Book Recommendations

A Pro-Kinism Reading List

Do the committees of NAPARC assigned to study CN and Kinism really want to know what Kinism is?

Maybe … I’ve had two people from two different denominational committees contact me and politely inquire about what Kinism actually is. They didn’t even damn me to hell before asking. That was refreshing. They seemed genuinely interested to get information from “the horses mouth,” so to speak

Still, I have my doubts that these committees will produce anything salutary. The hate goes deep and for some reason there is a great deal of fear of what is called “Kinism.” This fear will, in my estimation, prevent these committees from doing anything but condemning (again) Kinism. I really do hope I am wrong.

Invariably the people who are contacting me on these NAPARC study committees want a “to read list.” They want this in order to understand better what is driving the return to Biblical Christianity and this thing called “Kinism.” Here are some of the books I am telling them they need to read if they want to get it. I seriously doubt they will read them but if one really wants to understand what Kinism is fighting and what it is aiming at this book list would help. There are several books on Cultural Marxism because that is the philosophy that is driving opposition to Kinism. (Kinists call that opposition “Alienism.”) As in,

“The Alienists, driven by Cultural Marxism as they are, hate Kinism.”

1.) Who Is My Neighbor 2nd edition.

2.) Eugene Methven – The Rise of Radicalism

3.) A Survey of Racialism in Sacred Christian Tradition – Alexander Storen

4.) That Hideous Strength: A Deeper Look At How The West Was Lost– Expanded Edition — Melvin Tinker

5.) Cry Havoc; The Great American Bring-down and how it happened – Ralph de Toledano

6.) The Menace of Multiculturalism; Trojan Horse in America – Alvin J. Schmidt

7.) The Red Trojan Horse; A Concise Analysis of Cultural Marxism – Alasdair Elder

8.) The Devil’s Pleasure Palace; The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West – Michael Walsh

9.) Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism — James Burnham

10.) State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America — Patrick Buchanan

11.) The Death of the West – Patrick Buchanan

12.) Change of pace here

Camp of the Saints (Novel) — Jean Raspail

13.) The Unprotected Class — Jeremy Carl

14.) “Our Borders, Ourselves; America in the Age of Multiculturalism — Lawrence Auster

15.) The Bondage of The Free — Kent H. Steffegen

16.) The Tribal Instinct — Forrest Maready

17.) Race & Reason; A Yankee View — Carleton Putnam

18.) “Essential Writings on Race” — Samuel Francis

19.) America Extinguished: Mass Immigration and the Disintegration of American Culture — Samuel Francis

20.) They Were White & They Were Slaves — Michael Hoffman II

Like nearly every book I read, I don’t agree w/ everything in all of these books but they do provide a counter balance to the toxic Cultural Marxism we in the West have been saturated in now since the 1930s. A Cultural Marxism that the now formerly white hat NAPARC denominations are now embracing as they translate the Christian faith through the lens of Cultural Marxism.

Review of Grace Halsell’s “Forcing God’s Hand”

Grace Halsell was a journalist who also spent time as a LBJ speechwriter. Her worldview was decidedly classically liberal. She rubbed shoulders with the movers and shakers of the world. In her book she laments losing the friendship of Iphigene Bertha Ochs Sulzberger, wife of the publisher of the New York Times. Halsell complains about Iphigene’s praising of Grace when Grace was championing the cause of the putative underdogs in the US during the civil rights era and yet when Grace started to champion the cause of the Palestinians, by reporting the terror of the Jews, Iphigene Sulzberger (a Jewess herself) decidedly and hypocritically pulled the plug on their friendship. This loss of friendship was because of the subject matter in Halsell’s book, “Forcing God’s Hand.”

The reason for the title of the book is Halsell’s discovery, upon investigating Dispensationalism, that the Dispies believed that by their actions and work they could force God’s hand on the matter of the return of Christ. Through various interviews, as pursued while she was on trips to Israel as led by Dispie tour guides, she learned that the true Dispie believers genuinely believed that if they pursued certain avenues, like returning Jews to Israel, and like supporting and funding the re-building of the Jewish third Temple, the Dispies could shoe horn God into sending forth the Messiah.

