McAtee Gets in the Middle of a Catfight Between Two Female Michigan State Senators

For the past couple of days the National press has been going all orgiastic on a short speech that a State Senator from Royal Oak Michigan gave in her attempted rebuke of another Michigan State Senator (Theis) for Theis’ daring to say that  McMorrow was “outraged” that she can’t “groom and sexualize kindergarteners.”

I thought I would examine McMorrow — Dem (Royal Oak) response for which the National Press is fawning all over.

Begin McMorrow speech,

I didn’t expect to wake up yesterday to the news that Senator Lana Theis had, overnight, accused me BY NAME of grooming and sexualizing children – in an email fundraising for herself.

So I sat on it for a while wondering why me?

Then I realized.

I’m the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme. Because you can’t claim that you’re targeting marginalized kids in the name of “parental rights” if another parent is standing up and saying no.

McAtee Responds,

1.) This is a classic example of “weak argument, pound pulpit.” It has not been established that Theis’ work was either hollow or hateful. McMorrow just denounces it as such with no proof. Neither does McMorrow prove that Theis is targeting marginalized kids in the name of “parental rights.” I’m sure that Theis would insist that she is defending straight children from becoming marginalized by those like McMorrow who have hollow and hateful schemes to target and attempt to marginalize straight children by her work to normalize perversity and deviancy.

2.) Next, the fact that some parent (McMorrow) disagrees with Theis and so stands up and says “no” to Theis doesn’t make McMorrow a threat. It just makes her one more person who is wrong who needs to be defeated in the public square.

3.) All politicians fund raise off of villains and bad guys. That is a time worn technique that is used by both sides. The idea that you’ve discovered some clandestine new fundraising technique is hilarious Sen. McMorrow. You are a villain and as such people are going to fund-raise off of you. It is the way the game is played and you know it.

Sen. McMorrow proceeds,

So then what? Then you dehumanize and marginalize ME. You say I’m one of THEM. You say she’s a groomer, she supports pedophilia, she wants children to believe they were responsible for slavery and to feel bad about themselves because they’re white.

Well here’s a little background on who I really am.

Bret responds,

Before we continue let’s keep in mind the McMorrow walked out of a prayer of Invocation that Theis gave. McMorrow was outraged over this segment of the prayer where she prayed,

“that children are “under attack” from “forces that desire things for them other than what their parents would have them see and hear and know.”

That this is true is why Sen. Theis has previously introduced anti-trans legislation that would require high schools to prohibit transgender boys from cisgender boys’ sports teams and transgender girls from cisgender girls’ teams. Does Sen. McMorrow support or oppose such legislation. I’m pushing my chips in on McMorrow opposing such legislation. As such she is a groomer. She is grooming children and adolescents to accept this type of perversity and deviance as being normal.

That’s it. That is what McMorrow was all outraged about when she walked out of Theis’ Invocation.

The fact of the matter is that children are under just such an attack. Now, allow me to insert here that if parents really were convinced of that the solution is as simple as taking their children out of government schools. Problem solved. Let McMorrow and the Democrats own the Government schools to do with what they please. The government schools have long ago been lost to both decency and learning and as such Theis should be calling for parents to just pull their children out of government schools.

McMorrow continues,

Growing up, my family was very active in our church. I sang in the choir. My mom taught CCD. One day, our priest called a meeting with my mom and told her that she was not living up to the church’s expectations, that she was disappointing. My mom asked why. Among other reasons, she was told it was because she was divorced, and because he didn’t see her with us at mass every Sunday.

Where was my mom on Sunday?

She was at a soup kitchen. With me.

McAtee responds,

All because I spend a lot of time at McDonalds that doesn’t make me a hamburger and all because McMorrow spend lots of time at Church with her Mommy that doesn’t make them Christian. Any woman who would be a Democrat is obviously no Christian.

