Fear God, honor the king, love the brotherhood. Noted thinker of thoughts and sayer of things.
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I have a very particular set of skills,
Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you,
I will key in on some minutia in your OP,
And I will reply to you.
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When I was younger I really enjoyed playing Fable 3.
In that game if you did good you became more magnificent in appearance. If you did evil your appearance became ugly.
Probably the most realistic feature of the game.
Ever notice how woke men are almost always weak and woke women are almost always ugly?
Strength and beauty do not cohere with wokeness.
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There was once a rabbi who heard of a previously undiscovered island inhabited by men of an extraordinarily diminutive stature called Trids.
With all manner of zeal he headed to the island in an effort to proselytize the Triddish people.
The rabbi spent many months in his proselytization efforts and was met with great success, many converts, and even many circumcisions.
The first sign of difficulty was when an ancient giant, the Trids’ mortal enemy, would come down from the mountain and kick the Trids, killing them.
The rabbi was deeply grieved as this continued until finally the last Triddish family was finally kicked to death.
Saddened to the point of death, the rabbi journeyed up into the mountain to meet with the giant face to face.
“You’ve kicked all of my converts, you’ve kicked even down to the very last heathen Trid, why don’t you just kick me and get it over with!” cried the rabbi.
The giant replied, “Silly rabbi, kicks are for Trids!”
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Looks like el presidente made good on his Twitter promise to take out that gang house.
Viva @nayibbukele !
How much of boomer hate would you say is just a variation of the proverb, “The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?
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Hurt my knee a couple weeks ago and hadn’t been able to work out.
Gained around five pounds and was incredibly uncomfortable.
Been hitting the gym again trying to find a workout I could do just to get some exercise.
Don’t know how I used to carry 60 or more extra lbs around.
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Stephen Wolfe has mentioned this in a couple of podcasts recently.
He says the hidden major premise in a lot of the anti CN arguments is “if something fails it shouldn’t have been tried at all.”
Pastor Spurgeon shows here why that premise is silly.
A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a panel discussion at a conference with Dr. Andrew Walker, a professor at Southern Seminary. During our exchange, he made an argument against Christian nationalism that I have heard repeatedly from Baptists and, unfortunately, even some Presbyterians.
The argument goes something like this: Whenever the civil government gets involved in matters of religion, the church inevitably becomes corrupted. You end up with nominal Christianity, apostate churches, and people who call themselves Christians simply because their nation is Christian. Therefore, the civil government must not officially acknowledge Christ or seek to uphold the Christian religion.
For Baptists, this argument is often tied to their doctrine of regenerate church membership. Only regenerate people can properly be called Christians, and since a nation is made up of both believers and unbelievers, you cannot have a Christian nation.
So I asked Dr. Walker a simple question.
“Are churches Christian?”
Of course, the answer was yes.
Then I asked whether Baptist churches, even those committed to regenerate church membership and opposed to Christian nationalism, had ever fallen into nominalism, corruption, or outright apostasy.
Again, the answer was yes.
Well, now we have a problem.
If your argument against a Christian nation is that it might produce nominalism and apostasy, but your own model has also produced nominalism and apostasy, then you haven’t actually made an argument against Christian nationalism. You’ve simply identified a problem that exists under both systems.
In other words, refusing to have a Christian nation doesn’t protect you from the very thing you’re warning us about.
Dr. Walker then asked me what system I proposed that would prevent these problems.
My answer was simple: I don’t.
And that’s precisely the point.
I’m not proposing a utopian political system that will guarantee the perpetual purity of the church. No such system exists. As pastors, we have a duty to guard both the peace and purity of Christ’s church, but we are never promised that our churches will be free from hypocrisy, corruption, or apostasy on this side of glory.
The question is not whether a Christian civil order can guarantee perfect results. The question is whether the civil magistrate has a duty to acknowledge Jesus Christ as King and govern according to His righteousness.
And if he does, then the possibility of future corruption is no excuse for present disobedience.
Consider King Josiah.
Josiah instituted sweeping religious reforms. He tore down idols, destroyed false worship, and used his civil authority to restore the public worship of the true God. Yet those reforms did not permanently secure the faithfulness of Judah. Apostasy returned.
Should Josiah have refused to act because a future generation might undo his work?
Should Hezekiah have left the high places standing because some future king might rebuild them?
Of course not!
The possibility that a good thing may later be corrupted is not an argument against doing the good thing in the first place.
And yet this is precisely the argument being made against Christian nationalism.
We are told that if the government acknowledges Christ, supports true religion, and restrains public idolatry, the church might become corrupted.
Well, look around!
America has spent roughly two centuries moving away from its earlier forms of public Christian establishment toward an increasingly secular civil order. Has this protected the purity of the church?
Hardly.
We have liberal Protestant denominations that have abandoned the authority of Scripture. We have churches openly celebrating sins that Scripture condemns. We have Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, prosperity-gospel charlatans, and every conceivable form of religious heresy flourishing under a government that increasingly refuses to acknowledge the lordship of Christ.
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The reason why anti-Christian Nationalists hate Christian Nationalism is that they want to keep their comfortable lives by not upsetting the spirit of the age. They see Christian Nationalism as overturning the political order where they allow Satan's Longhouse to control public policies and in return he leaves them alone.
Christian Nationalism challenges Satan's rule and that endangers the quiet existence of the "we lose down here" cowards.
A message to anti-Christian Nationalists:
If you love wealth and security better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, the illusion of neutral world better than the blessings of a Christian nation, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were ever our countrymen.
“Endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these” is not the right to idolatry.
