Scripture & Immigration

“As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the sojourner who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before Yahweh. There shall be one law and one judgment for you and for the sojourner who sojourns with you.”

Numbers 15:15-16

“The same law shall apply to the native as to the sojourner who sojourns among you,”

 Exodus 12:49 

 “There shall be one standard of judgment for you; it shall be for the sojourner as well as the native, for I am Yahweh your God.”

 Leviticus 24:22  

Now what do we learn from the above Scripture?

We learn that God’s law was to be a unitary factor in providing social consensus and cohesion for how peoples of different stock were to live w/ each other.

We also learn that sojourners were always considered “other.” They may well have lived cheek by jowl with the Hebrews but they were always considered “sojourners.” All in the social order were to be ruled by the same law but not all in the social order were the same people. The law gave a unity wherein the diversity could operate. Unity in diversity.

This bears on immigration policy for a Christian people. If we are to have immigrants (sojourners) dwelling among us they must dwell among us as being beholden to God’s Law. God’s law is the means by which the immigrant is not allowed to re-make the nation he is sojourning into a nation that now serves his foreign gods. By being required to adhere to God’s law as the norm that norms his behavior the sojourner, while always remaining a sojourner, is allowed to functionally assimilate.

When you combine this with Israel’s law about land always returning to the family of origin with each Jubilee it is clear that Immigrants would never be able to take over Israel, as from the inside, in order to re-craft it into a nation serving other gods.

The current immigration laws that began with Hart-Cellar  in these united States guarantees and ensures that the current nation, once comprised by particular Christian European peoples, will eventually become both a non-Christian and a non-European descendant people. We are seeing that already happen in places like Dearborn, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Epic City, Texas and Lewiston, Maine.

All of this is in conjunction with the long goal of the New World Order types to replace the White Anglo Saxon Protestant with the third world denizens. Its success is seen in the Muslim call to prayer heard from loudspeakers in Minneapolis, its success is seen in the intent to rule by Sharia law in Epic City, Texas, its success is seen in the fact that Dearborn, Michigan is renaming streets in memory of a Hezbollah terrorist, its success is seen by Lewiston, Maine being nicknamed “Little Mogadishu,” its success is seen in countless numbers of Muslim, Hindu, and Pagan candidates running for major offices around the country.

Our current legal immigration policy is a death wish. It is not enough to close our border to illegals. It is not enough to ship back all the illegal immigrants (presuming of course that is even really being tried). What is needed is a return to a 1924 type of immigration policy that was supported by a President who could say today along with President Calvin Coolidge in the run up to the 1924 immigration legislation;

“There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.”
 
“Whose Country Is This?,”
Good Housekeeping Magazine (February 1921).

 

Dr. Kevin DeYoung’s Six Silly Questions

“A Reformed understanding of human nature should lead one to grant the civil magistrate less power in matters of religion, not more.”

 

Dr. Rev. Kevin DeYoung

Proof that having a Ph.D. doesn’t mean Jack Shinola

A Reformed understanding of the nature of reality should lead Kevin and all people to understand there is no such thing as one magistrate who is more or less religious than some other magistrate. All magistrates are equally religious. All magistrates push the state religion on the people. There is no “less” or “more” when it comes to power in matters of religion. There may be different means and ways for the magistrate to use his power in matters of religion but it is never a matter of “less power,” or “more power,” in matters of religion.

Now, it is true that some magistrates hide the fact from themselves that they are pushing an official state religion while other magistrates step up to the mic and say it out loud. But regardless, whether the magistrate is hiding from himself his religious pushing or whether the magistrate is embracing his advocacy openly, all magistrates push their religion in the same way. This is due to the fact that religion is a hopelessly inescapable concept. It is never a matter of either pushing or not pushing one’s religion as magistrate. It is only a matter of which religion will the magistrate push.

