The left would speak in rapturous tones that “in China throughout a whole day of work, you will never hear anyone complain or disobey or talk back, because what you see in the man on the street is not politeness but ‘a deep brotherhood, an almost passionate seriousness, the selflessness of socialist man.”

Obviously these mesmerizing beliefs made it impossible to see anything other than their own (the Leftists) spellbinding in the Other. At that very moment when these kinds of words of praise were being spoken of the average man in the street in China, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Chinese were being killed, massacred, or deported on the orders of the Great Leader, as the Chinese Communist party revealed several years later. The shock of this discovery would have been comical if the Western intelligentsia had not drowned the cries of China’s martyrs with its shouts of praise, thereby making itself an accomplice to the crimes committed. It made no difference since those who followed a phony dogma could paint their cartoon-like version of China at a time when the Middle Kingdom was being put to the sword and the torch. They painted a picture of a perfect nation with no crime, no poverty, no madness, no sickness, and even no dirt. It was as place where the blind could see, the deaf could hear, and, of course, the mute could speak, as if it were the step of Lourdes.”

Pascal Bruckner
The Tears of the White Man; Compassion as Contempt — p. 30

The same is going on right now in America. The rioters now are being seen as the Chinese described above. The leftists (Marxists) see those rioting as the noble savages who can do no wrong. They are the heroes in the drama and if any excesses is among them it can only be the fault of the White Christian man who has pushed them into those excesses. The black man (generally but not universally speaking) and his ethnomasochistic white pagan pets can do no wrong per the Media and much of America’s political and academia class.

The rioters are now the noble savages and as noble savages, we non rioters must learn to aspire to their purity and greatness, and if we refuse to learn from them we must be exterminated in order that the new social order may come to pass. Christianity and the social order it creates must be displaced in favor of the Egalitarian Shangri-La.

This kind of thinking that supports the rioting obtains among our leadership because,

1.) Many see themselves as the leadership of the noble savage. If the noble savage is pure than those who lead must be pure also.

2.) Our leadership tends, by way of habit, to always hurry to get in front of the parade whichever way it is marching.

3.) Our leadership has been trained in humanist institutions and so they are pre-programmed to accept this train of thinking. It really is the case that many of our leadership, regardless of what field you are talking about, are crypto-Marxist in their thinking though they do not realize that.

“There is no right to riot, no right to destroy others’ property, and no right to throw rocks at police. But there is a fundamental — a Constitutional — right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop. Every public servant in America should be lowering the temperature and that means saying two basic truths over and over: (1) police injustice — like the evil murder of George Floyd — is repugnant and merits peaceful protest aimed at change; (2) riots are abhorrent acts of violence that hurt the innocent. Say both things loudly and repeatedly, as Americans work to end the violence and injustice.”

US Sen. Ben Sasse
Nebraska

1.) Sen. Ben Sasse complains about Trump using the Bible as a political prop thereby himself turning Christianity into a means by which he can score political points. I realize Trump is no Christian in any orthodox sense (just as Sasse isn’t being R2k) but Trump is a public official and when he, as President, holds up the Bible, as a political prop or otherwise the God of the Bible is honored. Sen. Sasse is more than unwise in this pronouncement.

2.) Would Sasse prefer Trump to hold up a Koran or a Torah? You know, I’d bet good money that if Trump has held up a Torah in front of a Synagogue Sasse would have been mute.

3.) Did the Trump team “clear out” peaceful protesters or just ask them to move on? I wouldn’t believe the Lugenpresse’s characterization of the protesters being “forcefully removed,” or Sasse’s version of “cleared out,” as being a fair representation of what happened. One also must keep in mind that these gentle protesters were required to give up only 37 minutes of their protest time since that was when the curfew was going in effect anyway. Sasse is whining about protesters not getting 37 minutes of peaceful protest time?

4.) Remember this Church he was standing in front of had been vandalized by the looters. Trump was seeking to honor both the Church and Christianity by doing what he did and all Sasse can whine about is using the Bible as a political prop. Would to the God of the Bible that more Presidents had used the Bible as a political prop to speak up the Christian faith.

