Category: Apologetics

A Response to Dimitry Wilsoneyev On Pulling Down Criminal Statues

“In such a moment, our task should be two-fold. First, don’t help them tear down anything else. I don’t care if it is a statue of Cecil Rhodes, or Winston Churchill, or Nathan Bedford Forrest—nothing else comes down.”

Doug Wilson

Imagine you’re living in 1990 Communist Russia. Finally, there is a crack in Communism and you and the boys decide you’re going to pull down a few statues of Commie heroes — Oh, let’s say a Trotsky statue or an Iron Felix statue or even a lowly Brezhnev statue. Change is in the air and you are determined that you’re going to cast off the “heroes” of the past.

But then comes Dimitry Wilsoneyev who warns you about all the social instability you’re going to create if you tear down statues — even if the statues you’re going to tear down are statues of mass murderers and criminal villains.

Of course your immediate response is…. “What the hell have we been living under for the last 80 years if not ever incrementally increasing social instability as created by those raised up for posterity in statue form?”

But Dimitry Wilsoneyev, good Christian that he is, reminds you that by pulling down these statues that you may well be letting loose anarchy upon the land.

Again, you stare unblinkingly at this Boomer. You’re bumfuzzled and are thinking, “You prefer this four score tyranny instead? You want to say to Dimitry, ” Even if you’re right about social instability and anarchy being set loose by tearing down statues of criminals and delinquents is that worse than what we lived under during the reign of these madmen? A reign that will continue and even increase if we don’t change the equation. Keep in mind Dimitry, that those supporting the maintenance of these statues we want to pull down are intent on continuing this criminally aberrant social order. Further, Dimitry, you’re counsel to go slow is serving to the end of supporting those that would turn the whole world into one vast gulag.”

“Think about it Dimitry …. if Cromwell had listened to your kind of counsel England would have never been set free from the villain Charles I. If the Colonials had listened to you we would still be quartering Red Coat soldiers in our homes. And if Europe had listened to your kind of counsel in 1989 the Berlin Wall would still be standing.”

“The problem honorable Dimitry Wilsoneyev is not that the idols erected to Churchill, Lincoln, or FDR are being torn down. The problem is that they were ever raised up to begin with.” Also, dear Dimitry, we need to ask, “what are we to do while living in already socially unstable times that find us having to barricade our homes against those who are ginning up the teeming crowds of refuse and delinquency to the end that someday statues of their vomitous likeness will be erected?

Sorry, Dimitry, but we are well past the exit that said “waiting will fix things.” Any counsel to people that in effect says… “it’s ok, go back to sleep,” is not going to cut it for people who love God, their family, and their people. Some statues / idols have to go, Dimitry and there is no time like the present.

Winston Churchill is one of them.

Won’t you help us tear down the old idols and statues of the post-war liberal consensus — even in the context when the enemy is out there pulling down the statues of genuine heroes?

Finally, Dimitry Wilsoneyev, social change is seldom without convulsions. Read an old book on Oliver Cromwell and learn that again.

Kinism & Its Fight Against the Gnostic Empire That Is The Reformed Church; McAtee Contra Leon

As most readers of Iron Ink know I have had a long running contest with most (not all) of the clergy in the Reformed world on the issue of their incipient Gnosticism. Usually, this contesting comes in the context of Kinism which is merely just historic traditional Christianity. However, because the Reformed Church has become so ridden with the Gnostic impulse in this country we have to give an aspect of basic Christianity a defining word of its own. That word is Kinism.

I must say, probably to my shame, that I have become very impatient with the attacks on Kinism from the Reformed clergy, if only because after 20 years of me dealing with this subject it seems these people are impervious to not only learning but even to hearing what I, and others, have been saying. I mean this material is so simple that even a toddler can understand and yet we find men trained in seminary — their numbers being legion — continuing to say the stupidest of things such as we find most recently from Rev. Aldo Leon.

The good Rev. wrote, amidst other banalities that fell from his fingertips on the subject;

“What do R2K and Kinists have in common?

