“Turning to Augustine, Wendy Zoba notes, Augustine teaches that history “would be marked by the ever-increasing influence of the church in overturning evil in the world before the Lord’s return” (Zoba, “Future Tense” Christianity Today [October 2, 1995]: 20). This would eventually issue forth in a “future rest of the saints on earth” (Augustine, Sermon 259:2) “when the Church will be purged of all the wicked elements now mixed among its members and Christ will rule peacefully in its midst.” (Cited in Brian E. Daley, The Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology [Cambridge: University Press, 1991], 133). This early incipient postmillennialism contains the most basic element of the later developed system: a confident hope in gospel victory in history prior to Christ’s return.
We may also reference Augustine’s comments on Psalm 2. Regarding the Lord laughing at the nations (Ps 2:4) he writes: “it is to be understood of that power which he giveth to His saints, that they seeing things to come, namely, that the Name and rule of Christ is to pervade posterity and possess all nations.” At v. 7 he writes: “‘Ask of Me,’ may be referred to all this temporal dispensation, which has been instituted for mankind, namely, that the ‘nations’ should be joined to the Name of Christ, and so be redeemed from death, and possessed by God. ‘I shall give Thee the nations for Thine inheritance,’ which so possess them for their salvation, and to bear unto Thee spiritual fruit.” (Augustine in The Post-Nicene Fathers, 8:3)”
Calhoun & McAtee On Government
“For just in proportion as a people are ignorant, stupid, debased, corrupt, exposed to violence within and danger from without, the power necessary for government to possess, in order to preserve society against anarchy and destruction becomes greater and greater, and individual liberty less and less, until the lowest condition is reached, when absolute and despotic power becomes necessary on the part of government, and individual liberty extinct. So, on the contrary, just as a people rise in the scale of intelligence, virtue, and patriotism, and the more perfectly they become acquainted with the nature of government, the ends for which it was ordered, and how it ought to be administered, and the less the tendency to violence and disorder within, and danger from abroad, the power necessary for government becomes less and less, and individual liberty greater and greater. Instead, then, of all men having the same right to liberty and equality, as is claimed by those who hold that they are all born free and equal, liberty is the noble and highest reward bestowed on mental and moral development, combined with favorable circumstances. Instead, then, of liberty and equality being born with man; instead of all men and all classes and descriptions being equally entitled to them, they are prizes to be won, and are in their most perfect state, not only the highest reward that can be bestowed on our race, but the most difficult to be won—and when won, the most difficult to be preserved.”
John C. Calhoun
Apart from Christ people, at least on a civilizational wide scale, will be ignorant, stupid, debased, corrupt and exposed to violence. He could have lifted those descriptors right out of Ephesians 4,
17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, [m]excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality [n]for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
Of course the simple idea contained in the Calhoun quote is that people can only have liberty to the extent that they are Biblical Christians. Apart from Biblical Christianity, where self-government, in keeping with God’s law word, is the foundational block for all other government (Civil, Church, Family, etc.), what must be introduced to keep a people in line is force. And all civil Government is, in a pagan context, is organized force.
There is no liberty for social orders where Christ is hated. In such social orders the organizing principle will always be slavery as a people enslaved to their own sin and to the devil will not be a people who can create cultural Institutions that are characterized by liberty. People who are in bondage to their sin create social orders where the theme is bondage and slavery.
This is true regardless of their political organization be it Libertarian, Democratic Socialist, Labor, Whig, Republican, or Democrat. People enslaved to sin can not create social orders that are characterized by Liberty.
Slightly disagreeing with Calhoun, I would say that Liberty is not only a prize to be won but a grace to be given. Sure enough that Liberty must be protected once obtained but I would insist that Liberty is a grace given because it always begins with men set free from the dominion of darkness.
