Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
“Or say that your nephew started an alt-right web site that really caught fire and took off. It grew such that the traffic was really significant, and so he is now running a politically inflammatory merch warehouse, with a set of offices next to it. Their organization has decided to launch a print magazine, one that would supplement the articles on the web site with more in-depth reporting. The editorial policy they are seeking to advance consists of a blend of white nationalism, health and fitness advice, and they occasionally like to dabble in various hints of Holocaust-denial. You have expressed your dissent, your strong dissent, in several conversations with your nephew. He knows where you stand. But they are hosting a barbecue in order to celebrate the launch of the magazine, and you receive an invitation. Do you go? Again, are you kidding me?”
Doug Wilson
Blog & Mablog
Alistair Beggs the Question
Doug never ceases trying to be clever. Here Doug compares Alistar Begg’s wrongly suggesting that a grandmother attend her pervert grandson’s “wedding,” with attending a BBQ celebrating one’s Nephew’s alt-right entrepreneurial adventure.
Let us consider why this is stupid.
1.) Let’s pretend that instead of Doug’s nephew being a white nationalist in America he is a Bagel Nationalist in Israel. Does Doug still have the same vapors at the thought of attending this celebratory BBQ?
2.) Doug is begging the question by assuming that White Nationalism is automatically sinful always all the time without proving this position. It’s ironic that Doug would fall into this because it is the very same thing he accuses Alistair Begg of doing.
3.) I’m assuming that Doug doesn’t have a problem w/ the heath and fitness side of things but you never know w/ Doug.
4.) Before I can affirm the sin of and ill-advisability of “holocaust-denial,” Doug is going to have to define that for me. For example was it sin for the Chicago Tribune to report the following 32 years ago;
Jewish and Polish scholars of the Holocaust now agree that the Auschwitz death toll was less than half the four million cited here for four decades. The actual number was probably between 1.1 million and 1.5 million….
If I agree with the Chicago Tribune is Doug going to cast me to the outer darkness of not having anything to do with the CREC. Is Pope Doug going to tell the CERC to shun me for agreeing with the powers that be @ Auschwitz?
5.) Where is the sin in wanting to discuss the total numbers of dead during what is called by others who are not me “the Holocaust?”
6.) If Doug had been where he is at now in 1950 he would have said that people who denied the Katyn Forest story were “Katyn Forest deniers” who must not be allowed to be in the presence of good people.
7.) So, having said all that Doug has not made the case in the slightest that his pretend Nephew scenario where one attends the Nephew’s barbeque is anything at all like the scenario where one attends a perverts “wedding.” Complete and utter failure on Wilson’s part.
8.) But before giving up on this I want to go on record as saying I hope Doug continues to write like this because in doing so Doug is shooting himself in the foot. He is ruining his brand over the long term. Short term there remain the normies who will cheer for this tripe but over the long haul Doug is guaranteeing he is going to become increasingly irrelevant. So… keep on damning these kinds of things Doug and I’ll keep getting people phoning me asking if they should get out of the CREC.
What other event in history do you know of where it is illegal for scholars to discuss, debate, and dispute a matter of historical record? Just the fact that so many European countries are willing to throw you in jail for “Holocaust denial” if one does this ought to suggest that something is rotten in Denmark, and elsewhere in Europe and in Moscow Idaho. Doug even thinks Holocaust Denial is worthy of casting one out of the Christian church.
In all this Doug is supporting the Bagel narrative that the Western Christian civilization narrative comes via Auschwitz as opposed to Calvary.
Rev. Allister Begg recently said, knowing that his comments would not be accepted in some (conservative?) corners that it would be acceptable to attend a sodomite wedding of someone close to you. Here are Begg’s comments given in a some kind of audio interview;
“…. we field questions all the time that go along the lines of ‘My grandson is about to be married to a transgender person, and I don’t know what to do about this, and I’m calling to ask you to tell me what to do’—which is a huge responsibility.
And in a conversation like that just a few days ago—and people may not like this answer—but I asked the grandmother, ‘Does your grandson understand your belief in Jesus?’
‘Yes.’
‘Does your grandson understand that your belief in Jesus makes it such that you can’t countenance in any affirming way the choices that he has made in life?’
‘Yes.’
I said, ‘Well then, okay. As long as he knows that, then I suggest that you do go to the ceremony. And I suggest that you buy them a gift.’
‘Oh,’ she said, ‘what?’ She was caught off guard.”
Once this news came out R. C. Sproul 2.0, then followed shortly thereafter saying (paraphrasing) we should go easy on guys like Begg who have been faithful shepherds for so long even if they get one wrong.
In my mind, this proves that both Begg and Sproul 2.0 have accepted sodomy at some level. I say this because I’m fairly certain that Begg would not say, “Go ahead and go to a wedding where a chap marries his milking cow,” and I’m fairly certain that Sproul 2.0 would not say, in the face of that kind of hypothetical statement, “we need to go easy on otherwise faithful men if they get these matters wrong.”
Let be crystal clear here. I do agree with Sproul 2.0 that we should not casually cast otherwise faithful men aside if they get some matters wrong. For example, I don’t completely cast aside someone if they are an Amillennialist or premillenialist in their eschatology. However, if an “otherwise faithful man” goes Full Preterist I am going to cast him aside. I don’t completely cast someone aside if they are infralapsarian. However, if an “otherwise faithful man” tells me he is now an Open Theist I am going to cast him aside. In the same manner if the previously otherwise faithful man — Alister Begg — tells me to turn a blind eye to sodomy by sanctioning my attendance at a sodomite wedding, I am going to cast him aside. I am not going to read him anymore. I am not going to recommend him any more. I am not going to quote him any more.
