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Matthew 22:34 And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:

Luke 11:52 Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.

These are but two examples among many examples in the Gospel that could be elucidated where we find the experts in the law explicitly or implicitly condemned. Obviously, Jesus didn’t have much use for the “experts” in the law. Only the experts could have gotten everything as wrong as they obviously did and Jesus wasn’t slow to point that out and for that habit He earned their enmity. Jesus mocked them, condemned them, and expressed incredulity at their slowness in understanding. Jesus was having nothing to do with their so called “expert” status and demonstrated that expert status — a status today typically gained by all kinds of degrees — was often bogus.

I’m going to pursue a thread here where it should be said to our modern “experts” both within and outside the Church, “Woe to you, experts…” As a result some are bound to accuse me of “anti-intellectualism.” This was the cat-call brought against the Fundamentalists by the Modernists during the Modernist vs. Fundamentalist controversy in the early part of the 20th century. The Fundamentalist had rightly sniffed out some of the ridiculous claims of the Higher Critical Modernists who fancied themselves as “experts.” The problem then was the Fundamentalists were often just as ridiculous as the expert Modernists and so the Modernist cat-call of “anti-intellectual” stuck.

However, just as Jesus was not being anti-intellectual when He called out the “experts in the law,” so I am not being anti-intellectual here. Jesus was anti-expert because the experts he was dealing with were idiots and the culture of experts that we are living in today are all too often likewise idiots.

Take as the most recent example the experts in the last four months who screamed “The sky is falling. The sky is falling. You must cancel life and hibernate because the Wuhan is coming to get you, oh my.” Clearly these experts should be pivoted upon and shouted at, “Woe unto you, you experts in Medicine.” Take as an example how the experts claimed that the birth control pill was perfectly safe for women only to be found out decades later that there is a connection between women taking birth control pills and breast cancer. “Woe unto you, you experts in Medicine.” Take as an example in the Church how the experts are telling us right now that Jesus Christ doesn’t have direct, express and explicit Sovereignty (R2K) over the public square. “Woe unto you, experts in Christianity.” Take as an example in Psychology of electric shock therapy which for decades the experts told us was a legitimate way to treat patients. “Woe unto you, experts in Psychology.” How many more examples do I need where the self-annoited experts were just idiotic in what they were pushing? Take as an example the Governmental experts declamation during the run up to WW II that the Feds could build needed landing craft better than the private sector. You guessed it … the experts were wrong again. “Woe unto you, experts in the Federal Government.” Take as an example the experts in the Church right now who are telling us by repeated books and conferences that celibate sodomites in the ministry is perfectly acceptable per God’s Word. “Woe unto you, experts in the Clergy.” Take as an example the experts in the Law who have arranged for us to redefine the meaning of marriage so as to include the marital union of sodomites. “Woe unto you, expert lawyers and judges.” Really I could go on for paragraph after paragraph on the reality that the idea of a culture of experts, where we the hoi polloi, are supposed to passively listen to the experts and follow their guidance is pure skubala.

This kind of reciting example after example is necessary because now the experts are threatening us with their expertise which is on the cusp of demanding, that given their expertise we need to, by way of force of law, require our children to get vaccines. This kind of reciting example after example is necessary because now the experts are threatening us with their expertise which is on the cusp of demanding, that given their expertise we need a Universal Basic Income so that we can be taken care by the experts in the Federal Government. This kind of reciting example after example is necessary because now the experts are threatening us with their expertise which is on the cusp of demanding, that given their expertise we need to coalesce into a New World Order Government. “Woe unto you experts in nearly any field.”