In this book, Halsell exposes the looney tune nature of Dispensationalism by letting the Dispensationalists tell her about their beliefs in their own words. Halsell then probes gently with questions about their answers to, once again, reveal these people majored in brain disease while attending Dallas Theological Seminary or by reading Dwight Pentecost, John Walvoord, Hal Lindsey, Lewis Sperry Chafer, C. I. Scofield, etc.

Believing Dispensationalism is more difficult than believing Soviet narratives about WW II.

Halsell is clearly a liberal herself and would hate the Reformed faith but for different reasons. She clearly expresses that she cannot believe in a God of wrath. She is at her worst when she travels down these paths in her writing. She’s at her best when she just allows the Dispies to say stupid things. For example,

“Standing, overlooking the Meggido valley, Clyde, a traveling companion, explained to me that this was the site where Christ would lead the forces of good against evil. ‘Two-thirds of all the Jews will be killed,’ Clyde said, citing Zechariah 13:8-9. Pausing for some math, he comes up with nine million dead Jews. ‘For two hundred miles, the bl00d will reach the horses bridles.’

When I express concern over this scenario, Clyde, explains, ‘God is doing it mainly for his ancient people, the Bagels. He’s devised a seven-year tribulation period mainly to purge the Bagels, to get them to see the light and recognize Christ as their savior.’

But why, I ask, would God have chosen a people — ‘God’s favorite’ as Clyde says – only to exterminate most of them?

‘As I said, God must purge them,’ Clyde says. ‘He wants them to bow down before His only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.’

But, a few will be left? To bury their dead?

‘Yes,’ Clyde tells me. ‘There’ll be 144,00K who are spared. They will convert to Christ.’

Grace Halsell

Forcing God’s Hand – p. 81

Over and over again in this volume, Halsell lets the Dispies hang themselves by their own words. The odd thing for the reader of Halsell’s volume is the amazement found in the inability of the Dispie’s to hear what they are saying. The lack of self-awareness is dumbfounding.

Halsell, admits in her book that upon writing this book she was a different person than the person who worked for LBJ. She even faults LBJ, in the book, for lying to the American people about Israel’s attempt to sink the USS Liberty. Halsell, is an example of a liberal who was mugged by reality and whose worldview was severely altered by being mugged. As mentioned above she loses the friendship of many of her former friends because of her Worldview change. This worldview change is noted in the pages of her work,

“By living among Israeli Jews as well as Palestinian Christians and Muslims, I saw, heard, smelled, experienced the police state tactics Israelis use again Palestinians.”

Grace Halsell
Forcing God’s Hand – p. 117

“What is the message of the Christian Zionists? Simply stated it is this: ‘Every act taken by Israel is orchestrated by God and should be condoned, supported, and praised by the rest of us.’

‘Never mind what Israel does’ says the Christian Zionists. ‘God wants this to happen.’ This includes this includes the invasion of Lebanon, which killed or injured an estimated 100K Lebanese and Palestinians, most of them civilians; the bombing of sovereign nations such as Iraq; the deliberate methodical brutalizing of the Palestinians — breaking bones, shooting children, and demolishing homes; the expulsion of Palestinian Christians and Muslims from a land they have occupied for 2K years.

Grace Halsell
Forcing God’s Hand
Published 1999

“Indeed, I hold that Christian Zionism threatens not just the lives of Palestinians and other Arabs, but the very existence of the US. Because of the cult of Israel, we have become a nation that does not have its own Middle East policy, but the policy the government of Israel tells us to have.”

Grace Halsell
Forcing God’s Hand – p. 126
Published 1999

For readers who have a pulse, it is easy to see the application between what Halsell was seeing and writing about almost 30 years ago and what we are seeing today as the Jews commandeer our foreign policy in the current war we are engaged in as a client state of Israel.

