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)

Chit-Chat on Wedding Ceremonies

Ever wonder why the Father gives away the Bride?

There the groom stands. There is no Father to give away the groom because in keeping with Scripture the groom has left father and mother. The bride, however, has not left the home and ideally should not leave the home until given to another covenant head. The Father still rules over the bride as her covenant head. The groom is then presented a bride by the Father in acknowledgment that the Father is transferring authority over to the groom. This is a picture of the Heavenly Father giving the church as bride to Christ —  the son.

One addition here. The modern habit in weddings now of answering the question, “Who gives this woman to be married to this man,” with “Her Mother and I,” or a joint parental response of “we do,” is a Lilithization of the husband and father. The traditional habit of the father alone answering, “I do,” recognizes the father’s proper place as the covenant head of the family and of the bride being presented. Men, if you include your wives in answering that question you are communicating that covenant headship is equal in the husband and wife and are screaming Lilithism at the new bride and groom.

Ruminations on Finding the One and the Many in Social-Orders

God alone has original sovereignty. All other sovereignty is delegated sovereignty by God to his representatives in one of the various jurisdictional spheres He has ordained. In such a way God remains the absolute sovereign over each of the jurisdictional spheres with His delegated representatives answerable to Him if they abandon God’s legislative Word for those jurisdictions.

R2K denies this premise by insisting that God has abandoned his original sovereignty choosing to delegate that sovereignty to the realm of Natural law. As such R2K denies that God’s Word has legislative authority for any realm save the church realm. What this move does is to guarantee that the different jurisdictional realms will be sideways with the Church as a jurisdictional realm as there are two different sovereignties established — (1) God’s sovereignty over the Church and (2) Natural law as interpreted by the autonomous and fallen man as sovereign in all other jurisdictional realms. As autonomous and fallen man begins and ends with himself as his authority, the “theology” of R2K guarantees either conflict between the Church and the other jurisdictional realms or (more likely given R2K’s passivism) the church becomes the tail on the social order dog as Christians are explicitly taught from R2K pulpits that there is no “thus saith the Lord” for other jurisdictional realms. Christianity thus becomes privatized and the social order becomes the incarnation of other theologies that are not so shy to fill the vacuum left by the retreat of Christianity.

However, this problem is not present in a muscular and Biblical Christianity as all jurisdictional realms find their unity and so a harmony of interest in God’s sovereignty and legislative Word. Each of the representative heads of the various jurisdictional realms is uniquely responsible for their own assigned realm but each finds harmony with one another in the fact that each is bowing to God’s sovereignty via His legislative and authoritative Word.

So, we see, that it is only by maintaining God’s unique, original, and exhaustive sovereignty over all of reality wherein social-orders can maintain a lack of conflict among the various jurisdictions. If, on the other hand, Christians, for whatever reason (R2K, Pietism, etc.) surrender the public realm and its jurisdictions to other competing sovereignties the long-term result will be a conflict of interests. Something the West is now discovering too late.

In Biblical Christianity, God’s original and absolute authority mediated by the Lord Christ is the sovereignty that yields harmony to the many jurisdictional realms. Each realm is distinct in its responsibilities and yet all united by oaths of fealty to the Triune God.

This unity is augmented by the recognition that each of the distinct jurisdictional realms is informed by a shared totalistic theology. Theology — and the Biblical world and life view it creates — in submission to the God of the Bible is the subterranean aquifer out of which bubble forth the various springs which we label the various jurisdictional realms and social-order institutional structures and procedures. In this understanding Law, Education, Arts, Law, Family, Church, Politics, International relations, etc., are merely theology by other means. There is unity between these not only because of God’s original and absolute sovereignty but also because man, in submission to God’s legislative Word, owns a shared theology that manifests itself in a myriad of ways like light through a prism produces various colors — all authored by the original light.

