The most important role of cultural Christianity may be as a bulwark against totalitarian Islam. Christianity permits western values, such as freedom and individualism, because it is the source of those values. Islam permits little in the way of intellectual freedom and requires submission to the group. As James Pew suggests, cultural Christianity is a castle in a time of strife or siege.
Yes because Jesus gives us the FREEDOM to choose, and He also is about not worshipping the false godls.! In other words totalitarianism is about worshipping another man who has perceptions in how to run things. Which is a sort of slavery!
Fredom of choice is the premise of Christianity. The simple message of Jesus was 'HARM NO ONE.' If anything is told to you by the ‘church’ violates that law, then it is not Christian, it is false. One has the free will to violate this guidance, but Kharma quickly ensues ( it is sound advice for avoiding trouble).
CINOs (Christians in Name Only) need to reflect on their role in reaping the benefits of Christianity, while failing to defend the faithful who, for thousands of years, have upheld the values, principles and attributes of Christianity.
The false church today was revealed by COVID-19 adherence. Anyone who obeyed the government was not walking with Jesus. Romans 13 has been bastardised by the government to keep you under their heel.
I am endeavouring to read each chapter of the doctrine of Lesser Magistrates, into the podcast. I think it is essential reading.
Roman 13 has been manipulated by government. Here is me reading chapter 3 of the Doctrin of the Lesser Magistrates with commentary, which eviserates this false reading: Check it out.
The war against cultural Christianity is a war against what our ancestors created, those who built this country that so many of us, Christian and non-Christian, love. It is a war against those who still tend the flame of Christianity. We have seen, over the past 10 years, what this war has wrought; it is a colder, meaner, crueler society, one that bears little resemblance to the one for which our ancestors gladly fought and died.
I agree with much of your points but it is important to understand what a "cultural Christian" is
"cultural christian" or the default setting of our culture is a reflection of high class morality.
High class morality is 'woke-ism'.
"The virtue signaling of an exclusive club.
Luxury ideas signal their virtue and are evermore ridiculous as a signal of denying reality to validate one’s virtue and membership. To be able to work with everyone and anyone no matter the cost. Diversity groups that cause dissention, disadvantage, or disaster are the price to pay for membership in that exclusive ruling class.
“I am so virtuous I can burn this company to the ground for the sake of diversity.”
The fetishization of the poor, the weak and the freaks is at the core of virtue signaling."
Some call it woke, others call it secular humanism. It is best understood as a Christian hearsay where God is removed to place: scientism, utopianism, consumerism/hedonism/materialism, cosmopolitanism. Through management and massification.
We cannot ignore that Woke is a western phenomena.
We must revive Christian communities that focus on families and spiritual health.
You can call them "cultural Christians," but many, like "cultural Jews," have in fact converted to the Progressive Religion. This means that they will side with indigenes against "colonial settlers," and with Palestinian jihadists (jihad=religious war) against Jewish Zionists. Cultural Christians are not only not a "bulwark against totalitarian Islam" (apologies to Jim), they are an ally of it, claiming that jihadi terrorism is in fact a liberation struggle against colonial oppression. Progressives side the people who want to kill us all.
Anything I can do about the Churches? I feel this is so surreal that people aren't taking this seriously? I've been too focused on my own community's struggles since OCT 7 that I have been sticking my head in the sand about this topic.
The simple message of Jesus was 'HARM NO ONE.' If anything is told to you by the ‘church’ violates that law, then it is not Christian, it is false. One has the free will to violate this guidance, but Kharma quickly ensues ( it is sound advice for avoiding trouble).
God gave you the miracle of life to live it. Self-defence does not violate this law because God wants you to live free and multiply, not be a punching bag for tyrants. Dying without a fight helps neither you, your family or your community. Remember who you are.
How? It's on you for proof. And the oppressed resisting and burning a structure with no one in it isn't oppression. Taking the churches tax breaks isn't oppression.
Lets forget about the political arguments around oppression and cut to the chase. Arson is a crime under the Criminal Code found in sections 433 to 436 (1), including endangering a life and setting a fire for fraudulent purposes. Arson carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if the charge is prosecuted as an indictable offence. Pretending that imaginary graves and delusional claims about genocide are legitimate grounds for burning down a church or any other building is complete and utter nonsense. If you really believe you are oppressed maybe you should move to Gaza. Should you do so, I will be happy to help you pack your bags and drive you to the airport.
