Category: Apologetics

Exposing Matt Walsh’s Lousy Apologetics

I just learned this morning that the talking head, Matt Walsh, has repeatedly said that when dealing with an Atheist it is stupid to “Biblethump them,” to “throw Scripture at them,” or to “quote Scripture” at them. Matt Walsh basis all that on the fact that since as Atheists the Atheist doesn’t believe the Word of God, therefore it is useless to quote Scripture at them. According to Matt Walsh, we must instead, use “logic,” and “reason.”

This is stupid but consistent with all those who are Natural Law Thomist types.

What might we say in response to this in order to see how stupid it is?

1.) Matt Walsh fails to understand what the underlying issue is as existing between the Atheist and the Christian when in debate/conversation. This issue isn’t so much what is immediately on the table. The issue is, “By whose authority are we going to determine the rightness or wrongness of whatever is being disputed.” The Atheist says to Matt Walsh … “I don’t accept your authority.” Matt Walsh says … “OK, then, I will agree to use your fallen authority as my authority.”What Matt Walsh has done by insisting that we shouldn’t Biblethump people is he has ceded the territory that counts the most. He has ceded to the Christ-hater the standard that will be used to determine truth. Now, if Matt Walsh does that … if Matt Walsh enters the dispute on the enemies chosen ground does Matt Walsh think he is going to be able to gainsay the Atheist? No … a thousand times “NO.” If the Christians abandons his Christian presuppositions in order to argue according to the humanist presuppositions, the Christian will lose every time.

2.) Logic and reason are what they are because of the authority of God’s Word. In other words Logic and reason, apart from presupposing God’s Word, quickly becomes illogical logic and irrational reason. Now, we can certainly make points against our Atheist friend without quoting chapter and verse but behind whatever point we are making better be a foundation that is anchored in Scripture or a necessary consequence thereof.

3.) Matt Walsh, being Roman Catholic, does not understand the noetic effects of the fall and as such does not embrace total depravity. For Matt Walsh (like all Thomists) man’s mind is not completely fallen and so quite without submission to God’s authority (whether implicit or explicit). Fallen man (like our Atheist friend) can be convinced about matters like Abortion, or Sodomite marriage, if we only make “reasonable” arguments per his self-centered standard. This appeal to “Natural Law” done by Matt Walsh and his Thomist friends fails to understand that as man is fallen, man uses his fallen thinking as a prism through which to see all issues that come before him. What Matt Walsh doesn’t realize is that the Atheist is not coming to the issue in a neutral fashion. The Atheist has skin in the came (his own autonomous authority that finds him being god in his life) and if we cede to the atheist the idea that we have to accept his putative neutral authority as the authority the Atheist will never convert because the very thing that needs to be challenged in the Atheist (his autonomous humanist reason) remains unchallenged, and so in authority over God’s authority.

4.) Matt Walsh, like all Thomists, has not only given up leveraging Scripture against the Atheist, he has also given up Scripture for himself. Matt Walsh is ignoring the passage in Romans 1 where the Holy Spirit clearly teaches that the Atheist is “suppressing the truth in unrighteousness.” The Atheist is not an honest player in this discussion. His carnal mind is at warfare with God. Part of the Atheist’s plan for victory is to get “Christians” like Matt Walsh to broom out of the conversation the authority of God’s Word from the very beginning. In such a way the Atheist’s victory is assured in whatever dispute is at hand.

