never convinced that Trump was a white-hatted champion, who supported patriarchy, ‘family values,’ and Christian nationalism. If he had been I would have crawled over broken glass to have voted for him. Just as I would crawl over broken glass to cast a vote excommunicating Dr. Sean Michael Lucas.

“For Thomas Jefferson, responsible action and a common mind leading to harmony of interests was the factor that could allow for political decentralization. If these factors did not exist, consolidated political administration (authoritarianism) would be necessary to protect and foster order.

“Harmony of Interests and Authoritarianism
Online Article

Our modern outlook thus warps our perspective. For this reason, our federal government thinks nothing of allowing in as immigrants an increasing number of people who are religiously and racially hostile to us. They see no relationship between faith and land. As a result, the United States and the Western world have embarked on a suicidal course. They reject the concept of Christendom and embrace instead the humanistic “family of man,” and thus immigration policies in the U.S. and Europe are based on myths and illusions of a destructive nature.

–R. J. Rushdoony; Numbers: Commentaries on the Pentateuch Vol. 4

All that is being said here by Jefferson and RJR is that a country that is comprised of people from different ethnicities/races and different worldview and religions will be a Balkanized country that requires a totalitarian state in order to keep order.

This explains why I refuse to refer to America as a nation, choosing the word “country” instead. America has no harmony of interests among its competing races and people groups. A nation can exist where there are differing social classes if those social classes share the same kinship and worldview/religion but a nation cannot exist where the unifying point of blood and worldview/religion is non-existent. It cannot even exist for long where even one of the two are absent.

So, what is America’s unifying point as a country? What keeps this country from flying apart in an ongoing conflict of interests? Well, to date the answer to that question has been the fact that America has, historically, been able to maintain a genuine middle class while borrowing against its future in order to mollify (pay off) the lower class. In brief America’s unifying point has been cheap goods cheaply come by but that window is fast closing as our National Debt rockets prices and makes paying off the lower class unlikely.

Now our elite class understands this and is working overtime to eliminate the differentiation that exists as among our various races/peoples and worldviews. Their project has been to push Americans into inter-racial marriages so that all people group, and racial/ethnic group distinctions end. This can be easily seen by advertising, commercials, movie themes, University sales brochures and now church attendance in mega churches. The inescapable theme in all these is that people of different races must miscegenate so that we are no longer a white majority nation. The goal is to once again reach Jefferson’s common mind. It will be the common mind of the lowest common denominator. Such a people will be easier for the elite class to govern.

Failure in this project means that the only option left for a unifying point in America is pure unvarnished governmental force. This was the point that was made by Robert Putnam in bowling alone. Putnam argued that where peoples of vastly different backgrounds and religions are slammed together this results in balkanization and the only option for a balkanized people in terms of creating a stable social order is the force of arms. The more America and the West are flooded with the immigrant, stranger and alien the more Governmental authoritarian force is a surety.

Now, the inconvenient question must be asked; Cui Bono… who benefits? And the answer to that would be the one people group with a shared worldview that can avoid this kind of amalgamation. That people group, if being financially positioned could dominate all the amalgamated lands and rule the world.

America, at this point, is already too far down the drain in order to see it return to its predominant WASP social order. God’s ways are altogether just. The question as Christians we now face in the disintegrating West is, “How can we save our children.”

This is a brief primer that points the way to answers.

1.) We must teach our children our undoubted Christian faith. We must communicate that it is a triumphing faith and that it is not satisfied unless that faith spreads.

2.) We must teach our children that our undoubted Christian faith is a world and life view. We must get a faith in their head that is not singularly tied to the Church as Institution. It is not that we denigrate the Church but we communicate that the Kingdom of God is broader and wider than the visible Church.

3.) If we belong to the heritage of Christian Europe we must communicate to our children that they may not marry outside Christian Eurocentric lines. If we belong to some other people group or race/ethnicity we must likewise encourage our children to marry Christians within that people group who embrace a biblical Christianity.

4.) We must teach our children history from a Christian perspective. A people torn from their historical roots cannot be a people for long. In order for Christians in their people groups to proliferate, they must have Christian heroes both inside and outside the Scriptures. At the same time, we must expose the wickedness of false heroes that have been foisted on us by the enemy.

5.) We must shepherd our children in their friendships. It will do little good for us to teach our children well if they create bonds with those from other families who do not share this world and life view. We must try to seek to make our children familial-centric.

6.) We must also thoroughly teach them that our current government hates them and has every intention of destroying what we and they believe. The government is the enemy that has to be dealt with deftly. We must do all we can to steer them away from any association with the humanist Christ-hating government.

“I hold a traditional understanding of biblical sexual ethics. So I do not support transgender lifestyles as a God-pleasing lifestyle. But that doesn’t mean this person isn’t qualified to be a doctor or one of the nation’s chief doctors. It means they need the Gospel.”

“And not to put it too bluntly, but how in the world can you support or overlook the gross immorality of President Trump AND his near-complete incompetence but commence to whining about this person’s sexual orientation despite their reputation for competence in their field.”

“Ron Burns (Alias Thabit Anybwile)
Protestant Grifter
Wanted in three States for butchering the truth

1.) Let me get this straight. I am having a significant medical problem and Ron wants me to go to a Doctor who has a penis but lives like he has a vagina for a proper diagnosis of my medical problem?

2.) Ron really believes that Trannies should be put in public positions so that they can be looked up to by America’s children. Being a Trannie in Ron’s world doesn’t disqualify one from being a public figure that other people aspire to be like? Ron is an idiot if he thinks that.

