Finally, the loathsome SPLC has been indicted. “Whatsoever a man soweth that he shall also reap.”
Of course, this doesn’t mean that this organization will be convicted in a court of law but for now the spotlight has been turned on them to expose the hate filled nature of their hate filled accusations.
My objection to the SPLC was their contention that there was something errant or unworthy about hate. Scripture clearly teaches that God hates all workers of iniquity (Ps. 5:5). Scripture tells us that there are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to Him (Prov. 6:16, cmp. Zech. 8:17). The Holy Spirit instructs His people to “Hate that which is evil, cling to that which is good (Romans 12:9).”
Because of these instructions I gladly admit that I hate the SPLC with a holy hatred since it has consistently revealed itself as an organization that hates that which God loves (Ps. 139:21). Indeed, the SPLC has always used their hate list as a proxy war to seek to destroy Biblical Christians and Biblical Christianity. Oh, sure, every once in a while, they would put some haters on their list who the Lord Christ hates in order to provide a fig leaf to cover their agenda of destroying Biblical Christianity. Even an old blind wandering sow can find an acorn once in a while. Still, it’s pretty clear that any organization that claimed to be an authority on identifying hate while refusing to name “Anti-fa” as a hate group was working with an ax to grind.”
Next, Christians have to get past thinking that there is something intrinsically wrong with “hate.” How can we not hate that which the Lord Christ loves? How can we not hate that which seeks to destroy the good, the true, and the beautiful as Christianity defines the good, the true, and the beautiful? Instead of defending ourselves from charges of hate we should step up to the mic and say, “Of course I hate that which is vile, false, and ugly. Who wouldn’t?” Christians who don’t hate the SPLC and the parallel organizations are not right in the head. Tolerance of evil folks is not a virtue.
Finally, and this will probably fly right by people, Christians need to realize that Biblical hatred is built on the foundation of love. It is because we love people that we stand in opposition to them when they attack those things God counts as lovely. It would not be love to the Christ hating cosmopolitans to communicate that we accept their attack on that which is virtuous in their pursuit of the establishment of the perverse. We participate in their evil when we don’t tell them to “Kiss the Son lest He be angry and they perish in the way (Ps. 2:9).
Because of all this I popped a cork from the finest champagne and celebrated when I heard of the SPLC being hoisted on their own petard. I only pray now that the ADL, B’nai Brith, and the ACLU will also soon get a similar comeuppance.
Rev. Bret L. McAtee
Charlotte Christ the King Reformed Church
Charlotte, Michigan
Bibi’s been indicted as a war criminal by the U.N. …
(Maybe better save your champagne for the new heavens and new earth).
Following is a long video, but just check in around the 1:07 mark. It’s time to re-examine your eschatology.
Nah… I have plenty of Champagne for all the varied celebrations that will have need of celebration.
And since I am correct regarding my eschatology why would I need to re-examine it?
You know I reject full Preterism …. right?
I figured you rejected FULL PRETERISM, as I’ve gathered you believe in the second coming of Christ; but I think Peter Boland does a pretty good job here of exposing post millennialism as an extreme just as fraught with peril as the pre-mil position.
Anybody who thinks post-mill is extreme is an idiot. The Amil position is the position of doomsdayers, defeatists, and pessimists.
So call me Prince Myshkin, Amillennialist and Realist.
2 Tim. 3:13.
Ron,
Postmil has been the majority position for 100s of years in the Reformed faith. It has found some of the greatest thinkers in Church history among its ranks. To call it “extreme” is just ignorance on steroids. It belies a complete misunderstanding of the eschatology that is being defamed.
Just call me…. “Biblical Christian.”
As to II Tim. 3:13 … evil men and impostors do go from bad to worse, but that still doesn’t contradict that “He must reign till He puts all things under His feet… and then the end.”
I share many of your views, which is why I read Iron Ink. One of my problems with post-mil guys is their eager readiness to seize on indictments (like that of the SPLC) as an evidence that the tide is turning. Schopenhauer wrote that “a pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts,” and I incline to look on these phony indictments as just part of an Operation Trust to flush out the opposition.
Ron,
This is a fair assessment. I do think many, if not most, postmill types tend to be unrealistic Pollyanna’s.
However, most people who know me would have quite the laugh at the suggestion that I am an optimist. I have had more than a few people tell me that I’m the most pessimistic optimist they’ve ever encountered. I’ve often thought that my postmillennialism keeps me from being a Nihilist.
Is the tide turning? Well, I see very little in the ecclesiastical or familial landscape that would suggest that and that is where the tide must first turn before we see the tide turn in the civil-social jurisdictional sphere.
I would say though that any opposition to the SPLC that is now crowing due to the indictment of the SPLC is opposition that has been long known as “opposition.” I have not yet seen anybody come out of the woodwork that wasn’t already known.
I do quite like the Schopenhauer quote.