“I’m shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED, that regularly reciting the Nicene Creed and even enshrining a church-state establishment weren’t enough to inoculate against the corrosive trajectories of theological liberalism. Stay frosty and stay Baptist, friends.”

Dr. Andrew T. Walker 
Professor – Theology 
SBTS

Here Walker is responding to the fact that a woman (Sarah Mullally) was approved by King Charles III as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the world’s 85 million Anglicans. Walker’s point, being a Baptist, is that Erastian Church-State relations don’t stop the “corrosive trajectories of theological liberalism.” Walker’s other implied point is that countries that practice a separation of Church and State are obviously superior to Erastian type Church-State relations. Of course both points are bogus.

We might want to take a gander at the British American cousins across the pond to see that the sacred Baptist principle of separation of Church and State has not fared so well in terms of the corrosive trajectories of theological liberalism. Dr. Stephen Wolfe nails this point in responding to Dr. Walker;

I’d like to point that every degeneracy of our time–everything you protect your kids from–arose without church establishment but under the secular conditions affirmed by Walker. If church establishment necessarily leads to apostasy, then “baptist” secular politics necessarily leads to degeneracy. The track record of Walker’s “contestation” liberalism is not good.

Next, we have to understand, that Walker’s supposed separation of Church and State has always been a mirage. There is never a time when the Church and State don’t work hand in glove. The only difference between England and ourselves is that England was open about its Erastianism while America has cloaked it in the language of “separation of Church and State,” all the while establishing the State Church in the Institution of the Government schools. America is every bit as Erastian as England. We just hide it from ourselves. It is natural for Walker to defend “anti-Erastian” arrangement since with anti-Erastian arrangements his preferred Baptist Erastianism can continue going forward. Since neutrality is impossible there is no such thing as separation of Church and State. Now, one may correctly speak about distinctions between Church and State but separation never exists.

The fact that separation never exists is seen in the fact that the current state is now a bonafide Humanist organization with the intent of persecuting above all those Biblical Christians and Churches who defy the Humanist State. The State must do this because it desires to prioritize the theological teachings of the Humanist Church as it is located in the Government schools and Universities.

Next, we would have to say that it is the “staying of being Baptist” that has brought us to the place we are now at in the US. How have the non-establishment Baptists slowed the cultural decline? For Pete’s sake, the non-establishment Baptists have not even been able to rescue their own denominations from the “corrosive trajectories of theological liberalism.” Talk about the pot calling the kettle, “black.”

Indeed, I think one could argue that it is the Baptist refusal to see linkage between church and state that has led to creating the vacuum that was filled by humanism as being the religion of the State and of most Churches in the former Christian West. Walker’s proposed solution (more Baptist thinking) is the problem that brought us to the place we are at.

It may be true that Christian Erastianism has slain its thousands, but it is even more true that Baptist “separation of Christian Church and Christian State” thinking as slain its hundreds of thousands.

By the way … this kind of Baptist thinking fits well with the Radical Two Kingdom theology that we now find so current in Covenant Reformed pulpits. R2K fanboys would be, on this point, cheek by jowl with the Baptists. The point for both is, “No affirmations of the Christian faith in the public square by political personages in their roles as political personages.”

A pox upon all of their houses.

In the last 5 days I have become aware, receiving phone calls from points 1000 miles + in different directions, of young men who have been introduced to the fire that comes from it being known that they embrace Kinism (“race-realism,” “familialism,” ethno-nationalism”) or whatever label one wants to place on basically the same set of ideas. I must say that I continue to be perplexed over the angst that is created by embracing a Christian doctrine that has been embraced in all times and in all places where the Church has embraced orthodoxy … until 1960 or so.

Not only am I perplexed but I am saddened for them in terms of the price they are having to pay to swim against the tide. I am saddened by those who are making them pay that price. I am saddened (and angered) by the cowardice of those who would make these men of quality character walk their WOKE Cultural Marxist plank. Further, I am saddened that the people who are making them walk the plank can’t see the Christianity, church, and culture they are leaving to their children and grandchildren.

The greatest threat to Christianity, Christendom, and our homes today is egalitarianism in its various shapes and forms and yet the “conservative” “Reformed” church, as well as individual Christians, insists that those who are willing to call a spade a ruddy shovel on the issue must not be allowed to sully their churches or families. On the island of the insane, only the sane are considered insane.

