Category: Apologetics

Sundry Observations On The Regnant Follies

1.) Per the Associated Press the Biden Administration is considering mandating Deep State virus quackzines for interstate travel.

This leaves us in the curious position wherein comparatively healthy American citizens would be restrained from traveling in America while strangers and aliens from points all across the third world are allowed to illegally enter into America with the potential of all kinds of STD’s, Bat scat viruses, and every other contaminant known to mankind.

2.) So a major Corporation (United Airlines) has mandated the quackzine for all employees. Now, the largest city in America (NYC) starting today is requiring quackzine passports.

How far behind can other Corporations and cities be?

3.) Well, the good news about Afghanistan is that unlike Korea and Vietnam American soldiers did not leave a large number of Amer-Afghani children behind. US soldiers now being LGBTQ no longer have the capacity to reproduce children wherever they go.

4.) “A Taliban automatic takeover is not a foregone conclusion.”

Four-Star General Mark Millie
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Speaking in a Press Conference Three short weeks ago

5.) In the almost 20 years that the American Empire ruled in Afghanistan did they ever press on the Afghani people what they press upon us here? Did the Empire press abortion upon Afghani women as they have pressed abortion on American women?

6.) Did the American Empire press upon the Afghani military Lesbian Generals? Did the American Empire press the policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on the Afghani Military? Did the American Empire run military recruiting ads seeking to lure the daughters of Lesbian mothers into the US Military? All this the Empire as done here. Did the Empire do that in Afghanistan?

7.) Did the American Empire ruling Afghanistan ever form Lesbians for Allah chapters in the local mosques? Did the American Empire ruling in Afghanistan ever turn Afghani women into whores and Afghani men into cucks?

8.) Did the American Empire ruling Afghanistan ever delete the Afghani borders and then ship in millions of Africans looking for a better life?

9.) How many statues of famous Imams and Holy Prophets did the American Empire ruling Afghanistan allow to be torn down and desecrated?

5-9 forces me to conclude that the American Empire hates White Christian Americans more than they hate brown Muslim Afghanis. The occupation of Afghanistan by the American Globalist Empire was far more benign than the current occupation of America by the American Globalist Empire.

10.) The leadership of the visible church today thinks of itself as akin to the Judenrat during the Nazi era. The Judenrat of yesterday was appointed by the Nazis to be the mechanism by which the Nazis would rule the Jews. The Judenrat thus became kind of a glorified Judas goat. Although the modern Evangelical-Reformed leadership has not been literally appointed as the visible Church’s Judenrat that is the way they act. They are forcing on us the foulest policy of our enemy in order to save their own unconverted skins. They are more than glad to give up the faith of their rank and file just so long as they can hobnob with our current Tyrant ruling class. They are glad to shove us in intellectual ghettos as long as they can get one more article printed in the New York Times or Washington Post.

Keller, Sauls, Sean Michael Lucas, DeYoung, Ron Burns, J. Liggon Duncan, Matt Chandler, Piper, David Platt, Joe Carter, Russel Moore, Al Mohler, Mike Horton, R. Scott Clark, David Van Drunen etc. form our new Judenrat and they will sell Biblical Christians out every time.

Yeah, I’ve Got a Beef with Doug Wilson & So Should You

“Doug Wilson doesn’t want to fight. What he wants to do is be known as a fighter among the members of the Judeo-Christian Ladies Luncheon Society. So he blames gay marriage on Christian fathers, making himself out to be the only real man in the room. He also loves to bloviate about how everything in America is the Church’s fault, and issue vague calls for “repentance” of nothing in particular, and then condemn to Hell any Christian who points to the people who actually are causing so many of our problems as “anti-semites” and “racists.” It’s hilarious that he can write this article without a glimmer of awareness that he’s describing himself.”

F. H. Glastonbury 
Pseudonym

When Doug Wilson and Doug Jones first showed up on the Reformed scene I lapped up their Credena Agenda with my PCA minister friend up the road. We howled together as Wilson and Jones lampooned every sacred cow on the planet. All that to say that there was a time when Wilson ranked very high in my pantheon of good guys.

Those days are long gone.

Now I think that Doug Wilson is an impediment to the Reformed cause if only because the fact that he still often gets a great deal right it makes it easier for people to accept the great deal he gets wrong. In that way Wilson is even more dangerous than a Tim Keller or a Russell Moore. With Keller and Moore and J. Ligon Duncan, and Sean Michael Lucas, and Al Mohler, and Matt Hall, and David Platt, and J. D. Greear, and Mike Horton, and R. Scott Clark, and Joke Harder, and ad-infinitum for much of the rest of the Reformed of “conservative” world people can just say to themselves when one of these guys pops up; “Yep, just one more dumbass statement coming from the piehole of the Evangelical – Reformed Clergy.”

