Answering Kevin DeYoung's "Six Questions for Christian Nationalists"
1. Do you unequivocally renounce antisemitism, racism, and Nazism?
> No. Not at all. I would not be wiser than God and condemn as sin that which He is either silent on or calls Good (cf. Isaiah 5).
2. When and how does the nation act as a corporate moral person?
> The entirety of the OT is filled with innumerable examples of God blessing and cursing nations as nations when they collectively, whether de jure or de facto, obey or rebel. Consider Deuteronomy 28, and read it in the KJV or GNV. Notice how God addresses Israel as "thee" and "thou" (i.e., the singular second person). He is not speaking to a plural group of individuals but rather a singular nation, and judges them accordingly.
3. What is the purpose of civil government?
> St. Paul saith in Romans 13 that the magistrate is to be "a terror to bad conduct" and that bears the sword not in vain but to "execute God's wrath on the wrongdoer." Fundamentally, to enforce God's law.
4. What does it mean for the civil magistrate to promote true religion?
> To enforce the basics of God's law, the Decalogue at minimum. To call synods when needed and days of feasting and fasting. To show systematic favoritism to biblical forms of Christianity if not banning false ones. In short what basically every Christian country did till 1800, and many till 1950.
5. Was the First Amendment a mistake?
> Yes. Or to add nuance, no. You see, I have no objection to the 1A as written; however, nearly every judicial interpretation of it has been to the detriment of Christ's Church.
6. What is the historical example of the political order you would like to see in America?
Any Christian nation from the conversion of Constantine until 1945. The models which seem to work best are Medieval England and Germany with their system of monarchy restrained by local nobles, similar to the Roman emperor balanced by the Senate. More dictatorial monarchies can work (Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Spain, and France). And local and democratic systems can also work (America, Switzerland, and Holland), and while I believe there are deficiencies in this model, they are worlds better than our status quo. In fact, I would accept the pagan Norse, Greek, or Roman systems as better than our own.
1. Do you unequivocally renounce antisemitism, racism, and Nazism?
> No. Not at all. I would not be wiser than God and condemn as sin that which He is either silent on or calls Good (cf. Isaiah 5).
2. When and how does the nation act as a corporate moral person?
> The entirety of the OT is filled with innumerable examples of God blessing and cursing nations as nations when they collectively, whether de jure or de facto, obey or rebel. Consider Deuteronomy 28, and read it in the KJV or GNV. Notice how God addresses Israel as "thee" and "thou" (i.e., the singular second person). He is not speaking to a plural group of individuals but rather a singular nation, and judges them accordingly.
3. What is the purpose of civil government?
> St. Paul saith in Romans 13 that the magistrate is to be "a terror to bad conduct" and that bears the sword not in vain but to "execute God's wrath on the wrongdoer." Fundamentally, to enforce God's law.
4. What does it mean for the civil magistrate to promote true religion?
> To enforce the basics of God's law, the Decalogue at minimum. To call synods when needed and days of feasting and fasting. To show systematic favoritism to biblical forms of Christianity if not banning false ones. In short what basically every Christian country did till 1800, and many till 1950.
5. Was the First Amendment a mistake?
> Yes. Or to add nuance, no. You see, I have no objection to the 1A as written; however, nearly every judicial interpretation of it has been to the detriment of Christ's Church.
6. What is the historical example of the political order you would like to see in America?
Any Christian nation from the conversion of Constantine until 1945. The models which seem to work best are Medieval England and Germany with their system of monarchy restrained by local nobles, similar to the Roman emperor balanced by the Senate. More dictatorial monarchies can work (Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Spain, and France). And local and democratic systems can also work (America, Switzerland, and Holland), and while I believe there are deficiencies in this model, they are worlds better than our status quo. In fact, I would accept the pagan Norse, Greek, or Roman systems as better than our own.
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He was a brave Anglo explorer. And in this house, Cecil Rhodes is a hero. End of story.
Spengler's Faustian Man personified.
Spengler's Faustian Man personified.
