From The Mailbag; Why The Use Of The Term “Dissident Reformed?”

What does the phrase you use “Dissident Reformed” mean?

Nancy,

Bret responds,
Nancy ,
Greetings,Thank you for asking.

The term “Dissident Christian” is my own term really. I coined it to communicate the idea of what it meant to be Reformed before the rise of modernity in the late 18th century. It especially includes the understanding that as God alone is sovereign no magistrate in any jurisdictional sphere has the authority to flout God’s sovereignty without the anticipation that God’s people are free to directly and manfully resist the wickedness of such illegitimate magistrates should the opportunity arise. This was the course of Reformed chaps in history like John Knox, Christopher Goodman, Oliver Cromwell, the Huguenots, and the Black Robed Regiment found among our American Presbyterian founding Fathers.

Christian Nationalism & A Book List To Break The Spell Of The Post-WW II Consensus

It seems to be pretty well recognized that in order to see reality for what it is one has to get rid of the Post WW II narrative that has been foisted upon the West. More and more people are beginning to realize that the Death of the West is guaranteed as long as the West continues to accept the mythology surrounding WW II.

One of the major myths of the post-war consensus is the evil of any kind of Nationalism. The post-war consensus tells us that Nationalism = Fascism. Dumb Christians take this idea up and summarily condemn all forms of Nationalism. This is very convenient because the only alternative to Nationalism is some kind of Internationalism, whether that of Empire, Globalist, or Communist — none of which are particularly Christians since they each and all guarantee a statist centralism that is foreign to the Scriptures. The Scriptures instead give us decentralized Jurisdictionalism wherein within the confine of nation by nation  (people group by people group) the interdependent jurisdictions of family, church, and diverse civil social orders. This kind of nationalism  might well be referred to as regionalist nationalism.

In the Christian community we have Dr. Stephen Wolfe for bringing the idea of Christian Nationalism back into our consciousness. Now, there are significant areas I disagree with Dr. Wolfe on (can you say Natural Law theory?) but no one can doubt that Dr. Wolfe has driven the conversation.

However, long before Dr. Wolfe was on the scene the Kinists were doing the spade work for Christian Nationalism since Christian Nationalism is the inevitable consequence of a Biblical Kinism. One cannot thump for Biblical Kinism and not be four-square in favor of Christian Nationalism. Indeed a banner argument for Kinism from the beginning is that the Scriptures affirm the necessity and presence of self-conscious Nations — Nations that continue to exist beyond the resurrection so as to be found entering the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21.

The post WW II narrative has sought to choke the air out of this cornerstone Biblical observation regarding peoples and nations. The sad thing is that “Legion” is the name of the Christians who have embraced this anti-Christ egalitarian WOKE doctrine even arguing that the Church should lead the way in “all colors bleeding into one,” by chanting ad-nauseum their derelict and retarded handling of Galatians 3 that “in Christ there is neither male for female, Jew nor Greek, slave or free.”

There is a good deal of work to be repeated (because, frankly, the work has already been done) in both the area of Biblical exegesis and in the area of revisionist history of WW II mythical narrative dogma. It is the case that both a significantly errant reading of Scripture and a significantly errant reading of history has brought us to the place we are at.

With that in mind I offer a reading list for those interested in awaking from the spell cast upon them that put them in their dogmatic slumbers.  In many other places on Iron Ink I have already dealt with the exegetical end of Christian Nationalism. With this reading list I deal with the propaganda that we’ve all been fed since the beginning of WW II.

Here are just some of the books I have read over the years that account for why I don’t buy the WW II narrative propaganda;

The order is random

1.) Pearl Harbor: The Seeds & Fruits of Infamy – Percy L. Greaves Jr.

2.) The Backdoor to War — Charles Callan Tansill
3.) Churchill’s War — III Volumes — David Irving
4.) Hitler’s War — II Volumes – David Irving
5.) Freedom Betrayed — Herbert Hoover
6.) Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace – Harry Elmer Barnes
7.) FDR Goes to War — Burton W. Folsom Jr. Anita Folsom
8.) Roosevelt’s Road to Russia – George N. Crocker
9.) “Stalin’s Secret War” — Nikolai Tolstoy
10.) Other Losses — James Bacque
11.) The Roosevelt Myth — John T. Flynn
12.) American Betrayal — Diana West
13.) FDR, The Other Side of the Coin; How We are Tricked into WW II — Hamilton Fish
14.) FDR; My Exploited Father-in-Law — Curtis B. Dall
15.) How Britain Initiated Both World Wars — Nick Kollerstrom
16.)The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II —  Viktor Suvorov

Be careful though. If you see through the Post World War II Narrative you will be hated by all should you offer your knowledge of the matter.

