“As some of you are aware, Refuge Church in Ogden, Utah has a growing voice in our cultural melee (especially on X), and they are aligned with us in many ways. However, much like Revoice attempted to keep the door of flamer sympathy cracked open in the PCA, the leadership in Ogden continues to conduct a sympathetic bromance with the cancers of racial spite, malice, vainglory, and pagan, tribal hate. They are doing exactly what the Feds want men on the right to do in this regard, standing politely on the dots painted for them by the left, sharing and platforming folly, sin, and self-owns whenever Federal Agent Trainee Samuel Holden drops another white boy vid laced with poo. (All to the great acclaim of Feds, spite bots, and anons.)”
Doug Wilson
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. Proverbs 14:1
1.) Of course a good deal of what I see here above is a classic example of malice, vainglory, and pagan tribal hate radiating from Doug. Doug belongs to the tribe of Oswald Spengler who once said that “Christianity is the grandmother of Bolshevism.” DW is lighting out here, as the head of his tribe after a tribe that is four square against Spenglerian Christianity … and boy howdy is there ever malice, vainglory and pagan tribal hate oozing out of Doug and the members of his tribe.
2.) If Oswald Spengler was correct (and he is not) that Christianity is the grandmother of Bolshevism then the contest going on right now between the Ogden / Wolfe chaps and Doug Wilson / James White is a contest between an older Christianity vs. a Spenglerian Christianity. Wilson/White/Boot/Sandlin and company, intentionally or not, desire a Christianity that is rootless, and cosmopolitan in its social order theory while being Capitalistic in its worse sense economically. The Moscow tribe are practitioners of Enlightenment “Christianity” and they are doing their utmost to halt the return of a pre-Enlightenment Christianity where rootedness, family, and belonging are the signposts pointed at by the few who retain ecclesial sanity.
3.) The nub of the matter in all this is the issue of Christian Nationalism and the nub of the matter of Christian Nationalism that finds the Moscow Tribal warriors so on the war path is Kinism. Now, the Ogden Tribe themselves are not yet fully consistent on this matter of Kinism – a consistency that avoids both the Stone Choir tribe and the Moscow tribe. Ogden continues to dance around a full throated embrace of ethno-nationalism but I suspect Doug may eventually force their hand to come out and admit that, “why, yes, as a general rule, nations should be comprised, in their majority, of the descendents of a common ancestor.” I mean, after all that is what the word “nation” means in its etymological origin.
4.) Of course as the chieftain of his tribe DW seeks to inflame his painted up Braves with all kinds of war talk about “cancers of racial spite,” and “tribal hate,” but the problem here is that Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue” Wilson never gives us any receipts. I mean, I know that in Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongues’ ” mind he sees racial spite covering the whole city of Ogden but these accusations are as vacuous as Churchill’s claim that war was forced upon him.
5.) I can’t help but delight in the irony that while R2K and Doug Wilson have the affections for one another the same as Carthage and Rome had for one another during the Punic wars, still they are on the same page in opposition to a return to a Christianity that is anti-Enlightenment liberal. Politics make for strange bedfellows, I reckon.
6.) Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue” accuses the Ogden chaps of standing on the of the left as pointed out by the FEDS, or something like that. My question for Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue” is “what is leftist about where the Ogden chaps are standing?” This strikes me as a case where for Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue,” being the hammer that he is, all the world now looks like a nail, which is to say that since he believes himself the very definition of what it means to be on the right it must be the case that if someone isn’t standing with him then by necessity that means that person not standing with Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue” is standing on dots outlined by the left. It’s either that or Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue” is so full of vainglory that he hates someone stealing his market share.
7.) I don’t know Samuel Holden from Adam but Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue” has some receipts proving Holden is a FED I’d sure like to see them. Until I see them it’s just another case that Holden is a nail for a man who is a hammer.
8.) Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue” must use the word “poo” because being a nice Evangelical he dare not say “shit.” I suppose if that word is used it would prove the user of said word would be “on the left.”
