“As the level of incompetency increases, so does the dependence on the rules. Non thinkers are totally dependent on procedures and the oligarchy depend on it and work to create a world culture comprised of that type of people (i.e. depersonalized non-thinking robots who can be relied on to act according to procedure). Dull, non threatening and replaceable, like any tool when it stops working, it is discarded and replaced. Health care was one of the last steps to this end in that it opens the door for the legalized elimination not only of the non-productive but the non-compliant who will be defined as psychologically unfit for society. State controlled health care is the bookends of the system. The state brings you into the world, catechizes and trains you in the state school, assigns your place in the machine through school to work programs in the propaganda centers, monitors your value as a useful part and in the end discards you when your useful years have passed. It is conceivable, if God delays, that society will become like “Logan’s Run” where men are given a set number of years doing away with any evaluative process and simplifying the system.”

Mark Chambers

That this is seen as reality is found in the fact that people are no longer educated so much as they are trained. Even the professional positions (Lawyers, Doctors, Ministers, Academics) are staffed with people who have no idea how to think critically but are people who merely spin the dials, calibrate the machinery, and count the beans. We have become cogs in the machine of the State and we all understand ourselves only as against the backdrop of a society that is naught but an emanation of the State.

Think about our dependence upon rules and following procedure. A little boy at school points his finger at someone and yells “Bang” and the school district must expel him because that violates documented procedure. A worker in a business meeting uses the word “niggardly” in his report and he is fired because policy does not allow that kind of language in the workplace. We pass a Health Care bill that is thousands of pages long in order to describe procedures and process so that all the good little apparatchiks can follow the rules.

And in becoming so process and procedure oriented we assure that we can, at any time, be arrested for not following some rule we had no idea existed.

I am a Hate-Filled Christian

Some observations on this piece

Dalrymple uses the word “hate” a great deal, but never attaches it to evil men. Just evil in the abstract. Dalrymple is passive in his hatred. Biblical hatred hates the sin and the sinner precisely because it is operating from love to God and His glory. Dalyrimple’s predilection for this passivity and abstraction is throughout the article.

By abstracting hate so that it is located on a sin (Sodomy) that does not include a concrete sinner (Dalyrimple’s friends) Dalyrimple creates a contradictory division. After all, in the end, it is not sin in the abstract, that is cast into hell but sinners. Our love for our sodomite friends must include a clear enough opposition to them personally that they know that we are against them precisely because we are for them.

In the linked article Dalyrimple can write,

” I hate that we have sometimes made it seem as though God will have nothing to do with gays until they leave their homosexual behavior behind, as though God redeems us after we are no longer sinners.”

This is problematic for the following reasons,

1.) The fact that God does have something to do with sodomites before they leave their homosexual behavior is seen by the fact that sodomites are willing to leave their sodomite behavior.

Psalm 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

2.) God is only a judge to the wicked (regardless what their flavor of wickedness is).

3.) While we were still sinners Christ died for us is written to the elect covenant community. It was not written for those who hate Christ. We can not take that statement and apply it to those who hate Christ as the sentence above seems to imply.

Dalrymple also writes,

‎”I hate that Christians have not always made it clear that God loves them and seeks them just as passionately as God seeks everyone else.”

If God sought everyone, as the sentence implies, then God would find everyone since no one can hide from God. Clearly God does not seek everyone. This sentence is latent Arminianism.

When Dalrymple says,

“I hate that my convictions on this issue comes between us (me and my gay friends),”

I find myself thinking that I would rejoice that my convictions come between us, for it is only my convictions, based as they are on God’s revealed Word, that are coming between myself and continued misery for those outside of Christ. I mean I understand the desire to have a friendship without friction but in the end the conviction of the Christian is the only hope of our sodomite friends.

Dalyrymple writes,

‎”I hate that gays are bullied.”

Like it or not societal taboos are reinforced through negative behavior towards those breaking the taboos.

Also there is the reality that if sodomites are not opposed then what is communicated is that sodomy is accepted. I would contend that the refusal to oppose sodomy is the a embracing of opposing Christian virtue.