05/24/2021
[See Also: Then They Came For “Christian Nationalism” — Pastor Bret McAtee vs. America’s Hostile Elite by Kevin Sullivan, May 22, 2021]
Broadly speaking, if you are on the Right, you are generally more skeptical of the idea of democracy and more favorable towards the idea of elite rule. However, what passes for the "elite" or the ruling class in American institutions isn’t just hostile to the people. It’s generally incompetent and unimpressive.
This is especially true when it comes to America’s so-called Christian leaders. Instead of tending their flock and providing moral leadership, they have been systematically feeding their parishioners and congregations to the wolves when it comes to mass immigration and the national question. Allan Wall has done heroic work on the divide between sellout pastors and their generally patriotic congregations. There has been some progress, with Russell Moore finally being driven out of the Southern Baptist leadership, but there’s a long way to go.
Debating what the Bible "really" means about this or that political issue is a hopeless task, as there are countless interpretations. Nonetheless, in the Old Testament, there’s a fairly direct reference to Replacement Migration as divine punishment for breaking the divine law. The power and prosperity of the nation are directly linked to following the commandments.
So for example, in Deuteronomy 28:1 (New International Version), we read: "If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth."
However, in Deuteronomy 28: 43-44, we read that if a people does not obey the divine law: "The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail."
All this is in the midst of other curses and punishments that God will impose on the nation that won’t obey His laws. The point is that the nation’s temporal power in this world, in this life, is to serve as an example to others. In fact, national destruction of this kind is intended to be "a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever."
This not only is implicit recognition that the Bible recognizes that different nations and peoples exist and that their existence is divinely ordained, but that dispossession is regarded as one of the worst punishments that can befall a people. It’s thus strange to hear apparently Christian leaders preach a creed which implies Americans (and Westerners generally) have a kind of moral duty to replace and destroy themselves. What exactly are they basing this on? It’s not Scripture.
My point here is not to start a religious dispute or claim that we have a moral duty to embrace one faith or another. Instead, it’s to note that whatever one thinks about Christianity, it’s only been in the last few years that priests and pastors have decided that it mandates national self-annihilation. What’s being preached now is a genuinely new religion [BLMania and the New Progressive Faith, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, July 29, 2020].
When some new "woke" pastor starts babbling that there’s a Christian duty to fight "whiteness" and identity, there’s little Biblical or historic justification for this. They just want some good press and good pay in the here and now, not some reward in the hereafter. I don’t see any reason that sincere Christians, let alone anyone else, should give them any kind of moral standing.
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