5.) Sasse hypocritically calls for lowering the temperature at the very moment he is raising the temperature while accusing Trump of using the Bible as a political prop. Sasse is the one dishonoring God in all this. How dare anybody hold the bible up in front of a Church for a photo-op?

6.) Sen. Sasse does not know that George Floyd was murdered. A man is innocent until proven guilty by a jury of his peers. Sasse saying this prejudices any jury that might be assembled. Here is Sasse preaching on what needs to be done in the public square and Sasse himself apparently doesn’t know Civics 101.

I suppose one could drain an ocean of cyber-ink writing on the hypocrisy of Politicians.

“A nation like ours has many power centers. The alignment of those power centers is what determines cultural force and, in the long run, political success as well. Corporate executives, celebrities, academics, editorialists, and even many religious leaders — not at all exclusively from liberal denominations — in general oppose the police and support the protests, and if they think the rioters go to excess, they’re inclined to think it’s just a case of misplaced zeal or an excusable response to oppression. The master framework that applies before any facts are considered — facts like the real cause of most violent deaths among blacks in America today, or even investigation into the facts about George Floyd’s death — is a moral framework that designates saints and sinners, victims and oppressors.”

Daniel McCarthy

And this is … as I have exhausted myself in saying, at least as it pertains to putatively religious leaders, the results of a R2K type thinking that refuses to teach civil narratives because they are “not in the Church’s purview.” As such Christians come to believe skubala narratives and eventually even the Christian leaders come to believe those skubala narratives. So, what we eventually get is conservative Christians who love them some Jebuss but are believing narratives that are anti-Christ because not rooted and grounded in truth. Instead, what is dished out is the 6 millionth altar call, or pietistic sentimental mush about not being “worldly,” or Redemptive Historical treatments that are always only indicative and never ever imperative.

Where are the sermons in the Church that touches on these false narratives that Christians (leaders and laity alike) are believing that move them to support criminal riotous protests as well as criminal anti-Christ organizations like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and various Communist Fronts? The information on these skubala narratives is out there for those with eyes to see and courage to believe. The information that American slavery wasn’t the genocide attempt characterized by cruelty and lasciviousness that the Academic left has insisted that it was ever since Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” – itself a tissue of lies and a foundation of centuries of propaganda. The information that American Lynching was not an exclusively black experience, nor even fell disproportionally on blacks is out there for those with eyes to see and courage to believe. The information is out there that the American Civil Rights movement was organized and funded by Marxists is out there for those with eyes to see and courage to believe. The statistics for black on white crime vis-a-vis white on black crime is out there for people with eyes to see and courage to believe. The idea that White people are routinely abusing black people is absurd, especially in light of the fact that the very opposite is true. LOOK AT THE STATISTICS ON VIOLENT CRIME.

Yet the Church remains silent in the task of dismissing these skubala narratives — narratives that need to be corrected because the accepting and owning of the skubala narratives is intended ultimately to pull Christ off His throne. They are intended to say, “Just look how these Christian White people acted towards minorities. Obviously their religion, their Fathers, and their savior is wicked.” And this quite without providing any historical context, qualification, or nuance. It is the narrative of the Marxist, the Jacobin, the Abolitionist and it is the skubala narrative that nobody in the Church wants to beat back. Partially because the clergy corps is just stupid about history. Partially because the clergy corps wants to be hale and well met and not upset the apple cart thus jeopardizing their jobs and paychecks. Partially because the clergy themselves are only Christian in the sense of having a thin patina of Christianity covering them. Their real essence is Marxism. These clergy fools are going to get us all killed by swarthy peoples who hate white people for the sole reason that historically white people have been the carriers of Biblical Christianity.

Can anybody see an Augustine, or a Calvin, or a Knox, or a Luther put up with this skubala narrative that finds Christ’s people denounced and murdered all because they brought their faith to bear on those who became the white Christian’s burden? Luther loved the Germans. Knox loved the Scots. In this climate that by itself is enough to toss them on the ash heap with Whitfield and Edwards because they owned slaves.