And if the Priest saw you but not your Mom at Mass then obviously you weren’t with your Mom every Sunday at the soup kitchen. I suspect if the Priest was called forth as a witness on this matter his account would be considerably different than McMorrow’s account. Democrats have such an easy time with spinning the news.

McMorrow continues,

My mom taught me at a young age that Christianity and faith was about being a part of a community, about recognizing our privilege and blessings and doing what we could to be of service to others – especially people who were marginalized, targeted, who had less…often unfairly.

McAtee responds,

This only tells me that your Mom did you a disservice in explaining to you the meaning of Christianity. Christianity and faith is not primarily about being part of a community, etc. Christianity is about Jesus Christ atoning for your sins in a way that Mass only blasphemes.

Marxism also teaches about being a service to others (Just ask Orwell’s “Boxer”). Marxism especially emphasizes that those who are marginalized are so because it is all so “unfair.” However at the end of the day crypto-Marxism of the variety that McMorrow embraces is not Christianity no matter how much she wants to bleat about “the marginalized” the “targeted,” and the unfairness of life.

McMorrow continued,

I learned that SERVICE was far more important than performative nonsense like being seen in the same pew every Sunday or writing “Christian” in your Twitter bio and using it as a shield to target and marginalize already-marginalized people.

McAtee responds,

Well, it is quite true that attending Mass is performative nonsense though I’m sure your orthodox Roman Catholic Priest might think otherwise and so frown at Sen. McMorrow over that statement.

Second, I suspect that McMorrow’s bit about “writing ‘Christian’ in your Twitter bio and using it as a shield to target and marginalize already-marginalized people,” was a shot at Sen. Theis. Allow me to say that if McMorrow considers the perverse and the deviant as targeted and marginalized people as if that is a bad thing then Theis is right in her claim that McMorrow is a groomer.

The Christian faith teaches that people who are perverse and deviant as long as they insist in remaining perverse and deviant should be targeted and marginalized. There is no room among a people who are Christian to desire to mainstream deviancy or perverseness as normal. That is true even if the perverse and the deviant and their Senatorial supporters whine all day long about being targeted and marginalized. People who are resolved in staying in their perverseness and deviancy should be marginalized and targeted. They should be shoved back into the closet out of which they have slithered. Now, of course, should the perverse and the deviant desire to genuinely repent then no one should be allowed to marginalize or target them any longer.

But this is not what McMorrow wants. She wants to mainstream the targeted and marginalized. Her faith demands it. She wants to instead target and marginalized the Christian who opposes her support for mainstreaming deviancy. McMorrow is so full of hate she insists that we are the haters.

McMorrow spoke thus,

I also stand on the shoulders of people like Father Ted Hesburgh, the longtime president of the University of Notre Dame who was active in the civil rights movement, who recognized his power and privilege as a white man, a faith leader, and the head of an influential and well-respected institution – and who saw Black people in this country being targeted and discriminated against and beaten, and reached out and locked arms with Dr. Martin Luther King when he was alive, when it was unpopular and risky, and marching with them as a way to say, “We got you.” To offer protection and service and allyship, to try to right wrongs and fix the injustice in the world.

McAtee Responds,

Ted Hesburgh was to the Civil Rights era what Pope Francis is to the Great Reset Era — that is, just another soft Marxist. The Roman Catholic Church has been hard left since the 2nd Vatican council.

McMorrow blathers on,

So who am I? I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense.

McAtee responds,

Systemic racism is a myth.

Redlining the way the libs tell the story is a myth.

And I would love it if the truth about slavery was taught to every child in America. We could start with these easy to remember quotes;

The Slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and glory of all their wealth. The Mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph of an enemy reduced to slavery.”

Black African King
King Gezo of Dahomey — 1840

Upon hearing of the United Kingdom’s ending of the Slave trade The King of Bonny (now in Nigeria) was horrified at the conclusion of the practice and said,

” We think this trade must go on. That is the verdict of our oracle and the priests. They say that your country, however great, can never stop a trade ordained by God himself.”

