Self-loathing & Self-Hatred Wrapped in Christianity & The Death of the West

There is, in the Church in America today, a profession of a love for Jesus that is in reality a masquerade for a self-loathing and self-hatred that stems from the conviction that White, Western, Male and traditionally Christian is the fountain head of all that is evil in the world. This pseudo-love for Jesus expresses itself as a love for others who are non-White, non-Western, feminist female, and marxist-Christian but in reality this faux love that seeks the advantage of the non-White, non-Westerner, feminist female, and marxist Christian is in reality an attempt, based on a overwhelming sense of unrelieved guilt, to provide a self-atonement by means of ethno-cide.

This kind of behavior is expressed in the countless ways that different expressions of the Church are advocating wealth redistribution away from the West to the non-West, and from a people still limned as Christian to a people who are certainly not historically Reformed, nor possibly even Christian. Whether it is the pursuit to continue to combine illegal immigration with a unfettered entitlement culture or the pursuit of junk science claims of anthropogenic global warming that end up de-funding the West in favor of the non-West or whether it is pursuit of gender neutral language that seek to emasculate the traditional male in favor of the Feminist female. It doesn’t matter that such attempts have never worked to enrich those who have funds redistributed in their direction, or that attempts to empower women have consistently, in the long run, ended with women being hurt and embittered and men becoming effeminate and without courage. All that matters is that the ongoing attempt to provide self-atonement for the perceived and conjured sins of some imaginary wicked past that is being carried as a great burden, and which serve as the foundation of the self-loathing.

What makes this self-loathing and self-hatred — this attempt at self-atonement — so insidious and reviling is that it is wrapped in Jesus talk. This self-loathing and self-hatred is made to appear that it is the very love of Jesus that has Western “Christians” immolating themselves in favor of non-Western non-Christians. What makes this self-loathing and self-hatred so sad is that it cannot help either non-Westerners who need the Gospel nor Westerners who are re-defining the Gospel to mean self-destruction. The result of this re-defining of Christianity will be death both for those it is intended to help as well as death for those who are doing the “helping.”

With this self-loathing, wrapped in happy Jesus talk, comes the death of the West by means of the pursued self-atonement that demands the West’s death in favor of the non-West in order to find some elusive forgiveness for past evils. The person who questions this self-loathing “Christianity” is the selfish, racist, bigot, sexist, hater of Jesus who is only trying to keep everything for himself. Even when that accusation is met with the reasoned reply that if our house is burned down we can not help those who are homeless, it is insisted with some kind of reply that amounts to “equity demands that true love for others means we burn down our own homes.”

This is not to say that the West has not had its share of sins. Nor is it even to say that the West has not often played the role of the oppressor. It is to say that for all its crimes and sins, the West, because of the past influence of Biblical Christianity, has exceeded every other culture that can be named in providing a context where people can live with the dignity that being made in the image of God demands.

However, though I believe that with God all things are possible, I also believe a fair reading of the times indicates that the self-loathers are going to succeed in tearing down the West. Then it will be seen to be true what Winston Churchill once said of Socialism,

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

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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