Francis & McAtee On The Modern Institutional Church

“What is indisputably happening today is the deliberate extirpation from Christianity of the European heritage by its enemies within the churches. The institutional Christianity that flourishes today is no longer the same religion as that practiced by Charlemagne and his successors, and it can no longer support the civilization they formed. Indeed, organized Christianity today is the enemy of the West and the race that created it.”

Sam Francis

I would go further than Francis. I would say that the Institutional Christianity that flourishes today is not only not the same religion practiced by Charlemagne, it is not even the same religion as practiced by Dabney, Machen, Van Til, and O T. Allis. It is not the same Christianity embraced by Bavinck, Vos, Murray, and Gordon H. Clark. Those eight men would have had disagreements between themselves but the disagreements they would have had pale in comparison to the disagreements that exists as between modern “Reformed” “Christianity” now and that which they practiced only a wee bit over 100 years ago.

It is an embarrassment what passes now as Christianity among the Reformed. We have just become our own version of a Pentecostalism that is untethered to any historical reality, relying instead on a more rational and polished “moving of the Spirit.”

I can only say that I rejoice that I am not longer even loosely associated with the Institutional Reformed Church as it is incarnated among the putative “White-Hat” denominations.

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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  1. Yes, all those men would have quibbles with one another that essentially amount to a matter of degree whereas the moderns differ as a matter of kind. If you read RJR or Bahnsen free from hostile notions, they sound no different than Machen, the other aforementioned men, and certainly the Confession. They were only guilty of being out of step with their times. Now that all the furor has died down, it’s not hard to see this. The ones out of step with the times these days are those who advocate patriarchy and bloodlines.

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