So what is with our putative “experts.” What was with the “experts in the law” during Jesus time? In both case their expertise existed as in a pagan world and life view. In both cases, experts then and now, are earning and basing their expertise on assumptions that are anti-Christ in their nature and are contrary to revelation. For example, much of vaccine theory is based on Darwinian evolutionary thinking. For example, much of psychology is based on reality that the God of the Bible does not exist. For example, much of law today is not based on God’s revelation but on Postivistic law, which presupposes man’s autonomy from God. For example, much of sociology is based not on principles drawn from God’s Word but rather is anchored in an anthropology that man is basically good and on the inevitability of humanist progress. The Lion’s share of our experts have been gained their expertise in Universities that are anti-Christ. As such most of our experts — from Clergy to Lawyers to Psychologists to Educators to Sociologists to Medical Doctors to Judges to Politicians is just so much skubala that is at its core anti-intellectual. Our need is to turn upon them and proclaim “Woe unto you experts.”

All of that leaves us having to become our own experts as much as possible, and that because we desire to be intellectual about our expertise. We must become experts in law, medicine, sociology, psychology, economics, politics, Christianity, ethics, and art. Of course we should employ the division of labor as much as possible but it simply is the case that the cynical attitude towards the “experts” we have developed over the last few decades needs to be set in stone. The experts, exceptions notwithstanding, are our enemies and the enemies of all men. They should no more be automatically be trusted than the traveling snake-oil salesman was trusted once upon a time. In all disciplines we must be like the Bereans who studied to see if the things they were being told were true.

There will be times we get it wrong, but in the times we get it wrong we must remind ourselves of the multitude of times the experts got it wrong. File this under, “If I am going to mess up then I’d rather mess up according to my lights and research as opposed to an ‘expert’ who has a track record of messing up.”

Of course there will still be times we will have to entrust ourselves to the “experts.” If I’m arguing before SCOTUS I want an expert. If I’m going under the knife for a kidney replacement I want an expert. However, even then I’d like to find a Christian whose expertise looks different than his colleagues pagan expertise.

Of course this kind of talk drives the experts rabid. How dare we question their bailiwick? How dare the peasants take up their pitchforks against the citadel of tower Expert? Don’t they know their place? It’s the same kind of protest the Rome raised against the Reformers. It’s the same kind of protest that Charles I raised against the Puritan Round-heads. It is the same kind of protest that British General Cornwallis raised as he surrendered to Washington at Yorktown. Cornwallis was so miffed that his expert Generalship was trounced that he even had his troops march out of town to the tune of “The World Turned Upside Down.” It is the same kind of protest we have seen the last 4 years in Washington DC with the arrival of the non-expert Trump. Experts do not like being challenged by the peasant class as Jesus found out when he challenged them in the first century.

As Dan Brannan argues in his column that inspired this one,

http://tribaltheocrat.com/2020/06/kneel-before-the-the-experts-the-philosopher-kings-of-pbs-demand-your-obedience/?fbclid=IwAR2hP_wPVAI9KaGFDBO5livZDYafkCaeT4gINvjaSFCG4JiOQYK54WsnDgY

the instinct to vest interests in experts is a largely feminine and effeminate one. I won’t repeat Dan’s argument again here but it is an argument that is worth your time and consideration.

There is another implication that needs to be drawn out here and that is that as Christians we have to absolutely give up on the University (especially “Christian” Universities) to become experts. The University system as been co-opted and is owned root, stem, and branch by the Marxists and so should be absolutely verboten for Christians. Any “expertise” gained at the University will be gained at the cost of our children’s souls. We only have to point at experts in the Church today to demonstrate that in spades. Whether it is the expert Rosario Butterfield, or the expertise of Sean Michael Lucas, or the expertise of Al Mohler, or the expertise of Tim Keller, or the expertise of R. Scott Clark it is clear that the experts in the Church now, having their worldview shaped by their University education leaves the Church vacuous. This causes us to conclude that if you value your own soul as well as your children’s souls that not only will you flee the university system, you will flee the contemporary conservative Reformed Churches which are anthills of expertise. Remember … “Woe unto you experts.”

I recommend if you want to make your children scholars and experts you set them about a routine diet of pocketcollege.com. I suggest that you have them feast on Dabney’s “Secular Discussions.” I suggest that you have them read Blamire’s “Disappearance of the Christian Mind,” or Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes,” or Machen’s “Christianity and Liberalism.” Have them read Ironink.org daily. Have them listen to Dr. Glen Martin’s lecture series. If we want to be experts again we have to gain our expertise as existing in our own Weltanschauung while telling the pseudo-experts to bounder off.