But with Wilson it is different. People actually listen to this guy and they (unfortunately) take the chap seriously. It is precisely that which makes Doug such a danger to the handful of the genuinely Reformed people left out there. I know, for example, that many young Reformed ministers see Doug as a kind of “last guy standing.” Sorry … I’m not buying it.

This article elucidates a few reasons why. Keep in mind this is only intended to be a kind of “Whitman’s Sampler,” or if you prefer, “Doug’s Greatest Hits.”

1.) Of course we all know about Doug’s time on the “Pale Ale” Federal Vision bar stool. This was error that was (and is)so serious that if we lived in sane times Doug would have been defrocked.  Doug escaped that because the people who were criticizing him the most (the R2K boys) were even more heterodox than he was. Since then Doug has said that it was all a big mistake and he’s sorry.  You can find at least a couple of articles here on Iron Ink of me taking Doug to task during his halcyon Pale Ale Federal Vision days.

2.) Of course Doug Wilson butted his nose into the R. C. Sproul 2.0 case giving Sproul a pass after another Reformed denomination didn’t give Sproul a pass. The lack of wisdom on that move came out sometime later with the news of Sproul’s subsequent oopsie daisies.

3.) Can you say … “Steven Sitler?”

4.) Can you say “plagiarism?”

5.) Then there was Doug Wilson’s 2015 article on appropriate government actions concerning vaccines and forced quarantines;

“If a person has decided personal convictions about the contagious disease he is carrying, the society in which he lives has an equal right to have decided and contrary convictions about that same contagious disease he has. And if there is an outbreak of such a disease, and the government quarantines everyone who is not vaccinated, requiring them to stay at home, the name for this is prudence, not tyranny.”

Doug Wilson
2015 … Pre-Deep State Virus

Even in 2015, given the nature of our Federal Government Doug should have given some kind of clever codicil about being suspicious about pronouncements of the Federal Government. Instead what we got was the kind of pronouncement one might have expected from a minister who was certified by Reichsminister for Church affairs.

6.) Then there was this gem from Doug;

“In the brewing culture wars, we ought not to stand with those seeking to ban same-sex marriage (or with those seeking to impose it).” “So we openly accept homosexual marriage in the civil realm as God’s means of undermining that civil realm, and we accept that He has done this in judgment for wicked fathering within the Church.”

Doug Wilson

Here the culture was on the brink of a full-on Luciferian assault against God, country, and family and Doug steps up to the mic and before God in heaven and man on earth instructs God’s people to openly accept homosexual marriage in the civil realm because like the prophets of old Doug has a pipeline to God and so knows that to resist same-sex marriage would be a mistake because Doug knows that God has visited us with the scourge of sodomite marriage because of wicked fathering within the Church.

Now, every minister can say that whatever comes into the lives of a people is providentially from the hand of God but no minister should suggest that he knows why God is providentially doing X, Y, or Z because of reasons A, B, C. No minister can crawl into God’s filing cabinet to get a definitive “this is that” reason. I don’t disagree that there is wicked fathering in the Church. I protest that Doug can make macro pronouncements about the mind of God concerning God’s providence — I protest Doug’s assumption to be a kind of Christian version of the Oracle of Delphi. Maybe God, in His providence, visited us with the scourge of sodomite marriage in order to punish us for hammerhead ministers making wild arse guesses about why God does this or that.

And to say that “we openly accept sodomite marriage?” What was the man smoking that day? Maybe God intended, contra Saint Doug, for Christians to rise up and resist magistrates who want to foist upon us the acceptance of sodomite marriage instead of just accepting it?

And now Trannyism is upon us. I can just hear the Oracle of Moscow now;

“In the brewing culture wars, we ought not to stand with those seeking to ban  men in our women-folk bathrooms (or with those seeking to impose it).” “So we openly accept Trannys in the civil realm as God’s means of undermining that civil realm, and we accept that He has done this in judgment for not enough Christians agreeing with me about not resisting sodomite marriage.”

I can’t wait for Doug’s next “from on high” pronouncement on the coming pedophilia outbreak, not to mention, what God tells Doug about how Christians should not resist the routine bedding of farm animals in the civil realm.

Note here that this positioning of Doug on these issues puts him functionally in the same exact camp as the R2K lads. The R2K lads would absolutely salute Dougie’s reasoning here.

