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From the Mailbag; “I’m Proud to be an American”

Dear Pastor,

“I believe in & love America.”

Bret L. McAtee responds,

Dear America lover,

You believe and love a myth. Americans, notable exceptions notwithstanding, are a stupid people. They are sheep who know more about the box score of the recent big basketball game than they know about the gazillion dollar deficit problem. They know more about their movie stars than they know how Hollywood is corrupting their thinking and morals. They care more about Israel than they do their own country. They don’t realize that all the big media is owned by a handful of people who are feeding them propaganda day and night. They would rather be mesmerized by a talking head than put the effort in to pick up a book that gives background, detail, and which exposes the propaganda. They support a University system by sending their children to institutions that are committed to indoctrinating those children into an anti-reality Marxist worldview. AND those parents get the privilege of paying for their children to be indoctrinated into Cultural Marxism. They trust in shrinks who by in large are themselves, psychopaths. They send their little children to schools that are staffed by teachers trained in these very same University Institutions with the purpose of training the little ones to be as brain-dead as the teachers are. They can tell you all about Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift but they know nothing about Michael Polyani, John Owen, or John Taylor Gatto. They consume SSR’s in epic amounts not knowing the long-range damage figuring that long-range damage doesn’t matter as long as they are “happy.” Then they turn around and feed their children Ritalin to make Johnny and Suzie happy not knowing they are killing their own children. They insist that their children are vaccinated not knowing what poison is in the vaccines. They get the flu shot every year not knowing or caring what’s in the flu shot. Whatever history they know they get from the all-wise “The History Channel.” The clergy they listen to on Sunday may be even more stupid than they are. A feat that is by no means simply arrived at. We are indeed a people who, in the words of Neil Postman, are Amusing Ourselves to Death.

But not to worry. As long as Americans can have all the sex they want with whoever or whatever they want, they will go to their graves as stupid people happy to be stupid.

Praise God for the remnant who are red-pilled and so are despised at every turn. They are the America you should love.

McAtee Contra Sandlin On Judges & Politics

“As incredible as it might seem in our present climate, a judge’s political views should have no bearing whatever in assessing his jurisprudential competence. A highly qualified flaming leftist Democrat would serve just as effectively as highly qualified flaming rightist Republican. If you find this observation disconcerting, let me remind you that the job of justices is to interpret the law, nothing more: procedural justice, not consequential justice. As long as judicial philosophy is sound, political views should be irrelevant. It is the intrusion of politics into court decisions that gave us our present debacle.”

Andrew Sandlin
2017

BLMc responded,

I find this altogether unwise.

This is a classic example of compartmentalized thinking that so plagues the West today. One cannot separate out juridical philosophy from political philosophy which is each grounded in theology. Sandlin seems to be arguing for a type of neutral application of the law that all men can agree upon regardless of their worldview.

It’s just boneheaded to the core and in defiance of everything that Sandlin ever said he held as a presuppositionalist.

Also, while one can distinguish procedural justice from consequentialist justice one cannot divorce them. No Judge is interpreting the law that does not have consequentialist implications.

Politics are always involved in court decisions. It is naive to suggest it could ever be otherwise.

Jesus & Wine

I.)  Mt. 26:27 “Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.” 

With Jesus’ institution of the Lord’s Supper, he brings forth wine again. This in effect gives us wine bookends of his ministry. Water to wine in His first miracle. Then on the night before His crucifixion, it was wine in order to show forth the blood of the covenant. In this, we see that in Jesus, who is the new and better covenant, we have the one who brings together the joy of the new covenant represented by the water to wine at Cana while at the same time wine is the blood of Christ to us in the Eucharistic meal. Jesus takes upon Himself the maledictory blood oath in our place and we are given the wine which celebrates the good in good Friday. As Christ’s younger brethren we drink the wine of Cana at the table because He took upon Himself the wrath of God that should have justly found us all being plagued with the death that the water to blood was to God’s Egyptian enemies in the Old Covenant. Christ took the curses for the penalty of sin that we might drink the wine of Cana.

 
 
II.) John 2:10 And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”

The comment by the Master to the Bridegroom at the end of the Cana record about the quality of the wine is a double entendre. The obvious meaning is, of course, quite literal, but the underlying motif is covenantal in meaning. In redemptive history, the new and better covenant is “the good wine kept until last.”

Lessons in Poetry from the Whoopi Goldberg Controversy

Listen closely Whoopi
And heed what I’m telling you
A black woman can criticize anyone

That is except the Jew.

For the Jew was lifted up by God
And you’re in second place
A useful tool ‘gainst the evil whites
But the Jew’s the chosen race.

So listen closely Whoopi
And heed what we’re telling you
We’ve brought you up from the back of the bus
But never past row two

So, understand your place assigned
Those dreadlocks won’t save you
From your being all to uppity
By casting shade upon the Jew

Chambers (1-3) & McAtee (4)