5.) What the Atheist needs to be told, when demanding that Scripture isn’t going to convince him, is, “I know. Now let me tell you why Scripture isn’t going to convince you. God’s Word, apart from the Holy Spirit’s regenerating power, is not going to convince you Mr. Atheist, because you are dead in your trespasses and sins. You are in rebellion against your maker and being in rebellion you will not submit to His authority. This leaves you without God and without hope. This leaves you continuing to try to escape what you know you can never escape as long as you’re in this defiance mode and that is that you are under God’s wrath and being under God’s just wrath against your sin you’re violently doing all you can to escape your sin, guilt and misery. You will not have God and His Word rule over you. Thus, I quite agree you can’t be convinced apart from the power of the Holy Spirit working in your life. The Holy Spirit, Mr. Atheist, was sent to convict people like you of sin, righteousness, and the judgment to come. Still, I have some hope. My hope is that you will finally see and admit to yourself your sin, guilt and misery and go to the only one who can set you free from that which has you so burdened and heavy laden. Mr. Atheist that one is Jesus Christ who God set forth as the one who alone can turn away God’s just wrath upon you and for the first time in your life give you peace with God. You see, Mr. Atheist, Jesus Christ died for sinners, and carried the guilt of particular sinners and now God commands you Mr. Atheist to finally give up your rebellion and flee to the only place where you can be once and forever done with your hatred of God, hatred of others, and hatred of self. Only upon crying out to God for rescue, will you understand and accept the clear teaching of Scripture on the matter we are in dispute. Won’t you please repent?”

For those who want to see this teased out even more, I highly recommend this article by Cornelius Van Til;

https://www.apologeticscentral.org/post/mr-grey-mr-black-and-mr-white-by-cornelius-van-til-with-commentary

Alienism Embraced By The Reformed World As Infected By Arminianism

The Arminian, given his atomistic individualism, rejects the significance of his race and people, by claiming that God does not deal with nations. The Arminian  rejects the significance of his family/recent ancestors, by claiming a non-existent libertarian free will and so he finds it comparatively easy to reject the covenantal nature of salvation in a Godly covenantal line. We see thus that the Arminian’s libertarian free will combined with his atomistic individualism works in him a heightened ability to just disregard the boundaries that God has set for man. He has become just an individual, floating in a sea of multi-colored individuals, with no past, no special connection to kin, with each individual serving as their own god/means of redemption. Because of this the Arminian is especially prone to being an Alienist.

This is doubly true for the Arminian Baptist, who, because of his Baptist teaching. This is a Baptist upbringing that denies continuity in the way that God has structured salvation by cutting the NT off from the OT. In the OT it is undeniable that God works salvation in covenantal lines. When God says,

Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations…

Deuteronomy 7:9

And;

But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children— / to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

Psalm 103:17-18

The Reformed believers has the expectation that God will be faithful to His promise to the God to us and to our seed. The Arminian Baptist on the other hand, as seen by their refusal to mark their children in Baptism with God’s mark of ownership, teaches their children, that the child must ask Jesus into their hearts, thus communicating that God does not work in covenantal/generational lines. By stripping the covenantal nature away from redemption what is communicated is that while the child may indeed belong to God as a result of their “sinner’s prayer,” he most certainly has not been irresistibly drawn by a God who works in family lines and keeps his covenant to a thousand generations. The covenantal continuity is gone. The sense that God works normatively (though not exclusively) in covenantal lines disappears.

As such the Arminian Baptist is more easily prone to Alienism. (Here the Reformed Baptist has major contradictions in their system since they also have aversion to covenantal continuity as seen in their agreement with Arminian Baptists to not baptize their children.) Alienism is that, until recently, that unspoken doctrine that teaches that there does not exist strong cords of attachments that bind the generations together by means of God’s covenantal faithfulness. Arminian Baptists especially, have trouble wrapping their heads around the Biblical doctrine of Kinism that is built upon the foundation of God’s covenantal/generational faithfulness. Alienism, consistent with the Arminian Baptist soil it grows out of, presupposes  that God does not work in covenantal lines. It presuppose discontinuity between the Old and New Testament.

It is a devilish system that had the accelerant of Dispensationalism poured on it. Dispensationalism was an accelerant because Dispensationalism is a system of radical discontinuity. I suppose we ought to be thankful that the mainline Dispensationalists were able to beat back the Bullingerite Dispensationalists. Still, while the Dispensationalists infected all of the denominations in the 20th century the slice of Christendom most infected were the Arminian Baptists.