7.) Here is Doug’s pearl of wisdom on voting;

“So you should vote in a way that you can in good conscience ask God to bless … But I’m planning on writing in Ben Sasse because that is a vote I could in good conscience ask God to bless. I don’t expect anyone to count it, but I do want to ask God to bless it.”

Doug Wilson

Now this one was a weird confluence of the stars. I say this because Ben Sasse was the idee fixe of the R2K fanboys — who routinely hate Doug Wilson with the might of a thousand exploding yellow stars. Yet, here was Doug getting in bed with an R2K acolyte (Ben Sasse). That one left a permanent crick in my neck as my head whiplashed so badly upon reading Doug’s endorsement.

However, Doug’s support of a Ben Sasse is perfectly consistent if you read #6 again because that is the same exact policy that a Ben Sasse would follow.

On these scores, both Sasse and Wilson are following a uber-Libertarian kind of political reasoning.  Uber-Libertarianism is not particularly Christian.

8.) “Christians must learn to distinguish sins from crimes. If God reveals His will on a matter, disobedience is sin. If God reveals the civil penalty which must be applied, then it is also a crime. But without wisdom from Him on the civil penalty to be applied, the civil order must leave enforcement of God’s law to the church, family, or the providence of God….when pornography is made and distributed, it should simply be used as evidence — of the adultery or of the sodomy, etc.”

Doug Wilson

The Short version here is that Doug would have agreed with the landmark 1973 SCOTUS Miller vs. California case which loosened up the ability to traffic in pornography.  Again … all of this is to boggle the mind and is the essence of Libertarianism.

The rumor is that when Doug made this pronouncement from on high that Larry Flynt wined and dined Doug at a 5-star restaurant. (That’s a joke Son.)

For centuries the West criminalized the production of porn but here Doug steps up to the mic and announces all of that was; “Our bad. Sorry.” Can anybody imagine the Westminster Divines saying; “Yeah, porn is a sin but we are powerless to recommend any civil penalty for porn producers. (?)”

9.) Then there was Doug’s media tour with Christopher Hitchens hawking Hitchens’s new atheist diatribe. Doug got face time on all kinds of media as he served as a kind of human punching bag for Hitchens to assail the God of the Bible on National Television.

10.) Most recently Doug writes articles about the dangers of antisemitism in the Reformed Christian community that he never defines or gives examples of. I note this because it has been a long-used tool by the enemies of Christians to scream Anti-Semitism every time someone commits the sin of noticing and points out an inconvenient truth about the strangely disproportionately high percentage of Jewish people in this or that desultory industry, revolution, or culture influence position.

11.) Then there is Doug’s continued insistence that race is a social construct. Who could have guessed that Franz Boas’ influence would live through Doug?

Now, I understand Doug buys his cyber-ink by the barrel and that he is voluminous in his writing. I further understand that Doug has done some fine work for he which he should be saluted.

However, the kind of stuff above at least should make us realize that Doug can’t be accepted without being interrogated on all he says.

I hope people see here that I am not punching right. I am punching left on a guy who scads of people think belongs to the conservative element of the Reformed world. If Doug really was on the right I wouldn’t be punching.

In the end, Doug Wilson is to the Reformed movement what Wm. Buckley was for Conservatism for a generation, and that is Doug with the Reformed world like Buckley with the conservative world makes sure that Reformed Christianity doesn’t get outside the banks of a nice predictable river.

 

 

 

 

Sports Illustrated & Its Pervert Tranny Swimsuit Issue

Imagine longing for the good old days with SI gave us heterosexual soft porn with Christie Brinkley as opposed to trans-sexual soft porn with an Equatorial male tranny on the cover.

The homosexual agenda used to reveal itself by making the mark of beauty in women to be revealed in glamorizing androgynous women with breasts. Androgynous women with breasts were the closest the homosexual agenda could get to straight-up offering men as sex objects. Now, with the tranny beauty queen winning the Miss Nevada contest and with the tranny named “Bloom,” being featured on the cover of SI the sodomite agenda has expanded its reach so that they no longer have to feature androgynous type women with breasts they can just give us straight-up men.

The interesting thing is that inside the swimsuit edition the sodomite agenda is attacking female beauty as well by giving us “Plus” sized women in blankets cut to look like bikinis. (A normal size man could probably survive a hard frost using those bikinis as blankets.)