Let’s use an example. In one case the Magistrate might force the citizenry to pay a tax to support a state established church. In another case, such as our own here in the States, the Magistrate says he isn’t doing that. However, the truth of the reality is that the Magistrate is still forcing you to pay a tax to support the state established church. The gimmick is that the Magistrate here has figured out a way wherein you don’t know that you are paying a tax to support a state church. In order to fool you into thinking you don’t have a state established church here in this place where putatively, “the Magistrate has less powers over matters of religion,” the magistrate has hidden from you the fact that he indeed has great power over religious matters because he is taxing you to support the state church and that tax is found in every nickel and dime that goes to government (public) schools. Those government funded schools are in point of fact state churches wherein the state established religion is catechized into children from morning to late afternoon.

So, Rev. DeYoung is just flat out in error. We should say instead;

“A Reformed understanding of the nature of reality should lead one to understand that civil magistrates will always have the same amount of power when it comes to matters of religion, though some magistrates will hide that power from themselves and the citizenry better than other magistrates.”

Because there is no such thing as neutrality, the magistrate is always committed all the time to some God, god, or god concept. There is no lesser and greater. There is only the reality.

DeYoung, despite his good intentions, is not giving us Reformed theology here. To think that it was possible for a Reformed magistrate to have “less power in matters of religion” is to introduce a diminishing of God’s sovereignty as it relates to the state. If God is sovereign, as Reformed theology teaches, then God’s sovereignty ought to be explicitly brought to the fore in the public square by those magistrates ruling in as His vassals. To argue that Christian magistrates should somehow be hemmed in from being “too Christian” in their rule is to deny the sovereignty of God. De Young is giving us here, not only bad anthropology, but also bad theology proper.

DeYoung needs to muse on Van Til;

“The attempt to bring about a neutral culture, in which all religions and philosophies are equally tolerated, is in reality an attempt to dethrone the living God and to enthrone man in His place. There is no neutrality; every culture is either for Christ or against Him.”

When DeYoung argues for less power in religious matters he is arguing that the Magistrate might have the ability to be more neutral in religious matters. DeYoung is not arguing for a Reformed understanding. DeYoung is arguing for a anti-Reformed understanding.

Gen. Z. & The Current Ecclesiastical Landscape

I write the below as one who has a son and sons-in-law whom I love who are just a few years older than the Gen. Z. parameters. I also have Gen. Z. chaps in the congregation I serve whom I also love and I witness the difficulties all these men are navigating.

Gen Z white males are done with being shamed and with the notion that they have anything for which to apologize . They’re tired of being treated like the villain in a movie they weren’t even alive to watch, let alone direct. Tired of being told they’re “privileged” while working three jobs and getting shut out of conversations because of their skin color. Tired of being insulted, shamed, and then expected to smile through it to avoid being called racist, fascist, or worse.

They just don’t care anymore. Call them “Racist.” Call them “Misogynist.” Call them “Anti-Semite.” Their response is more than likely going to be given with a quizzical look; “You say that like it’s a bad thing.” They don’t care about your words or what you think. You are irrelevant to them.
Some of us got to this point when Gen. Z were still in diapers. Some of us did the reading and knew the smegma that was being dished out as truth was indeed smegma. Even some of us Boomers long ago were made to walk the social disapproval plank. Some of us considered “Boomers” have done more “struggle sessions” than Jay Leno did guest hosting for Johnny Carson in the day. The result is that not only do we not care, but we who have lived with this shaming routine are absolutely full on nutcase hostile to ANYBODY who dares try to shame us or suggest that somehow we don’t know what we are talking about on any number of subjects that are the bete noire of the Cultural Marxist left.

As for Gen. Z likewise taking this disposition … well the preceding generations have earned their despite. The previous generations (notable exceptions notwithstanding) pushed and lobbed insult/shaming grenades at Gen. Z like they were Oompa Loompas tossing around Jelly Beans at the Willy Wonka factory. Nobody cares anymore. They’re over it. They don’t want your approval. In point of fact they are positively aghast at the notion that you might ever approve them. Take your approval and shove it up your southernmost aperture is their attitude.

Take just one example. There was a time when people would absolutely melt in protest if someone called you a “racist.” Those days are over. When Piers Morgan, in an interview, recently asked Gen. Z. rep Nick Fuentes; “Are you a racist,” Fuentes simply said “yeah, I’m a racist.”