It will never do, contra the Amsterdam philosophy, to suggest that these various jurisdictional realms and social order institutional structures and procedures each have their own locus of original and legislative authority.  Cutting off each of the jurisdictional realms from the common aquifer that is a shared theology as “the Queen of all the sciences,” is sure to render a kind of polytheistic hodgepodge as each jurisdictional realm and social order structure and procedure seeks its own independence at the expense of all the others. That independence could never be arrived at apart from some other God and some other theology/philosophy informing these putative independent jurisdictions.

We see again that the only way to keep Education at peace with family, family at peace with Law, Law at peace with Education, Courts at peace with the Church, the Church at peace with the Arts, Politics at peace with family, etc., is for each and all to come in glad submission to God’s original and absolute sovereignty while at the same time each taking up theology as the Queen of the Sciences as applied to their particular fields and callings.

Limericks for Justin Castro Trudeau

Trudeau unleashed a world by Max
Pushing policy regarding truckers and vaxs
And now he must hide
In unknown quarters inside
Lest his person gets totally waxed

_________

There once was a Prime Minister Trudeau
Whose regime was a minstrel show
He nettled the truckers
That crazy Canucker
That Prime Minister and Cuban Castro

_________

In a final display of a snit
Trudeau accused the truckers of being misfits
The response to this claim
Was to set Canada aflame
With Maple Leafs flying from Mad Max cockpits

Religion as the Opiate of the People

When Marx said that “religion is the opiate of the people” what he was getting at is that religion becomes that means by which oppressed people put up and live with their oppression. They continue going on being oppressed because their religion somehow tells them that their oppression is a good thing and that God is pleased with their oppression and that if they are just patient God will sort it all out. This religion Marx saw as creating passivity in people against injustice.

And I must say that when I look at the current Romans 13 crowd who teach that God is pleased with their being ruled by tyrants and usurpers I must quite agree with Marx. In such a scenario Christianity is serving as an opiate of the people deadening Christians to the call in Scripture to have no God but God and to throw off oppressors.

However, you can see from Marx’s teaching how this idea of religion as the opiate of the people once removed would work in people in such a way as to create a revolutionary uprising. If you can convince perverts, feminists, and minorities that they have been oppressed by Christianity (and Christianity should always oppress wickedness) then naturally perverts, feminists, and minorities are going to want to overthrow the religion that is Christianity.

What I can’t figure out though is why the church wants to make friends with those that want to destroy them. The only way to evangelize these people is to defeat them in the public square. We will not win them to Jesus by surrendering to them our principles or way of thinking. They must understand that Christianity offers to them as in the public square either more oppression given their ongoing wickedness or a rescuing from their wicked lifestyle that is destroying them. No in-between.

Our enemies understand this better than we do. Our enemies understand, that in terms of the public square that they have to completely defeat us. This is the whole idea behind cancel culture. They are not interested in “friendship evangelism,” in the sense that they hope that if they are just nice enough to us by bringing cookies over and watching the house when we are gone they will convert us to their way of thinking. No, they understand that Biblical Christians must be defeated if they are going to be able to freely pursue their perverted polymorphism. As such, they go on economic purges to destroy their enemy.

Most Christians are not going to agree with me but Christians must come to this same understanding. We must defeat the enemies of Christ in the public square lest they succeed in rolling Jesus Christ off His throne. Oh, we can continue to seek to show kindness to them in the more personal and private realms. We can lookout for them and care for them when they are sick. We can try to help their children. We can shovel the snow off their sidewalk. However, as it pertains to the public square, we must defeat them. We must thoroughly dismantle their worldview by breaking up their worldview furniture. We must push them back into the societal closets so that it is not our Christian children who are forced into the closets they once inhabited. We must make their “love” to be once again the love that dare not speak its name.

However, I think this is all quite unlikely for now because Christians do not yet understand that they are now in the fight for their lives. We are still too interested in being seen as various versions of Rev. LoveJoy from the Simpsons. We no longer have the grit in us of a Charlemagne or a Sobieski. Because of that we will continue to see Christian civilization sink into the abyss all the while embracing Christianity as an opiate as an excuse not to fight back.