Of Cain

To understand Cain and why he murdered Abel, we must go back to the original sin of Adam and Eve and the curse that was laid upon the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.  Genesis 3 verse 15 states,

I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.

The key takeaway here is that Eve’s offspring would strike back at the Serpent and the evil that it perpetuated upon all of Mankind.  And, just like the Apostles of Christ who stated that the kingdom of God was at hand shortly after Christ’s ascension.  I imagine that both Adam and Eve believed that Cain would redeem them for Eve states, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord” when Cain is born.  Abel is basically an afterthought when his birth is mentioned.  He is the second-born, meant to simply live as a man without the heavy burden placed on Cain.

It appears that Cain was elevated and given praise by his parents.  They more than likely believed him to be one to redeem all of mankind, lift the curse of sin, and bring them back into the Garden of Eden.  It is probably why he was tasked with growing produce rather than raising livestock.  Livestock is often considered to be a lower practice by most societies and I am willing to bet that Abel’s chosen profession was one that left him as an outcast among his family.

And so Cain and Abel brought their offerings to God.  And God rejected Cain’s offering but accepted Abel’s.  When I was a child, my father said it was because God could see Cain’s heart and while that is probably true, more than likely God was expecting blood sacrifices in order for Cain to redeem his sin.  In a sense, Cain was telling God that he was without sin, unlike his brother Abel, and that he need only give God an offering of produce, not an animal sacrifice.

Cain was, naturally, angry with this rejection.  All his life he had been held in high regard and given all the praise that was due to a redeemer of Mankind.  But here was stinky Abel, who offering of animal flesh was accepted over his best produce.

And so God, recognizing the danger, commanded Cain to master his own sin, which I imagine only angered Cain even more.  And so, Cain murdered Abel in a perversion of the blood sacrifice that God demanded of Man.

Cain was cursed by God for his great sin, of which he was never remorseful over.  At no point does he express regret for his brother’s death.  God curses Cain to be unable to provide for himself anymore, instead having to wander the land begging and scavenging for scraps.  Eventually, he builds a city, probably leveraging his status as Adam’s firstborn in order to establish a kingdom.  And thus, we see the first instance of the elite, born in human sacrifice and cursed to never be able to provide for himself.

The most striking element of the story is when God commands Cain to master his own sin.  This is echoed by Jesus when he tells the people to strive to be perfect as the lord God is perfect.  This runs contrary to a lot of modern Christian thought where the general consensus is that we cannot overcome sin on our own, but only through the saving Grace of Jesus.  And while that is certainly true, it does not absolve us of self-control.  We are saved by Grace but we are to conduct our lives in a manner that strives to be perfect like God.

So let go of your Pride, your Envy, and master your sin.  Otherwise you may find yourself murdering your brother.

America the Cursed Nation

Lately, it seems to me that the United States has become a curse before God.

I know, this sounds like something some random preacher would say to his congregation in an attempt to keep them around by assuring them that they are not like all the others.

But I don't have a congregation and I wouldn't kiss their collective asses if I did.  That's probably also why I don't have a congregation.

The fact is, Americans have turned their backs on God.  As a collective group, we have rejected His messages, His teachings, and His Grace in favor of our own devices and designs.

This sounds cliche, but we are all suffering from a very deep spiritual sickness right now as a result of this.  And the effects aren't just limited to spirituality.  The past several elections where we are seeing massive voter fraud is one such effect.  God has turned His back on us and thus allowed evil, wicked, and quite possibly demonically possessed yahoos to rule over us.

In this past election alone, we saw red states like Montana and Kentucky vote via referendum to keep abortion legal or expand it.  It should have been an overwhelming landslide vote in both those states to overcome even the voter fraud, but it didn't.

The people have flatly rejected Christ.  I see it all the time.  I see it when people say that they don't care what consenting adults do in their private lives, forgetting Jesus's lessons on the yeast of the Pharisees.

I see it with the Christians who declare that racism is a sin, forgetting that Jesus said some things that would be considered racist by modern standards, and thus they elevate themselves above Christ Himself.  Meanwhile, they do not acknowledge their true sins of Pride, Envy, and Lust.

I see it with the Christians who declare that their church is the one true church forgetting that Paul himself admonished the Corinthians for such nonsense.  And thus, we all bicker and argue over pointless things and fail to unite against the rampant sin and evil that is in our midst.

The planks in our eyes are massive.

Our women do not submit to men.  Instead, men simp for women leaders and are happy when they get elected, even though they are the worst possible people to be in those roles.

As a result, our government is now bullying the rest of the world to engage in abortion, sodomy, and usury.  The isolated communists and Islamic countries are more moral than the US, even though they deny Christ.

So I see many people who seek God and His Son building things to replace what was lost.  But such things are nothing more than folly, a chasing after the wind.  It is materialism, just like the sons of the devil, and it seems to lack any kind of spirituality.

Do you say to have many children?  St. Paul had none and he had no regrets.  St. Philip had four daughters who could prophesy and he was teleported to different locations.  Do your daughters have the Holy Spirit upon them?  Do your sons proclaim the Christ?  Do you focus on what truly matters?  Are you not worth many sparrows?  Your barns are full but your lives will be accounted for soon.

I say these things not to shame you but to challenge you.  We need a real spiritual awakening in this country.  We need the Holy Spirit to spread across this land more than ever.  We need the demons to scream in pain as they are driven out by Christ.

And all you do is take pride in your works, bicker about who is a grifter, and boast about the size of your family.

Take time to really focus on God.  See if He will intervene not just in your own life but that He would pour His Spirit out on our nation and the people here.  Yes, things are broken, but they can be fixed and God is good at doing that.  But we have to turn back to Him and stop talking nonsense and doing evil.

Rejecting the Church of Sodomy

It should come as no surprise that the Western democracies are currently one of the most Satanic empires the world has ever seen since maybe ancient Babel.  In our post-post-modern world, we have inverted nearly every sin as a virtue and condemned all virtues as sins.

We say that we should not hate, but we do not understand what true hatred is.  We say we should not be racist, yet our Lord Jesus said many things that would be considered racist by modern standards.  We are told that love is love in order to justify abominations committed against God Himself.  All while wearing a Bugs Bunny mask to make it funny.