And then answered his own question;

A.) They both are resistant to Christians being the societal X factor and in different ways defer to some primacy of nature.”

Rev. Aldo “Gnostic” Leon

 

First one asks,

What does societal X factor even mean?

I can only guess it means something like … “That factor in Christians which is supposed to make them different from everyone else.”

If that is accurate then what Rev. Leon is arguing is that because Kinists do not believe that grace destroys nature that therefore they fail the necessary X factor.

The whole quote belies the fact that Rev. Leon has been bitten by the Gnostic bug that has bitten so many Reformed clergy today who ignorantly rail against Kinism.

The first and most resilient heresy the Church faced and continues to face is Gnosticism, which in part, is the insistence that the corporeal is evil. The fight against Gnosticism is found in the New Testament (Colossians, I John) and was an opponent of some of the Early Church Fathers. One well known
was a chap named Cerinthus. One day the Apostle John was bathing in a community wash center and while there St. John discovered that the Gnostic Cerinthus had entered into the public washing centered. Irenaeus records for us St. John’s reaction to the presence of this Gnostic,” John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, ‘Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.'”

Gnosticism was a problem in the early Church and it has been a ongoing plague to the Church ever since.

Because the Gnostics considered the corporeal/material to be evil one of two responses were seen in the Church when it was infected with Gnosticism. The first was the response of denying to the body any and all pleasure often inflicting the body with pain because it was evil. The second response was that since the body was evil and since it couldn’t be escaped then it didn’t matter what someone did with the body. This led to all kinds of drunkenness, sexual deviance, and riotous living.

Today the Church continues to deal with the Gnostic impulse as is seen in the vituperation of the doctrine of Kinism. Kinism acknowledges the reality of the corporeal realm and insists that God delights in the differing races/ethnicities that He created. However the Gnostic Church with its Gnostic clergy come along and insist that the corporeal/material reality created and controlled by God as found in our human genetic constitution is a reality that can be undone when someone asks Jesus into their heart. Upon conversion we find our modernistic Reformed clergy effectively asserting that the material/corporeal reality vanishes. All the evil material genetic coding that is ours by way of creation is destroyed by Grace and we now are merely spiritual beings who need not be concerned with racial/ethnic realities. Before Christ we are racial/ethnic beings but upon conversion the Holy Spirit takes away our DNA and gives us a spiritual being-ness that transcends race/ethnicity.

This is nothing but the Gnostic Empire striking back at the Christian assertion that creation is a positive good that ought to be embraced.

Anybody who anathematizes Kinism is a Gnostic.

Continuing  with this commentary on Rev. Leon’s jejune assertions we note;

1.) Contrary to Leon, merely recognizing nature is not to defer to “some primacy of nature” as if God as creator is not over nature or does not continue to deign, as creator to name all the corporeal realm He created as “very good” — including the genetic reality of race/ethnicity.

2.) We ask Rev. Leon, if someone has parents who have red hair and they themselves as the child of those parents likewise has red hair is that deferring to some primacy of nature?   Does Jesus take away someone’s red hair if and when they ask Jesus into their hearts? If not, why would we think that race/ethnicity goes away or becomes completely irrelevant upon conversion?

Really, we say again, anybody who anathematizes Kinism is a Gnostic.

Remember folks what the Reformed cognoscenti like Rev. Leon has forgotten… “Grace does not destroy nature. Grace restores nature.” Because that is true, when man is visited by God’s grace that grace does not destroy the reality or significance of race/ethnicity but rather restores it to be what it was always intended to be by God’s creative act.

My frustration find me grasping for words to communicate how dumb this kind of Gnosticism is and that especially when found those who are supposed to be the ones who are holding forth the light of truth for God’s assembly. That’s my analysis. I end this piece by quoting a couple of my Christian friends as they commented on this piece of torpidity as coming from Rev. Leon’s fingertips.

“Nature and grace. God is the source and author of both. This nit wit is asserting that nature has some existence independent of its creator or at least in his rejection of Kinism suggests that grace obliterates God created racial distinctions rather than enabling unity between those distinctions.

