Continuing to Muse on “Neighbor”

“Michael Masters writes that Christianity ‘must now share the blame for the dissolution of the West,’ that it ‘has abandoned the defense of our people and has become an accomplice’ of those who would exterminate us. When we need the church the most, it not only abandoned us, but joined in the vanguard of dispossessory efforts against us. How did the faith that once served as an anchor, that so nobly prevented us from spinning away into the ether of oblivion, become our enemy? Masters summarizes the most common criticisms leveled at Christianity, that it ‘has subverted inbred traits of altruism that help family and tribe survive, and has transmuted those traits into agents of passivity and surrender,’ that it ‘has universalized altruism, thus stripping our defenses against multiculturalism,’ and that its ‘preoccupation with eternal reward in the world to come blinds some Christians to the consequences of their actions today.'”

Corey Giles

The Sword of Christ – p. 3

When I see clergy talk about how “everyone must be treated as a neighbor,” without any qualification that treating everyone as a neighbor doesn’t mean “treating everyone the same,” I hear echoes of this quote above in my head. When we make “neighbor” a universal principle, without the particularizing of definite degrees of “neighborliness” towards the particular people we encounter day by day and hour by hour, we have so broadened the meaning of “neighbor” that it means nothing. The word neighbor begins to slip into the ether realm of “if everyone is my neighbor than nobody is my neighbor.” If I owe everybody the same obligation of neighborly altruism, then what gets lost is the obligation to owe kith and kin and those who are of the household of faith, a greater warrant of neighborly obligation.

The chief opponent of Christianity today is cultural Marxism. Cultural Marxism is the theology that creates multi-culturalism. Multi-culturalism is built up and supported by the idea of that non nuanced statement of “everyone is my neighbor.” If it is not explained pointedly, in our current cultural moment, that “everyone being our neighbor,” does not mean that everyone is treated the same … everyone is to receive the same prioritization … everyone is to be hailed and well met … then the consequence is that the those who teach the unqualified statement, “everyone is my neighbor,” are doing the work of the devil (intentionally or not) by contributing to the health of the multiculturalism that is serving as the current coffin for all white people but especially for the White Christian people.

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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