But the rest of the world has seen these great evils and they are, for one reason or another, rapidly rejecting them.  Contrary to popular belief, the world is not run by Western democracies.  We just happened to be strongest ones out there.  For now.

Even in Sub-Saharan Africa, we see greater wisdom and a deeper understanding of God than most supposed religious leaders of the West:

Archbishop Henry Ndukuba of Nigeria, Archbishop Laurent Mbanda and Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba in a letter jointly signed noted that they will not ‘join the multitudes to do evil’ as they emphasized that right from the earliest Council in Acts 15, and other instances from the Epistles where there were reports of lifestyle in direct opposition to Scripture, there was no place where Christians were enjoined to continue to fellowship with the disobedient members of the Church.

Essentially, these pious men have openly rejected meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury because of the main Church of England's acceptance of sodomite priests and bishops.  And they are firm in their faith in such matters.

These men are taking a bold stance.  It's not like Nigeria and many other countries in that region couldn't use the material support of the First World.  But they would rather live in relative poverty in wartorn Africa than associate with the Satanic Bishops of the Church of England.

Take heart.  Churches in the West who give into this nonsense are on the decline.  Any Church that gives in to abortion, anti-racism, or sodomy will be pruned by God because all of these ideologies are abhorrent to Him.

For now, find a good church to attend.  It doesn't have to be perfect, just open to your own views, provided they align with the Apostle's Creed.  Join a Bible Study group and earn their trust and respect.  Then you can slowly influence them on the right path.

Those Wicked Xmas Trees

You have may have heard from some corner of the Internet of Christians who think that Christmas trees are bad.  More specifically, they are likened to idols and that true Christians should not set them up when celebrating the birth of Jesus because it's insulting to the true meaning of Christmas.

If you haven't heard of such people, well, you've been spending too much time watching porn and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Such assertions come from ignorance.  They are not from wisdom or knowledge, but just pure foolishness.

Usually, these folks will cite the following passage in Jeremiah 11 verses 2-5:

“Learn not the way of the nations, 

    nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens 

    because the nations are dismayed at them, 

for the customs of the peoples are vanity. 

A tree from the forest is cut down 

    and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. 

They decorate it with silver and gold; 

    they fasten it with hammer and nails 

    so that it cannot move. 

Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, 

    and they cannot speak; 

they have to be carried, 

    for they cannot walk. 

Do not be afraid of them, 

    for they cannot do evil, 

    neither is it in them to do good.”

Those verses certainly talks about decorating a tree and using it in an improper manner, mostly for the purposes of idolatry.

Here's the thing: the prophecy of Jeremiah was written hundreds of year before Jesus was born.  So clearly, Jeremiah wasn't referring to Christmas trees.  He was, as far as I can tell, talking about how people made idols to worship, probably Asherah poles.

I'm pretty sure it's not the Christmas trees that are the problem with the lack of Christ in Christmas.  If you think that Christmas trees are evil and represent all that is wrong with modern Christmas, that's fine.  I can't change your mind or make you understand.

But look at the situation like that of food sacrificed to idols.  When Paul talked about the topic, he was referring to how some people are very insecure in their faith and that eating food that was used in the worship of false gods might cause them spiritual harm.  Wanting to not let these people to be like the seed tossed in the path rather than good soil, Paul was instructing others to protect them until their roots are strong enough to withstand evil.

I suppose it is the same with people who think Christmas trees are evil.  I have no problem with you if you think that way, but do not place your spiritual insecurities on me.  I worship the one true God, same as you, and no Christmas tree is going to change that.

The True Evil of the Vax

I'm not a scientist.  Well, technically I have a computer science degree, but that's not really science or engineering for that matter.  In any case, I'm don't have proper qualifications to lecture you on how the COVID-19 vaccine works.  I mean, I could read up on it and immerse myself in the technical details, but I really don't care to.  And most people don't want to either.  Mostly because most, like me, probably wouldn't understand it and on the off chance we would, we would also find it boring.

Of course, this hasn't stopped many people out there from making "informed" decisions regarding the vaccine.  But I've made my own informed decision regarding the vaccine and most other vaccines for that matter.

It's really quite simple.  You see, it doesn't matter if the vaccine works or not.  It doesn't matter if the vaccine actually does prevent any variant of COVID, cures cancer or obesity, or suppresses any negrophilic urges you happen to have (looking at you Joyce).

The vaccine was produced using liver cells from a murdered baby.  Or babies.  I'm not sure how many babies were murdered to make the vaccines.  It was at least one, I know that much.

I'm not saying that all vaccines have dead baby cells in them.  But dead baby cells were used to create them all.  So it really doesn't matter either way.

The mere fact that a child's life was snuffed out in order to make a batch of vaccines to help old people live a few seconds longer should concern you.  This isn't a noble sacrifice for the greater good.  This is cannibalizing the younger generation for the sake of the older generation.  This is about devouring your descendants for the sake of your pathetic life.

As a Christian, you should be ashamed of advocating vaccination of any kind.  It demonstrates that you do not respect the image of God and that you side with Cain over Able.

Jesus did not die on the cross so that we could inject dead baby DNA into our bodies just to prevent disease.

The fact is, modern medicine has become nothing more than black magick rituals, just without the sodomy so you don't even get a fleeting moment of pleasure and fun.

The COVID vaccination is incompletable with Christianity and anyone who disagrees with this argument is siding with Satan, much the same way that Peter did when he said that Jesus shouldn't die for our sins.

I don't fault people who have gotten vaccinated in the past.  Most did so out of ignorance, trusting that the murderous pedophile elites pushing these things couldn't possibly be as evil as those crazy conspiracy theorists claimed they were.

But we have the Internet now.  And the Internet has granted us not just disinformation or misinformation, but actual information.  And the actual information is that vaccines were created in some bizarre scientific and Satanic ritual by a bunch of evil, wicked people.

