Charlotte’s Leering Rainbow Flag

In the small city, I live in there is a “church.” (I use that word as a courtesy. The confession I subscribe to doesn’t allow me to really believe it is a church.) It is one of the oldest churches in the city and was built right across the street from the courthouse. It is one of those large buildings, breathtaking in scope, with high ceilings, and a sanctuary that once actually needed the seating for which it was designed. I’ve often wanted to preach there just for the opportunity for the building itself to hear, one more time, the soothing and startling tones of the Christian faith once delivered to the saints coming from the pulpit. I imagine it has been decades since this facility has heard those truths. It may be the case that the building would fall down from the stress of hearing those truths again shaking the rafters.

Anyway … in the front of this full-on WOKE church stands some regal maple trees and around one of these maple trees, someone in authority in the Church has decided to send yet another message of what a “safe” church they are by wrapping a rainbow flag around the girth of the tree. As such, every day countless numbers of cars drive by this church and witness this tip of the hat to political correctness foisted upon us by the church in question.

Of course, the flag on the tree serves as a sign to communicate any number of things. Some of what it is signaling is more obvious (we embrace as a lifestyle in this “house of God” what God consumed with fire in Genesis 19) and some of what the flag is signaling is less obvious. It is to the less obvious that we turn for a moment.

The flag is a sign sending this message about the “church” and everyone attending the church; “I, the Congregational Church, live here and I know what I must do if I am to fit into the zeitgeist. This flag bespeaks that I am behaving in the manner expected of me. You, citizens of the community, because of this flag sign know I can be depended upon to ape the culture and that in this regard I am above reproach. I am an obedient member of our current death cult in the West and therefore beyond being indicted.”

This message radiating by the flag sign is directed to the community, and at the same time, it is a shield protecting the church and those who attend from any accusation that it or they may be counter-cultural in any fashion. The flag sign is a virtue signal and screams conformity. The flag sign is also communicating to the church itself that it has bowed the knee to the idols of the day. It gives the church identity, dignity, and, morality even if each of those is twisted beyond recognition. It is the identity of the perverted, the dignity of the treasonous, and the morality of Mephistopheles. Even the ground under the building quakes at being responsible for being sat upon by such a monstrosity. Ultimately the flag is a display of loyalty to the zeitgeist. For those with eyes to see it is, in reality, the white flag of surrender.

If the zeitgeist suddenly lurched towards accepting pedophilia (a possibility not beyond the realm of probability) the church would soon likely put out a flag that would communicate that children are merely young adults capable of making their own decisions about intimacy and so likeminded people are “safe” in that “church.” Imagine any polymorphous perversity you can imagine and a flag would sure to be soon wrapped around that poor maple tree that stands in front of their building.

And, oh the irony in choosing a rainbow flag. That very symbol that was given by God by which God set as a sign that God would never again destroy the earth by water. Clearly, those who embrace such symbols forget that God has more means than just water by which he can visit judgment.

Every day I drive by it I see it leering at me as if it were possessed by some kind of Goblin or Wormwoodian demon. It cackles at me that soon every church and every government building and every business building will one day have flags emblazoned somewhere on their property signaling that conformity has now consumed all. In my mind’s eye, I see men wearing rainbow flag pins on the collars of their suit much as they wear the American flag pins now. I begin to think it will rise to flood level and wash over everything and then I remember…

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. View all posts by jetbrane