He’s (Rev. Leon) stupid. ”

Mark Chambers 

“It never ceases to amaze me all the convoluted gibberish these guys get up to in aims of denying the obvious. Nature is a means of God. In fact, ‘nature’ encompasses all means in general. And the Reformed have always held that God works through means because He is their author who declared them good from the beginning, and worketh all things according to His will and to the good of those who love Him. Nature therefore cannot be anathematized without inditing God Himself.

But the Gnostics of our day see themselves as something wholly apart from nature and God’s means. They seem to adopt a vague theory of theosis in which they transcend matter and means into identity with God Himself. Which really makes it another permutation of the devil’s primordial offer for man to be as God.”

Dan Brannan

In the end the humor in all this is that Rev. Leon, who apparently is writing a book against R2K “theology” is the one who shares common ground with the very thing he is writing against. By railing against Kinism the good Reverend is covered with the same dank smell of Gnosticism that so completely perfumes R2K theology.

What can I say?

It is a mad mad mad mad world.

Public Service Announcement from Baptists For the Maintenance Of Room Temperature IQ

Setting: A lovely middle class living room complete with a bookshelf of library books against one wall with a collection of Hummels on another wall.

Music: Something softly classical with a thoughtful theme

A handsomely dressed 30 year old married Christian couple enters into the room. Their two children (boy and girl) are playing at their feet.Alternately they read their assigned parts from the Script…

“Have you ever considered that your children are aliens and strangers to the household of God?”

“Are you convinced that living in a nation governed either by God’s Natural Law or more especially Gods revealed law would be a tragic mistake?”

“Do you have absolutely zero ability to distinguish between a Biblical Nationalism and a unbiblical nationalism?”

“Are you convinced that the Crusades were blasphemous and a stain on the Church?”

“Do you think Doug Wilson is brilliant in combining Baptist churches with non-Baptists?”

Do you think that James White is God’s special gift to the Church?”

If you said “yes” to any of these questions then the Baptist faith may be just the faith for you.

We here among the Baptists pride ourselves in our break with the Church’s historical past… we labor hard at making sure that everyone knows that God is pleased with Democratic pluralism …. we take it as a mark of achievement that we don’t encourage our children to think of themselves as Christian until they decide for themselves.

There is always room for one more family in the Baptist faith.

Won’t you be that one more family?

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Brought to you by the committee to maintain room temperature IQ.

Three Stages of Pre-Revolutionary Work of the Marxist

Marxism in all its forms follows the following methodology in their Revolutionary methodology.

1.) Separation stage
2.) Messaging stage
3.) Infiltration stage

Phase #1 — Separation

This is the stage where the work is undertaken to separate and divide society into distinct groups. These groups usually represent in some form or another the haves vs. the have nots. In WOKE culture this is expressed as oppressed vs. oppressor.

Just exactly how that division takes place does not matter. You can have, as in classical Marxism, the bourgeoise vs. the proletariat. You can have, as in feminism, the trodden upon woman vs. the sexist male. You can have, as in gender Marxism, the pervert vs. oppressive heterosexual mafia. In this stage of separation envy is stoke by assigning guilt and blame. This work expands as eventually whole classes, genders, professions, and/or races are dropped in the category of “oppressor” so that not only individuals but also large groups can be targeted as “haves” that must be brought down in order to achieve “fairness.”

In our culture we are seeing this in the creating categories between races (white race = evil oppressor) all other races are the oppressed. We also see it in sexual warfare. The pervert crowd (LGBTQ) is thought of as oppressed while the oppressors are all those who are for traditional (Biblical) sexuality.

By this separation technique Marxists create a grievance constituency upon which they will use as their shock troops to pull down the haves. Ironically enough, there may be times when there are some who are genuinely oppressed that the Marxists corral into supporting them. However, these people typically fare far worse when the the Marxist oppressed come to power. These people end up going from the frying pan to the fire.

Phase #2 Messaging stage

Once the oppressed are separated from their oppressors then maximum messaging of discontent is blared out from the media / educational organs.