Do not get any more vaccines from these people.  It does not matter whether or not the vaccines actually work.  Do not fear the disease, even if you are going to die from it.  If you are a Christian, death is just a transitory phase.  It's natural to be scared of it, but be assured in His sacrifice and how it was not in vain.  Better men than us have passed before us and what will we say to them when we meet them in Paradise?  That we participated in a Satanic ritual to extend our lives another few years at the expense of our children?  Or that we rejected Satan as best we could when we saw his evil machinations? 

Questioning My Jesus Card

A few months back, I was on a Discord channel when the subject of pornography came up.  Basically, the owner and many of his followers thought that pornography was protected by the First Amendment.  I forget how exactly the subject came up, but I took the opportunity to disagree with him.

And many people who I’ve interacted with on the Internet can tell you that my disagreements tend to more than gentle.  I argued that pornography was illegal until the 1970s when the Boomers came of age and decided that it is a form of free speech.  So I flat out told them that they are following Boomer logic and that they are Boomer Cucks.

I know, I can be a right bastard.  I make no excuses for it.  But reason and logic fails pretty much everyone on the Internet space, so I tend to dispense with the “reasonable” debate tactics fairly quickly.  Experience has taught me that no amount of “reasoning” on the Internet will educate fools.  I should’ve paid closer attention to King Solomon’s Proverbs.  It would’ve saved me a lot of typing.

Anyhow, seeing as how the vast majority of the people on this Discord channel were Millenials who hated their Boomer parents, they for some reason didn’t like being called Boomer Cucks.  Sometimes my tongue is too sharp for my own good.  Most of the time, I’m a fool though.

At one point, the owner called me a “Smooth-brained Owen fan”.  This was in reference to me previously defending Owen Benjamin in his social media circles as he mocked and ridiculed him, mostly based on what other people said about him.  Again, I was engaging in reason and logic at the time and it slipped my mind that most people are fools, including me.

On a slight side note, I have never been a “Bear” nor have I contributed to “Beartaria” in any way.  The most I could say is that I’ve subscribed to Unauthorized.TV but even then I don’t listen to Owen Benjamin anymore.  That’s probably a topic for another time.

In any case, once I had been “outed” as an “Owen Benjamin” supporter, it was time for some of the other guys to chime in and this is where things got weird.

Because now my faith was being called into question.  I was literally asked who Jesus was to me.  Yes, someone was witch-testing me for essentially saying that pornography isn’t free speech.  I, of course, passed the witch-test (or failed it?).

After which, I did demand to know what political speech you were making with pornography.  That is the purpose of the First Amendment, after all.  It wasn’t to allow a free-for-all, but to protect individual citizens from retaliation for political speech.  Naturally, I only got absurd answers about actors pretending to be various political figures while performing vile acts with each other.

It was clear at that point I had the stronger position and I was done with them.  I haven’t gone back to the channel in a long time now, and I will probably leave it soon enough.  It’s kind of sad really, but I think it’s been made clear that I am not welcome there.

The sad thing is, it was a community I enjoyed being a part of online.  But I suppose, like all Internet communities, it was never to be a long-standing part of my life.

But they are all Boomer Cucks, after all, and they cry out to not touch their “free speech” as they touch themselves furiously and without remorse.  I guess that’s one of the most damaging legacies of the Boomers, next to the Ponzi scheme that is the housing market.

On another side note, I know that Jon Del Arroz joined that channel as well, however, I don’t believe he was active on it.  He’s a busy man, after all.

Arrested Development Churches

A lot of Christian leaders have speculated as to why Church attendance has been down.  There have been various explanations, from people becoming more spiritual and less religious (whatever that means), to not attracting the attentions of men.  And while these are all good explanations and certainly do merit some exploration, allow me to suggest an alternative: that modern American churches don’t stand for anything of importance to the common man.

I mean, they do tend to stand for something.  Jesus obviously, and God as well.  Sometimes they’ll stand for the Holy Spirit.  They’ll stand for love, mission work to third world hellholes (which often times become low-rent vacations), the poor and downtrodden, provided they keep their distance, and sometimes for people of faiths which are opposed to our own.

But when they are taken to task, when they are held to matters of importance for their own countryman, time after time they fail them.  It’s as if the collective whole of the Church decided that they had nothing to do with culture, moral values, or politics and retreated into their own safe spaces.

These days, most pastors seem to be content writing generic sermons discussing God’s love, the greatness of Jesus’ sacrifice, and maybe a story or two from the Old Testament.  Often times, these sermons are recycled without the congregation noticing because the dumb masses are short-sighted and stupid.

Meanwhile, you never hear a pastor stand at the pulpit and say that homosexuality is still a sin, that wives are the ones who are more likely to initiate divorce, often for stupid reasons, or that usury is greed.  They don’t say that abortion is murder, not even the conservative churches, for fear of losing their plate and pledge for that year.

Maybe it’s because their service to God is for sale to the highest Earthly bidder.  But maybe it is a symptom of a much deeper problem.

Growing up I had a pastor whose only real hard stance on anything seemed to be women good on Mother’s Day and men are bad on Father’s Day.  Beyond that, he didn’t feel the need to preach much substance from the pulpit.  Instead, he left the harder issues to the various Bible Study groups.

But those Bible Study groups could never tackle serious or important issues as far as I could tell.  We just more milk and no solid food.

It’s like the whole of the Christian church suffers from arrested development.  We can’t seem to grow up, become adults for Christ and fight back against the powers and principalities of this world.  Instead, as long as the money’s good, the Netflix is streaming, and the wars are far away from us, we will continue to grow fat, stupid, and ignorant of God’s Will for us.

And now our children think being gay is okay.  That gender is a spectrum.  That sex is not a sacred joining of two married people under God but just a fun thing to do with whoever, whatever, or whichever you damn well please.  That women are goddesses and men are pigs.

Indeed, I often find myself in more agreement with society by watching criticism from atheists or pagans on YouTube than I do from evangelical Christians.  Maybe it’s their religious outsider status that allows them to critically see things in a different light.

It is time for churches across America to stand up for more than just milquetoast messages on love, peace, unity, and diversity.  We need to stand for what is right.  The enemies of God are in the open, exposing themselves daily and still we are silent, thinking that we’re alone or that it’s just the way of the world.

