Recently, the Pope of Moscow, Doug Wilson, did a podcast on race. Doug is particularly bad on this issue precisely because he is not as bad as most Evangelical Ministers on this subject. People can flock to Doug’s banner and think that somehow they are being distinct from the broader culture when in point of fact instead all they have accomplished is not work out the implications of their principles as well as the broader culture has. Doug accepts the principles of modernity on race but he casts his agreement with a kind of retro flavor that allows him to claim that he disagrees with the principles of modernity when in point of fact he merely has failed to be consistent.
Anyway, a friend of mine, C. Merle Davidson, wrote an analysis piece revealing Wilson’s shortcomings here,
https://tribaltheocrat.com/2021/01/a-few-rejoinders-to-doug-wilsons-trending-vid-racism-and-slavery-in-the-west/
I could only wish that I had written this piece. I agree with everything that Davidson offers. I listened to this same podcast by the Pope of Moscow and on this subject, Wilson eliminates the nature side of the nurture vs. nature argument all the while saying he didn’t want to get into the “nurture vs. nature” argument. His whole podcast presupposes the nurture side. We know this because Wilson reduces race to be solely about skin color which tells us that Wilson believes that being White, or Black or Yellow, or Brown, is the sole result of the propositions believed by these people between their ears. The dirty little secret is that Wilson believes that culture creates race whereas it is just as legitimate to contend that race creates culture. Being white or black is solely about the propositions that people believe. Wilson is Gnostic and ought to be ignored on the subject of race and ethnicity.
The biggest howler in this podcast is Wilson’s insistence that race doesn’t exist. This is a howler that is gaining currency everywhere in our pomo culture. Wilson embraces breeds (ethnicities) but not races. Tell that to a forensic scientist or to the Pharmaceutical companies creating race-specific drugs. Try telling that to the black child who needs a bone marrow transplant. Try telling that to the sickle cell anemia society of America.
I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
Here are two links to two articles written by men I consider friends. I consider these articles top flight and since they each deal with a theme I’m constantly returning to I post them here for your edification.
The first is by Darrell Dow on the subject of Nationalism. Darrell and another chap (Thomas Achord) recently released an Anthology on Kinism titled, “Who is my Neighbor; An Anthology In Natural Relations.” This book is nearly 700 pages long and it provides one quote after another culled from authors (both Christian and Pagan) from Ancient History to modern times, which demonstrate that the doctrines of Kinism have been what all men in all times and in all places have believed. This work is a spear through the heart of the Alienism promoted by the likes of Bojidar Marinov, Joel McDurmon, Gary North, Adam Brink, Steven Hallbrook, and most pastors in most pulpits across America on any given Sunday. I strongly encourage you to purchase this work.
Here is the link to Darrell’s article on Nationalism;
https://crosspolitic.com/christian-defense-of-nationalism/?fbclid=IwAR1mVFR9LDCEJziPR-GbTH7cm8c_10S5AfW0GIH3VvGkXAGDDRLAFjCp6So
The second article I am linking to is from a friend named Stuart DiNenno. Stuart is a Southerner who needs to be listened to. We disagree on regulative principle types of issues (Stuart leans Covenanter) but on most issues we are quite compatible. In the article linked below Stuart takes aim at the worthlessness of the contemporary Reformed clergy arguing that most of these men don’t even know the dangers that their people and Christianity are facing in this zeitgeist. I could only wish I had written this piece. I agree with it 100%.
https://www.christianityapplied.org/the-unfaithful-shepherds-of-the-modern-day-reformed-christian-ministry/?fbclid=IwAR0YXlQvnAdhlmQVf2P9zEINIGJiSsZHRpzPTM1kjc_hheM0aFwfGkiH7qE
Happy Reading.
Closing Thoughts on the Curtain Closing
Trump’s worthlessness has been ultimately proven. No, the man was never playing 6D chess while everyone else was playing checkers. No, the man was not politically savvy. Indeed he was a fool.
The number 1 political maxim known by every political neophyte is; “You don’t f**k with the King unless you intend to kill him.” Trump was never the King. He was the challenger to the throne. The King was always the political establishment. Trump should have never gone down the path he went down unless he was willing to go all the way down this path by completely throttling the deep state through extra-constitutional means if necessary. From the very beginning, Trump should have known you don’t defeat an extra-Constitutional bureaucratic monster apart from using extra-Constitutional means to do so.