I highly recommend reading Halsell. I also would advise another volume that covers some of the same ground, “Against our Better Judgment,” by Alison Weir. I found myself being a sympathetic reader and I found myself saddened that Grace never stumbled across Biblical Christians. It is clear she was a stranger to Biblical Christianity though in the book she reports a conversion experience when she was a child.

Book Review — “Lies My LIberal Teacher Told Me”

Completed … “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me,” by Wilfred Reilly.” Reilly does a good job at quick overviews of various strains of the Cultural Marxist DEI PC narrative that has the white people in this nation under its sway. The summ effect of Reilly’s book is to give white people especially the ability to easily disassemble some of the major myths that are used to make white people feel guilty for their past. Along the way Reilly, often using a statistical approach, reveals the lies that are sold as “everybody knows this is truth,” as inflicted by secondary Government school teachers to University Professors.

Many of the sources that Reilly cites are from books that deal uniquely with the issue being covered in a particular chapter – and are books that I myself have read in the past. For example, in Reilly’s chapter that overturns the lie that Sen. Joseph McCarthy created a witch hunt atmosphere which was completely manufactured, Reilly appeals a great deal to M. Stanton Evans’ book, “Blacklisted by History.” Another example is Reilly’s appeal to the book “White Cargo” in order to overturn the lie that teachers tell that somehow black slavery was a uniquely heinous crime committed by White Westerners against the sons of Africa. “White Cargo” was one book I read years ago that made Reilly’s argument easy to navigate through. Still, having all these resources referenced in one place in order to overthrow the lies of the cultural false narrative is quite helpful.

Along the way Reilly skewers other assorted lies besides the ones touched on above. Reilly deals with the common lie taught that the Indians were noble savages who were spoiled by the arrival of the white man. Reilly deals with the lie that the 1960s counterculture was an Aquarius Utopia that advanced the happiness of nubile women who freely gave themselves in multiple and random sexual encounters. Reilly pulls back the curtain and reveals a wee bit of the flotsam and jetsam that became of many in that generation because of the lie that the Sexual Revolution was great for women and Hippies were the good guys.

Next up Reilly exposes the nonsense that somehow white people need to be ashamed of themselves for the clause in the US Constitution that held that black slaves were only to be counted as 3/5ths of a person for taxing and representation purposes. In this chapter Reilly still presupposes that slavery was wrong (a view I do not share) and argues that the 3/5ths clause was a mercy pursued against slavery as pushed by opponents of slavery. Reilly argues that by insisting on a 3/5ths clause that the Northerners were insuring that the South would NOT get the upper hand in voting in the US House and in the Electoral College by having a greater population count that would swamp Northern numbers. By only counting each slave as 3/5ths a person Southern power was cut and so in Reilly’s reckoning that was a good thing.

The chapter I learned the most from was his chapter defending European Colonization as a net positive for those peoples who were colonized. Here Reilly argues that the advancements in technology, education, medicine and legal infrastructure has to be considered in the consideration of whether or not Colonialism was a good or bad thing. Reilly makes it clear that this lie that all Colonialism was only evil all the time is one of the main lynch pins of Marxist thought that is used against the White European. So contentious is this issue that Poli-Sci Professor, “Bruce Gilley” work supporting the positive good of Colonialism has caused a major uproar in this field of study with attempts to ruin Gilley merely because he dared suggest that colonialism was a positive good. Reilly, also, in this chapter notes that colonialism has been pursued throughout history and that the Western White man is hardly uniquely guilty (if guilt is to be assigned at all) of somehow being uniquely evil in his colonial work. This chapter, for me, was worth the price of the volume.

