I have always been politically aware, and I am generally not that averse about talking about these things. When you have situations that are occurring at present: the hard left combining with a race baiting bunch of Maori Grievance parties and a certain person the FBI want who has a signed copy of Mein Kampf: well the snark happens. They have been called dotcommunists. They call themselves Mana Internet: it took one day for that to be Manazi.

And at the same time people are petitioning to stop the first (horror) men’s rights conference in Detroit. I thought they should be praised for holding it in Detroit in the first place.

It is so easy to confront these things. To reduce the pompous to fools. To prick the prigs. For they are powerless, and homourless. But the church has to look at other things.

We need to be aware of the weather, but returning outrage with outrage, political manoeuvre with political manoeuvre will notwork. We are not allied with the spirit of this age, which wants to control the narrative, and hold onto power at all costs. We would rather let the truth out.

Ephesians 2:1-10

¹You were dead through the trespasses and sins ²in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. ³All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else. ⁴But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us ⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you have been saved – ⁶and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God – ⁹not the result of works, so that no one may boast. ¹⁰For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

For we are not relying on justice, nor are we demanding justice. We are relying on mercy. For as God was rich in mercy, so should we be. And this does involve a certain amount of confrontation. If a path is dangerous we should warn people: it is akin to putting a fence at the top of the cliff, not at the bottom.

This is why the current ideologies are so destructive. They blind people to their own guilt. In the fear that people will not have self-esteem, we shelter all from the consequences of their actions, do not teach people to do the hard, the tough, and then we wonder why people have no resilience, no spine, and no courage.

Without the conscience that points back at us telling us that we are indeed fallen there is no sense of shame, no need to reform, no need to improve, and no need to turn for help. Christ is merciful. But this world is harsh, and proud. And this world lies: it is called fat acceptance. It is called avoiding trigger phrases. It is called checking your privilege, or “blame whitey(or the Chinese and Indians)”.

We see it in the death spiral of the Left, where many activists have accepted an alliance with Dotcom, for 4 million of funds. We see it in the enforced cones of silence where no behaviour is forbidden except a discussion of the consequences of lifestyle.

We see it in the hatred of the Church, whenever the church preaches the law, and the law is part of the gospel.

And this does not matter, For we should not be of this world, nor like them.