The only other option we have is to commit the chief sin of Medieval Roman Catholics which we have been committing in spades and with increasing intensity over the last decades and that is the putting of our minds in park and letting the Magisterium do our thinking for us in one field after another. We could call that “Expert-olatry.” Consider where our expert-olatry has led us. Because of our expert-olatry the Conservative Reformed Church is on the cusp of accepting celibate sodomites in seat of Elder. Because of our expert-olatry in the Medical field we are on the cusp of injecting our children with vaccines which contain the type of assorted garbage, chemicals, and fetal DNA which would make a hardened Marine quail. Because of our expert-olatry we are on the cusp of actually letting the Federal Government become our outright explicit owners (that’s called slavery). We must rid ourselves of the idea of an expert Magisterium and start thinking God’s thoughts after him again.

So, while acknowledging exceptions, I say, “piss on the experts. ” Those people are getting us killed and if I am going to die I’d rather die at my own hand then the hand of the Christless “experts.” They may be well intention-ed in some cases but their good intentions won’t make you any less dead by listening to them.

Let our theme in these matters become, “Woe unto you experts.”

A case could be easily made that we are at this point in a civil war. This case is augmented by the reality of 4th generation warfare (4GW) as the means by which the present civil war is being fought.

4GW is non-traditional military conflict that is characterized by making indecipherable and permeable boundaries between the heretofore distinct categories of war vs. politics, combatants vs. civilians and massed armies vs. decentralized and highly mobile mobs as armies.

4GW is to war and combat what farmers markets are to a Wal-Marx super food mart. 4GW is warfare as highly decentralized and as mobile as the breeze. 4GW prevails in the context of either the nation-state’s loss of ability to bring force to bear or the nation-state’s loss of monopoly on combat forces. The current context speaks to the nation-state’s loss of ability (lack of will) to bring force to bear on the current rioters.

4GW also can be identified as sporadic in intensity and as such it tends to be sustained over a longer course of time. When we note 4GW’s sporadic characteristic this means, in part, that it is punctuated in intensity by terrorist incidents aimed at advancing its cause. When we note 4GW’s drawn out character this is due to the fact that it is a warfare that can only succeed as it attacks the Institutional structures (political, religious, social, military, economic, judicial, etc.) of the culture that it is at war with. This takes a prolonged amount of time. It is warfare as by Chinese water torture.

Like 3rd Generation warfare 4GW looks to leverage the weight of its opponent against it. This means that its attack points will be rapid and brief, not allowing its enemy to coalesce their force to respond. In brief insurgent and guerrilla tactics are used wherever the attack occurs. (The insurgent and guerrilla tactics can be non-violent as in applying propaganda moves or as in seeking to win the culture war by quick striking Alinsky type tactics.)

The consequence is combat is waged with a comparative dumbed-down military arsenal. Warfare becomes low tech and personal as opposed to the high tech impersonal warfare of the type we saw in Desert-shield and Desert-storm.

Consequences in 4GW also includes command and control by social media as well as a Lugenpresse major communications to provide air cover for what is occurring. The Lugenpresse’s role in 4GW is disinformation and propaganda spin.

Getting to the nub of 4GW, 4GW requires one of the participants in the conflict to be a non-state participant. In the current 4GW civil war in America the non-state participant is the coalition of the forces of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Occupy Wall Street and other Marxist organizations which occupy serial false front positions.

If 4GW is indeed a identifiable reality there can be little doubt that we are currently fighting a civil war along terrain that is new as far as civil wars go.

The left would speak in rapturous tones that “in China throughout a whole day of work, you will never hear anyone complain or disobey or talk back, because what you see in the man on the street is not politeness but ‘a deep brotherhood, an almost passionate seriousness, the selflessness of socialist man.”

Obviously these mesmerizing beliefs made it impossible to see anything other than their own (the Leftists) spellbinding in the Other. At that very moment when these kinds of words of praise were being spoken of the average man in the street in China, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Chinese were being killed, massacred, or deported on the orders of the Great Leader, as the Chinese Communist party revealed several years later. The shock of this discovery would have been comical if the Western intelligentsia had not drowned the cries of China’s martyrs with its shouts of praise, thereby making itself an accomplice to the crimes committed. It made no difference since those who followed a phony dogma could paint their cartoon-like version of China at a time when the Middle Kingdom was being put to the sword and the torch. They painted a picture of a perfect nation with no crime, no poverty, no madness, no sickness, and even no dirt. It was as place where the blind could see, the deaf could hear, and, of course, the mute could speak, as if it were the step of Lourdes.”

Pascal Bruckner
The Tears of the White Man; Compassion as Contempt — p. 30

The same is going on right now in America. The rioters now are being seen as the Chinese described above. The leftists (Marxists) see those rioting as the noble savages who can do no wrong. They are the heroes in the drama and if any excesses is among them it can only be the fault of the White Christian man who has pushed them into those excesses. The black man (generally but not universally speaking) and his ethnomasochistic white pagan pets can do no wrong per the Media and much of America’s political and academia class.

The rioters are now the noble savages and as noble savages, we non rioters must learn to aspire to their purity and greatness, and if we refuse to learn from them we must be exterminated in order that the new social order may come to pass. Christianity and the social order it creates must be displaced in favor of the Egalitarian Shangri-La.

This kind of thinking that supports the rioting obtains among our leadership because,

1.) Many see themselves as the leadership of the noble savage. If the noble savage is pure than those who lead must be pure also.

2.) Our leadership tends, by way of habit, to always hurry to get in front of the parade whichever way it is marching.

3.) Our leadership has been trained in humanist institutions and so they are pre-programmed to accept this train of thinking. It really is the case that many of our leadership, regardless of what field you are talking about, are crypto-Marxist in their thinking though they do not realize that.

“There is no right to riot, no right to destroy others’ property, and no right to throw rocks at police. But there is a fundamental — a Constitutional — right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop. Every public servant in America should be lowering the temperature and that means saying two basic truths over and over: (1) police injustice — like the evil murder of George Floyd — is repugnant and merits peaceful protest aimed at change; (2) riots are abhorrent acts of violence that hurt the innocent. Say both things loudly and repeatedly, as Americans work to end the violence and injustice.”

US Sen. Ben Sasse
Nebraska

1.) Sen. Ben Sasse complains about Trump using the Bible as a political prop thereby himself turning Christianity into a means by which he can score political points. I realize Trump is no Christian in any orthodox sense (just as Sasse isn’t being R2k) but Trump is a public official and when he, as President, holds up the Bible, as a political prop or otherwise the God of the Bible is honored. Sen. Sasse is more than unwise in this pronouncement.

2.) Would Sasse prefer Trump to hold up a Koran or a Torah? You know, I’d bet good money that if Trump has held up a Torah in front of a Synagogue Sasse would have been mute.

3.) Did the Trump team “clear out” peaceful protesters or just ask them to move on? I wouldn’t believe the Lugenpresse’s characterization of the protesters being “forcefully removed,” or Sasse’s version of “cleared out,” as being a fair representation of what happened. One also must keep in mind that these gentle protesters were required to give up only 37 minutes of their protest time since that was when the curfew was going in effect anyway. Sasse is whining about protesters not getting 37 minutes of peaceful protest time?

4.) Remember this Church he was standing in front of had been vandalized by the looters. Trump was seeking to honor both the Church and Christianity by doing what he did and all Sasse can whine about is using the Bible as a political prop. Would to the God of the Bible that more Presidents had used the Bible as a political prop to speak up the Christian faith.

5.) Sasse hypocritically calls for lowering the temperature at the very moment he is raising the temperature while accusing Trump of using the Bible as a political prop. Sasse is the one dishonoring God in all this. How dare anybody hold the bible up in front of a Church for a photo-op?