Even a six year old could get those quotes down.

And when white children are taught this fecal “education” they are being taught to hate themselves and McMorrow saying that such a notion is nonsense, is, well, nonsense.

She’s an leftist idiot who is just mouthing the tired old canards.

McMorrow chimes on,

No child alive today is responsible for slavery. No one is this room is responsible for slavery.

McAtee responds,

McMorrow only says such because she is a racist. She obviously didn’t get the memo that says only racist say such things.

McMorrow,

But each and every single one of us bears responsibility for writing the next chapter of history. Each and every single one of us decides what happens next, and how WE respond to history and the world around us.

We are not responsible for the past. We also cannot change the past. We can’t pretend that it didn’t happen, or deny people their very right to exist.

McAtee responds,

1.) The problem is that McMorrow is clueless about history and being clueless it is therefore not possible for her to respond properly to either history or the world around us.

2.) We can’t deny people the right to exist UNLESS they violate God’s law in which case they void their own right to exist if their violation is serious enough.

3.) White people are responsible for the pretend crimes of the past. McMorrow is off the systemic racism reservation with that observation.

McMorrow finally mercifully begins to finish,

I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom.

McAtee,

I seriously doubt that McMorrow is Christian according to any traditional understanding or standard of Christianity.

McMorrow,

I want my daughter to know that she is loved, supported, and seen for whoever she becomes. I want her to be curious, empathetic, and kind.

McAtee,

Blah, blah, blah. How high can she stack the sentimental platitudes?

McMorrow,

I want every child in this state to feel seen, heard, and supported, not marginalized and targeted if they are not straight, white, and Christian.

McAtee,

And here is the problem. McMorrow wants to normalize what every previous Christian generation prior saw and defined as perverse and deviant. No generation before the current one wanted to see straight, white and Christian children taught that perverseness and deviancy among their peers was to be normalized. McMorrow, by insisting that she doesn’t want to marginalize the deviant and perverse is proclaiming that she desires that the deviant and the perverse be taken as normative. It is most certainly not normative and so should be targeted and marginalized back into the closet.

McMorrow finishes with a sanctimonious flourish,

People who are different are not the reason our roads are in bad shape after decades of disinvestment, nor the reason healthcare costs are too high, or teachers are leaving the profession.

McAtee,

Completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. This is called the red herring fallacy.

McMorrow,

We cannot let hateful people tell you otherwise to scapegoat and deflect from the fact that they’re not doing anything to fix the real issues that impact peoples lives.

I know that hate will only win if people like me stand by and let it happen.

And I want to be very clear right now:

Call me whatever you want. I know who I am. I know what faith and service means, and what it calls for in this moment.

We will not let hate win.

McAtee,

McMorrow is the epitome of what it means to be a hater. However, she is clever enough to accuse her opponent of what she is guilty of. McMorrow hates straight white Christian children so much that she desires to get inside their heads to convince them that perverseness and deviancy are normative. She wants children to accept that boys can claim they are girls and that girls claim they are boys. In so doing McMorrow demonstrates that she is a deviant and perverse enabler and groomer and may thus be deviant and perverse herself. She is the hater. She is the hater of all that is decent, Christian, and normative. When she declares that she “will not hate win” it is hate that is fueling her determination that “hate” will not win.

McMorrow is correct… “we will not let hate win,” and in order to not let hate win we must stop people like Sen. McMorrow.

Cultural Marxism, Broken Families, and The Prophet’s Task

In terms of world and life views it is clear that the leading Weltanschauung voice in the West today is some form of Cultural Marxism. By way of definition Cultural Marxism is that belief system that sees all Truth as being “truth” and arrived at by the success of one identity group over another identity group in a power struggle wherein each group was involved. Cultural Marxism seeks to right all those previous wrongs by taking the victims (losers) of the previous power struggles and giving them their just due by taking the fruits of victory away from those who were the victimizers in those previous struggles.