However, no one has yet plumbed the depth of the infection of Arminian Dispensationalism on the body of Christ. I submit the unwillingness of many of the “conservative” “Reformed” denominations to see what their forefathers saw in terms of the covenantal unity of a particular race, ethnic group, and family is the result of Arminianism via Dispensationalism infecting the Reformed world. The Reformed have, whether by the influence of the Dispensational influence, or rather by the influence of Marxist categories (which have also been stridently Alienist) has resolved to make war on their Father’s Kinism. This has been repeatedly seen in the past few years but now it will be put on parade in the RPCNA trial of Rev. Sam Ketchum. The Reformed, by their recent pronouncements on race, recent booklet written against Kinists, and their resolve to put Ketchum on trial have put their Arminian, Dispensational, and/or Marxist bona fides on display and demonstrated all the anti-Christianity that exists in their putative Christianity.

I mean, just look at all the quotes from the Reformed Fathers from Church history as chronicled in the 2nd edition of the anthology “Who Is My Neighbor.” Just look at all the quotes from the early Church forward on this matter in the commpendium, “A Survey of Racialism in the Christian Sacred Tradition,” by Alexander Storen.

Marchin’ Lootin’ King Day … A Truly Unique American Holiday

Soon after its 1994 release, I read, “The Martin Luther King, Jr., Plagiarism Story,” by Theodore Pappas.Pappas’ manuscript was rejected 40 times from 40 publishers in 40 months before it was finally published. When it was finally published it was sell well received that it had a first edition sell out.

Nobody wanted to hear the truth about Marchin’ Lootin’ King and that explains why Pappas’ manuscript was consistently rejected. The Left so owned the publishing world that Pappas was rejected over and over again for the simple crime of telling the truth.

And what was the scandalous truth?

The truth was that King was a Doctor the way that a guy named Seuss was a Doctor. Pappas demonstrably proved that King was a liar and a cheat as seen in his repeated plagiarism on his thesis papers. King lifted whole paragraphs from books of previous writers. This was later admitted by the University granting the degree but the University refused to revoke the degree. King had become everybody’s token and once one is a token one can’t be touched.

But that was just the tip of the iceberg. Below the tip was the fact that King was a known whoremonger. One of his chief lieutenants (Ralph Abernathy) wrote of King’s extramarital affairs, including the reporting of King having sex with two women the night before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., as well as having a fight with a third hooker that left her the loser of the fight. King was faithful to his wife, Coretta Scott King the way that Bill Clinton was faithful to Hillary.

King was a wretch of a man… both in his behavior and in his convictions. His Christianity was all smoke. He read the supernatural out of the Scripture. Did not believe in the virgin Birth, the resurrection, or any other miracle explaining them as happening outside history though impacting history.

King was in favor of the destruction of his own people. The last person that Blacks should esteem is Marchin’ Lootin’ King given his support for the legalizing of abortion — a legalizing which has disproportionately ravaged the Black community. King was given, by Margaret Sanger the “Margaret Sanger Award” in 1966 and wrote the words that King’s wife uttered in accepting the prize in Marchin’ Lootin’ King’s name;

“Words are inadequate for me to say how honored I was to be the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award. This award will remain among my most cherished possessions.”

Yet, despite all this known by the powers that be, still those that hate Christ and the White race were able to shove him into the American pantheon, where, by his presence, King contradicts everything that it had previously meant to be a virtuous American. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) did his best to stop this monstrosity but the “great” “Conservative” Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law making the third Monday of every January a anti-Christ holiday known as “Marchin’ Lootin’ King day.” In this act alone Ronnie Reagan should be abominated along with King.

The lifting of the King to the American pantheon was the confirmation of the most recent revamping of the US Constitution. The first revamping was under the Tyrant Abraham Lincoln. The second revamping was a collected effort of the Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt administrations. With Marchin’ Lootin’ King the US constitution is remade again and King becomes the Saint of the Civil Rights movement that accounts for the third revamping of the US Constitution. The US constitution with King and the civil rights movement makes the white man the enemy of the Federal State. What was established in principle with the civil rights movement has evolved into its inevitable outcome of set asides, quotas, which itself has evolved into DEI and WOKEISM. Without Marchin’ Lootin’ King as supported by the Bagel apparatus of the Leftist media as well as all the might of the Federal Government (beginning with Eisenhower) the Marxist Civil Rights revolution never revamps the American Constitution.

