Dr. Alan Strange’s Strange Jeremiad … A Response

“Something has happened, particularly in the post-covid world and I’ve been dealing quite a bit with this. There is a general populism, anti-establishmentarianism, anti-elitism, anti-intellectualism that is taking aim at our churches and your leadership, our governments and every sort of thing and it’s a lot of people on the right joining into this… this is something on the far right. And it particularly pertains to us. It is confessional Reformed churches of all sorts of churches that need to address this kind of thing Mr. Chairman. So, I think we are in a moment where other churches have been dealing with these matters.. and they (ARP, PCA, OPC, RPCNA) have kind of given this to us on a plate….
 
This (CN & Kinism) is something very much on the right. Let’s not deceive ourselves. This (ARP statement on race) is something that in God’s providence falls to us and I think we need to see it and we need to seize the occasion and stand with our fellow churches that have gone before us in NAPARC.”
 
Dr. Alan Strange
President Mid-America Seminary
Begging URCNA to Adopt Ben Glaser’s Napkin notes

1.) Let’s consider what the something is that has happened that President Strange so strongly laments. The something that has happened is that the Boomer world (of which Strange is a member) no longer exists. The Boomer world was a world of tightly controlled information that allowed massive amounts of propaganda to become “group think.” That tightly controlled information matrix shaped and conditioned the Boomer mind. What happened post-covid is that the lid was blown off the managerial group think because it became easily reported and detectable the amount of mass deception that had occurred to create the covid scam. Once people clued in to that deception all other previous deceptions began to be exposed. The greatest of these deceptions — and a deception that accounts for people on the right becoming anti-establishmentarian and anti-elite was the deception that has been dubbed “the post-war consensus.” (Personally, I prefer “the post-enlightenment consensus.) Strange, being a sold member of the Boomer era cannot wrap his mind around the intellectual shift that has occurred in those a generation or two younger than he is.2.) The anti-establishmentarian mindset that Strange complains of is the consequence of increasing numbers of people learning what some of us have known for decades and that is the absolute corruption and fraud of the establishment — including that in the Church. People are increasing anti-establishment because they have come face to face with the contribution of the visible church to the the lie that was the post-war consensus. Strange’s posturing, advocating, and thumping against the Ordo Amoris and Christian Nationalism only reinforces the very anti-establishment mind set that he so earnestly wars against. Strange, in this speech, and in other speeches he has done provides the very foundation of anti-establishment that he so earnestly laments.

3.) Much the same could be said of the anti-elitism that is in the air that Strange complains of. Ironically, Strange is exhibit A for the reason people are becoming anti-elite. There is Strange with all his education, and all his status, begging people to become as elitist as he is. One would think that by now the Church officials would get a clue that the only reason people are edging towards anti-elitism is because the elite are so damn frequently wrong.

4.) Next up is Strange’s wringing his hands of “anti-intellectualism.” This accusation is especially choice if only because the anti-intellectuals right now are the very elites who are accusing everyone else as being “anti-intellectual.” It is the very marrow of anti-intellectualism to ignore all that has been written by Reformed Fathers of the past on the subject of Race and Christian Nationalism. Blokes like Strange keep making pronouncement as if they are Moses on Mt. Sinai, but the pronouncements they make are against centuries and centuries of church theologians and intellectuals. Come, come, Dr. Strange, who are the real anti-intellectuals here? Physician heal thyself.

5.) Yes, all this is indeed a “general populism.” But where else is there to turn when the putative “thought-leaders” are so abysmally clueless because they are stuck in a propaganda fog that is now being blown away by the winds of reality?

6.) Strange is correct when he suggests that those of us who are done with the classical liberal worldview that he is trying to establish are “taking aim at our churches and your leadership, our governments and every sort of thing…” As counter-revolutionaries we plan to restore Biblical Christianity and if that takes tearing down your house in order to once again honor Christ as King over every nation we have no problem doing so. Strange mentions “taking aim at your leadership.” I’m here to tell you that somebody needs to do a mercy killing by taking aim at the current inept and bogus leadership. Not since the Reformation as the clergy been so utterly torpid and jejune, while at the same time being intoxicated with their own sub-Christian authority. Dr. Strange, you would grow to be an old man by listening to all my stories about clergy abuse. It’s about time someone took aim at the current leadership.

7.) Next up, Dr. Strange claims all this challenge is coming “from the right.” Allow me to suggest that only a man on the left would ever suggest that what the right is seeking to accomplish is somehow sinister. Strange, strangely says not only that all which he denounces is from the right but he goes on to say it is from “the far right.” Allow me to suggest that Dr. Strange would absolutely loosen his bowels if he ever really came face to face with someone on the “far right.” As it is, he is safe because what is being proposed from me and my mates is not from the right or even the far right. What is being proposed is merely Biblical Christianity.

8.) Next Strange dares refer to how God’s providence has brought to them this historically unique moment. While I recognize God’s providence in all things, I would say that this is an example of God using Satan to accomplish yet unknown divine ends. Strange’s dirge noting God’s providence is more akin to God’s providence that gave Paul a thorn in the flesh. Yes, it was from God but it was all still born of Satan’s messenger. What Strange and his Jacobin hordes are promoting is nothing but that which is baked in sulfur and frosted with the coals of hell. If Strange’s vision (and NAPARC’s) is successful Biblical Christianity will go into abeyance until God is pleased to let Strange’s generation die in the wilderness.

9.) What else can all this NAPARC folly be except an example of how “God is turning us over,” for our folly? And, we deserve it! We in the West have sown the wind and now God has been pleased to force us to reap the whirlwind. We have no reason to complain. We have only to cover our mouths and say, “All the ways of the Lord are just.”

Yet, there are a few … a remnant, who are prophets in the wilderness lifting their voices so as to be shut down by the elites and by the establishment. We will continue to cheerfully take up our crosses, find ourselves experiencing the joy of battle, and press on for the crown rights of King Jesus … even as over the visible”conservative” “Reformed” “churches.”

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. After watching Peter Boland’s latest video on the AI Data centers going up everywhere, I’d suggest that guys like Dr. Strange are perhaps trying to pad their AI profiles (See? We’re on your side) to ensure they’ll have a seat at the table in the new transhumanist world being created.

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