In this stage the embers of envy are stoked. Emphasis is placed upon how raising awareness as to how the oppressed are exploited by the oppressor class. Think of this stage as the stage where the fire under the kettle of discontentment is stoked so that the oppressed become more and more bitter by how unfair the oppressors are to them. The goal of this stage is to build up the pressure so that when the revolution finally comes winning will be like ripe fruit falling from the tree.

This has gone on for a long time in the West via the work of Marxist Hollywood, as well as the work done in the Government schools which strongly emphasizes this messaging. Of course, our own media outlets (radio, TV, newspapers, magazines) continue to push this messaging stage.

Some of referred to this as the propaganda or coding stage. A cultural and societal climate and environment is created wherein people are first nudged and then pushed into thinking of themselves as oppressed have nots.

In this messaging stage, it is communicated that which is unfair will only change if people take matters into their own hands. Think…. “Workers of the world unite.” An “us vs. them” climate is created and what is underscored is that the have not “us” must overthrow in revolution the “them” oppressors.

It should be noted that historically this stage has included large amount of Bagel financing to pay for the messaging stage. The conniving always know how to get rich from Revolution, plus for the Bagel there is always the added plus that typically and historically what is being overthrown is the morality and ethics of Christianity.

Phase #3 — Infiltration

We are still pre-Revolutionary here. With each of these stages the ground is being made fertile for the coming violent bloody Revolution. The hopes are that with this pre-Revolutionary work found in Separation, Messaging, and now Infiltration, that the Revolution itself will be just an inevitable and natural course of action.

In the infiltration stage those who are sympathetic to the oppressor class weasel their way into positions of importance so as to be able to grease the rails for when the revolution comes. Often in this infiltration stage not only individuals but whole cultural institutions are owned by the Revolutionaries. All of this is a micro-accruing of power so that the macro-accruing of power can be more easily achieved.

By infiltration the Marxist can pivot to a pincer move against the established oppressor class by being able to, at one and the same time, strike from below provided by rioting useful idiots and strike from above by key institutions turning against the established culture as a whole. We see this happening in our culture with the complete compromise of the “Evangelical-Reformed” Church. The church is now a captured and infiltrated institution doing the preparatory ground work of pre-revolutionary of messaging. Once the Revolution finally comes here the “Conservative” Churches will be a leading institution gathering up the dissenters. Indeed, we’ve already seen that action taking place.

The goal of the three pre-revolutionary stages is to create a powder keg of resentment, envy, anger, and bitterness in any given culture as existing between the haves and the have nots — the oppressed vs. the oppressors. When the pre-revolutionary work has been successfully been done violence and blood is inevitable. Those who are against the Revolution will have to spill the blood of many revolutionaries who are non-epistemologically self-conscious about their being revolutionaries. Hopefully, the blood of many epistemologically self-conscious revolutionaries will be spilled as well. Think Franco’s work in Spain. Think Pinochet in Chile. Think Cromwell in England.

The cure for this before it gets started is by preaching Gospel Christianity. The cure for all this after this pre-evolutionary activity gains a toe hold is to preach Gospel Christianity as well as the work social ostracizing those who come creating envy with the view of separation, counter-messaging against the Marxist messaging, and proper discipline and criminalizing of infiltration when it is discovered. However, none of this can happen unless a people know what they believe and why they believe it and what they don’t believe and why they don’t believe it. People who just flow with the cultural current when pre-revolutionary work is being done will either become useful idiots for the Revolution or they will get eaten alive.

Here in the States we have lived with a great deal of pre-Revolutionary work for decades and decades. However, it seems we are coming to some kind of head in this matter. The enemy has been successful in spreading the disease of bitterness and envy so much that a oppressed vs. oppressor culture is where we now live. We are now in a position where we have to think carefully about who the cultural gatekeepers identify as “threats” or “dangers.” Since the cultural gatekeepers are often those who we have identified as “infiltrators” above we must realize that who our infiltrator institutions identify as “naughty” people may indeed by those people who need to be lionized above all.