Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
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I always try to tell people that Lincoln never freed the slaves; he just changed the name on the title.
The problem with the black community’s got nothing to do with the color of their skin – only their worldview and the culture it’s produced – of which voluntary slavery to the state is but one part.
Greg,
I agree. The melanin level in their skin is irrelevant. As a man thinketh in his heart so he is. The problem is not the color of their skin but the color of their thinking.
Actually Obama is the worst thing that could have happened to the black community as he embodies all their worst pathologies. From the killing of their seed to the embrace of victim status that deserves to be compensated Obama will only exacerbate the problem of race relations in this country.
You’re exactly right.
I’ve noticed a scary trend…People who, for the past 25 years wouldn’t be caught dead telling racially-centered jokes are now doing so. I think that it’s because of the final repudiation of PC-ness, namely that lack of power within a group makes them off-limits. I hope the death of PC-ness may be replaced with Biblical civility…but I’m not hopeful.
Jay,
Your explanation might be right. Another explanation might be that people are releasing years of pent up anger at being marginalize. It is entirely possible that as white people see and feel what black ascendancy means that the response will be to identify ever more with their own culture and race at the expense of other cultures and races.