Instead, all Trump did was to piss the beast off and a pissed off King is not something the citizenry will find delightful dealing with. Trump, can likely toddle off and finish his days in Scotland, Belize, or possibly even Azerbaijan. We, however, are the ones who are going to pay for his twisting the tail of the lion.
It pisses me off that Trump enraged the beast apart from slaying the beast. Maybe that was the plan all along? Trump’s childish toying with the King leaves us in a far worst place — accelerated at a far faster pace — than even a Killary Presidency would have given us. That is a script that makes more sense than the script that “Trump tried his hardest but in the end, he just walked away.” So, maybe Trump was controlled opposition all along and the movie has gone just the way it was always intended to go?
Now add to all this that apart from enraging the Marxist deep state, the thing Trump will be most remembered by, by those who have political savvy will be for two policies that advanced the Marxist cause. The first is the obscene amounts of money that Trump tinkled away. This policy was economic Marxist at its finest. There was nothing “conservative,” or “America First” in any of that crapola spending. The second policy was the embrace of the ChiCom virus scamdemic w/ its associate “warp speed” vaccine. This also played into the Marxist hands by restricting our freedoms (every Marxist’s wet dream) and by once again working in the citizenry a fixing of all their hopes on the State to provide a poisonous cure to something that is merely a garden variety flu variant.
Any attachment to Trump that remains among thoughtful people proves that said people are not thoughtful. He led the country out on a branch, sawed the branch off from under the country, and now will just helicopter out himself, leaving the rank and file to pay the price for his Jr. high hijinks.
The only people who come off worse in this 4-year melodrama are those who constitute 90% of the Republican party. Never has there existed a more feckless, cowardly, and “knife in the back” subaltern Keystone Cop outfit. Hell’s deepest levels are going to be occupied by these faithless trolls. Maybe if they had united around Trump the way Democrats rally around their people, they together could have killed the deep state, King. But no… they were King Deep State’s royal whores and they dared not touch the crown they were and are so dependent upon.
So, the wicked King still lives and he intends to make sure that all of you shlubs who followed the pretender King (Trump) now have to make your brick quota without the straw that was previously supplied.
In the end … yes — Orange man bad.
Trump Exposes Division in Visible Church
It is interesting that God has used the whole Trump phenomenon to expose the cleavage that has existed in the Church for quite some time now as between the Biblical Christians on one side and the Cultural Marxist / R2K “Christians” on the other side of the chasm. This has been seen again most recently with the hue and outcry being breathed out by the Liberation theology type Churches over what they consider to be the absconding of their Christian symbols as used in the Trump march. These types expressed by the likes of Wheaton College, and Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville Kentucky (Where Al Mohler attends). These and others have been hyperventilating that Jesus was desecrated by the Christians marching on 06 January 2021 in DC. They are doing all they can to create distance between themselves and those who marched in DC.
Now, as a large contingency of those marching in DC are from the Pentecostal strain of Christianity I have my own problems with many in that crew of marchers – enough so that I also don’t really care to be associated with their erratic theology and behavior. However, on the issue of where the chief danger in this country lies count me a Pentecostal fanboy. On this subject, the Pentecostal ecstatics are far closer to the truth than the “we want to be as close as possible to those who hate Christ and still claim to be distinct” Evangelicals who populate the R2K “Reformed,” Southern Baptist, and Evangelical world. For simplicity’s sake let’s call them the “Soy Boy” crowd.
The Soy Boy crowd communicate that they desperately desire to be neutral in the current kulturkampf that we are experiencing. They consistently suggest that Jesus doesn’t really care about the kulturkampf and that for all they know Antonio Gramsci may be as close to the truth on cultural matters as R. L. Dabney was though they are certain that R. J. Rushdoony is a dunce. On one hand, they present a studied indifference to the kulturkampf while on the other hand, they are constantly letting their slip show that there is more Herbert Marcuse about them on cultural issues than there is John Calvin. They are forever raising dire warnings about “Christian America” theology but are never heard sounding the klaxon on the Sovietization of America. They trip all over themselves rushing to the mic to denounce Pastors who have opened their Churches to worship Christ (looking at you RSC) while at the same time you never hear a peep from them in denouncing those who are forbidding us from worshiping Christ and doing so via contrived reasoning. They seem to be blind to the irony of strip joints and pot dispenser businesses remaining open while the houses that are responsible for Word and Sacrament remain under tight closure orders in many states. John Knox wouldn’t recognize them as ministers of Christ. Neither do I.