9.) Touching the Bagel issue (which is a HUGE driver for Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue,” it might be asked if the Chief, being the reader that he is, has ever read the book of Acts, the writings of Augustine, Chrysostom, Luther, or Calvin on the subject of the Bagels. Are we to believe that our Church Fathers and our Church history is all wrong on the Bagels but only Chief “I Speak With Forked Tongue” is correct? Is there no room for discussion here or is it the case that to agree with Bagels Finkelstein, Freedman, and Cole puts one on the left?
Doug sees himself as the ancient Narnians resisting the resurrection of the White Witch. I see Doug as a “Johhny come lately” Calormen who has successfully taken over Narnia and now refuses to give it back while claiming squatter rights.
Just for the sake of argument, even if Spengler WOULD have been right about Bolshevism having one Christian grandmother, that might not necessarily mean anything more that Bolshevism having 1/4 Christian heritage (and 3/4 non-Christian heritage) – just like a some wicked porn star might have a devout Christian grandmother.
Just a rough sketch here: the “genetic” background of militant Western Leftism could be divided thus:
1/4 twisted or heretical Christian legacy – already in the days of Luther and Calvin there were “liberation theologians” like Thomas Müntzer and Jan Bockelson, representatives of “Radical Reformation,” who employed Christian apocalyptic ideas to make the discontented masses rise up, to serve then as their messianic leaders. But in this regard they were clearly closer Zealot chieftains like Theudas and Judas (see Acts 5:36-37) than genuine apostles.
1/4 the legacy of atheist Jewish subversives, stretching all the way from Spinoza (who brought materialistic monism to the realm of ideas, from which it gradually spread to the world of actuality) to revolutionaries like Trotsky.
1/4 the legacy of pagan materialistic philosophy, like Epicureanism for example; Karl Marx made his doctoral dissertation about ancient atomism, not any Talmudic or Old Testament subject:
https://archive.org/details/Marx_Karl_-_Doctoral_Thesis_-_The_Difference_Between_the_Democritean_and_Epicure/mode/2up?view=theater
… and 1/4 of sheer rotten nature of fallen man, a universal trait, like envious, resentful hatred of better-off people. This trait does not need any fancy philosophy or spirituality to support it, it is ever-present in all of us and to ready to pop up under “favorable” circumstances, like Bolshevism arose in the demoralizing atmosphere of fratricidal First World War. (Lenin’s gang saw their opportunity and attacked when Imperial Germany and Tsarist Russia had worn each other out, much like Muslim armies burst out of Arabia in the 630s AD, when the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanian Persian Empire had exhausted each other in long wars. Bolshevism could actually be much better compared to Islam rather than Christianity.)
Btw, Spengler himself was 1/8 Jewish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler#Early_life_and_family
“Spengler’s maternal great-grandfather, Friedrich Wilhelm Grantzow, a tailor’s apprentice in Berlin, had three children out of wedlock with a Jewish woman named Bräunchen Moses (c. 1769–1849) whom he later married, on 26 May 1799.[11] Shortly before the wedding, Moses was baptized as Johanna Elisabeth Anspachin; the surname was chosen after her birthplace—Anspach.[12] Her parents, Abraham and Reile Moses, were both deceased by then. The couple had another five children,[11] one of whom was Spengler’s maternal grandfather, Gustav Adolf Grantzow (1811–1883)—a solo dancer and ballet master in Berlin, who in 1837 married Katharina Kirchner (1813–1873), a solo dancer from a Munich Catholic family;[12] the second of their four daughters was Oswald Spengler’s mother Pauline Grantzow.[13] Like the Grantzows in general, Pauline was of a Bohemian disposition, and, before marrying Bernhard Spengler, accompanied her dancer sisters on tours. In appearance, she was plump. Her temperament, which Oswald inherited, was moody, irritable, and morose.[14]”