The chapter I disagree the most with was the chapter that defended dropping the Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I don’t think Reilly has done his research here. Reilly argues the traditional case that the dropping of the bombs saved American lives that would have been cost with an invasion of the Japanese homeland. However, other works suggest that the Japs had already agreed to the very same terms of surrender that were finally presented to them after the bombs had been dropped. In other words, we could have had the Jap surrender before the bombs being dropped on the same terms that were achieved before the bombs were dropped. So, this chapter left me unconvinced that the dropping of the Nukes on the Japs was not evil and unnecessary.

Next up is the lie that White flight in the 50s-70s was cause by racism. Reilly argues that this can not be sustained and that it was a matter of white flight being due to an uptick in the socio-economic status of White people during that period.

If you are new to these issues it would be a good book to get ahold of. I have a niece, for example, who I wish would read this volume but I suggest she is so far over the falls now that she can’t be rescued. This book is important because of people like my niece have bought into many of the lies that this volume unravels and have organized their lives consistent with those lies that they were told by their teachers.

“Banner Of Truth” Not Being Truthful … Or “Orwell Saw It All Coming”

In December I posted the following quote from J. C. Ryle.

“The dwelling-places of the earth’s inhabitants are curiously divided. The world is not made up of one people or one colour. God by His providential ordering has separated the earth’s inhabitants into distinct nations, languages, and races, each with its own peculiar characteristics. These distinctions have existed for centuries, and have been preserved in a most remarkable manner. No climate, no teaching, no misfortune has ever succeeded in obliterating them. The negro is still black, the Red Indian is still red, and the Chinaman is still yellow. Nothing seems to account for these things but a miraculous interposition of God.

…

Let us beware of giving way to the modern notion that there is no such thing as God’s providential arrangement of the nations, and that the present attempt to amalgamate all nationalities and races, and to denationalise and unchurch people, is wise and politic. God has divided the world into separate nationalities, climates, languages, and churches, and it is the height of mischief to try and break down the divisions.”

~J.C. Ryle
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Matthew 24

Today, a friend of mine showed up in the comments saying that he owned a hard copy of Ryle’s Expository Thoughts on the Gospels and that the quote I have above was not in his volume and asking me if I were confused.

That set me on the task of tracking down the quote. I traced the quote back to where I picked it up. I picked it up from my good friend and famous artist, Dan Brannan. I wrote Dan and asked him where he got the quote and together Dan and I went on a search and destroy mission to figure out where the problem was.

I soon learned that this book was published by “Banner of Truth Trust.” I immediately recalled that Banner of Truth had a past reputation of dropping material down the memory whole. That is Banner of Truth had been caught years ago editing out material from the work of A. W. Pink’s “The Sovereignty of God.” I immediately wondered if they had done the same to Ryle’s quote since it has the flavor of controversy about it.

In the meanwhile Dan was digging around in PDF’s online and discovering that despite Artificial Intelligence (GROK) giving him the quote above and the page number it was on in the Ryle volume he could not find the Ryle quote in available PDFs online.

Dan went back to GROK and asked … “Hey GROK, what gives? Why are you telling me that this quote exists — even giving me the page numbers — and yet when I go to the PDFs you have linked to me, the quotes are not there?

GROK wrote back;

” The specific passage on racial/national separation in the commentary on Matthew 24:1-7 appears to have been omitted or edited out in some later reprints and digital versions for sensitivity reasons in the 20th/21st centuries.

The full, unedited passage (including references to distinct races like ‘the negro,’ ‘Red Indian,’ and ‘Chinaman,’ and the warning against ‘amalgamating’ races/nationalities) is present in certain historical editions, particularly those published before widespread modern editing. However, it is not in most common public domain PDFs circulating online today.”

