Every once in a blue moon you’ll find compatriots you never would have expected. Here is a Lutheran who is a race realist. He sounds alarmingly like me at certain points. He does say some stupid things like (paraphrasing) “if anybody thinks that Christ did not die for all men, that is evil.” But you expect that out of the mouth of a Lutheran. Just disregard that and listen to his race realism. Listen to who he quotes from Lutheran history. Listen to the fact that he cites contemporary Lutherans who agree with him. This is a marvelous lecture because it demonstrates again both that history is on our side and that we are not alone.
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Mr. Dunn’s Clock Shop
For a good part of my Seminary years, I had a landlord who repaired clocks and watches by way of making a living. Naturally, my curiosity brought me into his little shop more than once. I even offered my services to learn the craft though he turned me down realizing that my career path wouldn’t be worth the time he would have to invest to teach me. Still, his little clock shop was amazing with all the varied and sundry clocks hanging on the wall. It was wondrous to be in Mr. Dunn’s shop when at the top of the hour struck and all the varied clocks would begin a choir of exclamation pronouncing what time it was. Many of the clocks had their innards exposed as Mr. Dunn was working on getting them ship-shape. The intricacies of those clocks were fascinating. All those myriads of differentiated parts each have their unique responsibility but all work together to make the clock run.
There was a time when social orders, were like unto those clocks. Just to look at the face of a social order like looking at a face of a clock it just seems to be this indistinguishable reality. It’s just there. However, behind the face of the social order, like behind the face of the clock is a maze of differentiated pieces each fulfilling their assigned roles in order to make the social order run. Like Mr. Dunn’s clocks, our social order is meant to work by means of gears, pulleys, and dials each doing their distinct job in order to produce a marvelous whole.
In our social order once upon a time those gears, pulleys, and dials of Mr. Dunn’s clocks were reflected in the varied and sundry covenant communities that made up the social order as a whole. Distinctive families, churches, guilds, schools, differing respective law orders, volunteer organizations etc. all served as the stuffing behind the faces of the watches and clocks Mr. Dunn worked on. All were distinction and yet all worked together in an interdependent fashion in order to make the clock (social-order) work.
However, with the rise of Democracy our various gears, pulleys, and dials have been flattened out so that our social order is just one giant undifferentiated mess. The Federal State has stripped all the gears, pulleys, and dials from our social order clock so that it alone is seen as the social order. The state has pulled out all the stuffing of the clock and has deemed that it alone is the clock.
Did you know that once upon a time in the West social order existed as being guided by several law-orders at the same time working together simultaneously? In such a way no one law order could govern the whole social order. In the same way, different social institutions each had their own equal ultimacy depending on what the issue at hand was. There was a plurality in those social orders and that plurality worked to the end of unity.
Now, all we have because we have given in to the statist worldview, is uniformity. Like the Italian Fascists from almost 100 years ago, we have taken up the motto; “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
I want my clock back.
Random Musings on This & That
I.) Clearly, if God alone has exhaustive sovereignty and if we, as His people are to live, move, and have our being in light of God’s sovereignty then that necessarily means that any temporal jurisdictional authority that seeks to overthrow God’s sovereignty by commanding what God does not command or not commanding what God does command is an authority that is no longer a legitimate authority and so has excluded itself from the expectation that Christians will obey their pseudo-authority. No husband, no elder in the Church, no magistrate is to be obeyed who is operating outside the context of God’s Law-Word.
To deny this, as much as the Reformed church currently does, is to de-God God and en-God husbands, elders, and/or magistrates.
For Reformed people … we have no King but Jesus and if you want my obedience you will obey him.
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II.) From the beginning of the creation of the putative philanthropic foundations, there have been two objectives pursued by their creators (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, etc.). The first objective was to shelter the wealth of their creators, and the second was to use that wealth to fundamentally change America into one nation among many under the control of a global governing body.
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File under; “Call it irony.”
The underground church in China refuses to submit to Chinese Communist claims of totalistic statist sovereignty while churches in the West snap to attention every time the State demands a closure or passes legislation to make it illegal to counsel sodomites to give up their sodomy. (See Canada’s recent legislation on the latter issue.)