Now the next interesting thing about the SI swimsuit issue is that all the “beauties” (cough cough) on the cover (they sell 3 different cover issues with 3 different women on each cover) are minorities. The plus-size (gargantuan?) woman very proudly proclaims how her Asian-American life has been made so difficult by people being prejudiced against plus-sized Asian women.

So… what the elite are doing in terms of changing the standards for what constitutes beauty is that they are telling us that;

1.) Tranny men should be the object of male desire
2.) Minority tranny men should be the object of white male desire

3.) Minority women should be the object of white male desire

In this fashion, SI is pushing both sodomy and miscegenation. If successful in either predictive programming the result is the incremental continuation of genociding white people.

Keep in mind that the demographic target of Sports illustrated is men between the ages of 18-34 who are upper-middle class. Clearly, that is, in the majority, going to be a white demographic target. Keep in mind also that SI could not exist on the money they might make appealing to a tranny audience of men wanting men who look like women. As such, the motive for this kind of gender malfeasance bespeaks an agenda that is other than just profit. SI is pushing this in order to push the social order increasingly in an anti-Christ direction.
“Eventually, the end came to the hard years of the Soviet Russian Bolshevik Revolution and with the end of the hard years, there came an ethos that seemed to endorse more freedom in sexual matters. The radical intelligentsia of the Revolution had originally viewed women as an exploited group; the family, an extension of Capitalism. In this context, the husband was considered the bourgeois, his wife the enslaved proletarian. Laws had been passed ‘that made divorce easily attainable, removed the formal stigma of illegitimacy, permitted abortion, and mandated equal pay and rights for women.’ A chance remark by Lenin that ‘the act of love should ‘be as simple as drinking a glass of water’ had become the rationale for unlimited promiscuity, causing free sexual relations to become one of the fringe benefits of the Revolution… The Soviet state had even shown a desire to assume unprecedented responsibility for the country’s youth.”

S. J. Taylor

Stalin’s Apologist
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1.) Like the Soviets after the Bolshevik Revolution, we have easy divorce laws.

2.) Also, the quote above explains why women are prioritized over men in this culture. (White) Men are seen as the hated Bourgeoisie that must be punished while women in our Marxist template are automatically virtuous because they are the oppressed working class. As such women must be freed from the dreaded patriarchy of Christianity.

3.) Illegitimacy is no longer stigmatized. We no longer speak of “bastardy” or of bastard children.

4.) Abortion is as easily attainable now as it was in the USSR after the Revolution.

5.) More freedom in sexual matters … yep
6.) Unlimited promiscuity … yep
7.) The State taking over the raising of youth … yep
Is there any reason for me to not think that America is Communist?
Seriously, I believe that our social order is communist.

Apologetics from the Time Capsule … Lane Keister, R2K and Vitriol (2011)

 Lane wrote,

“If you believe some people on the internet today, R2K theology is the antichrist. They want their neo-Kuyperianism unchallenged over the Reformed world today. But is radical Two Kingdoms so antithetical to the Gospel and to the Reformed faith?”

Bret responds,

As a Rabbi (per Darryl Gnostic Hart) I think I can speak to this.

Is R2K (when I will get some royalties for coining that phrase?) antithetical to the Gospel and the Reformed faith? Well, it depends on what you mean by “antithetical.” If you are asking whether or not R2K in the abstract is antithetical to the Gospel, in the Gospel’s narrow sense, then I would have to say “no.” If you are asking whether or not R2K is antithetical to Christianity in Christianity’s broadest sense, then it would depend upon which discussion I was most recently in.

The Reformed faith has ALWAYS been a comprehensive and totalistic world and life view. If you question this pick up the “Calvin in the Public Square” series by David Hall or Joe Boot’s “Mission of God.”  R2K denies that the Christian faith is comprehensive and totalistic with its denial that grace impinges upon nature. R2k has a Gospel that justifies the abstracted individual and champions a Gospel that is denuded of its public square implications. Can the Church speak on Cultural Marxism in the public square? R2K says …

“No, the Church can not speak against the enemy that is trying to kill Christianity, as Cultural Marxism saturates the public square for that would be impious to do so.”

Rev. K writes,

One could argue that the R2K theology is simply trying to rid the Gospel of all the accretions to the gospel that have been trying to creep in unawares. When I read Michael Horton, for instance, I see a man who is trying with all his might to keep the Gospel the Gospel and to forbid anything else from encroaching on the territory of the Gospel. That’s his heart. I know it is.

Bret responds,

And one could argue that R2K is simply trying to rid Christianity from declaiming against the sins of the zeitgeist so that large Church Presbyterianism can be achieved again. When I read Michael Horton I read a man with the best of intentions but who just does not understand that the Gospel can’t be abstracted from a Christian world and life view.