Some Praise For The Prophet Of Leaky Dispensationalism

Years ago I did a deep dive on Dispensationalism. I read over the course of time;

“Prophecy & The Church” – O. T. Allis
“Wrongly Dividing the Truth” – John Gerstner
“The Incredible Scofield & His Book” – Joseph Canfield
“Life Of Edward Irving: Fore-Runner Of The Charismatic Movement” – Arnold Dallimore
“Understanding Dispensationalists” – Vern Poythress
“Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church” – Marvin Rosenthal
“House Divided: The Break-Up of Dispensational Theology – Bahnsen & DeMar
“The Israel of God: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” – O. Palmer Robertson
“Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God” – Keith Mathison

These are the ones I remember. I know there were other titles I can’t remember now. I also read many books arguing for Covenant theology in general.

Because of this study I’ve been adamantly opposed to Dispensationalism in all its expressions. Gerstner goes so far as to say it is heresy. Allis’ work is perhaps the most devastating to this “theology.”

It is because of this foursquare opposition to Dispensationalism in all of its varieties (even of the so called “leaky Dispensationalism variety”) that I find it difficult to join in with the legions of Baptists and others who are now mourning the death of John MacArthur.

That is not to say that I am not a little bit saddened. It is to say that my sorrow is not anywhere near where it was when Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Martyn Lloyd Jones, Van Til, Gordon Clark and others died.

As it pertains to MacArthur I respected his stand against Charismania and anti-nomianism (even though he fell into neo-nomianism in opposing anti-nomianism). I saluted MacArthur when he took on the Church growth movement and tore it apart. I saluted MacArthur when he refused to qualify his opposition to sodomy and other tough issues like the absolute requirement for a known Jesus Christ in order to be redeemed. These were issues that many other guys like Tim Keller or Billy Graham or Robert Schuller were constantly trying to nuance to death. To MacArthur’s credit he did not do that. I saluted MacArthur when he warned his Seminary students that it would be hard sledding in the ministry given all the opposition that they would have to spend their whole lives fighting. I could identify with that one. Of course, MacArthur stood against California Gov. Newsome during the Covid issue in Newsome attempt to keep the Churches closed. MacArthur was one of the few who did so. That perhaps, was MacArthur’s greatest moment. In many respects John MacArthur was a man who could be admired because of these qualities.

I also admired him a wee bit because my Father-in-law admired him. Rev. Anthony Lombardi owned series after series of MacArthur’s taped sermons. I have that collection now sitting in my office. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to one. I always believed that I had better things to read or listen to, but my Baptist minister Father-in-law was smitten with John MacArthur. That stands to reason though since they were both Baptists and they were both Dispensationalists and they were both more than a little put off by the seeker sensitive movement.

For myself, I only ever read MacArthur’s book on Charismania and his two books on Lordship salvation issue. I thought Richard Gaffin’s book was better on the Charismania issue and I thought Mike Horton’s book was better on the antinomian issue. Also, several of the Puritans put faith in justification and faith in sanctification in a far superior way to MacArthur’s take. Still, that MacArthur was willing to take on the issues spoke in his favor, even if he didn’t get it completely correct.

Also, MacArthur clearly helped thousands upon thousands of people through his preaching, and writing. That is a good thing.

However, having said all that to honor him, I do pray that ministers who embrace leaky dispensationalism as did MacArthur did not will no longer be a presence in the Church today. I say this because I do not think Dispensationalism is a proper understanding of Biblical Christianity. I think the theology of that school is a hindrance to the furtherance of the Christian faith. It is sub-Christianity. If you read Allis and Gerstner they would say it is anti-Christianity.

Remember, it was MacArthur who boldly told his legion of followers that “We lose down here. Get over it.” This pessimism is a direct result of MacArthur’s leaky Dispensationalism. As long as the clergy believe that the Church and the Christian faith will be defeated in space and time history that defeat will become a self-fulfilled prophecy. The Church doesn’t need more clergy like MacArthur who not only believes this but who still think that the eschatological clock is tied to modern Israel and that we have an obligation to support Israel and is still looking for the Temple in Jerusalem to be rebuilt. These characteristics of Dispensationalism need to be eternally put to rest.

So John MacArthur served his generation and now has been gathered to his fathers. We praise him for his strengths while not ignoring his weaknesses.