Cultural Marxism, replaces the proletariat (worker class) of classical Marxism and replaces them with victim class. This victim class is comprised of the previous losers and victims in Western culture. As such where as classical Marxism called for “workers of the world to unite,” Cultural Marxism calls for the perverts and Christ haters of the world to unite to throw off the chain of Biblical Christianity. It is this new proletariat in Cultural Marxism which will accomplish the long march through the Institutions of the West.

So, Cultural Marxism in action is constantly on the search for perceived power imbalances (men vs. women, whites vs. minorities, sodomite vs. heterosexual, etc.) with the purpose of injecting agitprop in order to advance their agenda of a kind of equity that brings down the gifted and talented to the same level as those perceived to be victims.

Every elite institution in the country that has dominance over knowledge transmission, dominance over religious formation, dominance over culture production, and dominance over, even, in many cases, material production, has converged on a ideology upon which they all agree. That ideology is called, “Cultural Marxism.”

Of course that includes the Christian Church and that in turn includes the supposedly “Conservative” “Reformed” “Churches” in America. The Clergy is not inoculated against the zeitgeist simply because they are clergy. This accounts for how the current Reformed church in the West has been almost completely compromised by Cultural Marxism. Reformed Ministers spend at least seven years after High School in “Higher Education” and given the character and nature of that “Higher Education” it is almost impossible for them to not be oriented in Cultural Marxist thinking.

If your Minister can’t simply and succinctly tell you what Cultural Marxism is then it is very likely he is preaching it from the pulpit.

Now, we should not fool ourselves into thinking that this dominance of the Worldview of Cultural Marxism is just a passing fad. There have been more than a few people (public intellectuals) who have argued that it won’t be long until we are out of this Cultural Marxist phase.

I am not one one of those who agree with that analysis. It is my conviction that short of some kind of significant impacting disaster or a remarkable providence that brings unexpected Reformation that this worldview of Cultural Marxism is here to stay for the foreseeable future. I base that  conviction upon the inherent instability that is present and growing in this country. In the thirteen years between 2009-2021 40.36% of the children born in this country were born to unmarried mothers. If we keep this trend up for just a few more years that will mean that we will have a generation, a large percentage of which, will have been raised without a stable family life. Instability in family life translates into instability in every area including the thought life of a people.

Cultural Marxism feeds on convincing people they are victims and people without stable family lives is a ready made audience for the Cultural Marxist message. Now combine the fact that Cultural Marxism goes forward by normalizing the abnormal with the fact that the abnormal becomes the normal for those from unstable family life and the facts are suggestive that Cultural Marxism or some variant of it is not going away any time soon.

Now, it is a given that Biblical Christians must do all they can to fight against this trend but at the same time Biblical Christians should be realists and realism demands the recognition that it would take a remarkable providence of the scale of the parting of the Red Sea to turn this degradation around. Biblical Christian should fight against this trend by having large healthy families that drop out of the trappings of the Culture all the while realizing that the broader culture is sailing on the good ship Titanic. Countries don’t come back from a long sustained 40% illegitimacy birth rate.

I don’t mean to sprinkle too much reality over one’s cornflakes but the above statistics are not alone in their foreboding. Because of those illegitimacy rates as combined with divorce we are now looking at somewhere in the vicinity of 70% of US children growing up without fathers. Now, to this number add the numbers who are born into a family with Dad and Mom together and whose fathers are not estranged but who spend their whole lives in Government schools and now the numbers are
probably 95%+ of the populace has been religiously, morally, mentally, and psychologically crippled.

It’s a fully marginalized society.

Now, to be sure God has, in times past, brought peoples back from the edge of destruction. It is often said that the Reformation led by George Whitfield in England as assisted by the Wesley Brothers in the 18th century brought England back from the French Revolution abyss but for every England that can be mentioned a hundred non-recoveries can be cited.