Public Service Announcement from Baptists For the Maintenance Of Room Temperature IQ

Setting: A lovely middle class living room complete with a bookshelf of library books against one wall with a collection of Hummels on another wall.

Music: Something softly classical with a thoughtful theme

A handsomely dressed 30 year old married Christian couple enters into the room. Their two children (boy and girl) are playing at their feet.Alternately they read their assigned parts from the Script…

“Have you ever considered that your children are aliens and strangers to the household of God?”

“Are you convinced that living in a nation governed either by God’s Natural Law or more especially Gods revealed law would be a tragic mistake?”

“Do you have absolutely zero ability to distinguish between a Biblical Nationalism and a unbiblical nationalism?”

“Are you convinced that the Crusades were blasphemous and a stain on the Church?”

“Do you think Doug Wilson is brilliant in combining Baptist churches with non-Baptists?”

Do you think that James White is God’s special gift to the Church?”

If you said “yes” to any of these questions then the Baptist faith may be just the faith for you.

We here among the Baptists pride ourselves in our break with the Church’s historical past… we labor hard at making sure that everyone knows that God is pleased with Democratic pluralism …. we take it as a mark of achievement that we don’t encourage our children to think of themselves as Christian until they decide for themselves.

There is always room for one more family in the Baptist faith.

Won’t you be that one more family?

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Brought to you by the committee to maintain room temperature IQ.

Charlotte Michigan’s “Festival of Occult”

 Reporting on Charlotte’s “Festival of Oddities.”

For the past few years now Charlotte, Michigan in hopes of attracting tourists to the town has held what they have called “A Festival of Oddities.” That title is definitely a euphemism. A more accurate title would to have it be called “A Festival of the Occult.”

Because this year found the added twist of asking a Drag Queen Troupe to perform I was contacted as a minister to see if I would be outraged enough to protest this festival. Of course, as it doesn’t take much to tip over the needle on my outrage-meter I agreed to do what I could and so I showed up to protest this making Charlotte synonymous with Sodom-Gomorrah.

It started with meeting a central locale to pick up the necessary protest signs.  I picked up my sign and walked away saying… “Well, I’m off to make people angry.”

One of the good women there piped up and said … “Oh but we want to show them the love of Jesus.”

I internally rolled my eyes and responded;“Do you really think these people are going to read this sign and feel the love of Jesus?”

I had scoped out the Festival briefly before picking up my sign and said to myself, “When this kind of thing can take root in small town America you know the country is toast.”

What did I see at this version of Vanity Fair?I saw a young lady with a mid-riff T-Shirt that said “Slut for Halloween.” By the looks of her it was easy to believe the advertisement. I saw Drag Queen wearing a HUGE Tiara walking around all in black. I saw a man and woman wearing matching outfits while pushing a baby carriage. They were all tatted and pierced up and the matching outfits (she in a skirt and he in a shirt) had as the material the faces of all kinds of different mass murderers and serial killers in the fabric. I saw “guys” with gauges in their ear lobes with the lobes going down to the shoulder. I almost forgot to mention the young lady with sky blue hair and in a mini mini skirt walking around the “Festival of Oddities” with a four foot tongue flicking lizard (Iguana?) draped across her shoulder. I had to do a double take on that one. I’ve never seen that before. Goth was definitely the fashion style embraced by most of the participants.

Of course that is just a Whitman’s sampler of what I witnessed.

Next comes the various booths.There was one booth where the vendor, who, by his own testimony, was  a Warlock. The Warlock makes and sells human part replicas complete with the gory blood. He was also selling plastic models of aborted babies as well as various plastic lifelike human organs. It was all very realistic. Dismembered hands, arms, and feet were for sale. Just the gift for that loved one who is difficult to buy for. I was shocked and stood there dumbfounded. I eventually was able to ask Mr. Warlock if he could actually make a living selling this stuff. He curtly answered “yes.”

Another booth found a lady who sold herself as a “ribbon reader.” I had never heard of ribbon reading before and so I asked her “what is ribbon reading.” She told me that for $20.00 dollars she will read what color you present yourself as then tell you about what that means for you. There were booths for palm reading, booths for automatic writing, booths for tarot card readings…. there were booths there for just about any occultic thing you could possibly imagine. There were booths specializing in spell casting. Booths where one could pet your favorite snake. Think of it all as C. S. Lewis’ “Screwtape Letters,” being wildly successful.