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III.) In an odd confluence, we now have in the West both absolute libertinism for individuals as combined with absolute sovereignty by the State. The state is used to guarantee maximalist individual “freedom” while at the same time existing in order to tyrannize those who would put restraints on this maximalist libertinism.
Behold Sam Francis’ — Anarcho-tyranny
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IV.) Like a 5-year-old impatiently waiting to open his Christmas present, McAtee eagerly awaits to see if he will once again make the SPLC hate list as a “White Nationalist.” Will he once again in 2022 have different Lansing State Journal editions as well as the local “journalistic” outlets give him top-of-the-fold headline attention? Will he once again find PBS spending the whole weekend raising his profile on their radio news every hour on the hour? Will he receive a flurry of hate calls and maybe another couple of death threats? Will yet more ministers in Charlotte run to get in front of the camera in order to denounce him yet again? Will a “Reformed” denomination in America again go out of its way to produce a press release disassociating itself with McAtee?
It is such an exciting time of year. The anticipation is killing me.
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The Retreat of the Church Leaving a Vacuum Now Filled by the State
“This ‘omnicompetent’ vision of the state has become so ubiquitous that many evangelical Christians have lost their cultural memory of God-given, pre-political institutions, rights, and responsibilities that are to be protected but are not created, controlled, or governed by the state. As a consequence, believers have floundered in their response to unprecedented and illegal lockdowns of the church, the growing collapse of civil liberties, the total control of education, expanded abortion, euthanasia, no-fault divorce law, the redefinition of marriage and family, homosexuality, and transgender issues, largely because a scriptural world and life view norming our understanding of these questions and the role of the state with respect to them has collapsed. Instead, we have a liberal democratic and statist worldview drilled into us by the various organs of cultural life, where Jesus and a hope of heaven are spread on top as a sort of spiritual condiment giving religious flavor to secularism via the ministry of the churches.”
Joeseph Boot
For Politics; The Christian, the Church & the State — p. 66
Don’t miss that last part of the quote. Boot is saying there that it is the church via its ministry that is spreading humanism as covered with a patina chocolate shell of Christianity like vanilla ice cream (humanism) dipped in chocolate (Christian jargon).
This explains why the visible church is so insipid and sick. There can only be one reason why and that is because for centuries now the church has refused to embrace a muscular Christianity that is characterized by a totalistic world and life view as drawn from the Scriptures which Boot is advocating. Instead, the Church has been swayed by pietism, quietism, low-grade forms of Gnosticism, Lillithism, defeatism, and retreatism. It has been so fearful of triumphalism it has embraced anything but muscular Christianity as the essence of holiness.
Keeping with the Theme of Less of Moore
“That’s why denominations with “free” in their name (like the Free Methodists, for instance)—along with those who believe in the necessity of personal repentance and faith—have been the most dogged supporters of religious freedom for all.
These groups of people understand that the gospel according to Jesus is not an external affirmation of generic belief, from a heart still untransformed. It is not accepting Christianity as a ticket of admission into society.”
Russell Moore
Christianity Astray Article
I would ask Russell Moore (and Christianity Astray for that matter) why it is superior to have an established Church wherein it is possible for someone to have an “external affirmation of generic belief, from a heart still untransformed,” vis-a-vis having Anabaptist “Religious Freedom” wherein it is possible for someone to not affirm any kind of faith from a heart still untransformed? Why is it superior to have religious pluralism that finds Jews, Muslims, and Atheists with no faith vis-a-vis a legal Christian state that finds false professors in the midst? Why is it better to have in one geographic area wheat fields, oat fields, cornfields, soybean fields, and sorghum fields as opposed to one wheat field that contains tares?
Secondly, why is it so criminal that Christianity might be a ticket of admission into society? Does Moore prefer that non-Christianity be the ticket of admission into society?
Thirdly, all because externalism has been a genuine threat to nations that embraced an Established church that doesn’t mean the answer is to create an environment where externalism isn’t possible because genuine Christians are being persecuted by the state.
Finally, genuine Christianity, while necessarily inward and internal still requires an external affirmation of faith and there is nothing wrong that such an external affirmation of faith be a ticket into a Christian society.
Stick with the Belgic Confession of Faith and start now detesting the error of the Anabaptists and all other seditious people.