Did I say I did? However, I'm not surprised far-right religious zombies tried to paint me as a criminal. When your people came into the land and murdered millions. Then you unlawfully continue to occupy.
When speaking of the foundations of Western culture, it's important to note the difference between the religion and the principles Christ stands for. The principles brought us justice and human dignity. As well as much positive, the religion brought us the crusades, which killed millions over hundreds of years. As I'm sure many in the 13th-18th centuries noted, Christian cultures have not always been free, dignified societies. It takes more than religion because religious leaders have agendas and don't always live by the principles they espouse. Sometimes they instigate killing in God's name and their followers follow.
There is definitely a move to destroy Western culture. Wokeness is one aspect of many. Its mandates inserted into schools and churches offend most religious groups and many others. But is this Christian persecution specifically? Was the burning of churches persecution? Or was it backlash, despite it being based on a false story? Burning of churches after the Kamloops story was terrible. But we shouldn't forget that synagogues and mosques are also targeted depending on the news cycle.
Persecution is the infliction of systemic mistreatment, loss, pain, or death for one's beliefs. This really IS happening to Christians elsewhere. It's horrific. But all of us are targets of the bid to destroy the West, demoralize us and control our every move. It seems somewhat disparaging of what Christians elsewhere and all Canadians are going through, to say this is persecution of Christians as a distinct group. Unless there is more to go on, I'm not convinced it's Christians, versus what we call Christian principles and Western culture, that are under attack.
The most important role of cultural Christianity may be as a bulwark against totalitarian Islam. Christianity permits western values, such as freedom and individualism, because it is the source of those values. Islam permits little in the way of intellectual freedom and requires submission to the group. As James Pew suggests, cultural Christianity is a castle in a time of strife or siege.
Yes because Jesus gives us the FREEDOM to choose, and He also is about not worshipping the false godls.! In other words totalitarianism is about worshipping another man who has perceptions in how to run things. Which is a sort of slavery!
Fredom of choice is the premise of Christianity. The simple message of Jesus was 'HARM NO ONE.' If anything is told to you by the ‘church’ violates that law, then it is not Christian, it is false. One has the free will to violate this guidance, but Kharma quickly ensues ( it is sound advice for avoiding trouble).
Amen to this!
Christianity is the antithesis of collectivism. That is why the collectivists need to destroy it to bring in their utopia.
CINOs (Christians in Name Only) need to reflect on their role in reaping the benefits of Christianity, while failing to defend the faithful who, for thousands of years, have upheld the values, principles and attributes of Christianity.
The false church today was revealed by COVID-19 adherence. Anyone who obeyed the government was not walking with Jesus. Romans 13 has been bastardised by the government to keep you under their heel.
I am endeavouring to read each chapter of the doctrine of Lesser Magistrates, into the podcast. I think it is essential reading.
Roman 13 has been manipulated by government. Here is me reading chapter 3 of the Doctrin of the Lesser Magistrates with commentary, which eviserates this false reading: Check it out.
https://soberchristiangentlemanpodcast.substack.com/p/s1-dlm-chapter-3-reading-and-commentary
Here is a link to the whole book:
https://archive.org/details/doctrineoflesser0000trew/page/n1/mode/1up
The church burnings are horrible, as is Trudeau's hypocritical non-response.
Thanks to Jamil Jivani!
Excellent exposition and analysis of an important theme - cheers!
The war against cultural Christianity is a war against what our ancestors created, those who built this country that so many of us, Christian and non-Christian, love. It is a war against those who still tend the flame of Christianity. We have seen, over the past 10 years, what this war has wrought; it is a colder, meaner, crueler society, one that bears little resemblance to the one for which our ancestors gladly fought and died.
I agree with much of your points but it is important to understand what a "cultural Christian" is
"cultural christian" or the default setting of our culture is a reflection of high class morality.
High class morality is 'woke-ism'.
"The virtue signaling of an exclusive club.
Luxury ideas signal their virtue and are evermore ridiculous as a signal of denying reality to validate one’s virtue and membership. To be able to work with everyone and anyone no matter the cost. Diversity groups that cause dissention, disadvantage, or disaster are the price to pay for membership in that exclusive ruling class.