3.) Why not just say;

“I hold a traditional understanding of biblical sexual ethics. So I do not support Necrophilic and Bestiality lifestyles as a God-pleasing lifestyle. But that doesn’t mean this person isn’t qualified to be a doctor or one of the nation’s chief doctors. It means they need the Gospel.”

4.) I didn’t vote for Trump and I warned other people off of voting for Trump. As such, I didn’t overlook his gross immorality. However, I did support what Trump represented to most Christian people. I also found Trump’s competence in his job as President to far exceed almost every other President of the last 50 years. I certainly found his competence as a President greater than your competence as a Minister.

So, an old College buddy this morning directed me to the WIKI page for my Alma Mater wherein I discover a section that it has a list of “Notable Alumni.” I was shocked not to have been on that list. Beyond that, keep in mind that this school (Marion College when I attended… Indiana Wesleyan University today) was and remains the flagship college for the Wesleyan church. IWU is the place that Wesleyans send their sons to be trained to be ministers in their churches. When I attended chapel was required and there was a ‘Spiritual Emphasis Week” every year.

Back to our list of Notable Alumni. Now, I may not be able to communicate the humor in all this as it kind of lands in the territory of an “inside joke.” However, I’ll give it a try.

There was a chap on the Notable Alumni list I was friends with when I attended. His name is Joseph Adda. Somewhere there is a photo of Joe and me on graduation day standing together w/ our diplomas in graduate gowns and mortar caps. Joe, it seems went on to be a member of the Ghana parliament. There is another chap who was a high ranking official at one time in Syria. But the one that really caught my eye and filled me with mirth was Notable alumni Silky Nutmeg Ganache whose claim to fame per WIKI was being a Drag Queen and Contestant on Season 11 of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Here is just one of many Silky Nutmeg photos you can find on the web;

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Now the humor here is not at the expense of that poor creature going by the name of Silky Nutmeg Ganache. He is in a bad way. The humor is that Silky would be listed as a Notable Alumni of this Indiana Wesleyan University. You see IWU is a real buttoned-down Institution afflicted with the typical kind of uptight pietism that one often finds among Christians (especially as existing in the Holiness tradition). Now, it’s been 40 years since I was a student and 10 years since I was on campus last but IWU was afflicted with the polyester panted AMEN corner who thought coloring outside the lines was something only pagans did. IWU was run by the God, baseball, and American pie crowd. These chaps had such starched piety that they would wrap the Christian flag around them as sleepwear. If IWU were a woman it would have to have been said to her what Rhett Butler said to Scarlett O’Hara… “You need kissed; and badly.” Given all that reality and then to see IWU have a Notable Alumni named Silky Nutmeg who is famous for being a Drag Queen enters into a humor orbit heretofore undiscovered.

To be honest, the piety of Indiana Wesleyan University and the Wesleyans in general probably needs a few more Silky Nutmegs as a graduate. Maybe IWU will start a “Drag Queens Honors Program?”

Silky Nutmeg … I sincerely hope you discover the goodness of God in the land of the living but even if you don’t I thank you for the belly laugh this morning at IWU’s expense.

OK … If Biden is Inaugurated Wednesday this is what I expect over the next 6-9 months.

1.) Re-commitment to Paris climate accords
2.) Return to Obama Iran “peace” treaty
3.) Turning off the tap of Keystone oil pipeline
4.) Signing the Equality Act
5.) Signing the Net Neutrality Act (Beware euphemisms)
6.) Electronic Health Passports
7.) Laws governing the production of ammunition
8.) Gun buyback program
9.) Beginnings of Green New Deal programs
10.) Amnesty for 30 Million Illegal Immigrants
11.) Some kind of Student debt forgiveness program
12.) Beginning of Reparations debate
13.) Aggressive programs to transfer wealth; whites to minorities
14.) Return to fairness act enforced by FCC
15.) A push to shut down homeschooling.

I’m sure there are others not that it matters. Once #10 is implemented it is all over in terms of a conservative backlash.

Remember, the Dems hold both the Senate and the House. Party discipline will be at maximum effort. Joe Manchin isn’t going to save your Keester.

The FEDS know they are ruling against the interest of the governed, therefore expect their implementation to be ruthless.

There is one more I thought of including but didn’t since I’m not sure they would do this since the Church is so little of a threat. However, it is possible there will be legislation cracking down on what can and cannot be said from pulpits.

Biden has already made clear that his administration will go out of its way to help minority and women-owned small businesses. This is how the transfer of wealth from whites to minorities will begin. Also, this transfer of wealth will be accomplished by the continued confiscatory taxation of the white middle class which will be committed to minorities in “social safety-net (hammocks) programs.”

The descendants of Europe — even those moderately liberals — who are not perverts are about to learn what Southerners learned between 1865-1877 and that is what it means to be ruled by one’s ethnic and ideological enemies. There is no use in denying this. At every turn, we read that some problem that needs to be addressed is the fault of white racists. Biden’s recent appointments to his Climate team, Maggie Thomas and Cecelia Martinez have cited racial inequality as perpetuating climate change, arguing that the Biden administration’s environmental policy must be centered on “racial and economic justice.” Biden’s appointment to the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Christine Clark is on record as stating that whites are inferior to blacks. Quoting approvingly an Academic, Carol Barnes, Clark said, “that human mental processes are controlled by melanin. That same chemical, which gives blacks their superior, physical, and mental abilities.”

I understand that all of this is committing the sin of noticing but if the Christian descendants of Europe don’t wake up to how they are being singled out for economic persecution they will soon not have the muster to resist in any respect their planned demise. Christian Sons of Japheth the intent is to turn you into hewers of wood and drawers of water.