And frankly, I’d be giving serious consideration of treating someone like Sproul 2.0 the same way.
Let’s pretend that Alister Begg gets an invitation to a sodomite wedding plus one. Do we really think that Alister is going to go to Jesus and say… “Hey, Jesus. You want to go to this sodomite marriage with me? It’ll be a great witness?”
Now neither one of these men are going to give two shakes that I cast them aside in my thinking. That’s ok. It is possible there will be others out there who see the logic of what I am trying to get at here.
The issue of perverted sexuality if a pivotal issue in the attempt to continue to completely unravel what little remains of Christendom. When men like Begg and Sproul shout from the rooftops that which they are shouting there has to be folks who stand up next to them holding a sign that says, “The guy next to me who is shouting is full of Bologna.”
There are plenty of men, both past and present, that we can learn from and read without having to spit out the little green sputum-balls in their teaching.
I’m sorry, but advising a grandmother that she can attend her perverted grandsons wedding as with a gift, as long as she has told little Johnny in the past that him boinking other little boys is sin, is just ludicrous and contradicts the scripture that teaches us “have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but expose them.”
Inconvenient citizens roasting on an open fire …”
“How happy are all those J6 citizens you entrapped this holiday season?”
“Hell’s going to be a lot hotter than that, when you finally arrive.”
Fly over America no longer trusts, likes, or wants the FEDS, in any of its incarnations, least of all a Federal Police unit that has no sanction for its continued existence in the US Constitution.
After reading how Potterville Public Schools (10 miles away) is now allowing, per the recent decision of the Potterville school board, “gender dysphoric” children to use the opposite bathrooms of their biological sex I find myself seeing red.
Kristi Tullis, the stepparent of a trans student in the school system said, “She has done nothing to anyone in this community but be kind, generous and polite. She’s not going to be in the locker rooms. She’s a scholar, not an athlete. She is a danger to no one.”
Keep in mind that when the above addlepated “Kristi Tullis” speaks above it may be quite possible that Kristi is either male or female or both or neither. Who knows?
Note what we learn from Krisit’s statement
1.) The child in question is from a broken home. Broken homes, whether characterized by divorce or not create broken children.
2.) Kristi, like most Americans, has this huge “public vs. private” distinction in their heads. It’s acceptable that Kristi’s stepchild use the wrong bathroom because it is not hurting anybody. This child (and more so the parents) has done nothing to anybody except contribute to creating an environment where insanity is acknowledged among us as being perfectly normal. “Oh, you’re a little boy who thinks you’re a little girl. How quaint. Isn’t that precious?”
I ask you who is tetched with more madness…. the boy child wearing a training bra using the girls bathrooms or the “adults” who are sponsoring this absolute clown show?
3.) Kristi’s stepparent insists that he is being “polite.” Is that politeness on display as he is entering into a girl’s bathrooms? Is he being polite and kind as he ogles the girls in the bathroom?
This is like Tolkien’s Saruman finally successfully taking over the Shire. These are Sarumanic like policies. Alternately, it is George Bailey’s failure to protect Bedford Falls that eventuates in the rise of “Potterville.” I find it difficult in getting my head around that a small rural Michigan farming community of barely 3K residents has actually voted to embrace, eyes wide open, certifiable insanity.
What’s next for the Potterville school board? Offering classes on “Being a successful Lesbian even though you’re a biological male?” I guess they could be like my Michigan home town where I grew up (population 10K) who, I recently discovered, has a teacher Tranny employee who is male but is a biological woman.
“In A Pilgrim’s Regress,” C.S. Lewis wrote about a man who ordered milk and eggs from a waiter in a restaurant. After tasting the milk he commented to the waiter that it was delicious. The waiter replied, “Milk is only the secretion of a cow, just like urine and feces.” After eating the eggs he commented on the tastiness of the eggs. Again the waiter responded that eggs are only a by-product of a chicken. After thinking about the waiter’s comment for a moment the man responded, “You lie. You don’t know the difference between what nature has meant for nourishment, and what it meant for garbage.”
The citizens of Potterville (and clearly the citizens in this nation who should be Institutionalized) are making the same type of mistake, only in our case, the matter is reversed. We are being served up urine and feces by our elites and cooing in response about how delicious and tasty it all is. We pat ourselves on the back concerning how enlightened and progressive we are all the time missing the fact that we are losing our souls.
On top of all that, as if that wasn’t enough, we are living in a epoch where the “clergy” of the “conservative” Reformed Churches in America are telling me that as a member of the clergy it is sin for me to mention any of the above from the pulpit as being condemned by God. Indeed, per contemporary Reformed Churches I am displeasing to God and unfaithful to the Scriptures if I mention any of this from the pulpit, or speak of it in any capacity in my role as a clergy member. No letters to the Editor. No podcasts. No books on the subject. Per, the insanity of the current clergy, it is wicked of me to talk about any of this in my official capacity as a minister of Word & Sacrament.
How much longer are we going to put up with this ruddy insanity?
We will not find relief from someone in Lansing or Washington DC. We will not find relief in school boards and Mayors.