Fight.  Fight or die.

The Coming Wrath

The United States government opposes Christianity.

It is perplexing, I know, in a country where 70-85% of its citizens claim to be Christian in some form or another, depending on what poll you look at.

But this scenario becomes more obvious when you consider that a man cannot serve two masters, as Jesus Himself once opined.  And the people who work for the State have been programmed to serve the State, even when the interests of the State run counter to God’s Will.

Right now, our government is seeking to overthrow Syrian leader Assad.  What comes next will be tragic for the hundreds of thousands Christians living at peace in that country.  They will see their women raped, their children murdered, and their men executed, much to the glee of the psychopaths that make up the rebels.

But the incidents of anti-Christian policies doesn’t stop there.  For too long, we have seen Christians marginalized, maligned, and held in contempt for standing for Jesus.  When men go to preach the Good News in gay “communities”, they are arrested.

When bakers refuse to bake gay wedding dildo cakes, they are called homophobic and their businesses are shut down.

The list goes on.  Christianity is treated as a grave sin in this country.

Don’t believe me?  If you are a Christian, try talking about it in casual conversation.  Don’t force it, but fall into it organically.  Then observe the reactions you get from people.  I’ll bet they’ll range from scoffs to people asking that you keep such things private.

I’m sure the reasons for this are many.  For the common man, Christianity is an allergy to them because they don’t want to admit they are sinners, evil, and in need of redemption.  Despite all the evidence to the contrary, they just can’t believe that they a bad person.

For the elite, it is a question of power.  In many cases, they seek to rewrite reality itself to support their vision of an ideal world.  That is why occultism is prominent among those in power.  It offers them a chance to rewrite reality itself.  You only have to sacrifice or rape children to get there.  And it takes many.

I wish I could separate myself from all of this, but I cannot.  There is a such thing as collective guilt and the United States has it in spades.  We voted for this for decades.  We became afraid to stand for Truth and in doing so became complacent in our own judgment against us.

I fear for my children.  I’ve made my peace with God and death, while still a thing I fear instinctually, is not a huge problem for me.  But my children may grow up in a society that seeks their death or imprisonment.  And all because they are white or Christian or straight or male.

And I want to fight against this, but my fellow Christians are so cucked, so complacent, that most days I wonder if it is better that I just accept the judgment coming and let God’s Wrath pour out on this contemptible nation.

Catholic Foolishness

I’ve seen some blog posts and comments, as well as heard comments on podcasts, about how Martin Luther was a heretic and that he ruined Christianity in the West, which was universal and united.

Such historical ignorance is astounding, especially when the people I hear it coming from are usually smarter than average.  I really boils down to the lament that “things were better back then” and “if only we could go back, then it would be better”.

Unfortunately, that is never the case.  If you are any good in your studies of history or just the Bible in general, you’d know that human nature is the same at all times.  Sure the technologies change, the nationalities change, and settlement rise and fall, but humanity more or less is the same since the Garden incident.

So no, things weren’t better back when the Catholic Church had united most of Europe.  This is because if they were better, then why would Martin Luther have a need to break away in the first place?

Martin Luther, you see, did not wish to initially break from the Catholic Church.  But the institution had become corrupt and engaged in the practice of providing salvation through money in order to fund excessive projects.  That was the basis of Luther’s 95 theses.  It was, in effect, a series of complaints about the corruption that had taken place within the Church.

I have seen this same scenario play out in my own time.  From SFWA’s campaign against Vox Day to the break of the Anglican Church from the Episcopal Church, institutions which become corrupted often break into splinter factions.  The break is usually not pretty and often involves great sacrifices.

But even more astounding is the complete and utter denial of the simple fact that there was already was a great schism in the church beforehand with the Orthodox Church in the East.  In fact, it was the Catholic Church that broke from them because at the time, the last remnants of the Empire were housed in Constantinople.  So the Catholic Church was created because they didn’t want to answer to the Eastern Emperor.

I’ve also heard that the Church of England was created because King Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife.  And while that is true, the fact remains that despite its immoral start, the Church of England successfully established itself all over Africa and in parts of South America and East Asia.  Those are souls that have been saved who otherwise may not have been had Henry VIII decided to be beholden to foreign spiritual leader.

Man is falliable and the institutions he creates, even the Christian ones, will break apart and be destroyed in the wake of corruption, incompetence, and arrogance.  So whenever some idiot Catholic calls Martin Luther a heretic and says that things were better before his break with the Catholic Church, I say that they are damn fools.

In a thousand years, there may not be a Catholic Church or a Church of England.  There will be a church in some form, but it will be one that is more than likely completely unrecognizable by today’s standards.  This is the nature of mankind really.

So save your stupid and petty statements and try and see the bigger picture.  And note that the “Catholic” Church is to universalism as the “People’s Republic of China” is to democracy.

The Lament of Man

We go out and build and hunt and produce value to bosses who don’t appreciate our work.  We conquer the elements in order to pave the roads, weld the pipes, and grow the food.

We are expendable.  Only the strongest amongst us survive the times of war in order to breed and pass on our genes to the future generation.  In times of peace, we are selected based on baffling attraction standards for reproduction.

We are lied to.  We never know if the children you bear are truly our own.  We risk our financial well-being to settle down and spend our lives with you.  We find ourselves antagonized in popular culture and in family courts.  In divorce, our financial well-being is largely dependent on you.

Many of us don’t know your touch.  We insufficiently manly enough to do so, as there are only a fraction of us who are sexually desirable.  We take it with pride and hold up our chins as we eventually accept you when you finally decide to settle down before your beauty is completely gone.

Sex is work for us when we get it.  When we do not, we turn to pornography to fill our base needs and are spurned as perverts for the alternative.  But we’re monsters if we pursue you.

At work we are constantly on eggshells in fear of unfounded accusations.  We find ourselves bombarded with useless trivia and gossip, all the while desiring only to build and create.

We are suspicious when we are out and about, especially around children.  We are judged to be the most vile of monsters before we are even given a day in court.