Now I don’t think Fuentes did himself any favors but admitting to Piers Morgan that he was a racist. He should have said instead;

“Look Piers, in your cultural Marxist worldview I am indeed a racist. But I don’t share your worldview and in my Christian worldview I am a man who merely loves his own people first and foremost. I also am not afraid to commit the sin of noticing. However, my committing the sin of noticing  ia something you people from your generation find appalling. Now, I have all of Western civilization history up until 1960 or so on my side on this subject. You have the civil rights movement forward and now the fall of the West on your side. In light of that I have no problem with you wanting to label me a ‘racist.’ You call me a ‘racist,’ I call you an ‘idiot.’
You and your disapproval are just a few years away from the grave. Soon enough your disapproval…. your political correctness… your cultural Marxism … is going to be covered with dirt just like you.

You’ve lost … it’s just a matter of time before you come to accept it.”

The observations above are coming from someone, who, almost weekly, receives unexpected phone calls out of the blue from Gen. Z. types telling me about their latest “struggle session” with their “Elders” at their church, or I get a request to help someone start a church because all the churches in their area are “Piers Morgan like,” or I have young men (remember I’m 66 so it doesn’t take much for someone on the other end of the phone to be a ‘young man’) asking me; “what am I supposed to do in terms of church for myself and my family?” Monthly I take a phone call from a chap in Europe in this situation. He merely wants to know that someone with clerical authority is bleeding with him a little bit. Believe me I do. Recently, a chap from Australia (of all places) phoned asking the same question about what can be done when there are no decent churches.

On this issue the church and the clergy are a wasteland. I can count on my fingers the clergy I would in good conscience steer someone towards (And yes, some of them are even Baptist). Now, I’m confident that there are many more good clergy than I personally know of, but regardless the number is comparatively small.

Consistent with my observations above, the political philosopher Samuel T. Francis, offered over 30 years ago now;

“The institutional Christianity that flourishes today is no longer the same religion as that practiced by Charlemagne and his successors, and it can no longer support the civilization they formed. Indeed, organized Christianity today is the enemy of the West and the race that created it.”
Organized Institutional Christianity in order to be esteemed must be gazed upon from a mile away in order to admire it because the minute you get too close to the organized Institutional Christianity you begin to see how awful and dilapidated it really is. If anyone who is a true believer ever becomes a part of that organized Institutional Christianity they will not be able to last in it for very long due to the monumental gross hypocrisy, terrifying lack of intelligence, and stultifying indistinguishable mediocrity. No one with an ounce of self awareness or self respect can last long in the little shop of horrors that is now Institutional organized Christianity. Some of the best men on the planet that I personally call “friend” have been tossed because they embrace the Christianity that existed prior to 1960 or so.

If one could find a mythical organized central Headquarters of organized Institutional Christianity over the door that serves as the entryway would be the motto;

“Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here.”

So, Gen. Z has very few places to turn in terms of the Christian faith, and that truth should make strong men weep. I know it makes this weak man weep. I can’t say what the result of all this will be but, in the short term, it isn’t good. The highest hope I have is that new Reformed denominations might be started, yet, I know that is a uphill climb that requires a great deal.

Still, the Lord of the Harvest will not be left without His church and there will come a time when the Church will once again be healthy. Be of good cheer my friends for Christ has overcome the world.

My Night On The Town … Celebrating Jane’s Birthday

I took the wife out today for her birthday. Now, I don’t go out in public that much. I see the folks in the Church I serve. I see my children and grandchildren. I talk on the phone with people who share a like faith/worldview but I don’t rub shoulders with the hoi poloi very often.

After tonight I know why I don’t go out very often. Tonight, while shopping at a small knick-knack establishment the wife wanted to stop at, I saw a clerk who was tatted all up. Now, I know this is pretty common, but it was not the fact of the tatts that had me gawking in amazement. No, rather it was the type of tatts. If you remember the kind of macabre stuff that Film Director Tim Burton used to deliver up (see his film “Night After Christmas”) this woman was tatted all over with Tim Burton kind of cartoon characters. As I watched her move from task to task it was akin to watching a live version of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” only with Tim Burton type characters.