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Forwarded from Aesthetics and shitposts (FloridaManDixie_83)
Total Christmas Spirit. Give gifts. Spread cheer. Roundhouse kick a gift into your neighbor's chimney. Slam dunk a toy into your kid's stocking. Celebrate Christ. Prepare a Christmas dinner with your family. Launch Santa's sleigh through the night sky. Bake a Christmas ham in the oven. Toss celebratory messages into your friends' inboxes. Set up a Christmas tree. Judo throw gift cards into your coworker's hands. Drink some eggnog. Receive your Christmas bonus. Chop firewood in half. Wrap colorful presents for your loved ones. Play Christmas carols on your commute. Put a Christmas hat on. Enjoy a steamy cup of hot cocoa. Eat candy canes. Watch a holiday movie. Be holly and jolly wherever you go. Make sure you dress warm. Sit by the fireplace. Think about the people who make you happy. Mandatory wishes of happy holidays. Grind cinnamon to add to your drinks. Play in the snow. Help your neighbor shovel their driveway. Run down the stairs when you hear Santa coming down the chimney. Feed cookies to Santa. Merry Christmas.
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Forwarded from Kinism
The Naturalization Act of 1790 was the first U.S. law to define who could become a citizen. Signed into law by George Washington himself, the act highlights how the Founders perceived a degree of common kinship as integral to the state.
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Conservatives are contemplating a plan to remove property taxes in several states, including my state of FL. This is a really bad idea for 3 big reasons.
1) The replacement sales tax suggested would actually be quite onerous, and is in effect a regressive tax structure.
2) This reduces the cost of real estate ownership making land and housing speculation much more affordable, and allowing investors to further displace regular home owners and even renters.
3) This is just another handout to boomers, an attempt for Republicans to buy their votes. Boomer voting patterns did not change when Bush expanded mediare, so I don't think this will really work anyway. People somehow forget that old folks who own their house have more wealth than young people who do not.
More reasonable ideas would be to increase the homestead exemption and index it to inflation. But I'm really not in any mood to give boomers tax breaks while they hoard all the affordable homes in 55+ deed restricted communities.
1) The replacement sales tax suggested would actually be quite onerous, and is in effect a regressive tax structure.
2) This reduces the cost of real estate ownership making land and housing speculation much more affordable, and allowing investors to further displace regular home owners and even renters.
3) This is just another handout to boomers, an attempt for Republicans to buy their votes. Boomer voting patterns did not change when Bush expanded mediare, so I don't think this will really work anyway. People somehow forget that old folks who own their house have more wealth than young people who do not.
More reasonable ideas would be to increase the homestead exemption and index it to inflation. But I'm really not in any mood to give boomers tax breaks while they hoard all the affordable homes in 55+ deed restricted communities.
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Hot take for today: I think that adoption, or at least state-sponsored adoption, is sinful.
Feel free to leave some indignant replies.
1) The vast majority of children in the foster system are not orphans. The US does not keep these statistics, but estimates indicate 90%+ have at least one living parent, not to mention extended family. The foster system allows mass abandonment of children, underwritten by Christians. In many cases, adoptive families go to court to take children away from parents or family members who actively want to keep them.
2) It opens up all sorts of other sinful doors, such as gay couples adopting or adopting children of other races.
3) The legal fiction of adoption results in lying, calling people "mother" and "father" who simply are not.
4) There is no example of an unrelated person adopting someone in Scripture. The best example is perhaps Esther, who is raised by her uncle. With no godly examples, we ought to conclude it is discouraged.
5) God often closes the womb as punishment, and the Scriptural response is to pray for children, not to attempt to circumvent God's judgment.
6) Christians have ordinarily cared for true orphans in orphanages or monasteries, not by disrupting intact households and thereby spreading dysfunction.
7) The handful of references to God adopting believers (υιοθεσια) is grossly taken out of context by proponents of adoption. For instance, St. Paul says Israel was adopted by God (Rom. 9:4) but God refers to Israel as His firstborn son (Ex. 4:22). Clearly God has created us all and has a "natural" relationship to us in that sense; adoption is used particularly to refer to Gentiles being brought in (cf. Rom. 11) who were not a natural branch. In other words, adoption is corporate, not individualistic. To infer from this that we should sacrifice our natural children to adopt children in the way that God did is to completely pervert the atonement and misunderstand adoption.
Feel free to leave some indignant replies.
1) The vast majority of children in the foster system are not orphans. The US does not keep these statistics, but estimates indicate 90%+ have at least one living parent, not to mention extended family. The foster system allows mass abandonment of children, underwritten by Christians. In many cases, adoptive families go to court to take children away from parents or family members who actively want to keep them.