Some form of Cultural Marxism is the perfect ideology for a country so broken in their family structures. Cultural Marxism specializes in blaming someone else for the victim’s woes. There will be plenty of woe looking for someone to blame and plenty of aberrant behavior that Cultural Marxism will justify as being perfectly normal.

This is what the Prophets have faced over and over again. Jeremiah faced it. Amos faced it. This is the kind of thing Isaiah faced when God told him
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”

And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

He said, “Go and tell this people:

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
    be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;
    make their ears dull
    and close their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”

Trying To Be As Pithy As Possible On The Contradictions Of The Credo-Baptists

It suddenly occurs to me that in the Baptist conception is inherently contradictory. For the Baptist, baptism is basically “deponent” ( that is to say that it is “passive in form, but active in meaning”). For the Baptist the person “is baptized” (passive). It is something that is done to them. However in nearly every other Baptist explanation of Baptism it has to do with how this Baptism is the declaration by the person of his or her decision to follow Jesus thus contradicting the whole passive idea with a definition that bespeaks activity. This is a contradiction and is in contrast to the Biblical meaning of baptism as a sign of Christ’s claim on the believer from the foundation of the world, a decision in which the believer is a totally passive recipient.

And it is the refusal of the Baptist to bring their children to the Baptismal font that unwinds the contradiction so as to reveal what the Baptist really believes. The Baptist might say that the recipient in Baptism is passive but inasmuch as they refuse to bring their children to be baptized they are screaming that the recipient of Baptism must be the active party. Baptism, thus for Baptists is not about God’s claim upon the believer but rather it is about the believers claim upon God.

This is actually put on display visibly as in Baptist Baptism the person being Baptized is not passive in the least but is clinging to the person who is baptizing them giving aid to both the person dunking them and their arising out of the water.

Baptist thinking, however well intended it might be, is thus a anthropocentric leaning into Christianity and thus can never be genuinely Reformed. It is the mix of synergism with the claim of monergism.

Hat Tip — Jonathan Lovelace

The Reformed Faith & The Enchantment of the World

I have always had a difficult time understanding why anybody would want to stay in Rome or Constantinople. However, this week while listening to a long interview by a couple of EO types on the subject of Feminism and the Occult they got on a side bar that helped me to understand the attraction of Rome and Constantinople.

(57) The Occult Origins of Feminism with Rachel Wilson – YouTube

 
It seems that Rome and EO are convinced that the rationality of Geneva (Protestantism) had the eventual effect of disenchanting the world. The accusation was that the rational approach of Protestants to the Christian faith emptied the world of its enchantment and mystery. By their lights the Reformation had led to the disenchantment of the world and by their lights Rome and EO provides the faith wherein the world can once again find re-enchantment. Actually, this makes a certain amount of sense given that the world in which Rome and EO came into was a world where the seen and unseen world did not lie as far apart as the modern world. The ancient world was one of superstition, animism, and the mysterious. Rome and EO conquered that world because they preached a doctrine of Christus Victor wherein the unseen world, while remaining real, became tamed and defanged by the victory of Christ over all comers. Early Christianity retained the enchantment of the world while at the same time announcing that Jesus Christ had conquered the enemy that lay in that enchanted world.

The mystery and enchantment was retained in the Eucharist. There in the table the mystery and enchantment of the world was proclaimed and the supplicant at the table was brought near to the very real unseen world. In the sacrament (mystery) the world remained enchanted and man was delivered from the dry rationalism that we currently find in modernity.

However, though their explanation made sense and resonated with me, I found myself thinking that Rome and Constantinople retained the enchantment of the world at the cost of embracing the irrational and the contradictory. Theirs was and remains an escape from reason.  I do not believe that we have to embrace the irrational in order to own a world that is enchanted and full of mystery. I need not swim the Tiber or the Bosporus in order to have enchantment.

