A Resurfaced Technique From The French Revolution’s Terror Stage

In Revolutionary France during the time of Terror it was called denunciation;

“Denounce the crimes, denounce the criminals, a double award awaits you: the voice of your conscience, for denunciation is a virtue: and a legitimate reward, for the National Convention is just and desires that each virtuous act should be a means by which the sans culotte may improve his lot… “

December 1793 Commission Temporaire
Ad hoc revolutionary authority installed in the city of Lyon after the Federalist revolt

In China during the time of Mao’s Cultural Revolution it was called “Struggle Sessions,” or denunciation rallies. These were were violent public spectacles intended to shame and humiliate people for “wrong think.” These sessions also became opportunities for people to demonstrate their patriotism. It was so bad it was not uncommon for even children to turn in their parents, or spouses to turn in their mate.

Today in America it is called “Virtue signaling.” We see it when CREC ministers (Sumpter, Wilson, Brito, Hemmke, etc.) denounce Kinists. We see it when Dr. Moanin’ Owen Strachan denounces Dr. Stephen Wolfe for Wolfe’s support of Christian Nationalism. We see it when the Steve Hemmke denounces Darryl Dow by writing a pitiful review of a book Hemmke never read, we see it when Rod Dreher denounced Thomas Achord despite Achord’s previous kindness to Dreher’s family. These new struggle session are breaking out everywhere.

What we are finding in our current Evangelical/Reformed version of the struggle session is those who are not sufficiently WOKE, per the standards of their Cultural Marxism and CRT are denounced for their thought crimes. Usually it comes in the version of “Racist,” or “Kinist” or “Anti-Semite.” The effect of it all is to force the modern church culture in the West to align with the worldview of WOKE-ism.

The only way to triumph over this insanity is in the name of Jesus Christ and by His authority to return their denunciations and so denounce them as traitors to Jesus Christ and Biblical Christianity. By the means of the Word of God accompanied by necessary deductions from the Word of God these people need to be stopped from filling out their roles as Soviet Commissars. These thought police must be eliminated.

In the words of John Moody

“We don’t have to be “kind and gentle” to wolves, false teachers, and those betraying the church and openly compromising with the wicked.

Love them like God does, enough “to shatter their teeth” if necessary to stop their evil.”

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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