And still we suffer in silence.  We pay the bills, earn the money, and impose proper discipline on the children.  But we are called oppressors because we are stingy with the money, don’t buy the right things, and are too hard on the children.

We live a life without appreciation.  We sacrifice health and financial independence for your comfort and when we ask for a little bit of pleasure in return, we are often rejected.

To top all of that off, we are told to worship you and that any failings you have are the direct result of us, not you and that it is our sin, our inattentiveness, and our apathy which causes you to fall.

I refuse to accept this.  I refuse to go through life as a sycophant who regards you as my “better half”.  And I refuse to take the blame for sins I don’t commit.

Morality is Simple

“It doesn’t affect you!”

That is the mantra of the utilitarian, spoken as they describe horrifically depraved acts like bestiality or their unnatural attractions to children.

What’s more, is that I see many people who argue against such acts from a utilitarian perspective, such as bringing up the diseases that can be contracted from such interactions.

But you can’t beat a utilitarian at his own game.  Because there are always statistics, studies, or scientific evidence to support the claim that dog sex is better or that children need to understand sexuality at a younger age.

To top that off, any time a Christian tries to argue in this fashion, he is quickly dismissed as a zealot or fanatic.  I remember when Jerry Falwell would argue on television that gay rights would lead to the acceptance of child sex down the road.

Yes, he was right.  But his argumentation was off.  He argued from an exaggerated utilitarian sense and tried to persuade people through fear, something people generally dismiss out of hand.

Morality is simple, especially in this Christian nation.  We have a good set of laws laid out by God, as well as centuries of Church teachings on these matters, which we just have to accept.

It starts with the Ten Commandments.  Then we highlight the New Testament teachings on what is permissible for non-Jews (see Acts 15:22-29).  Keep in mind that sexual immorality is reserved to all sexual practices outside of marriage between a man and a woman.

Because at the end of the day, it does affect all of us.  We all vote don’t we?  And our military is too busy trying to gender bend instead of trying to kill the enemy.

When arguing with people who use utilitarian arguments, it needs to be shut down.  Don’t argue the way they do, simply respond God said no.  If that person doesn’t like that response, then tough, you’re shit out of luck.  It’s His creation and His rules.

It never ceases to amaze how complicated people make this.  There is no need to justify your moral stance if you are Christian,   You simply need to say that what you do is an abomination against God and He hates it.

And He’s an invisible killer.

Letter To My Sister

Sister,

I am writing this to you because I believe that you are making a mistake.  A big one.  A costly one.

You have been separated from your husband for several months now and even though he has offered to reconcile, you have yet to respond to this proposal.  Clearly, he is interested in continuing the marriage and doesn’t want to go the route of divorce.

I know that doesn’t absolve him of his repeated adulteries.  He has sinned against God and against you.  I don’t pretend to know all the details of what happened.  I only know of what he has said to me and what he has done, mostly through what other people have said.

To me, though, this doesn’t matter.  I know it might be hard to accept, but I believe that marriage is sacred, especially when you do so at the altar before God.  You see, when you made an oath in front of the attendees, you also made an oath before God.  And from what I understand, He doesn’t take breaking such oaths lightly.

Yes, your husband has broken his vows.  And your trust in him is now next to nothing.  I understand that.

But there are greater things than your marriage at play here.  Most people in America take marriage for granted and treat it as a social dating contract.  If Americans cultivated a culture where marriage was considered a sacrement, and not necessarily in the way that the Catholics do, perhaps there wouldn’t be 50% divorce rates, a messed up family court system, and dysfunction that seems to snowball as the generations move forward.

I know, I’m rambling now but you have to understand that there are bigger things than you.  Your children are wonderful but lately have appeared to be sad and depressed.  I don’t know what you’ve told them and frankly, it probably doesn’t matter.  They want both their mother and their father to be there for them regardless.

I acknowledge that adultery is one of the few conditions where Jesus made an exception for divorce.  At the same time, Paul himself had little regard for divorce, even in cases of adultery.

I am asking you to do something big here.  I want you to reconcile with your husband legally, and then submit to him.  I don’t mean submit to his leadership.  I mean submit to him entirely.  Don’t treat him with suspicion, don’t montior his Internet habits, don’t fight with him, don’t even question his faith.  Instead, merely submit to him as you would submit to God.

Yes, I am aware that means you will have to have sex with him.  And I am aware that it isn’t going to be a particularly appealing activity.  I won’t say you will enjoy it either.

I am not saying that things will get better if you say with him.  But I know they will get worse for you and for your family, including your extended family.  There is nothing worse than family having to pick sides.

Also, let’s be honest, it will be difficult for you to attract the attentions of another man to marry.  I’m not saying you won’t find one but you are looking at an uphill battle in that regard.

Ignoring the utility of all of this though, what is more important is that you be obedient to God by submitting to your husband and accepting the nature of your oath.

So I implore you to become a better person and take a route no one else recommends and seek God through obedience here and now.  There probably won’t be a reward for it in this life and many people may wonder why you would make a decision but that doesn’t matter.

What matters is what God thinks in all this and what He wants you to do.

I hope and pray that you will lift up all your pain and resentment in all of this to Him and find peace in obedience to Him.

I won’t blame you or condemn you if you decide to ultimately divorce your husband.  That is not what this is about really.  It is simply my own plea to you as a sister to do what is right by God, even if doing what is right seems wrong to you and the rest of the world.

Yours in Christ,

Brother

Glossing Over the Consequences of Sexual Sin

So a little while back I came across an article which put me on edge and really demonstrates why the Christian church in the West is so impotent.  The article is called “Your Sexual Past Doesn’t Make You Damaged Goods” and it really does represent the out of touch nature that many modern Church theologians have with humanity as a whole.

My first grievance is that this article was written for women, though not explicitly so.  Yes, there are men who have some hang-ups on their past flings, but not many.  The vast majority of men don’t regard their past sexual history as something to really cry about and, more important, most women don’t view it as a weakness but a strength in the men they date.  This applies to Christian, Godly women as well.

This is a stealth tactic that many church leaders use in an effort to shame men.  They write general articles about the nature of sexual relations as if the sexes are equal in these regards but with a wink and a nod to the fairer sex.  In this particular case, the idea is to try and shame men into marrying a former slut who has “found Jesus” now that she all used up.