“I am so virtuous I can burn this company to the ground for the sake of diversity.”
The fetishization of the poor, the weak and the freaks is at the core of virtue signaling."
Some call it woke, others call it secular humanism. It is best understood as a Christian hearsay where God is removed to place: scientism, utopianism, consumerism/hedonism/materialism, cosmopolitanism. Through management and massification.
We cannot ignore that Woke is a western phenomena.
We must revive Christian communities that focus on families and spiritual health.
You can call them "cultural Christians," but many, like "cultural Jews," have in fact converted to the Progressive Religion. This means that they will side with indigenes against "colonial settlers," and with Palestinian jihadists (jihad=religious war) against Jewish Zionists. Cultural Christians are not only not a "bulwark against totalitarian Islam" (apologies to Jim), they are an ally of it, claiming that jihadi terrorism is in fact a liberation struggle against colonial oppression. Progressives side the people who want to kill us all.
Anything I can do about the Churches? I feel this is so surreal that people aren't taking this seriously? I've been too focused on my own community's struggles since OCT 7 that I have been sticking my head in the sand about this topic.
The simple message of Jesus was 'HARM NO ONE.' If anything is told to you by the ‘church’ violates that law, then it is not Christian, it is false. One has the free will to violate this guidance, but Kharma quickly ensues ( it is sound advice for avoiding trouble).
God gave you the miracle of life to live it. Self-defence does not violate this law because God wants you to live free and multiply, not be a punching bag for tyrants. Dying without a fight helps neither you, your family or your community. Remember who you are.
Are you really suggesting that when oppressed individuals retaliate against their oppressors, it's considered oppression?
I am suggesting that Canadian Christians are indeed oppressed, and that something should be done about it.
How? It's on you for proof. And the oppressed resisting and burning a structure with no one in it isn't oppression. Taking the churches tax breaks isn't oppression.
Are you involved in the burning of any Canadian churches?
“It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.”
Removing them from treaties they had no business on isn't defined as oppression either.
“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
Lets forget about the political arguments around oppression and cut to the chase. Arson is a crime under the Criminal Code found in sections 433 to 436 (1), including endangering a life and setting a fire for fraudulent purposes. Arson carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if the charge is prosecuted as an indictable offence. Pretending that imaginary graves and delusional claims about genocide are legitimate grounds for burning down a church or any other building is complete and utter nonsense. If you really believe you are oppressed maybe you should move to Gaza. Should you do so, I will be happy to help you pack your bags and drive you to the airport.
MEEGWETCH
Also, I'm a survivor of residential school, and I was almost taken, but I still ended up in a day school. I bet you deny the holocaust, too.
A wise man thinks twice before speaking once.
Did I say I did? However, I'm not surprised far-right religious zombies tried to paint me as a criminal. When your people came into the land and murdered millions. Then you unlawfully continue to occupy.
Can't wait for the ANNEX.
I can't wait to take a Zannex.
When speaking of the foundations of Western culture, it's important to note the difference between the religion and the principles Christ stands for. The principles brought us justice and human dignity. As well as much positive, the religion brought us the crusades, which killed millions over hundreds of years. As I'm sure many in the 13th-18th centuries noted, Christian cultures have not always been free, dignified societies. It takes more than religion because religious leaders have agendas and don't always live by the principles they espouse. Sometimes they instigate killing in God's name and their followers follow.
There is definitely a move to destroy Western culture. Wokeness is one aspect of many. Its mandates inserted into schools and churches offend most religious groups and many others. But is this Christian persecution specifically? Was the burning of churches persecution? Or was it backlash, despite it being based on a false story? Burning of churches after the Kamloops story was terrible. But we shouldn't forget that synagogues and mosques are also targeted depending on the news cycle.
Persecution is the infliction of systemic mistreatment, loss, pain, or death for one's beliefs. This really IS happening to Christians elsewhere. It's horrific. But all of us are targets of the bid to destroy the West, demoralize us and control our every move. It seems somewhat disparaging of what Christians elsewhere and all Canadians are going through, to say this is persecution of Christians as a distinct group. Unless there is more to go on, I'm not convinced it's Christians, versus what we call Christian principles and Western culture, that are under attack.
And how does this show a difference between the ruling class protestant Christians and the ethnic Christians getting oppressed?