Pope Doug wrote a subsection titled;
An Aside to the Actual Kinists Out There
Since we are talking a lot about you guys, I thought it might be appropriate to take you aside for a minute. You all like to think of yourselves as the shock troops of the resistance, as an elite corps of hard-headed race realists. You are in fact the soft underbelly of the resistance.
Bret responds,
What marvelous providence that you have decided to take us aside because we’ve been meaning to take you aside also. This works out to be very convenient.
It is true that we like to think of ourselves as the last heroes of the West. It is glorious to contemplate that we are the descendants of Charles Martel at Tours and/or John Sobieski’s plumed knights fighting the Turks at Vienna as opposed to some armchair general who has been more full of himself than blood sausage for quite some time now.
But on to why we wanted to take you aside. We aren’t taking counsel from you Mr. Pope. We aren’t fooled by your mastery of the false dichotomy or the subtle contradictions. We aren’t impressed with your attempted impersonations of Ambrose Bierce, Chesterton, Mencken, or any other of your literary heroes. We see through your lifelong three card monte game. We know a grifter when we see one.
Frankly, we would rather be the soft underbelly of the resistance then a fifth columnist termite who honestly believes he is doing the Lord’s work. We are hopeful that even the soft underbelly of the resistance will be enough to resist your fifth columnist work. We admit that is not asking much but every little bit for the Kingdom helps. Soft underbellies of the world unite!
Pope Doug continues,
You are not the lost golden apples of the Hesperides in the true West. You are the crabbed fruit of the West, lying on the ground in one of our lower-IQ orchards, most of which fruit the ants have already carried off.
Bret responds,
Yeah, well, your Mother wore combat boots.
Take that!
Pope Doug,
If anyone on the right suddenly starts talking about the Jooozzz, and is sounding suspiciously like Ilhan Omar, the chances are outstanding that it is one of you guys.
Bret Responds,
Has Ilhan Omar along with the Kinists been channeling John Calvin again?
Don’t you just hate it when Kinists start sounding like John Calvin?
Pope Doug writes,
The tweets in question in this case can sound so brave right after two in the morning, and also after two beers, right before you publish them, but when your opponents find those tweets and are consequently saying ohboyohboyohboyohboy to themselves, they are not doing this because they just plopped their lame arguments onto the sturdy slab of an oak table called the adamantine right. No, they actually found a two-dollar card table of the wobbly right, the kind that collapses as soon as they put any kind of weight on it. That’s why the ohboyohboyohboy reaction.
Bret responds,
Face it Doug… you’ve become a scaramouche. You’re more concerned about your reputation and your career than you are in speaking painful truths to the real enemies of Christendom.
“Anyway the wind blows
Doesn’t really matter
To Doug…”
Listen Dude, if you ever had a spell on the White Boy Summer crowd it is gone. You are now like Merlin who has been imprisoned by the spell of Viviane. Your enchantment is lost on Gen. Y and most of Gen. Z. You will now live out the rest of your life serving as General to those who refused to fight the people who needed to be resisted the most.
Thank you for your earlier service. At one time many of us hoped that you would be the one who had the requisite midi-chlorian to lead but alas that has not been the case.
Sir you are on a roll. I read this site every day in hopes to see a new article. Keep up the good work.
I long admired Doug Wilson for his struggles against corruption in our churches and for a return to the fundamentals of our faith. With his shiny new focus on subverting Christian nationalism by trying to redefine it according to his vision of a pan-Christian imperialism, I find little value in his vision for this nation which he actually denies is a nation at all. One might be forgiven for suspecting that he is intentionally ignoring the fact that “Christian” is the adjective which modifies the noun of “nationalism”. It isn’t complicated: the fact that God’s grace and salvation are freely offered to all in no way implies that those who become Christians must also become Americans if they set foot on our soil. Doug isn’t stupid either, so he must also recognize (oh so privately) that his position is illogical to the point of absurdity. Nor is it supported by scripture or history and he wilfully ignores even the possibilty of Christian comity among different nations. That leaves only malevolence as motivation. This conclusion is also amply supported by his unprovoked and vituperative attacks on those he labels “kinists”. Who, then, should I believe: Doug Wilson or my lying eyes? I hope Wilson enjoys the full measure of his media annointment as the gatekeeper of Christian nationalism and the inevitable fall as they destroy the image they are crafting for him. He is working hard to earn it.