King’s pantheon status introduced contradiction into the American mythos. King could not be numbered among the heroes without there being a necessity to push other previous heroes out of the pantheon of America’s hero greats. Since the apotheosis of Marchin’ Lootin’ King, the contradiction has forced others to be demoted. All of them white men. From George Washington to the Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate to Robert E. Lee to Christopher Columbus to Juan Ponce de Leon, etc. the previous monuments to America’s heroes have either been extensively vandalized or have been torn down. People don’t realize this, but all this has been done to make room for Marchin’ Lootin’ King and his Marxist grifters and rabble. Once King was apotheosized all other heroes must be seen as shameful.

King’s holiday is a day of mourning for base Americans. It is a day of mourning for epistemologically self-conscious Blacks. It is a day of mourning for all Biblical Christians because the Marxism that drove the Civil Rights movement has been in the saddle since the success of King. Marxism is the avowed enemy of Biblical Christianity. One of the really sad things is that since the success of the Civil Rights Movement and Marchin’ Lootin’ King the conservative Reformed/Evangelical Church has reinterpreted the Christian faith through the lens of Marxism. This was most clearly seen when conservative Evangelical and Reformed types came together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Marchin’ Lootin’ King’s 50th anniversary marking his death. In that conference Reformed leaders reiterated over and over again how this vile man was a Saint of God.

This holiday is especially heinous because it is the one holiday of the year where we are especially lectured by the elite in the fields of journalism, Government, and corporate America about the glories of its founder and his mission/vision. We are harangued and lectured how we need to “complete the vision of King.” We are told endlessly about how racist America remains. We are chided for not advancing far enough fast enough. You can bet today you will read article and columns connecting the sainted King with the poor persecuted immigrants being arrested by wicked evil white ICE agents. On holidays like Columbus day we get all kinds of gobbledygook language about it really being “indigenous people day.” On Independence Day we get columns and articles about how wicked our white founders were. On Christmas we get columns and articles about how Jesus isn’t really who the Scriptures say He is. However on Marchin’ Lootin’ King day we get “all hail the power of Martin’s name, let angels prostrate fall.”

In all seriousness, the King celebration is, in reality, a humiliation ritual for white Americans who know their history and who haven’t become mind numbed normies.

With the success of King, the halo of sanctity unto the end of special rights/privilege now finds not only the Black man ensconced in a safety zone of untouchable status but also now all minorities, all women, and all sexual perverts. This is the constituency of the Democratic party that the Republican party will not touch.

Don’t get me wrong. I could see celebrating a day set aside for a Black man like Booker T. Washington who emphasized the need for the Black man to pursue vocational education as an opportunity for economic security which would be more valuable to the Black man than social advantages, higher education, or political office. Washington’s speech was highlighted by his statement;

 “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

Washington was loudly applauded by his audience in Atlanta and yet he was seen as a Uncle Tom by his own people who had determined that they would rather follow a man like W. E. Dubois, and later King who marketed grievance like the ADL markets Jewish oppression.

So, mark yet another Marchin’ Lootin’ King day. The deity lives on in America and the posterity of those that built America continue to serve those who would replace that posterity.

Cultural Marxism Is The Worldview That Has Replaced Christianity In The West

“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” “wokery,” “Cultural Marxism,” “political correctness” are deceptive nomenclatures employed for concealing the facts about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

The Frankfurt School, disproportionality staffed by Jews, adapted Karl Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was twofold. First their goal was to reshape the subconscious of Western (white) men and women and thus create a new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds, even to the point of supporting positions that would eventuate in the destruction of the Christian faith and the Christian White man. This brings us to the second goal of the Cultural Marxist which was, in the words of Cultural Marxist, Willi Munzenberg;

“We must organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink. Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat”

They achieved this via their long march through the Institutions. Cultural Marxism, via the messaging of Government schools and Universities, Media outlets of all varieties, and the “Christian” church championing a false Christianity using false guilt in order to re-orient the hoi polloi concerning right and wrong and good and bad. Together they created the new Western Soviet man by instilling in Western man a false consciousness that might be rightly called, “A Will For Death.”