I know, that’s a bit crude, but I suppose that is the worse-case scenario.  More likely, a woman has had 3-4 past partners, a low-level career of some kind, and is looking for a provider and not a husband.  Does that make her a slut?  Probably not considering that 3-4 is the Median average.  But had she not delayed marriage to go to college and build a career, would she have had that kind of sexual history?

I know the point of the article is not to change the world, but to deal with the situation as it stands.  But the way in which Paul Maxwell deals with the situation is distasteful and ultimately merely serves to empower women to deny the reality of their sexual history.

Paul Maxwell highlights two key emotions with regards to past sexual history and dating: impatience and embarrassment.  With embarrassment, he states:

There are a few practical things to remember for those embarrassed by their sexual history. First, don’t play the comparison game. Lack of a sexual history does not equal purity of heart. That’s just not the way the heart works (Matthew 5:28). Nor does lack of sexual history bring relational security. To seek the person with the “cleanest” story is an attempt to control a future—it’s not a search for holiness, but a divine coup d’état, striving to micromanage our own safety and power. It can also belittle the sovereign and sanctifying grace of God. Your history says less about you than an accuser might have you believe. If you’ve truly put your hope in Jesus Christ, and given yourself to a lifelong pursuit of his holiness, your history cannot condemn you anymore.

While I agree that lack of sexual history does not equal purity of heart (Hell, look at some of the Internet Social Justice Warriors as an example), his second point is simply not true.  Lack of sexual history does bring relational security, especially for women:

For his “embarrassment” section, he goes on to suggest that you guard your heart against another person’s manipulation and that you are forgiven by God (or can be) for your past sexual sins.

Again, these are things are true: God does forgive those who repent in the name of Jesus and your shouldn’t be manipulated by people because of a past you have repented from.

But none of that means you won’t have to face the consequences for the things you’ve done in this life.  If I were to murder someone, God would forgive me if I asked for forgiveness in the name of the Son, but I will still end up on death row in order for justice to be served.

No, murder and sexual sin are not the same thing, but I am merely highlighting the truth about our lives.  We can be forgiven for our sins but it does not absolve us of the consequences of those sins.  If you feel embarrassed or ashamed of your sexual history, that’s okay, it means you are human.

Embrace the guilt and the shame and figure out what you need to do in order to resolve it.  Don’t look to other people to assuage your guilt.  Recognize it as a part of your life.

In the second part of his article, Maxwell discusses the impatience that comes from telling your dating partner about your past sexual history.  I’m not going to quote too much here, but the main point of it is that you should be patient with your dating partner after revealing your sexual history.

The trouble with this is that Maxwell offers no advice on whether or not the dating partner leaves.  Generally, I’d expect a man to simply stop dating a woman if he found out she has a very checkered history.  Recall the scene in Clerks where Dante finds out about his current girlfriend’s numerous oral pleasuring of men in her past.  This makes him seriously reconsider his relationship with her.

Yes, that is a movie, but it is very true to life.  If you have a long-term dating partner and you are looking to get engaged, then you will have to disclose your past.  And that may very well mean you lose your partner.

To his credit, Maxwell does address this in his final section.  But he sugar coats it, even using the pagan concept of “Karma” to highlight his point.

There is fallout that we all have to deal with when it comes to our sins.  This is especially true with regards to sexual sin.

One final point I have to make is that Paul Maxwell disregards the true nature of marriage in all of this and instead makes it out as that thing you do at the end of long-term dating.  Marriage is not a social dating contract but a sacred covenant between a man and a woman with the man providing protection, resources, and moral certainty while the woman provides sex, home management, and children.  Yes, that is the ideal case and doesn’t happen in the real world in a perfect way, but ideals are things we strive for in this life.

By glossing over the sexual history of people, Paul Maxwell is really setting up a lot of people for ultimate failure in potential future marriages.  He uses language designed to appeal to women, even though he deceptively targets both men and women.  He also doesn’t really address the standards of Godly dating versus worldly dating and ultimately fails to properly address the issues and hardships that many people, especially women, face when dealing with their sexual history.

In short, your sexual history does make you damaged goods and while this is unfortunate, it is a reality which needs to be faced and dealt with accordingly by both partners.

Child of the Fruit or the Heart?

Was it eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that was Adam and Eve’s sin or was it something else?

This is a rhetorical question because the answer is both.  Eating the fruit and the desire to become like God were both sins against God.  But the intention came before the act.

This is key.  The sin of Adam and Eve was not a desire for knowledge so much as it was a desire to become like God.  It was pride.

God judges the heart.  He looks at who you are, not so much what you’ve done because our desires and thoughts come before our actions.

But still, to this day, there are people who insist that people are naturally good and that it is external things which make them bad.  Generally, it is communists who argue this but the same can be said for social conservatives, libertarians, and most other political ideologies.

The idea is that if we remove ‘X’ (‘X’ being anything that is external to human thought), then people will stop doing ‘Y’ (‘Y’ being anything bad that humans do).  The Left tends to focus on external causes for the failing world from poverty to carbon dioxide.  In their moral worldview, only white, straight, Christian men are born with original sin and must be redeemed through government skools and overpaid non-STEM professor lectures.

On the Right, we see people blaming No-Fault divorce for the high divorce rates, never the women who nuke their families because they’re unhaaapy, blame technology for the rise in porn use, and blame government for inequality.

This is largely why I have much less interest in politics these days and consider myself Anti-Utopian.  I believe that no matter what system of governance you live under, no matter what economic system you live under, and no matter what religion you live under, people are generally shitty. And that means that no matter what, nothing you can do will fix humanity.

So ask yourself, are you a child of the fruit, who blames the inanimate objects for the problems of humanity, or a child of the heart, who blames the problem with people on the sinful desires of people?

The Outsourced Church

The Western Churches these days have by and large outsourced their main callings to other institutions, mainly governments at various levels.