These chaps spent too much time reading Harvey Conn, Meredith Kline, and the Frankfurt authors and not enough time reading Calvin, Knox, and Rutherford. Their studies find them more beholden to humanist authors than Christian authors. They are passing that legacy on to those who will pilot pulpits in the West today.
The Reformed Church in the West needs another grand Reformation and it needs that Reformation as coming out of the “conservative” Reformed denominations.
Of Frightened Congress-Zombies and Airline Gate Agents
In the last week, we have been regaled with accounts of how frightened Congress-critters were when 70 or so protesters accessed the Capitol Building. To listen to these Representatives one would think that they experienced something akin to what the Germans experienced when the Soviets finally invaded and took over the Reichstag on 02 May 1945.
Naturally, I don’t believe a word that these Congress-Zombies utter. I am confident that all of this vaporing is intended as an attempt to create a groundswell of anger from dumbass Americans that such a thing could happen in our “vaunted temple of Democracy.” By my lights, I could only wish the Capitol Building “invasion” had been as dangerous as these Congress-Zombies go on and on about. Maybe such an encounter might have increased their character quotient. As it stands now they remain the sniveling cowardly manipulative political apparatchik that they were before the “assault” commenced.
I am here to tell you that my almost 15 years of working the gate for overbooked and canceled flights for a major airline found me in more danger of bodily harm on countless numbers of working shifts than these pussy Congress-zombies ever experienced on 06 January 2021 when the Capitol building was stormed.
More than once I had an irate customer grab my necktie to get my attention. (Which explains why as a Customer Service Representative I always wore clip-on ties.) Multiple were the times I had people with fascinating shades of purple faces filled with anger and screaming at me about my parental heritage as 18 inches from my face. I once had a customer, so angry, he put his briefcase through a window shattering it. He was only 25 feet or so from where the Jet was already spinning up its engines to taxi out in order to make his flight. (We actually put him on the flight.) Once (true story) I was able to tell George Takei who was taking time to yell at me (he of the original Star Trek fame) that “if you don’t hurry up Sulu you aren’t going to make this flight and there is no beaming up with this aircraft.” More than once I’ve been surrounded by passengers demanding strenuously that I do something about their flight’s cancellation. (“Sure lady… I’ll get my handy dandy Mechanic toolbox I keep under the podium at the Gate and get right on it.”) I can’t tell you how many times I wrote out my name on a piece of paper to give to an irate customer who was promising me that he was going to have my job. (“Why you would ever want my job is mystifying to me but you go ahead and have at it and try.”) I’ve seen customers whip credit cards at very pregnant Customer Service Reps I was working next to because the customer was angry that they couldn’t check 10 pieces of luggage without a charge. I’ve seen customers throwing tools from their toolboxes at Customer Service Agents because; “I’m sure you purposely dented my toolbox on the flight.” You want to be in danger of bodily harm? Spend over a decade working the Gate for a major airline. These Congress-Zombies going on shows like “60 Minutes” to testify how frightened for their safety they were on that fateful 06 January 2021 need to work with John Q. Public while working for a major airline and get some perspective.
Of course, as I said above, those Congress-Zombies were never really in danger. These testimonies are all about manipulating people’s emotions. Congress-Zombies live as among the pampered set. They think that danger is when they can’t get their hair done because of shut-downs they engineered. They think danger is running short of gourmet ice cream in their $10,000 Refrigerator-Freezers. They think danger is not being able to get an appointment for their next breast augmentation. They are absolutely clueless about what it means to be in danger. The complaining of ‘being in danger’ on 06 January 2021 is just another version of Hillary Clinton’s testimony that she once came under sniper fire. It’s all bull fecal matter. Every word that comes out of these people’s mouths is bull fecal matter.
And our danger is in believing a word that comes out of the frontal orifice of these Congress-Zombies.