If the Sacrament is where man finds the Mysterium tremendum or where the believer can enter into that “Great Cloud of Unknowing,” there is plenty of that to be found in the classical explanations (Lutheran or Reformed) of the Eucharist. Calvin’s explanation of Receptionism where the supplicant, by the work of the Holy Spirit, is lifted into the Heavenlies where he dines on the real (spiritual) presence of Christ has plenty of the mystery in it and one can certainly walk away with his world still full of the enchanted. Then there is the reality of a stout Reformed prayer life that can also minister mystery. No Protestant who has known and experienced the closeness of the Holy Spirit in prayer needs to worry about a disenchanted world.

It strikes me that the Protestant world is indeed aching for the world to be re-enchanted. I think this ache explains for the rise of the Pentecostal church as the 800 pound gorilla in the Protestant world. What else is the attraction of Pentecostalism except for its promise that it can connect the worshiper with the unseen realm? Pentecostalism is Roman Catholicism on cheap without the formality of smells and bells. Pentecostalism gives a vulgar re-enchantment of the world. I have to admit that forced to pursue enchantment as between Pentecostalism and Constantinople I would begin working on my Iconography.

We should insert here that it seems to me that part of the explanation of the ancient Cathedrals with their sense of beauty and architectural transcendence is the fact that by that beauty and architectural transcendence enchantment was communicated and delivered. Those Cathedrals incarnated the magnificent mystery of biblical Christianity. We should keep in mind man’s need for the mystery in his life before we build our pole barn sanctuaries.

Having said all this though I have to admit that too many expressions of Protestantism once were guilty of disenchanting the world. Many of the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers and the Inklings  I think were trying to provide a basis for the continuing enchanting of the world for Christians. Maybe this explains the love of many Protestants for these works?

In the end it is only in the Reformed faith where the enchantment of the world can remain consistent with a rational faith that hasn’t fallen either into a dry and arid rationalism or a irrational fanciful faith where one is kissing Icons and being swept away by smells and bells. One has only to consider the writings of a John Milton or John Buchan to find the enchanted world in the Reformed faith. The Reformed faith both delivers from the hopelessly contradictory but enchanted world of Rome and EO while at the same time able to provide both a world that remains enchanted while at the same time rational.

Doug Wilson on Christians and Anti-Semitism … McAtee on Doug Wilson

This is my 2nd post rebutting Wilson in three days. In my defense I don’t go looking for his material. I have friends that shoot me emails with links saying breathlessly… “You’ve got to listen to this. You won’t believe what he has said this time.” Sometimes those friends ask me to respond. Sometimes they know that the Wilsonian “wisdom” will be so over the top that they know me well enough to know that I can’t help but to respond.

If it was anybody else but Wilson I probably wouldn’t respond but when Wilson goes off the reservation (as he does with alarming regularity) he is taking much of the putatively conservative team with him. You see nobody with a conservative impulse really believes someone like Kevin DeYoung or Joe Carter or Al Mohler or T. Ligon Duncan are conservative. However, Wilson has positioned himself nicely as the lone conservative voice howling into the wilderness and as such Wilson needs to be taken more seriously then most of the other Evangelical Yahoos precisely because Wilson is seen as the “true blue conservative.” “Why…. he’s one of us. He’s a guy wearing a white hat.” And sometimes that is so.

And many other times it is not so.

This is another one of those times. In a recent plodcast the Pope of Moscow offered;

“I want to talk about anti-Semitism. This go round I want to begin with my basic argument against the anti-Semitic impulse…. So when I see people talking about the Jews in a snarky and critical way it is impossible for me, as a pastor, to not hear the crackle of envy in this. Now in order to believe that the Jews are, you know, the International conspirators, who are wrecking everything and destroying civilization and bringing us all down — doing awful things.