Thus, in the end, this quote reminds us that political or economic liberty can never be obtained apart from a people who are spiritually free. We, as Americans, have lost our political and economic liberty and those will never be re-claimed until we rediscover the truths of God’s majesty and our sin and His provision of Christ to release us from our spiritual bondage. Only a people set free from themselves can build a civilization that is characterized by Governments with boundaries and social orders characterized by Liberty.
As long as we are given over to our sin we will have powerful enslaving Governments.
Seminary Course — Multiculturalism And The Displacement Of Biblical Culture
The purpose of this course if to make you familiar with what Multiculturalism is, how it has come about, and the methodologies that it uses to advance its agenda.
Main Texts
The Calvinistic Concept of Culture — Henry Van Til
The Gagging of God — D. A. Carson
The Politics of Guilt & Pity — R. J. Rushdoony
These three main texts will tell you
1.) What Biblical Culture is and where it comes from (Van Til)
2.) How it is that Biblical Culture is being displaced by multiculturalism (Carson)
3.) The concrete methodologies that are being pursued in order to implement multiculturalism (Rushdoony)
On line documentary
Agenda; The Grinding Down Of America — http://vimeo.com/63749370
CULTURAL MARXISM: The Corruption of America — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M
In this course I am recommending watching the documentaries first because they do a good job over-viewing and highlighting what Multiculturalism is, and where its threat lies.
Supplemental Required Reading
The Supplemental reading will require an ability to read critically. Most of what is said in the bibliography provided is quite good but there are also some strains that need to be set aside. At the very least the list will provide the tools necessary to see what multiculturalism is doing.
The following books should be read in the order suggested.
1.) Cry Havoc — Ralph de Toledano
2.) The Poverty of Multiculturalism — Patrick West, Kenneth Minoque
3.) The Vision of the Anointed — Thomas Sowell
4.) Alien Nation — Peter Brimelow
5.) Suicide Of A Superpower — Patrick Buchanan
6.) Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends — Kevin J. Vanhoozer
7.) Hollywood vs. America — Michael Medved
8.) The Menace of Multiculturalism; Trojan Horse In America — Alvin J. Schmidt
9.) Christ & Culture — H. Richard Neibuhr
10.)Christ and Culture Revisited — D. A. Carson
If the order is followed sequentially as suggested the weaknesses in the later books will be more easily recognizable. The later books still have a treasure trove of necessary information but they also are afflicted with weaknesses as well.
Books #1-3, along with the main texts and documentaries, give a good foundation for what multiculturalism is and why it should be despised by all right thinking Christians. Book #4 deals with how Immigration patterns contribute to multiculturalism. Book #5 gives a plethora of concrete examples of multiculturalism in the works. Book #6 provides more Theological grounding along with that provided by the main texts. Book #7 reveals how Hollywood and the movie industry advances the agenda of multiculturalism. Book #8 has some presuppositional weakness but still provides some good information. Books #9 and #10 are important. Neibuhr gives a template for understanding the relationship between Christ and Culture. Carson challenges Niebuhr on some matters. Carson’s Baptist background shows through. The reader needs to be aware of that. As long as books 8-10 are read in light of all that went before the student will be able to strain out the errors in those books.
The Student will write 15 page book reviews on the three main texts.
The Student will make chapter notes at the end of each Chapter and summarize the thrust of each book in their supplemental reading.
The Student will mark down 15 time sections of each of the Documentaries that they view and discuss the importance of that time section with the Teacher.
Duck Dynasty & The Orifice Scandal
I’ve consistently told the people I serve that when the culture lets the Sodomites out of the closet, the corresponding inevitability is that Christians will take their (the sodomites) former place in the closet. It is the Christian and their love for the Lord Christ that will be shunned in and by the public square. It was said of sodomy, once upon a time, that it was “the love that dare not speak its name.” Now, it is the love that won’t shut the hell up and the Biblical Christian’s love for the Lord Christ is the love that dare not speak its name.
