Pray for the progressive cannon fodder [muslims, that is you. gays, that is you]

Today is the last day of daylight saving in New Zealand. It is almost 8 am, and it is dawn. The nights are getting long, and from tomorrow the nights will be longer. And during this season of Lent (despite the fact I don’t have a seasonal theology) I have been posting with the lectionary blogposts a picture from Florence. This photo was taken in the courtyard of a monastery church, and it reflects some things that are occurring.

For the night is falling. The overt symbols of Christendom are deemed offensive: the acts of the Mozilla foundation indicate that anyone who is deemed politically incorrect is to be punished. This is frightening even the secularists who understand the need for freedom of conscience and speech, Let us say that Mozilla is going, and since I don’t use Windows (and do not recommend IE if you do) I suggest people switch to Chromium or Opera.

There is a reason for this resistance: a reason for my fear. The Liberal Arts have fallen, and I mourn. They are threatening to take down natural philosophy and clinical science, and I fear. Consider this example, based on a ban on dealing with Isreal made by an American Academic Society, based on reasons of “social justice”.

Clearly this is the enforcement of a moral orthodoxy — or, rather, an enforced set of rules about permitted academic investigation or engagement which are in turn based on a preconceived moral orthodoxy. It’s quite telling that the ultimate justification, the “punch line” if you will, is that of having “the moral upper hand”. This is the ultimate “moral” (in reality, ideological) basis which justifies the accepted orthodoxy of one’s actions, and which trumps the academic freedom of any dissenters from such “consensus” orthodoxy. Of course, while being both banal and unsurprising, it is nevertheless ironic (and an irony that appears completely lost on most of the academy, alas) that a group which has claimed inherited solidarity with Galileo in the face of his persecution for articulating ideas which went against the orthodoxy of his day has now completely turned around, and essentially become its own perceived caricature of what it has despised — namely fulfilling to a tee the academy’s caricature of the Christian church as an ideologically-based enforcer of an orthodoxy of ideas, based on a set of moral principles held in consensus by its own appointed few. What we are witnessing is nothing less than the “coming out party” of a new church — complete with a priesthood, monasteries and an emergent, and zealously enforced, orthodoxy.

First they came for the Jews… then the Catholics… and now those who do not praise the Gays. To the horror of the old-school gay activists, who simply wanted the freedom to love and live: not that their acts, along with abortion, would become a compelled sacrament of a new religion.

But our duty remains clear. Let them do evil. We will do good, and we will do good not merely to the righteous, but also to the evil.

ROMANS 12:1-21

¹I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. ²Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God – what is good and acceptable and perfect.

³For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. ⁴For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, ⁵so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. ⁶We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ⁷ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; ⁸the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.

⁹Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; ¹⁰love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. ¹¹Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. ¹²Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. ¹³Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.

¹⁴Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. ¹⁵Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. ¹⁶Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. ¹⁷Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. ¹⁸If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. ¹⁹Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”²⁰No, “if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.” ²¹Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

In this time, we need to know how to live, and this will lead to us sticking out. We will be outed: (I outed myself some time ago). We will need to live righteously, which is as much about living in humility and with knowledge that we are as vulnerable to the sins of this age as any pagan as it is choosing to remain married, to serve our children and our spouses and our God. To preach against those who see God as some provider of miraculous plans, and instead about duty, honour, and nobility.

And we need to pray for those who are being drafted in as footsoldiers by the Antichristian Academy.

We can see that our academics are the new priesthood. But who are the foot soldiers? They are the victim classes favored by liberals. Homosexuals appear to sit at the top of the victim class foot solider hierarchy, as Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich recently discovered, but Muslims are not far below them. That is why UCLA-Berkley’s Center for Race and Gender hosts the Annual International Conference on the Study of Islamophobia.

I have ideological and theological problems with Homosexuality as an ideology, but not with homosexuals. Homosexuality is a sin, but so is fornication, gluttony, envy and spite: I am guilty of all of those. (And I deeply love my oldest daughter, and regret that I did not raise her). One cannot be self righteous when you have broken the same commandments.
In the church, as a divorced male. I am commanded to continence and self control, as are they (and when you are married, the same issues occur).

I am more scared of Muslims, because they have a track record of martyring Christians just because their presence offends them. The massacre of Copts, which is occurring at this time, is evil.

But when they are drafted into an ideology of intolerant tolerance, into a politics of identity which enslaves them in a victim class, then these people are being oppressed, and deserve our support and our prayers.

For we forget, that despite the blood stains on Christendom and Islam… and the Hindu, Buddhists and others who have cheerfully gone killing in the name of God, the biggest mass murderers were progressive socialists — from the Jacobites to the Red Terror they have killed as a matter of policy, and not for a God but for their ideology.

We need to see this new priesthood as the resurgence of progressive paganism. We saw that in Germany and in Russia last century, and it did not go well. But no one reads history anymore, and it seems we are fated to repeat it.