2) It opens up all sorts of other sinful doors, such as gay couples adopting or adopting children of other races.
3) The legal fiction of adoption results in lying, calling people "mother" and "father" who simply are not.
4) There is no example of an unrelated person adopting someone in Scripture. The best example is perhaps Esther, who is raised by her uncle. With no godly examples, we ought to conclude it is discouraged.
5) God often closes the womb as punishment, and the Scriptural response is to pray for children, not to attempt to circumvent God's judgment.
6) Christians have ordinarily cared for true orphans in orphanages or monasteries, not by disrupting intact households and thereby spreading dysfunction.
7) The handful of references to God adopting believers (υιοθεσια) is grossly taken out of context by proponents of adoption. For instance, St. Paul says Israel was adopted by God (Rom. 9:4) but God refers to Israel as His firstborn son (Ex. 4:22). Clearly God has created us all and has a "natural" relationship to us in that sense; adoption is used particularly to refer to Gentiles being brought in (cf. Rom. 11) who were not a natural branch. In other words, adoption is corporate, not individualistic. To infer from this that we should sacrifice our natural children to adopt children in the way that God did is to completely pervert the atonement and misunderstand adoption.
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This Dickie Spencer speech from 2016 actually goes incredibly hard.
https://youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk?si=Re1XUANEMNHZyeFN
https://youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk?si=Re1XUANEMNHZyeFN
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'Hail Trump!': Richard Spencer Speech Excerpts
Video of an alt-right conference in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes.
Read the full article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/
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Solomon speaks mostly of three women in Proverbs: Lady Wisdom, the nagging wife, and the harlot. I think it's likely that Solomon models these characters on the three wives of David, the women he knew best.
Obviously Michal is the nagging wife, and very likely Bathsheba is the harlot he has in mind. And finally Abigail, the wife of Nabal the fool, is ironically Lady Wisdom.
Obviously Michal is the nagging wife, and very likely Bathsheba is the harlot he has in mind. And finally Abigail, the wife of Nabal the fool, is ironically Lady Wisdom.
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Back when I lived in an apartment, my A/C went out and the landlord hired someone to come out and fix it. On the phone he had a thick foreign accent that was hard to place.
When the van pulled up, a short, blond, middle aged man hopped out and introduced himself. Up close, I saw he had curly hair, bright blue eyes, and the classic semitic hooked nose.
As he worked, we made some small talk. He told me he was Iraqi, from an obscure rural village in the north of the country. He told me he came to America after the war because America had ruined the country.
He told me there was virtually no crime under Hussein, that insurance was not required, food was affordable, and public utilities reliable. During US administration, religious tensions flared up, crime rose, living costs exploded, and basic utlities and food became luxuries.
The overthrow of wealthy Middle Eastern countries was a deliberate strategy to cause mass migration. Neocons are a plague.
When the van pulled up, a short, blond, middle aged man hopped out and introduced himself. Up close, I saw he had curly hair, bright blue eyes, and the classic semitic hooked nose.
As he worked, we made some small talk. He told me he was Iraqi, from an obscure rural village in the north of the country. He told me he came to America after the war because America had ruined the country.
He told me there was virtually no crime under Hussein, that insurance was not required, food was affordable, and public utilities reliable. During US administration, religious tensions flared up, crime rose, living costs exploded, and basic utlities and food became luxuries.
The overthrow of wealthy Middle Eastern countries was a deliberate strategy to cause mass migration. Neocons are a plague.
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Slave economies nearly always hollow out the middle class to the benefit of the upper class. The Confederacy is a striking example of this phenomenon, where enslaved blacks had a higher standard of living than the median free White.
Today, offshoring, outsourcing, and immigration are having the same effect. Needless to say, "free markets" cannot rely on slave labor, and anyone using free markets arguments to justify this pillaging of the middle class knows neither economics nor history.
Today, offshoring, outsourcing, and immigration are having the same effect. Needless to say, "free markets" cannot rely on slave labor, and anyone using free markets arguments to justify this pillaging of the middle class knows neither economics nor history.
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The Roman Catholic stance on Scripture and canon can be easily refuted by this one simple question:
Did the church select the book because they were authoritative, or are the books authoritative because the church selected them?