Then there was another tatted white woman who was decidedly blond but who had a Rastafarian style hairdo wherein the Rasta locks looked like they were each a different color randomly drawn from a Crayola crayon mega box. Her blond locks bounced around with her Crayola Crayon Rasta locks and it reminded me of those old multi-flavored life-saver candy wrappers. Now, what really made it surreal is that she was holding the hand of a 3 or 4 year old and was speaking to the child in a nurturing and loving tone, like any mother might. I thought, “This must be what it is like to be the child of a mother who is a cross between Medusa and Willy Wonka.”

At another store I couldn’t help but hear the conversation of two rather tall chaps who looked all the world to be from the Dinka tribe and likely playing Basketball for Michigan State. We were in Lansing after all. Their conversation was loud and almost undecipherable. Yet, every so often I’d hear, “Gonna get me a flannel shirt. Never had a flannel shirt.” Only it came out more as monosyllabic grunts that I’m sure in the Dinka language was really quite flowery and expressive. As to the second tall Dinka, well the only thing I could make out from his language was “LEVIS.” It became apparent that he had never owned a pair of Levis before and he was delighted with finding a pair that might fit his extraordinary inseam. They made me nervous because wherever I went in the small store, the Dinka Brothers seemed to be following me with their strange and barely decipherable yet energetic linguistic outbursts. I guess all those cases of Iryna Zarutska and Austin Metcalf are starting to give me the jitters.

Then we dropped into a bookstore. You’d think one would find maybe a Christmas display or something down that line but the first thing I bump into upon entering the store is a display in praise of Hannukah heaping praise on sundry Jewish authors during this Hannukah season. The good news though is that I did not see any Kwanza displays. They were probably in another part of the bookstore.

As we walked the Mall I couldn’t help but notice how many of the “street vendors” in the Mall had a great deal in common with Vivek Ramaswamy, Usha Bala Chilukuri Vance, Piyush “Bobby” Jindal and Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley. I guess those people are just really good entrepreneurs, thus explaining why they would be so well represented in those little side shops.

I was also in a Macy’s store where I saw a very well dressed male clerk going about his business stocking shelves. He was wearing a tie and a suit. I thought … “Now this chap sticks out more than anybody I’ve seen so far because he is so 1960s with his well-trimmed mustache, his nattily pressed suit, and his conscientious arranging of the stock for which he was responsible.” Yep… he was the weirdest sight of them all. The guy who was the most “normal” existing and going about his business in the midst of a circus show specializing in the “odd and never seen before,” was the circuses biggest attraction.

We decided to eat at a Chinese Restaurant where, I am confident in saying, that all the help spoke perfect Chinese. I don’t know if they could speak English since I didn’t hear any until it came time to pay my bill. Only then did I discover that some “Engrish” was in their grasp.

Now, Lansing, Michigan is a university city (Home of Michigan State) and so I shouldn’t be surprised with the multicultural feel. However, as I reflected that night on previous celebrations of my wife’s Birthday over the decades, I couldn’t help but hear the echoes of Dorothy ringing in my ears … “Toto, darling, we are not in Kansas anymore.”

J. C. Ryle Was A Kinist …. Just Like Every Church Father Before 1960

“The dwelling-places of the earth’s inhabitants are curiously divided. The world is not made up of one people or one colour. God by His providential ordering has separated the earth’s inhabitants into distinct nations, languages, and races, each with its own peculiar characteristics. These distinctions have existed for centuries, and have been preserved in a most remarkable manner. No climate, no teaching, no misfortune has ever succeeded in obliterating them. The negro is still black, the Red Indian is still red, and the Chinaman is still yellow. Nothing seems to account for these things but a miraculous interposition of God.
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Let us beware of giving way to the modern notion that there is no such thing as God’s providential arrangement of the nations, and that the present attempt to amalgamate all nationalities and races, and to denationalise and unchurch people, is wise and politic. God has divided the world into separate nationalities, climates, languages, and churches, and it is the height of mischief to try and break down the divisions.”

~J.C. Ryle
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Matthew 24