Honestly, Churches where these skubala narratives are supported, either by refusing to damn them or by explicitly supporting them, need to be emptied and left impoverished. By supporting these Churches that support these skubala narratives the laity is supporting the redefining of Jesus Christ, Christianity, and civilization, and are turning their descendants over to a dystopian future that can only be read about wherever Marxist Revolution has successfully planted its flag. (If you have the stomach to read it.)

“Insofar as such persons display the requisite Christian maturity, we do not consider this sin (same sex attraction) struggle automatically to disqualify someone for leadership in the church (1 Cor. 6:9-11, 1 Tim. 3:1-7, Titus 1:6-9; 2 Pet. 1:3-11).”

From the PCA Ad-Interim Committee on Human Sexuality
Regarding those who identify as gay Christians and deal with same-sex attraction

In some PCA church in America someone is going to hear from the pulpit…

“‘Hi … I’m Rev. Pete. I’m your new Pastor. I am a gay Christian but don’t worry, I’m celibate in this sin struggle that finds me physically attracted to men.'” Now, let us turn to the text this morning. In Gen. 19, we find …”

From having skimmed over this report, I must admit that overall it is not as bad as I might have expected. However, this statement quoted above is a poison pill for the whole document and if the committee’s work is one day adopted without excising the above finding the PCA is toast.

You see, if the PCA, eventually adopts this report has opened up a Pandora’s box by way of principle. The principle they are allowing is that as long as one struggles against sexual sin it does not matter the nature of the sin. For example, per this principle one can easily envision a time when some new PCA committee in the future releases a report that says,

“Insofar as such persons display the requisite Christian maturity, we do not consider this sin (sexual attraction to farm animals) struggle automatically to disqualify someone for leadership in the church (1 Cor. 6:9-11, 1 Tim. 3:1-7, Titus 1:6-9; 2 Pet. 1:3-11).”

Or

“Insofar as such persons display the requisite Christian maturity, we do not consider this sin (sexual attraction to little boys and girls) struggle automatically to disqualify someone for leadership in the church (1 Cor. 6:9-11, 1 Tim. 3:1-7, Titus 1:6-9; 2 Pet. 1:3-11).”

Now, some might protests that, “what you’re talking about could never happen. No Church is ever going to allow a Pastor in the pulpit who is sexually attracted to cows or children.” And 35 years ago people would have said that, “what you’re talking about could never happen. No Church denomination is ever going to allow celibate sodomites into the pulpit.”

Yet here we are.

With this one section in the committee report every perversity you can possible imagine has had the door open to it as long as a candidate for leadership can say, “I’m struggling against this sin.”

There is another point that needs to be mentioned here. You will notice the study committee continues to use the word “gay,” even spending several paragraphs studying its belly-button about the usage of the word “gay.” Yet, there is not one occurrence of the word “sodomite.” I would insist that this is significant.

The idea of sodomy has, over the decades, gone through a metamorphosis in people’s minds and with that metamorphosis the word used to define the act and condition has changed. In the days of n Magnus Hirschfeld a battle was started to decriminalize sodomy and one of the effects was to introduce and mainline a new word for sodomy. That word was homosexuality. “Homosexuality” softened the sharp edges that existed in people’s minds when they heard the word “sodomite.” Over the course of time though even “homosexual” began to be laden with negative connotations and so a word was seized on that heretofore had positive connotations and was applied to the sodomite community. That word, as people now know, is “Gay.” “Gay,” became perhaps one of the most famous enantionymy words ever created. (A enantionymy is a Janus – [two faced]) word, which is to say it is a word with multiple meanings (senses) of which one of the meanings is the reverse of another meaning.) So, “gay,” can mean “lighthearted and carefree,” or “gay” can used to describe a man who is engaged in some of the most perverse and foul behavior imaginable. By seizing on the word “gay” as a word to replace “homosexual” (which had previously replaced “sodomite”) the sodomite community successfully sanitized as normative the whole disgusting and sick behavior resulting in the mainstreaming of the whole condition.

Now, we find in this report the Church continuing to sanitize the word. The committee could have named sodomy as sodomy but instead decided to go with “gay” while at the same time giving us sentence upon sentence showing how self-reflective the committee was in using the wrong word (Gay).

