Christ is the centre [I Jn 5]

Yesterday I was reading on the phone and was about to comment on a meeting that the Faceborg executives have with a bunch of Mormons and republicans, when the phone decided to go stupid, and the comment was lost. In short, someone said “but… Romney and Beck and these Republicans are members of the church and married to their wives and you all are not. You are all evil!”

The trouble is that it was at Vox Day’s site. He’s married, and he is a Lutheran. That is public knowledge. The protocol there is no one uses real names because the site is not safe: Human Resources hate those who discuss the alt right. (Folks, use your home computer and a non work email).

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One does not know about the marriages. One does see an error. Which is that external virtue and belonging to a church, or cult — for the Mormons are not a church — is not what it takes to be a Christian. As the late, great Keith Green used to say, going to church makes you a Christian as much as going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger.

What makes us a Christian is Christ. The only thing that makes us a Christian is Christ.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

(1 John 5:1-12 ESV)

Let us not delude ourselves. Those who will call God a liar hate those who are of God. This picture, from a meeting of feminists trying to dissect what they see as a misogynist fight against their triumphant narrative, has an inadvertent truth, as Cane (Those we have heard and Known) notes.

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It looks to me as she has the ability to group us properly, but not to name us. There is a common core to that central group which she has erroneously called “Trad Cons”.

  • Vox Day (also owner of AlphaGamePlan) is a patriarchal Christian
  • Dalrock is a patriarchal Christian
  • 8to12 (owner of Masculine by Design) is a patriarchal Christian
  • I am a patriarchal Christian

A cursory review of the other two sites doesn’t reveal to me whether the other two blogs are written by patriarchal Christians, but if they are not now they should be before the sun sets because this is where the fight is.

These blind and deaf feminists of N.I.C.E. University College London don’t know what to call this thing upon which they have stumbled, or what is the stuff of which we are made. But they know it is central, and they instinctively know to fear it most. That core which we cling to in strength and stand upon in surety, and that fear which they cannot properly name, is Jesus Christ.

The witness of Christ: his baptism, his blood shed for our faults and sins on the cross, and the work of the spirit in reforming our lives, is greater than any witness in this world.

So do not fear them. Do not agree with them. Do not give such positions of power: for they love to be in human resources and staff lawyers and regulate the workplace, while contributing not a whit to the productivity thereof.

Choose Christ.

And know that the Church contains those who preach error. It did in the time of St Paul and St John. They did not write their letters as PhD dissertations, but to correct errors that were happening. This letter was written because the Gnostics, as the Freemasons and Mormons and the more stupid Gramscian theologians, saw levels and mysticism and a need to gain knowledge as if they could add to the work of Christ, despite the clear knowledge that none of us could do what he did: live righteously, and then die to redeem the world.

For Christ is the centre. Without him, all will fall and fail.

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