Of course egalitarianism, historically, has always been the province of the Ana-Baptists and then later, the Marxists. Both have in common the impulse of leveling. Leveling is what egalitarianism does. It flattens out all God ordained distinction in favor of making of us all, regardless of our race, or gender cogs in the societal machine. We are seeing the effects of this leveling recently in the PCA as Michael Foster has exposed the feminism, matriarchy, and egalitarian leveling that is rife in the PCA. We saw the effects of the leveling by the leveling document on race passed this year by the ARP, RPCNA, and PCA. Recently, we have seen a leveling proposal that is being offered up in the CREC. It seems we are all Ana-Baptist and Cultural Marxist levelers now. Indeed, it seems even that one can’t love Jesus if they are not a leveler.

Of course this leveling and egalitarianism is not the witness that comes to us from Reformed History. John Calvin for example could write;

“Regarding our eternal salvation, it is true that one must not distinguish between man and woman, or between king and a shepherd, or between a German and a Frenchman. Regarding policy, however, we have what St. Paul declares here; for our, Lord Jesus Christ did not come to mix up nature, or to abolish what belongs to the preservation of decency and peace among us….Regarding the kingdom of God (which is spiritual) there is no distinction or difference between man and woman, servant and master, poor and rich, great and small. Nevertheless, there does have to be some order among us, and Jesus Christ did not mean to eliminate it, as some flighty and scatterbrained dreamers [believe].”

John Calvin
Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:2-3

The flighty and scatterbrained dreamers Calvin refers to above are the Ana-Baptists but now it is the Reformed in the CREC, ARP, PCA, and RPCNA who are the flighty and scatter-brained dreamers.

Considering a tangent that is related to this issue, I am concerned about those who are reputed to be leaders in this movement. To be perfectly blunt I see a lot of grifters and con-men rushing to get to the front of the racial-realist growing parade. I am reminded of the tea-party movement after Obama was elected President. The rank and file who comprised the tea-party movement had good instincts but the whole movement was co-opted by the chaps who rushed to get in front of the parade in order to lead it. I am concerned that the same thing is going to happen with any resurgent Biblical and conservative counter-revolutionary impulse. For example, men like Michael Foster have explicitly made known in the past their opposition to even the most benign Kinism. Other chaps are running to get in front of the parade but one wonders where they were when the weather was a little more inclement on the subject. I don’t agree with Mahler’s Lutheranism, and I don’t agree with some of what I consider his explicit National Socialism fodder but I will give the chap this much… he has paid his dues.

Right now, the greatest danger to a burgeoning movement is fair weather friends. The greatest danger are those types who by all appearances are licking their finger and sticking it in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing before they dare take a position. These are a danger because they will pivot any time the wind shifts or the donations dry up. Some are also a danger because their worldviews are uneven. Men like E. Michael Jones are excellent on the Bagel question but just horrible on the race issue. Jared Taylor, on the other hand is excellent on the race issue but just terrible on the Bagel problem. Then there are others, like the CREC (Canon Press, Cross-Politic podcast) who say that they are against Ana-Baptist leveling and yet are horrid on both the race issue and the Bagel issue at the same time.

I don’t know where this all ends up. It keeps up at night. It drives me to my knees in prayer so I won’t stay up all night. I find myself praying for my children and grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I will never know. I don’t want them to grow up in cog culture where all distinctions are lost and where all colors bleed into one. You see, I understand, that the Cultural Marxist/Ana-Baptist egalitarian war for the sake of leveling has as its final goal the leveling of the distinction between God and man. In point of fact one might argue that leveling is the starting point of all this subsequent leveling.

My postmillennialism keeps me afloat. I know that God will win and space and time and so, despite the appearance of bad odds against us I continue to fight.

By now most people know that there was an awful attack on a Mormon worship facility in Michigan where four were murdered. There has been a great deal of confusion on how Christians should respond to this.

Jesus Christ’s response to a similar tragedy to call on people to repent. That is the same word that Christians should speak to Mormons during this time. Yes, we must be compassionate but being the very nard of compassion is telling them they must repent of their anti-Christ religion. We cannot allow them what they have been angling for, over the course of many years now. We cannot allow them to be seen as Christian because of this wickedness. That this attempt to meld Mormonism is part of the agenda following this event in Grand Blanc, Michigan. For example US Sen. Mike Lee, Republican from Utah posted;