All of the above doesn’t even begin to deal with the qualifications for the office of Elder as seen in 1st Timothy 3 and Titus 1 which includes the idea of an Elder being above reproach? If someone is tempted to have carnal knowledge with another man how can that someone be above reproach?

If this committee report is adopted with the very first italicized quote that we opened with it matters very little what else the committee says. That is the very definition of a poison pill.

The Gospel Coalition (TGC) continues to be the outpost for cultural Marxism as seen most recently in this column

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/uncomfortable-hope-race-relations-america/

TGC Mistake #1

“As I reflect on the unjust deaths of these black image-bearers.”

BLMc corrects

It has not been established by a jury that either of these deaths were unjust and for Holmes to make this bald assertion means the man desperately needs a Watson to keep him on track. The Arbery case is especially dubious as being characterized as “unjust,” and the Minneapolis case finds us agreeing that the death sure looks unjust but as we know video is seldom the whole story. Is it too much for Holmes to wait for a jury to have their say on what case is and is not just?

TGC Mistake #2,

“While so much progress has been made over the last decade, we still have such a long way to go.”

BLMc responds

This has become such a trope that it is accepted without push back. I’m pushing back. First, I disagree that much progress has been made over the last decade. The last decade has seen racial relations in the US become as raw as they have been since the race riots of the 1960’s. The last decade as seen Barack Obama fanning the racial flames at every possible turn, from Obama’s “The Cambridge Cops acted stupidly,” (before even knowing the facts of the case) to Obama’s “If I had a son he’d look like Trayvon Martin.” (Hopefully if Obama had had a son he would not have acted like Trayvon Martin who a jury decided was justly killed. Then in the last decade where all this progress is supposed to have been made we have the whole Michael Brown incident where a young thug was justly shot by a white cop Brown was seeking to pulverize. There are other examples but to suggest that we’ve made progress in race relations over the last ten years is a knee slapping howler.

Second, if this is progress, you’ll excuse me if I also disagree with TGC that we “still have a long way to go.” Actually, I might agree that we have a long way to go but I’m pretty sure the long way I want to go is the opposite direction of the long way to go in which Holmes wants to go.

TGC Mistake #3

While it certainly has its place in some commentary, we won’t experience progress if the only people we listen to are the people who “take race out it.”

BLMc corrects

Right … because how would the Cultural Marxist agenda ever continue to advance if race was taken out of it? If we take race out of it then we can’t blame Whitey. If we take race out of it then we will not be able to practice liberation theology.

But let’s leave race in it and then break down our crime rate in the states. Let’s leave race in it and then look at the per capita abortion rate per race. Let’s leave race in it and examine our inner city urban problems. Let’s leave race in it and …. you get the idea.

TGC mistake #4

“it (racism) is still threatening black lives across this country.”

BLMc corrects

1.) Notice the cultural Marxist technique of trying to laden white people with false guilt.

2.) The racism that is threatening blacks across this country is the soft bigotry of low expectations routinely practiced by leftists who don’t think blacks can get jobs based on ability and so they create affirmative action programs and set aside quotas … who don’t think blacks have the native ability to get into Universities and so instantly have added a couple 100 points just for being black on the SAT entry admissions test… who don’t think blacks can reach the character required for civilized behavior and so look the other way when black on black crime is committed. This is the only racism that is threatening blacks across this country.

3.) What about the racism that is still threatening white lives across this country? Ever heard the name of Jesse Smollett? Mohamed Noor? Try reading the book, “White Girls Bleed A Lot,” and tell me again about the racism that is still threatening black lives across this country.

TGC author Holmes continues on in this vein seeking to subtly foist false guilt on white people while refusing to take a look at the other side of the coin in terms of the problems of race relations in this country. He tells stories about how scared his wife is for the possibility of their son being killed by some evil white Cop. Pregnant through the rest of the article is the idea that Whitey is a demon that minorities need to spend all their lives designing how to escape.

I utterly reject this Cultural Marxism narrative.

Keep in mind that Holmes is some muckety muck working at Reformed Theological Seminary. He likely got the position based on some affirmative action program or due to some WOKE White liberal “Christian” feeling guilty about his own position at RTS and how unfair it is that more unqualified minorities don’t have jobs in “Christian” Seminaries.