When Robertson’s GQ statements hit the press yesterday I had a friend contact me saying that this might reverse the sodomite tide. I told him, “Robertson will be fired within days.” I should have said “hours.” My friend dissented, insisting that A & E would never fire because of much money they would lose. I just said, “wait and see.” I’m not a prophet. I don’t see into the future. It is merely a matter of knowing which way the cultural winds are blowing. When a social order embraces a worldview, money alone, will not be able to halt the progress of that (in this case — Sodomite) worldview.
A & E is only and their corporate base is only confirming that two antithetical worldviews can not co-exist unless one of them is willing to live as considered Taboo in the Public Square. So, now we are at the decided point where to speak publicly of our great Liege Lord, Christ, and His standard is now considered worthy of being publicly sanctioned. The sodomites now hold the whip hand and they are determined that they are not going back into the closet and that Christians will stay in the closet.
Unless Islam comes to play as a worldview social order contestant, the decided opposition of the social order will be for either Sodomites or for Christians. Never for both. The worldview war in favor of sodomy is a war against Biblical Christianity.
This reminds us that the whole “tolerance” thing that has been screamed for decades now was just a ruse. It is always so when worldview transitions among a people are taking place. Those who initially scream for tolerance and understanding (in this case the sodomites) don’t really wan’t tolerance long term. They merely plead for tolerance in order to give them time to marshal and build their momentum to the day when they can practice intolerance against their enemies. The plea for tolerance is the ploy of the minority who intends to one day become a majority which will shut down any opposition against them.
Do you and your children a favor. Put the sodomites back in the closet.
And I do agree with Phil Robertson. There is something seriously demented and twisted about a man who thinks that another man’s orifice — an orifice that produces excrement — is more alluring than a woman’s orifice that issues life.
Postscript – Keep in mind that R2K tells you that the Church must not speak on sodomy in the public square because that is not the Church’s job. If Phil Robertson were to attend a R2K church he would find no support from the R2K Ministers and Elders because there could be people in the congregation who opposed Phil Robertson and who do, themselves, see it as reasonable that in terms of public square legislation men might prefer other men’s anuses over women’s vaginas. R2K is all for pluralism. And of course R2K Churches would never want to weigh in on something so controversial as whether the public square should support anuses and vaginas each in their proper place.
How The Muslims Take Over
Three stages by which Muslims conquer. This technique has been used for centuries.
Stealth Jihad
Muslim numbers are small percentage wise in a new country where a foothold has been gained. Taqiyya (deception) is a large part of this phase. Muslims falsely befriend the infidel with false friendship. Publicly they put on their “Islam is a religion of peace” nonsense. They advocate for tolerance. They love playing the victim here in order to gain sympathy and in order to give credibility to their diabolical religion.
Defensive Jihad
At this point Islam’s numbers have increased. They continue with both Taqiyya and the victim role. However their numbers percentage wise is greater now and as such they feel safe in denouncing and attacking those who seek to bring to light the history and danger of Islam. Organizations like C.A.I.R. and other Islamic friendly organizations take up the plea for special rights. Sharia Schools and Mosques begin to pop up. Islam begins to bar its teeth while still insisting that it is the other guys fault. If only poor old Islam would be left alone they could live in peace. At this point Islam begins to incipiently attack enemies.
Offensive Jihad
Here the numbers are now in Isalm’s favor and they begin to attack and persecute at every opportunity. The community of Dearborn Michigan is beginning to see Offensive Jihad. Here laws are passed in order to put down the infidel. As this accelerates it becomes illegal to speak out against Islam to denounce it as pagan Anti-Christ. For Islam this is the time to establish their hegemony over all areas of life. As this accelerates the non Muslim people of the book are forced to pay the jizya and become hewers of wood and drawers of water. Non-Muslims who are not people of the book face a far worse eventuality.
These United States are moving towards stage II. Europe is moving towards stage III. There is no stopping Muslims once they gain a toehold.
The below article expands this general outline a bit and deals with concrete numbers.
http://www.islamreview.com/articles/Islam_is_not_a_religion.shtml