I was there, of course, to protest the Drag Queens and to do so I carried around three signs displaying each one intermittently. My signs read;
“Grooming Is For Pets”
“Don’t Be A Drag”

“Hate Evil, Love Good”

Keep in mind that the Drag Queen performance was being sold as “family friendly.” Yeah, and Dracula is really just a chap who runs a blood bank.

As I carried my signs I received the usual vitriolic stares. One woman referred to be a “weird religious zealot.” Another portly woman (some kind of Board Member of the Festival) chased me off the Courthouse grounds telling me I was trespassing. She was, of course, very snotty. Yet another Jezebel like woman asked me why I had a problem with Drag Queens. I told her, “God’s Word prohibits that behavior” and cited the appropriate text. Jezebel promptly told me, “that’s just your opinion.” I responded, “Actually that is God’s declaration on the matter and I am better off listening to Him than listening to her say Drag Queens are wholesome.” She then told me … “The Bible is Bullshit and the Drag Queens are going to put on a wonderful performance.” I told her, in parting, “I am amazed that a 50 year old woman like yourself can not discern the obvious unnaturalness of Drag Queens.” She swore at me and turn and departed. I told her in parting that she needed to repent. This is all pretty typical behavior one gets when one protests wickedness.

I was disappointed by the lack of support from the Churches. Now it is true this protest only had 48 hours or so to put together a showing but still the turnout was pathetic. Ainger Bible Church provided most of the personnel protesting. However, I was the only clergy there protesting and I was told by someone in the know that a couple of those reputed to be “conservative pastors” who have gone on the record with the Mid-Michigan media to denounce me in times past told the organizer of the event that “we are too afraid of the backlash.” Rev. Randy Royston was the name of that coward. Another coward was Rev. Andy Shaver who one suspects didn’t carry signs of protest because it would have hurt his campaign to be a Michigan State congress-critter. I think John Bunyan would’ve named them “Talkative” and “Hypocrite” if Bunyan were around writing today. Shaver did show up to pray with the group thus burnishing his “I am Holy” credentials but he was AWOL when it came to actually protesting. Just more evidence that the visible Church is DEAD.

Charlotte has something like 23 Churches and I was the only Pastor who could see that this “Festival of Oddities” has something worthy to stand against? Look, I’m as much a coward as the next person but there are times when cowardice has to be put in the rear view mirror so one can quit themselves like a man.

I did meet a few laity out and protesting and had a decent conversation with a David Zastrow on Rushdoony, Bahnsen, and Reconstructionism. Jonathan Potter was there handing out tracts. It took courage for Jonathan to organize this and to hand out tracks since he is a businessman in Charlotte who works closely with some of those who were responsible for putting together this “Festival of Oddities.” Well done Jonathan!

Of course it is my prayer for many of those Christians protesting that the Lord Christ would open their eyes to what they are missing in their Baptist “Christianity.” Having said that, at least they were out there making their faith practical. That is more than what can be said for the 23 odd other churches in Charlotte who declined to get involved.

In finishing up I had my eyes opened once again to how deep the declension is in America. Not only are we holding Vanity Fair Carnival for the Occult we can’t even get the Church to manfully respond except for a very few brave souls.

Ah well… as it was in the days of Elijah, so it is in the days of McAtee. 😉

Yet God still reserves 7000 who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

Postscript — While praying in preparation I did find myself wondering if Jesus would have wept over the Canaanites that were about to be destroyed at His command. In other words, I was struggling with what love looked like in that debauched setting. Should I weep over them as Jesus did Jerusalem or should I have the compassion God had for the Priests of Baal on Mt. Carmel.

Maybe and probably both.

Three Stages of Pre-Revolutionary Work of the Marxist

Marxism in all its forms follows the following methodology in their Revolutionary methodology.

1.) Separation stage
2.) Messaging stage
3.) Infiltration stage

Phase #1 — Separation

This is the stage where the work is undertaken to separate and divide society into distinct groups. These groups usually represent in some form or another the haves vs. the have nots. In WOKE culture this is expressed as oppressed vs. oppressor.

Just exactly how that division takes place does not matter. You can have, as in classical Marxism, the bourgeoise vs. the proletariat. You can have, as in feminism, the trodden upon woman vs. the sexist male. You can have, as in gender Marxism, the pervert vs. oppressive heterosexual mafia. In this stage of separation envy is stoke by assigning guilt and blame. This work expands as eventually whole classes, genders, professions, and/or races are dropped in the category of “oppressor” so that not only individuals but also large groups can be targeted as “haves” that must be brought down in order to achieve “fairness.”