What do I mean by this?  Put simply, churches no longer teach morality and the importance of obeying God but instead focus on salvation and God’s grace.  If the subject of sin is brought up in a sermon, it is usually treated as a way to celebrate the forgiveness of God through the sacrifice and resurrection of His Son Jesus.

This is a wildly narcissistic view of Christianity as it absolves most people of their sins, mainly women, while at the same time alienating potential congregates who are looking for a fatherly church community, not a motherly one.

And yes, this does split along sex differences.  Generally, women don’t like to be told that they are sinners.  Even in more traditional churches which teach the importance of submission, women tend to group themselves into the holier-than-thou cliques.  If a woman is caught behaving in a degenerate way, she is ostracized from the group.

Men, on the other hand, crave certainty in the world.  We tend to be the ones concerned with stable moral codes and ethics which do not fluctuate based on their emotional whims.  This is probably why it is easier for men to hear that they are sinners because we tend to be more concrete in our beliefs and moral ideologies than women.

Of course, this is not to say that men are superior to women when it comes to being righteous but I will say that it is very rare for God to raise up a woman as a prophetess in the Old Testament and that there were no Apostles of the female persuasion.

Why am I highlighting sex differences when I started talking about churches no longer teaching morality?  Quite simply, it has to do with the fact that women are the primary focus of the church these days.

Sure a pastor can go to the pulpit on Father’s Day and bash men for not fulfilling their primary role as husband and father to the families they supposedly have abandoned.  But that same pastor cannot stand on the pulpit and tell women not to divorce their husbands, despite the fact that divorces are primarily initiated by women and not men.

He cannot say that women should stay with their husbands no matter what, that their oath to God, which was made on their wedding day, had no loopholes nor escape clauses.  That the husband was not responsible for her emotional state and that she should, as the Bible dictates, submit to his authority.

Because to say such things in a sermon means the end of his flock.  I would not be surprised if people literally got up and walked out seconds after hearing such things.

But feminism and the pandering to womenfolk is not the only reason for the failure of churches to be the moral beacons of society these days.  There is the fact that 501c3 organizations cannot engage in political discourse.

For example, a church cannot take a moral stand against abortion unless they wish to be audited by the IRS.  And yes, that has happened in the past and will probably happen again.

On top of that, there are many laws on the books which criminalize sin.  Now, I have no problem with laws dictating how to handle criminals, such as murderers, thieves, etc., but at the same time, we are using the law to punish adulterers, drug-users, prostitutes, and gamblers.

We are taking the hammer of government to attack spiritual sickness rather than bringing such people before God and letting His grace touch them.

In essence, the churches in the West have outsourced their responsibilities as moral teachers and preachers to the government, which determines its moral code based on the whims of the electorate and enforces it with a gun pointed to your head.

In order for the church leaders to become a force for good again in this country, they need to take strong and controversial stands against the obvious moral decay of our society.  And not just the easy targets like sexual deviants or murderers but divorce, abortion, single motherhood, and a host of other societal ills which are currently praised rather than condemned.

Maybe then more and more people will take them seriously.

The Feast of Paul’s Conversion

Today is the Feast of Paul’s Conversion on the Anglican calendar.  While it is a lesser feast, it is probably one of the most important ones in my view.

Paul, you see, was basically responsible for the spread of Christianity throughout much of Rome in his day.  At the time of his conversion, the salvation of Jesus was being preached only to other Jews, not non-Jews or Gentiles as they are called.

Now it was Peter who first initiated conversion of the Gentiles at the behest of God via a dream, but it was Paul who was chosen to spread the word.  And so he did.

On top of that, many of his letters are considered to be almost as good as the Gospel itself.  While not incredibly deep in most instances, Paul’s insights demonstrate how he was able to go toe to toe with Greek philosophers in his day.

And so we remember the conversion of Paul, a man who started out trying to murder Christians and who was chosen by God to spread His Word to the Gentiles.  It is a great mystery to me why God would do such a thing, but for whatever reason, He made it possible for someone like me to know the Good News.

The Silence of Christianity

There is an intellectual war going on in the West right now.  It is one that runs deep into the souls of many average people who really just want to work, eat, and play.

But the elites and other assorted snobs of the world cannot abide with people just doing their thing.  Everything has to be micromanaged (regulated) by the State and any competition with the State must be eliminated.

No where is this more apparent than the banishment of Christianity from the mainstream.  You literally cannot talk about God or Jesus positively in any mainstream media event or newscast and those who do are usually treated as crazy or quickly cut from public life.

In the United States, where Christians account for the 70-85% of the population, depending on what poll you look at, this is patently absurd.  If well over two-thirds of the people know about it, have a basic understanding of it, and probably wouldn’t be offended by its mention, then why wouldn’t you talk about it?

This alone should stand as evidence of the dominant culture in our society today.  We have Jesus but we refuse to talk about Him.

Meanwhile, various churches in the US assume that everyone else is corrupt and preach about evangelism.  We don’t need evangelism in the United States, we need people to stop being cowards about their faith.

Granted, there is nothing more annoying than someone who obsesses over a topic.  This is probably where the negative appeal of various Social Justice Warriors comes from as they constantly talk about who white straight men are evil and how women, minorities, and anyone in the LGBT movement are oppressed by them.

After a while, nobody really cares what you are talking about.

Christians are the majority in the United States right now.  Yes, various other groups are on the rise.  Those are trends and still haven’t reached the level that Christianity has.

If a church wants to reach out to the lost, be the quiet place to think about the man in the sky.  Don’t assume that people you meet haven’t heard about God, Jesus, Satan, the Holy Spirit, Heaven, Hell, and everything else.  We’ve all heard it and we all know about it.

As for the Christians out there, don’t be afraid to talk about your faith when the topic is brought up.  Don’t worry about the consequences.  So what if you become a pariah, at least you’ll be one for the right reason.

There is no shame in your faith.  Embrace it and declare it where appropriate.

And when you are questioned about matters of morality, don’t be afraid to point to God as the one who imprinted on all of us His moral code.  No, it isn’t a high-church intellectual position to take.  But chances are the person asking you the question is probably dumb as Hell anyway.

If churches are really serious about standing against the corruption and decadence of the West, they will stand up and fight the erasing of Christianity from the public square and the criminalization of practicing it.