Rev. K writes,

Ultimately, why would such vitriol be leveled against R2K folk?

Rabbi Bret responds,

You mean the kind of vitriol that says “Don’t trust Dr. Kloosterman”? You mean the kind of vitriol that finds D. G. Hart character assassinating me every time I turn around? You mean the kind of vitriol that Meredith Kline splashed around against Dr. Greg Bahnsen?

“With its gifted and energetic leadership, this movement held the promise of great good. The tragedy of Chalcedon is that of high potential wasted – worse than wasted, for its most distinctive and emphatically maintained thesis is a delusive and grotesque perversion of the teaching of Scripture.”

You mean the kind of vitriol that had T. David Gordon saying,

“It (Theonomy) is not merely the view of the unwise, but the view of the never-to-be-wise, because it is the view of those who wrongly believe that scripture sufficiently governs this arena, and who, for this reason, will never discover in the natural constitution of the human nature or the particular circumstances of given peoples what must be discovered to govern well and wisely.”

And what shall we say of the vitriol of a formerly popular blog referenced above?

But hey … Theological controversy always makes vitriol the number one drink in the saloon, and as such, I don’t mind much – water off a duck’s back and all that – except when the vitriol flingers complain and whine about vitriol being flung about.

Rev. K. offered,

Aren’t the matters concerning church and state secondary to the Gospel?

 Bret counsels,

Not, if the State by its policy is seeking to wipe out Christianity. This is the reality that we are in, in America right now.

Rev. K says,

If they aren’t secondary, then I would argue that one side has made the Gospel something much bigger than it actually is. Church-state relations are secondary matters, not primary. And that should be true whether one is R2K or Neo-Kuyperian. I do not see the same kind of vitriol coming from the R2K guys against Neo-Kuyperianism, with the possible exception of Darryl Hart, and even he is a lot more light-hearted (Harted?) than most people credit him.

Rabbi Bret responds,

When the State becomes the idol du jour, seeking to be God walking on the earth then the law that is the red hot needle that pulls through the scarlet thread of the Gospel must inveigh against the idol state that people might repent of their sin and embrace the God of the Bible. A people infatuated with the God state will always reinterpret Christianity in light of the God State and so Church and State become a major issue to the Gospel because it is the idol that must go.

Rev. K. offers,

Also, I don’t trust Nelson Kloosterman anymore. He has written an encomium on the back of a book that defends Norman Shepherd. He has always been a Klaas Schilder fan. I think Kloosterman is soft on FV issues.

Bret responds,

Was Schilder ever disciplined as a heretic? Has Kloosterman ever been disciplined as a heretic?

Rev. K. writes,

Regardless of what one thinks of Kloosterman, I don’t think this board should tolerate accusations against the R2K guys of distorting the Gospel. I think we have been generally pretty careful about this. But I would especially exhort the Neo-Kuyperians among us- why are you posting what you are posting? Is this going to promote understanding or polarization? We have much to learn from the R2K guys. I think especially Neo-Kuyperians have much to learn from R2K folks. If only there could be open minds.

Rabbi Bret,

I have nothing to learn from R2K theologians when they are in their R2K mode.

This is why the Green Baggins blog has always been such a joke.

Rev. K. writes

The main reason I am saying this is that Neo-Kuyperianism has had pretty much a free reign in Reformed circles during the last century. And yet, Van Drunen does offer significant evidence that 2K theology was much more prominent in the Reformation eras than it is today. This is a strand of Reformed thinking, not just Lutheran thinking. We need to give this a fair hearing, and vitriol against the 2K position isn’t going to help matters. Remember this Proverb (18:13): “He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.” There’s a lot of that going on today on the internet.

Rabbi Bret responds,

Dr. Venema has exposed the problems with Dr. Van Drunnen’s book and some of the errant conclusions he reaches regarding past eras. Dr. James Anderson has exposed the contradictory problems w/ Dr. Van Drunnen’s book. Dr. John Frame has exposed the errors in Dr. Van Drunen’s book. Dr. Keith Mathison, speaking for Ligonier has raised some serious (and I think unanswerable) questions regarding Van Drunen’s book. Dr. Mark Dever’s interview with Dr. Van Drunen exposes the folly of R2K, and that quite without even trying. Dr Brad Littlejohn has done a fine expose of the problems with Van Drunen.

Legions are the problems that have been exposed regarding R2K by good men and for the most part silence in answering those critiques have been the response.

R2K … Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin.