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One thing that begins to happen when one becomes saturated in non-court History and Historians is the polished veneer begins to come off your own place of origin. The left does this all the time insisting that America is a sinful nation because of the way it has treated women, or because of the way it has treated slaves, or because of its past colonialism overseas or because of how the putative Robber Barons treated their employees, thus cutting a jag on Capitalism. Reading pig slop like Howard Zinn’s book “A People’s History of the United States” or Steven J. Keillor’s “This Rebellious House: American History and the Truth of Christianity,” or Alan Guezlo’s “Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President,” the left becomes saturated in anti-history and so see’s America as a country has always done the devil’s work and so must be remade into the left’s image.

The problem with the left is that most of their criticisms of America of this nature are merely some type of warmed over Marxist historiography. The left hates America because it hasn’t been a Marxist country and their hatred for the country will only be lifted once statues of Marx and Lenin are placed alongside the statue of Martin Luther King.

But, what about the Biblical Christian? Does he ever begin to seen the veneer come off his birth of origin? I would answer resoundingly yes. Indeed, I would answer so vigorously “yes,” that I would say that the Biblical Christian ought to hate America just as all reasonable people rightfully hate Dracula. Now, keep in mind that saying “I hate America,” is not the same as saying, “I hate each and every American.” The hate spoken of here is what the America as a country has done and while that certainly has to include many, and perhaps even most Americans it does not include all Americans. Many Americans over the decades have fought the good fight against those who have been constantly clawing to turn this country into the beehive and the anthill.

However, I don’t hate America for the same reasons the left does. Indeed I hate America because the Marxists have been so successful in their project to remake America. I hate the America of Lincoln, Wilson, and the Roosevelts because I love the America of Washington, Jefferson, and Coolidge. So I hate America for the exact opposite reasons that the left hate’s America. I hate America because America has become so Marxist while the left hates America because it isn’t yet Marxist enough. I hate the America that is because I love the America as she was created to be.

Recently, I made this declaration above in a setting that found people bewildered at such a sentiment and asking for precision and specificity over why I would say such a thing. Below, is just a beginning of why I say, “I hate America, and so should all Biblical Christians.”

Since 1973 America, under the flag of legality, as killed fifty million babies in the one place where one would think is the safest place in the cosmos. Fifty million people. The number is so large that it is beyond the ability to really think about. Since 1973 we have killed approximately 1/5 of our current population. How can a Christian not hate a country that has allowed for such a thing?

In 1944 and 1945, first at Tehran, and then at Yalta America turned over countless Millions of people in Eastern and Central Europe to the butchering Satanist communists (Tehran and Yalta). Similarly, our actions in China effectively turned over that whole nation to the Communists. (See George Crockers, “FDR’s Road to Yalta,” and John T. Flynn’s “The Roosevelt Myth,” and “Blacklisted by History,” by M. Stanton Evans — especially as he deals with figures such as Lauchlin Currie, and Owen Lattimore). How can a Christian not hate a country that pursued such a foreign policy course that resulted in Communism covering major portions of the globe and resulted in the deaths of countless tens of millions?

Prior to that there was the bloody disaster that was our involvement in WW I and then the Versailles treaty that led to WW II. (See two volumes by Docherty and MacGregor… “Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War,” and “Prolonging the Agony: How The Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years,” and “How Britain Initiated both World Wars,” by Nick Kollerstrom. America by wrongly involving herself in World War I is responsible for the death of American lads, and for creating such a mess on the global stage that the Communists were able to take over Russia. Further America is responsible (along with other players) for aiding the destruction of European Christendom. How can a Christian out of love for those who perished so needlessly not hate the country responsible for that?

What else might we say, as reasons for hating America?

We dropped two atomic bombs on Japan when they were already agreeing, 6 months prior to the eventual peace deal, that ended up being the same peace deal that was eventually signed after the bombings. (See Herbert Hoover’s “Freedom Betrayed.”) The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes committed by America. How can one not hate a country that does such a thing?

Then there are the million unarmed Germans that Eisenhower and the Allies killed in prison camps after WW II not to mention the human reparations that were sent to the USSR to die in their work Gulags. (See “Other Losses” by James Bacque and Nikolas Tolstoy’s “The Secret Betrayal.”)

There is, of course much more. This is merely a beginners plate that explains why a Christian might justly hate America. The Christians love for righteousness and justice makes one see all the unrighteousness, injustice, not to mention death and suffering, and so burns with loathing for a country that is responsible for all this death and mayhem. And it burns with loathing also for the left which hates America for the exact opposite reasons.

In the previous post, I wrote about Linguistic Tomfoolery. In this post I give an example of the same in the Church.

(1) “I remind Hill staffers and K Street lobbyists and military officers that real political action starts in the teaching ministry of our church and then flows outward from there — from our relationships with other members to our families, and our work places and beyond. First “Be,” and then “Do.” (2) Don’t tell me your interested in politics if you’re not pursuing a just, righteous, peace producing life with everyone in your immediate circles. (3) Paul asked the Jews of his day; ‘You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?’ (Romans 2:21). (4) I’ve got a few questions of my own. (5) You who call for immigration reform do you practice hospitality with visitors to your church who are ethnically or nationally different from you? (6) You who vote for family values do you honor your parents and love your spouse self sacrificially? (7) You who speak against abortion do you also embrace and assist the single mother’s in your church? (8) Do you encourage adoption? (9) Do you prioritize your own children over financial comfort? (10) You who talk about welfare reform do you give to the needy in your congregation? (11) You who proclaim all lives matter do all your friends look like you? (12) You who lament structural injustices do you work against them in your own congregations? (13) Do you rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep? (14) You who fight for traditional marriage, do you love your wife, cherishing her as you do your own body washing her with the water of the word? (15) You who are concerned with the economy and the job market do you obey your boss sincerely from your heart, not as a people pleaser but as you would obey Christ? (16) You who care about corporate tax rates do you treat your employees fairly? (17) Do you threaten them forgetting that he who is both your Master and theirs is in heaven and that there is no partiality with Him? (18) Finally, as you share your opinion about all these issues on social media do you gladly share the Lord’s Supper with a fellow member who disagrees? (19) Do you pray for his or her spiritual good?

All politics is local said former Speaker of the House of Representative, Tip O’Neil. He spoke better than he knew.

Jonathan Leeman
Minister — Capital Hill Baptist Church
How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age

1a.) It is simply not the case that real political action starts with the teaching ministry of the Church. No, real political actions starts with the teaching ministry of the home.

1b.) Notice in the first sentence how, for Rev. Dr. Leeman, that the sequential ripples starts with our relationships to other members, and then to our family and then to our workplace and beyond. Again, we see ecclesiocentrism here. Accurately described the sequential ripples start with our family and then to other members of the Church and then to our workplace and beyond.

#1 is not an insignificant point. The Church is forever trying to insinuate itself as the be all end all Institution. It’s not.Clearly the Church is monumentally important just as the family is monumentally important. Each of those Institutions compliment the other and it is a significant error in teaching to imply one or the other is always subordinate to its counterpoint.

2.) Here we applaud Rev. Dr. Leeman for a point well stated.

5.) Wouldn’t the logical corollary for those who wanted an Immigration Reform that resulted in closed borders be; You who call for immigration reform do you practice hospitality with visitors to your church who are ethnically or nationally the same as you as you are seeking to encourage them in light of the country being taken over by the stranger and the alien?

7.) Shouldn’t the question here be, in order to be logical; You who speak against abortion do you also embrace and assist the single and unmarried women in your Church by encouraging them to be sexually chaste before marriage?

11.) How is it that someone is a hypocrite who says all lives matter while not having any friends that don’t look like them? All lives can still matter even if I don’t have any friends named Jose, Levi, Tyrone, Mohammed or Han Soo. This is just so much cultural Marxism dressed up in pious sentimentalism trying to look Christian.

(12) “Structural Injustices,” sure sounds a great deal like “White privilege.” I mean up to this point we have heard that Christians are hypocrites if they want immigration reform but don’t break bread with someone of a different ethnicity. We have heard that we are hypocrites if we say all lives matter but don’t have friends who don’t look like us. Now we trip across the idea of “Structural Injustices” and if I read that in this context it sure sounds like “White privilege.”

(17) If God has no partiality the way that partiality is used in the sentence above how can there be elect and non-elect? I mean certainly there is partiality with God. Election teaches that. The idea that Christians are not to be partial comes in a very specific context in the book of James. Having said that I do affirm that employers do need to treat their employees consistent with their productivity and work ethic.

(18) I am not interested in sharing a Church let alone the Lord’s Table with someone who is on the wrong side of abortion, the wrong side of Christian Caucasian ethnocide by way of immigration overload, the wrong side of Cultural Marxism. But I will pray that they repent so that one day I might be able to join them at the Lord’s table.

Virginia gives us a classic example of how Government typically uses language. The fenced in portion on the Virginia state grounds that does not allow weapons (which is an unlawful decree from Governor Northam) during lobby day is called, “The Freedom Zone.” The one geographic area where there is the least amount of freedom is labeled “the freedom zone.”

That is the way bureaucrats use language. They consistently label things the exact opposite of what they are. For example, we have the “Secretary of Defense” when he is actually the “Secretary of War.” For example, Obama gave us “The Affordable Care Act” when it is in reality “The Expensive non-Care Act.” For example, “The Civil Rights Act” took away our civil right of freedom of Association. For example, “Social Security,” leaves one financially insecure. For example, “Freedom of choice” is the negation of freedom of choice for the infant in Mommy’s womb. For example, “The Equal Rights Amendment” would have given feminists “special rights.” For example, “undocumented workers” masks “illegal aliens.” For example, “Birthright citizenship,” masks “anchor babies.” For example, “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is really comprehensive native population reform. For example, “Planned Parenthood,” is really “planned non-parenthood.” For example, “Terrorist” is really a White Male who attends Church every Sunday. For example, “enhanced interrogation,” is really torture. For example, “Welfare” is really enslavement. For example, “Pacification,” is really ethnic cleansing. For example, “Collateral damage,” is really “we killed lots of women and children.” For example, “Homeland security” really means controlling the citizenry. For example, “Responsible gun rights legislation,” means “we are coming for your guns.” We could go on but you get the idea. I’m sure you have your own examples.

Government uses this language not only for the obvious reason of masking what is really going on, but also as a means to sell the disreputable, vile, and disgusting to a brain dead public.

Linguistic Tomfoolery also happens when language is used in order to be sarcastic but eventually is embraced as non-sarcastic. The classic example of this is seriously calling Abraham Lincoln, “Honest Abe.” When the term “Honest Abe” was pinned to Lincoln it was done so by his political enemies in sarcasm. Yet today, people genuinely believe that Lincoln was known for his unique honesty. I suppose given enough time “Tricky Dick,” and “Slick Willy” will be spoken with the same reverence that we now use when we speak of “Honest Abe.”

All of this reminds us that the purpose of language is not only to reveal meaning but also, just as often, to conceal meaning. This is the way that savvy listeners and readers consume communication. Savvy readers and listeners are not only always listening for what is said but also for what is being hidden in what is being said. Personally, I never listen to a sermon, read a book, have a conversation, view a film, where I am not asking, “what is being concealed and hidden in this communication?” Of course the more I trust a person the more I let my guard down and correspondingly the less I trust someone the more intensely am I looking for linguistic tomfoolery.

This linguistic tomfoolery is never-ending in the Church. Whole theologies are just one relentless stream of linguistic tomfoolery. Some “theologians” will say they believe in the resurrection and later you find out they believe that “Jesus arose into history,” which is code language that he really didn’t physically resurrect. Some theologians will tell you that they believe that Jesus was divine and later you learn that they really believed that Jesus was a one of a kind human and inasmuch he was singularly unique in His character and spirit he should be considered divine. Many pastors will talk about equality when what they really mean is that white Christians need to surrender their convictions and churches and so be unequal. Seriously, I wouldn’t attend a church today without a handy dandy, readily available “What does he really mean” dictionary.

One sign of a social-order decline is when language is doing the work of concealing more than the work of revealing. And our culture is saturated with linguistic tomfoolery.

“One Southerner can lick twenty Yankees.”

Charles Hamilton
Gone With The Wind

Such is the bravado of young men. And, honestly, it should be that way. However, bravado, machismo, and testosterone do not, by themselves, win battles or wars. Battles and wars are won by bravado, machismo, and testosterone in the service of wise tacticians and strategists who know when to strike, when to lay back and absorb a blow so as to be positioned to inflict damage, and when to retreat. It is now Sunday 19 January 2020, and nothing I write here will make any impact on what will happen in Richmond, Virginia tomorrow, yet all the same I’ll state my convictions so that in three years time we won’t be in some other Virginian city (Roanoke anyone?) planning another march that will show how determined the Patriots are.

Please understand my opposition to attending this kind of turkey shoot … er, um, I mean rally, is not (as I’ve been accused) based on personal cowardice. Nor is it due to the fact that I have different long range goals then those who are protesting in Richmond tomorrow. I loathe Statist apparatchiks more than the next person and am in full agreement with Albert Jay Nock’s book title, “Our Enemy, the State.” No, my opposition to attending Richmond is about methodology. I am of the conviction there are better ways to skin the cat of Government oppression and illegality than putting one’s self in an environment that is completely under the control of the enemy. Nobody fights purposely allowing the enemy to choose and have the high ground and metaphorically speaking that is what is happening (again) as Johnny goes marching on in Richmond.

One would have thought that the Patriot movement would have learned something with Charlottesville or in Seattle or in Portland, but nope, it is, “Once more unto the breach, dear friends.” This is starting to look like Charlie Brown and his eternal determination, to this time “really kick that ball,” only to find that Lucy, once again, is way ahead of the well determined, likable, but not particularly astute Charlie Brown.

Lucy, in this case, is the Statist apparatchiks. They are the ones who are holding the football. They know what their going to do. They know the terrain. They have the resources to create and / or sustain and / or turn a blind eye to mayhem. It is a Captain Obvious statement, based on Charlottesville, Portland, and Seattle, to say that their sympathies are not with the Patriots. And yet, this time it will be different.

Why not just start wearing a “hit me” sign?

Note here that the danger is not only as coming from the antifa side or as coming from the beloved Constables. There are those in the Patriot movement who might think to themselves, “”We need to get the pot to boil and the only way to do that is for our side to take some hits. If we can get Richmond to go bad that accelerates the Rebellion,” and in light of that reasoning work to the end of creating an incident for the good of the overall cause. So, if the question is asked “Cui Bono,” all sides could spin this thing going sideways as “we benefit.”

Then there is the publicity / media angle. The Patriot crowd could be saints on stilts but no matter what happens in Richmond all we are going to see on the media is Confederate (and maybe even Nazi) flags. Militia members who look like a cross of Sergeant Rock and Freddy Kruger. Followed by “in depth analysis” by some sodomite news anchor telling us the covert white supremacist action that all second amendment people represent.

So, I ask myself, “How does this advance the cause of the Patriots?” How does the gathering of some of the finest people getting beat up, arrested, slandered and libel advance the cause of the 2^nd amendment, or the Patriot movement overall? What are we proving? Our ability to take a punch? I think that is now well established.

Those people don’t care what Americans want. They don’t care how many letters they receive in the mail. They are nonplussed about numbers protesting. So, again, what does this accomplish besides making one’s self a target? Sure, the attendees can tell themselves good things about themselves about how they rallied as long as they leave out the part where they were bloodied by antifa and the Statist goons.

Some will contend, “Pastor, you don’t know how the Spirit of God might use this rally.” That is true. However, not knowing how God might or might not use something doesn’t excuse me for showing up at a turkey shoot starring as the turkey. (Yes, I know live turkeys are not used in turkey shoots … roll with me here.) Some will contend that a statement has to be made. What statement? That we will keep protesting no matter how many times the spider says to the fly, “Welcome to my parlor.”


So, what are the alternatives? If going to their place isn’t going to work what is going to work?

First of all, we have to be honest enough to admit that unless a much larger percentage of our country embrace Jesus Christ as Lord and Biblical Christianity that even if there is success there is failure. Right now America is a confused country when it comes to their faith. There is little understanding how Christianity is the only answer for stopping antifa and the Statist government and what understanding does exist is usually so tepid and watered down that if it is Christianity it is of a very strange variety. One wonders how many of those protesting have children in government schools? Wait … you want to keep your guns but you’re willing to lose your children? One wonders how many of those protesting are supporters of Israel no matter what? Wait … you want to keep your guns but your willing to continue to make America’s sons and daughters to be canon fodder for Israel’s wars? One wonders how many of those protesting care about God’s law? Wait … you want to keep your guns but your willing to let the rest of God’s law remain ignored and you expect God to bless your efforts? As long as Americans keep Biblical Christianity at arm’s length any success on keeping their guns is largely irrelevant.

Second, if protesting isn’t working on throwing off the vile Christ hating bureaucrats then maybe the answer is to organize locally into cell groups. Virginia, for example, has many counties saying they will not enforce unconstitutional laws. Beyond this there can be meetings of neighborhood areas where some kind of alarm system is established whereby neighbors coalesce if and when troubles from the enemy authorities arise.

Third, it may require that if we are living in areas that are overwhelming blue we have to move to an area that is sympathetic to our beliefs.

Fourth, at some point we have to realize that if rallies and ballots are strangled then history demonstrates that the only option available that remains is rope and bullets. This is what our forefathers concluded in 1776 when the British incarnation of tyranny arose. This is what one of our own 20^th century president observed,

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

John F. Kennedy

In conclusion, I salute the bravery of those seeking to exercise their constitutional right of peaceful assembly. I do not disagree one iota with their goals. My disagreement is on the best methodology to achieve those goals. I strenuously do not agree that protests that are intended to be peaceful on our part is a methodology that can achieve what is desired.

Not living by God’s law makes one, over time, mad. As we have noted before and as Scripture teaches

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20

There comes a point when the one who has abandoned God’s Law-Word where they begin to call God’s curses as good and God’s blessings as bad. They see the rising of the Alien as a positive good and the sinking of their own people as likewise good. And so they even begin to pursue that course.

We see it in the Old Testament when they began bringing the false foreign Gods into the temple. We see it in the OT when they began to embrace their own destruction of themselves by sacrificing their children to foreign gods.

2 Chronicles 28:3

Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

Jeremiah 7:31

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire–something I did not command, nor did it enter My mind.

Jeremiah 19:5

They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal–something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it ever enter My mind.

In all these cases they were embracing the curse to be destroyed and eschewing the blessing of God to be the head and not the tail.

This embracing of being the tail and not the head. This embrace of delighting in being sunk lower and lower in one’s own land. This delight in being destroyed by the Alien we might call Alienism.

Alienism might be defined as the glorification and absolutizing of the stranger, the outsider, the abnormal and the corresponding denigration and hatred of the native born, the majority, the normal.

Alienism: is a prejudice in favor of the alien, the marginal, the dispossessed, the eccentric, reaching an extreme in the attempt to “build a new society” by destroying the basic institutions of the native. The most terrible fulfillment of this principle is Communism which we now see as Cultural Marxism and Political Correctness. The goal of extreme Alienism is just what we find in Deuteronomy 28 – the destruction of the Historic Christian, Historic Christianity and the pulling down of Christ off His throne

Alienism, in a phrase coined by Robert Conquest, is the “residual muck of Marxism-Leninism.”

Alienism, that glorification of the abnormal, the stranger, the misfit and marginal has become a governing force in our social order pursuit today. This Universal Otherization of the normative embraces the derelict over the responsible and offers malcontents and the envious a hermeneutical platform to justify their interpretation of reality where the normative is guilty of oppressing the abnormal for merely insisting that abnormal is not normal, for insisting that the immoral is not moral, and for not mainstreaming that behavior which heretofore had been considered taboo. For the practitioners of social order Alienism oppression has been introduced where boundaries have been drawn between what is normative and what is non-normative.

And so, because of this the non-Western immigrant is loved over one’s own children as seen in the willingness to turn over the children’s Fatherland to the stranger and the alien.

Because of this Alienism our people have become convinced that adoption of the offspring of the stranger and alien is a more noble enterprise than the bearing of one’s own children. A family that has all the earmarks of a United Nations meeting is automatically deemed as more holy than a family that is boringly all White and Christian. This is not to say that adoption is evil. It is to say that adoption of the alien and stranger done on a large-scale basis is not without its downside for the broader social order.

Because of this Alienism the visible church in the West is now a refuge for clergy who think it was a blessing when God warned Israel that “the aliens who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.” This is seen by the rush of the visible Church to shed itself of its whiteness in order to invest Cultural Marxist minorities with authority over the White Euro-American Christian simply because “it’s not fair for the White Euro-American Christian to have authority over the Institutions that he himself established.” Modern Churchmen have no problem whatsoever with the Hmong or the Koreans, or the Chinese having their own congregations and even Presbyteries but somehow when the original stock Americans say that they might prefer their own congregations then suddenly the nebulous sin of “racism” is immediately leveled.

And because Alienism — that glorification of the stranger, the abnormal, the outsider — is on the rise Western man is headed to his grave delighted that he could snuff himself out for the sake of integrating downward into the void. So convinced is Western man of the nobility of a ideological, alien, and immoral diversity that Western man is ashamed of the quaint notion of righteous “historic stock” Christians having their own culture and geography.

Because of Alienism we are dancing on the edge of the abyss and it is a dance that we feverishly enjoy and we will be full of laughter and gaiety when we finally fall over the edge. Reality will not hit until our falling turns into landing.

What can stop all this? Only a return to Christ. Politics isn’t the ultimate answer, though surely a people returning to Christ will desire to practice Christian politics. Only by repenting for loving the pagan Alien more than our Christian children, only by repenting for interpreting God’s word as being an expression of the works of Karl Marx or Antonio Gramsci, only by repenting that Christ is a Jacobin Revolutionary storming the Bastille can we be set free from being the tail, from sinking lower and lower, from being destroyed. Only by taking up the Cross can we eschew the Hammer and Sickle.

We can be forgiven for being squeezed into the World’s mode. There is abundant mercy for those who plead forgiveness. There is sanctification for those begging to think God’s thoughts after Him. There is endurance and perseverance for those who will fight the good fight and so fight against both the enemy outside the Church and the fifth column within the Church.

May God grant all of within the sound of my voice repentance.