A time to smash the idols of this age [Deut 12]

Within the church we should have zero tolerance of other faiths. There is a difference between working between those who are of Christ but worship in another way and those who deny Christ is Lord, and want to invade our congregations and leave us only with the form of religion.

While removing the power of it.

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There is a place for iconoclasm: when we find the pagan within us we must purge it. Remove the books. Destroy the statues. We shall worship Christ alone.

And not say that all religions are equal. They have never been equal. There is but one way to Salvation, and that is the one deemed by the Almighty, which is Christ.

Deuteronomy 12:1-12

1These are the statutes and ordinances that you must diligently observe in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to occupy all the days that you live on the earth.

2You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree. 3Break down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their sacred poles with fire, and hew down the idols of their gods, and thus blot out their name from their places. 4You shall not worship the LORD your God in such ways. 5But you shall seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes as his habitation to put his name there. You shall go there, 6bringing there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, your votive gifts, your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks. 7And you shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households together, rejoicing in all the undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

8You shall not act as we are acting here today, all of us according to our own desires, 9for you have not yet come into the rest and the possession that the LORD your God is giving you. 10When you cross over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is allotting to you, and when he gives you rest from your enemies all around so that you live in safety, 11then you shall bring everything that I command you to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, and all your choice votive gifts that you vow to the LORD. 12And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you together with your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levites who reside in your towns (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).

The reason that the Israelites were told to destroy the idols was that they were to worship God alone. Having the old idols around meant that they would be tempted to follow the god under every tree, as the pagan Canaanites did before them.

The Canaanites were as evil as the current crop of Australian Greens. They practiced child sacrifice and ritual prostitution. There was as much justice in removing them as the Aztecs who mass sacrificed slaves to the Sun.

As they were commanded to have nothing to do with them, so should we have nothing to do with those who would regulate our worship and geld our teaching for the current idols of antiracism and tolerance.

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It is time to destroy the sacred spaces that the elite want. Scorn their scholars. Pack the Koran with bacon and burn it. Shut the mosques. Destroy the Human Rights Commissions. Tar and feather their lawyers.

Preach conversion, practice discrimination. We are one in Christ, but the limit is that this is in Christ. It does not include those without the Spirit, many of whom are in our churches signalling their virtue with more energy than they ever put into prayer.

For it is only when we follow the teachings of Christ, which were once well known in the West, that we will have health, and our souls will find peace.