Cultural Marxists (the rank and file of the Frankfurt School) encourage Zionism, abortion, birth control, divorce, LGBTQ, “carrier women,” with its attendant feminism, drugs,  miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family via sexual promiscuity and perversion, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. All of this is derivative of and reflective of what the Cultural Marxist’s preach:

1.) White reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

2.) Christian White culture is oppressive and bad and that which breaks up and destroys Christian white culture is good.

Cultural Marxism is the driving ideology that explains the death of the West. If Biblical Christianity is that cultural faith that was turned away from, the Frankfurt School, with its Cultural Marxism, is the cultural faith that was turned to and embraced. Most of your conservative Christian clergy that you will meet today have reinterpreted their Christianity through a Cultural Marxist grid. People like Doug Wilson, James White, Kevin DeYoung, Jeff Durbin, Andrew Sandlin, R. Scott Clark, Mike Horton, J. V. Fesko, David Van Drunen, T. David Gordon, and many many more, to one degree or another, given their opposition either to a decidedly Christian Nationalism or their support for Zionism, or their support and/or encouragement of prolific miscegenation, are all drinking  from the well of Cultural Marxism. If this continues the continued steep decline of these united States will continue apace. If this continues the Christian faith and the Christian Church will be found only in remote and tucked away places.

Returning To Barth’s Geschichte & Historie

(For Barth) Geschichte (as opposed to his Historie) is a moment in which eternity enters time. Wrapped up in that moment is all the theology of Christianity; God, creation, man, evil, the fall, Christ, the incarnation, reconciliation, resurrection, and parousia. Occasionally some element of this complex will touch down in ordinary time and space, as Barth asserts of the resurrection. But that time-and-space happening is never to be identified with the saving event of Geschichte. Barth describes these happenings as ‘pointers’ to the real salvation that comes through the momentary revelatory Geschichte.”

John Frame

A History of Western Philosophy and Theology – p. 381

What is important to keep in mind here is that Barth does not believe in what most people would call the historical reality — the occurrence of the supernatural in time and space – as not true in the sense that all of it historically took place. For example, if you somehow would have had a cell-phone at the resurrection you could not have videoed Jesus resurrection because the resurrection didn’t happen in that sense. That would be the sense of Historie. Barth rejects Historie because it pertains to the supernatural of the Christian faith and the supernatural cannot occur in time and space as Historie.

For Barth it is possible (though not necessary) for Historie to point to Geschichte. Whether Historie points to Geschichte is person variable. As stated above by Frame, (but now put into my own linguistic magic) Geschichte is like the fairy dust that falls off and so emanates from the Historie. It is this Geschichte fairy dust that makes the Historie to be “true” even though it is not true. The Historie can point to the Geschichte the way that a sign on the road can point to a Gas Station (that isn’t really there). However, for Barth, the Geschichte is enough to convert because when the Geschichte is encountered in a personal event moment then the Gas Station becomes true for the person having the Geschichte encounter event. This is what Barth means by the Geshcichte being a pointer. The event that didn’t happen can serve as a pointer to the impact of the event as if it did happen and someone having that Geschichte encounter moment can now be considered a Christian.

All of this is true of the Scriptures as well. The Scriptures are tangled up with Historie and so as Historie they may or may not be true but they are not true as having the objective quality of inerrancy or inspiration. However, the Scripture, as Historie, may serve as a pointer to revelational encounter Geschichte that results in making the Bible true for the reader having said Geschichte encounter.

This is Barth’s Christianity and this is why some categorize Barth with the existentialist “theologians.”

I find this material fascinating because I know of a former CRC Pastor who was a Barthian but who got away with his Barthianism because most of the rest of the CRC were also Barthian, or if they weren’t, weren’t smart enough to know the games that this chap was playing in order to secure his ordination. The funny thing about this story is that this chap was assigned to be my mentor when I entered the CRC. You can imagine the fireworks that took place.