In our culture we are seeing this in the creating categories between races (white race = evil oppressor) all other races are the oppressed. We also see it in sexual warfare. The pervert crowd (LGBTQ) is thought of as oppressed while the oppressors are all those who are for traditional (Biblical) sexuality.

By this separation technique Marxists create a grievance constituency upon which they will use as their shock troops to pull down the haves. Ironically enough, there may be times when there are some who are genuinely oppressed that the Marxists corral into supporting them. However, these people typically fare far worse when the the Marxist oppressed come to power. These people end up going from the frying pan to the fire.

Phase #2 Messaging stage

Once the oppressed are separated from their oppressors then maximum messaging of discontent is blared out from the media / educational organs.

In this stage the embers of envy are stoked. Emphasis is placed upon how raising awareness as to how the oppressed are exploited by the oppressor class. Think of this stage as the stage where the fire under the kettle of discontentment is stoked so that the oppressed become more and more bitter by how unfair the oppressors are to them. The goal of this stage is to build up the pressure so that when the revolution finally comes winning will be like ripe fruit falling from the tree.

This has gone on for a long time in the West via the work of Marxist Hollywood, as well as the work done in the Government schools which strongly emphasizes this messaging. Of course, our own media outlets (radio, TV, newspapers, magazines) continue to push this messaging stage.

Some of referred to this as the propaganda or coding stage. A cultural and societal climate and environment is created wherein people are first nudged and then pushed into thinking of themselves as oppressed have nots.

In this messaging stage, it is communicated that which is unfair will only change if people take matters into their own hands. Think…. “Workers of the world unite.” An “us vs. them” climate is created and what is underscored is that the have not “us” must overthrow in revolution the “them” oppressors.

It should be noted that historically this stage has included large amount of Bagel financing to pay for the messaging stage. The conniving always know how to get rich from Revolution, plus for the Bagel there is always the added plus that typically and historically what is being overthrown is the morality and ethics of Christianity.

Phase #3 — Infiltration

We are still pre-Revolutionary here. With each of these stages the ground is being made fertile for the coming violent bloody Revolution. The hopes are that with this pre-Revolutionary work found in Separation, Messaging, and now Infiltration, that the Revolution itself will be just an inevitable and natural course of action.

In the infiltration stage those who are sympathetic to the oppressor class weasel their way into positions of importance so as to be able to grease the rails for when the revolution comes. Often in this infiltration stage not only individuals but whole cultural institutions are owned by the Revolutionaries. All of this is a micro-accruing of power so that the macro-accruing of power can be more easily achieved.

By infiltration the Marxist can pivot to a pincer move against the established oppressor class by being able to, at one and the same time, strike from below provided by rioting useful idiots and strike from above by key institutions turning against the established culture as a whole. We see this happening in our culture with the complete compromise of the “Evangelical-Reformed” Church. The church is now a captured and infiltrated institution doing the preparatory ground work of pre-revolutionary of messaging. Once the Revolution finally comes here the “Conservative” Churches will be a leading institution gathering up the dissenters. Indeed, we’ve already seen that action taking place.

The goal of the three pre-revolutionary stages is to create a powder keg of resentment, envy, anger, and bitterness in any given culture as existing between the haves and the have nots — the oppressed vs. the oppressors. When the pre-revolutionary work has been successfully been done violence and blood is inevitable. Those who are against the Revolution will have to spill the blood of many revolutionaries who are non-epistemologically self-conscious about their being revolutionaries. Hopefully, the blood of many epistemologically self-conscious revolutionaries will be spilled as well. Think Franco’s work in Spain. Think Pinochet in Chile. Think Cromwell in England.

The cure for this before it gets started is by preaching Gospel Christianity. The cure for all this after this pre-evolutionary activity gains a toe hold is to preach Gospel Christianity as well as the work social ostracizing those who come creating envy with the view of separation, counter-messaging against the Marxist messaging, and proper discipline and criminalizing of infiltration when it is discovered. However, none of this can happen unless a people know what they believe and why they believe it and what they don’t believe and why they don’t believe it. People who just flow with the cultural current when pre-revolutionary work is being done will either become useful idiots for the Revolution or they will get eaten alive.

Here in the States we have lived with a great deal of pre-Revolutionary work for decades and decades. However, it seems we are coming to some kind of head in this matter. The enemy has been successful in spreading the disease of bitterness and envy so much that a oppressed vs. oppressor culture is where we now live. We are now in a position where we have to think carefully about who the cultural gatekeepers identify as “threats” or “dangers.” Since the cultural gatekeepers are often those who we have identified as “infiltrators” above we must realize that who our infiltrator institutions identify as “naughty” people may indeed by those people who need to be lionized above all.