Otherwise, the Muslim hordes will eventually overrun us.  There is no such thing as a post-Christian world because the absence of societal belief or faith is a fractured and broken culture.

The Foolish Church of the West

The modern American church lacks wisdom.  I am talking about Godly wisdom, the kind that Jesus demonstrated time and time again whenever he was addressing the people or his disciples privately.  The Sermon on the Mount is an incredible display of understanding of human nature and an unraveling of why the law laid out by Moses was written.

Sadly, churches these days seem to lack even a fraction of this kind of wisdom.  Yes, it isn’t fair to compare church leaders to Jesus, except for the pope since he often claims to speak on behalf of God and Jesus and the saints and the angels and the rabbits, but at the same time, we do except pastors, priests, and ministers to have some modicum of Godly wisdom bestowed upon them.

My current church is no exception.  During one of the first services I attended, the head pastor told the congregation that the church has an official statement on human sexuality available for us to download.  He was proud of it and said it took the committee he delegated eight months to develop.

Curious, I went and downloaded the document.  I won’t repost it, because it was private church business, but I will describe some of it.  First of all, it was only two pages long.  Instead of a well researched, well developed essay and theological discussion on human sexuality, it was a two page statement.  Keep in mind this took them eight months to finalize.

The statement itself was very generic.  It cited the standard verses about love and marriage while ignoring the verses that go over abominable sexual practices.  It equated homosexual lust to be the same as heterosexual lust (it is not, even a straight-laced heterosexual such as myself knows this), and it condemned past oppressions that church goers have made against homosexuals.

Never mind that there has ever been a mass slaughter organized by a major institution such a church or a government that focused solely on sexual deviants.  The only “oppression” that gay men and women have suffered in this country was really just societal exile.  And only when such persons made a big deal about their sexuality in a narcissistic attempt to justify their hedonistic lifestyle (for you idiots out there: hedonism does not mean gay sex).

In short, the document was disappointing to say the least.  I’m sure I’m not alone in this sentiment in my church as there were probably a few others who felt the same way.  The bottom line was that the church was trying to have it both ways: to appeal to the masses who believe homosexuality is a sin or at the very least disgusting while at the same time appealing to the pro-gay crowd who tend to send men dressed as nuns into churches in order to desecrate what is sacred.

American church leaders need to start stepping up and taking the reins of moral leadership.  They have abdicated this role to the elected officials, citing Romans 13 as justification, and instead sound more like Unitarians than actual Christians.

This will not do.  It is the church which brings together the community and it is the main support mechanism for many people and standing on strong moral values is its primary focus.  Evangelism is great and saving souls is great, but at the same time, you need to secure those souls with God’s Will and encourage them to not stray from it lest they be condemned to Hell.

Season’s Reason

The nature of Jesus is a giant mystery that has plagued many Biblical scholars and other assorted Christian thinkers for centuries.  The main issue is determining who Jesus was exactly, seeing that He was the son of God and at the same time a mortal man.

I believe that when Jesus was first born into our world, for He existed before his birth from Mary, He was born fully human with one additional aspect.  He was the kind of man that all of us were supposed to be.

Recall that when Adam and Eve sinned against God, they created a separation from God for all of humanity.  God Himself would spend time in the Garden of Eden with his new creations.  After the Fall, not even Moses could do that having to settle with viewing God’s back.

Moses himself was given a portion of God’s power.  He hardly used it but was given the freedom to use as he saw fit.  When he misused it, God condemned him and told him that he could not enter the nation of Israel nor lead them to the promised land.

But Jesus was born a human with total access to God and His power.  He had the Holy Spirit upon Him and embodied what was essentially the example of what we should have been.

To me, this is a sobering revelation.  We could have been much, much more in this world but our power, our authority was usurped.  We could have been able to condemn the wind, command the beast, and never starve because food would be plentiful.  Work would be enjoyable, not drudgery, and the world would have been a very different place.

Instead, our headship over this world was taken from us by the greatest coup d'état in the history of mankind.  This world is now under the ownership of Lucifer and his cohorts.  Jesus was merely the first great rebel.  He came to us as the perfect man, one without sin, and with the authority of God backing Him.

He did not misuse his authority but remained obedient to God during His entire Earthly life for to do otherwise would have made Him just another one of us degenerate sinners.

And so we enter the season of celebrating and remembering what God did for us and what His Son did for us.  He entered our world as the perfect human in order to show us what we are supposed to be and to teach us the true ways of God, not through laws or prophecies, but through just practical, simple realities.

Oblivion Thought Processes

I wonder what it is that drives the thinking behind an atheist.  For all intents and purposes, they are a curious bunch to me as they tend to claim to be enlightened and rational, yet behave in a very irrational manner when it comes to all things Christian.

Now, there are atheists who do not acknowledge God yet respect Christians to a degree.  However, there are many who do not and some even go so far as to support Islam because of Islam’s opposition to Christianity.  Of course, they fail to realize that while Christianity spreads usually through peaceful means, Islamic evangelicalism is usually done with swords.

I know, the excuses that atheists make for disliking Christians vary.  From being irrational, which somehow is equated to evil in the atheist mind, to opposition to gays, atheists seem to have such a hatred for Christianity that it appears they are acting completely irrational.

Christianity in the West, especially in the United States, has not been perfect over the centuries.  There have been cases where madness overtook the Church, that is the community of believers, and it suffered in many ways as a result.

At the same, all of the grievances that most atheists have against Christians usually involve events that neither took place in their lifetime nor were any current Christians involved in.  A lot of times, it involves historical illiteracy as well, especially when it comes to the Crusades.

Look, I don’t care what you believe, provided your belief is honest and peaceful.  If you don’t believe in Jesus, I won’t try and reason you into conversion.  I’m no good at evangelism or simply spreading the Gospel to others.

The best thing I can do is witness to what I know.  I have experienced things which cannot be explained by science or any other rational discipline.  Whether you believe them or not is of no concern to me.

Besides, if I’m wrong, then my death will come and nothing else happens.  If the atheist is wrong, then he’s going to Hell.