A couple of days ago I was asked about the Alt Christian movement. I want to reiterate the main point: We are going to have to fight for our churches, and take them back. There are too many with other agendas. They want us to remain part of society, and confirm the neuroses of this time, praise the evil inherent within them, and never condemn.
But at the same time ban smoking.
At work, I will tell you to stop smoking. I have seen too many people die of the consequences. I’d like to be able to tell you to wife or husband (depending on your sex) one person, because I’ve seen too many people die of cervical cancer, and I now know of people who have had extensive surgery for throat cancer — and both are caused, frequently, by human papilloma virus. Since we are broken and break the rules ourselves, we do have vaccines against such.
But there is no vaccine, no technical response to a broken heart.
And there is no way to remove those who would damn our church and make us worship idols but by force. In New Zealand this idol is often a treaty signed between the Maori and the Queen’s representative in 1840. Our government demands that we honour the treaty, but says nothing about God.
It is as much of an idol as the U.S. Constitution or the Canadian code of rights and responsibilities.
They need us to go full Elijah. And burn them down.
9At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there.
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 10He answered, “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”
11He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; 12and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. 13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 14He answered, “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.” 15Then the LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram. 16Also you shall anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah as prophet in your place. 17Whoever escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall kill; and whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill. 18Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
17Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. 18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. 19They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20That is not the way you learned Christ! 21For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. 22You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, 23and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
25So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. 26Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and do not make room for the devil. 28Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 29Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
Do not say that we do not have idols. We do. They include much of the lore within the fitness community, the current fetishism of degeneracy, and the worship of democracy. I would love to see Christians worship freely in Persia, but that will take a strong man government, for the majority of that country are Muslim, and they would block vote.
And the current new age ideas have become too religious to mention, as has pseudoscience such as global warming.
These things we need to shun. We need to be gentle. Our talk needs to be deliberate. We should not sin in our anger, and my anger is growing as fools assume that tangata (Maori Custom) is true worship. My Maori Christian mates confirm that it is not. It is as cultural as pavlova on Christmas day.
We must not be like the pagans. Most of us are.
But there are enough of us still standing and seeking the truth. Do not give up. Not all have kissed the arse of Molech, or embraced the temple whores of Asherah.