If they say the former, then they thereby admit the ontological canon existed as such before the Church made any selections. If they say the latter, then they explicilty subordinate the Scriptures to the Church, and at that point, all their Petrine arguments for authority and Pauline statements about tradition completely fall apart.
Did the church select the book because they were authoritative, or are the books authoritative because the church selected them?
If they say the former, then they thereby admit the ontological canon existed as such before the Church made any selections. If they say the latter, then they explicilty subordinate the Scriptures to the Church, and at that point, all their Petrine arguments for authority and Pauline statements about tradition completely fall apart.
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As an American, I am generally ignorant of European politics (and yes, I'm proud of this). But I thought I might comment on something: Obviously much of the initial "slava Ukrani" hyteria was just virtue signalling, and the right saw this and generally felt more sympathetic to Russia.
Almost 4 years later and European powers are still freaking out about Russia, while most Americans have lost interest. The American right has seen that Russia is not a White nationalist utopia; rather, they have gotten 100ks of White men killed for immaterial land gains, and are importing Indians and central Asians into their already multiethnic empire.
But I think Europe is still so nervous about Russia because they realize how abused their population is, and how repressed their people are. Many Europeans would honestly prefer the pragmatic Putin rather than the vindictive Von der Lyden. The leaders sense their instability.
The takeaway is this: If we win in America, it will be easy to fix Europe. If they fear destabilization from Russia, how much easier will it be for America to force them into line, even with simple tactics like embargo, tarriffs, calling notes, and freezing assets.
Almost 4 years later and European powers are still freaking out about Russia, while most Americans have lost interest. The American right has seen that Russia is not a White nationalist utopia; rather, they have gotten 100ks of White men killed for immaterial land gains, and are importing Indians and central Asians into their already multiethnic empire.
But I think Europe is still so nervous about Russia because they realize how abused their population is, and how repressed their people are. Many Europeans would honestly prefer the pragmatic Putin rather than the vindictive Von der Lyden. The leaders sense their instability.
The takeaway is this: If we win in America, it will be easy to fix Europe. If they fear destabilization from Russia, how much easier will it be for America to force them into line, even with simple tactics like embargo, tarriffs, calling notes, and freezing assets.
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Forwarded from Dixie Polis
Jesus was the Angel that killed 185,000 Assyrians for threatening Israel.
Jesus was the One Who gave Moses the Law. It was His writing on the Tablets.
Jesus was the Angel that covered Israel with a cloud by day and guided them with a pillar of fire by night.
He comforted Rahab, inspired Gideon to fight, removed Joshua's iniquity, and provided the sacrifice to Abraham, saving Isaac and foretelling His coming.
Jesus was right beside His people the entire time, guiding them and keeping them.
Then He came to Earth, took on flesh and Tabernacled with us.
Jesus was the One Who gave Moses the Law. It was His writing on the Tablets.
Jesus was the Angel that covered Israel with a cloud by day and guided them with a pillar of fire by night.
He comforted Rahab, inspired Gideon to fight, removed Joshua's iniquity, and provided the sacrifice to Abraham, saving Isaac and foretelling His coming.
Jesus was right beside His people the entire time, guiding them and keeping them.
Then He came to Earth, took on flesh and Tabernacled with us.
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Forwarded from Protestant Post (Dr. Basedologist)
And there were in the same countrey shepheards, abiding in the fielde, and keeping watch by night ouer their flocke. And loe, the Angel of the Lord came vpon them, and the glorie of the Lord shone about them, and they were sore afraide. Then the Angel saide vnto them,
Be not afraid: for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great ioy, that shalbe to all the people, That is, that vnto you is borne this day in the citie of Dauid, a Sauiour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch.
And straightway there was with the Angel a multitude of heauenly souldiers, praising God, and saying,
Glory be to God in the high heauens, and peace in earth, and towards men good will.
Be not afraid: for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great ioy, that shalbe to all the people, That is, that vnto you is borne this day in the citie of Dauid, a Sauiour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch.
And straightway there was with the Angel a multitude of heauenly souldiers, praising God, and saying,
Glory be to God in the high heauens, and peace in earth, and towards men good will.
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Forwarded from Protestant Post (Dr. Basedologist)
Merry Christmas and good Yule, friends! The Mighty God became flesh, a little baby -- wonder of wonders. All the best, frens.
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Merry Christmas and Good Yule to all, even the losers and the haters!
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