Basically it is one thing to say I have identified these people as my enemy and I love my enemy but I am going to oppose them as opposed to the kind of envious crackle I see — and it is not a matter of detecting minor traces of it (giggle) it is just all over. And I think this is about the most anti-Gospel frame of mind possible for this reason.”

 

Doug Wilson
Plodcast

This is wrong on so many levels it is hard to know where to start.

First, there is the issue of whether the modern “Jew” has any genetic relation to the Judeans of Jesus day. People like Arthur Koestler in his book, “The 13th Tribe” has brought up the very real possibility that those Wilson refers to as “Jews” are indeed Khazars from the Black Sea area of the world. Others believe that they are genetically related to the Edomites. If Wilson’s Jews don’t bear any relation to the Jews of the NT era then Wilson’s invoking of Romans 11 he does later in this plodcast doesn’t make much sense.

Second, it is obviously true that I can’t know the kind of blatantly envious anti-Semitism that Doug is running into. He’s in Idaho and I’m in Michigan. Might as well be two different planets. However, I have conversations with folks as Doug does and I have to say that the last thing I see in these conversations is envy. Remember, envy is more than just jealousy. Envy is wanting what the other person has and not being happy with what the other person has unless the other person is utterly destroyed at the same time. I meet any number of people who are as aware of the Jew as our Christian Fathers were and I seldom find myself looking at envy. What I find myself looking at are people who understand the natures of mega- Banks, mega-Corporations, Hollywood, Lugenpresse, Corporate-Medicine, Government etc. One who doesn’t like rattle snakes because they and their kin have been repeatedly bit is not one who should be characterized as envious — and that no matter how many possessions the rattle snake has squirreled away in his nest.

Third, one wonders if Doug is familiar with any of the recent works on this subject? Has he read E. Michael Jones material? Has he read Michael Hoffman’s “Judaism’s Strange Gods?” Does Doug know the history of Christian and Jewish interaction? Has he read Maurice Pinay? Has Doug read Luther? Calvin? Chrysostom? Is he familiar with the 4th Church Council of Toledo? If Doug has read these works does Doug think all these chaps are or were also envious? After reading some of this well documented material it becomes pretty evident it is at least possible that the folks that Doug hears are hardly envious.

Fourth, we are glad to concede that there are Semites who have contributed to the formation of civilization. We are also glad to concede that the vision of the Jews for civilization is a very different vision than the vision of the Biblical Christian. I can make these generalizations because I know what the voting patterns are of Jews in America vis-a-vis the voting patterns of Biblical Christians. Another reason I can make these generalizations is because I know the history of Hollywood and the conflict that once existed there between Jews and the Church (Hays code anyone?). Obviously, different visions exist. Are we to think, following Wilson logic, that Republicans whom Biblical Christians (unfortunately) generally vote for  oppose Democrats whom Jews generally vote for because Republicans are envious of Democrats?

Fifth, there is the simple reality of history. Were the Jews cast out of so many countries so many times over the millennium because the Christian peoples and monarchs were so envious of them every single time?

Sixthly, there is the Talmud. Does Doug know what counsel the Talmud gives to the Jews in relation to their understanding of the goyim? Here, Doug would profit by reading Michael Hoffman. Is Doug aware, for example, of how the Talmud deals with the rodef (pursuer) and how the in-utero baby can be justly tortured and murdered (aborted) because Jewish Talmudic law teaches the baby is a rodef?

One frustrating thing about the Wilson piece is that he has framed it in such a way that any disagreement with him from the right automatically means that one is an anti-Semite. Well, as long as we understand that an anti-Semite is defined as someone who doesn’t love the Jews no matter what they do or say then color me Anti-Semitic.

I hope I have examined this Wilson quote without any “cackle” in my voice. I am one of those who pray along with Doug that all peoples including those we call the Jews would repent and bow the knee to Christ and so cease with the ways that they have become rightly infamous for as those who pursue  Biblical Christians. However, until that postmillennial day arrives I will continue to believe my Christian Fathers about the envy of the Jews.