6.) Sen. Sasse does not know that George Floyd was murdered. A man is innocent until proven guilty by a jury of his peers. Sasse saying this prejudices any jury that might be assembled. Here is Sasse preaching on what needs to be done in the public square and Sasse himself apparently doesn’t know Civics 101.

I suppose one could drain an ocean of cyber-ink writing on the hypocrisy of Politicians.

“A nation like ours has many power centers. The alignment of those power centers is what determines cultural force and, in the long run, political success as well. Corporate executives, celebrities, academics, editorialists, and even many religious leaders — not at all exclusively from liberal denominations — in general oppose the police and support the protests, and if they think the rioters go to excess, they’re inclined to think it’s just a case of misplaced zeal or an excusable response to oppression. The master framework that applies before any facts are considered — facts like the real cause of most violent deaths among blacks in America today, or even investigation into the facts about George Floyd’s death — is a moral framework that designates saints and sinners, victims and oppressors.”

Daniel McCarthy

And this is … as I have exhausted myself in saying, at least as it pertains to putatively religious leaders, the results of a R2K type thinking that refuses to teach civil narratives because they are “not in the Church’s purview.” As such Christians come to believe skubala narratives and eventually even the Christian leaders come to believe those skubala narratives. So, what we eventually get is conservative Christians who love them some Jebuss but are believing narratives that are anti-Christ because not rooted and grounded in truth. Instead, what is dished out is the 6 millionth altar call, or pietistic sentimental mush about not being “worldly,” or Redemptive Historical treatments that are always only indicative and never ever imperative.

Where are the sermons in the Church that touches on these false narratives that Christians (leaders and laity alike) are believing that move them to support criminal riotous protests as well as criminal anti-Christ organizations like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and various Communist Fronts? The information on these skubala narratives is out there for those with eyes to see and courage to believe. The information that American slavery wasn’t the genocide attempt characterized by cruelty and lasciviousness that the Academic left has insisted that it was ever since Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” – itself a tissue of lies and a foundation of centuries of propaganda. The information that American Lynching was not an exclusively black experience, nor even fell disproportionally on blacks is out there for those with eyes to see and courage to believe. The information is out there that the American Civil Rights movement was organized and funded by Marxists is out there for those with eyes to see and courage to believe. The statistics for black on white crime vis-a-vis white on black crime is out there for people with eyes to see and courage to believe. The idea that White people are routinely abusing black people is absurd, especially in light of the fact that the very opposite is true. LOOK AT THE STATISTICS ON VIOLENT CRIME.

Yet the Church remains silent in the task of dismissing these skubala narratives — narratives that need to be corrected because the accepting and owning of the skubala narratives is intended ultimately to pull Christ off His throne. They are intended to say, “Just look how these Christian White people acted towards minorities. Obviously their religion, their Fathers, and their savior is wicked.” And this quite without providing any historical context, qualification, or nuance. It is the narrative of the Marxist, the Jacobin, the Abolitionist and it is the skubala narrative that nobody in the Church wants to beat back. Partially because the clergy corps is just stupid about history. Partially because the clergy corps wants to be hale and well met and not upset the apple cart thus jeopardizing their jobs and paychecks. Partially because the clergy themselves are only Christian in the sense of having a thin patina of Christianity covering them. Their real essence is Marxism. These clergy fools are going to get us all killed by swarthy peoples who hate white people for the sole reason that historically white people have been the carriers of Biblical Christianity.

Can anybody see an Augustine, or a Calvin, or a Knox, or a Luther put up with this skubala narrative that finds Christ’s people denounced and murdered all because they brought their faith to bear on those who became the white Christian’s burden? Luther loved the Germans. Knox loved the Scots. In this climate that by itself is enough to toss them on the ash heap with Whitfield and Edwards because they owned slaves.

Honestly, Churches where these skubala narratives are supported, either by refusing to damn them or by explicitly supporting them, need to be emptied and left impoverished. By supporting these Churches that support these skubala narratives the laity is supporting the redefining of Jesus Christ, Christianity, and civilization, and are turning their descendants over to a dystopian future that can only be read about wherever Marxist Revolution has successfully planted its flag. (If you have the stomach to read it.)