One of my good friends, the man who recruited me into the job I had, is a skeptic. An old style freethinker. And, it being the time of year it is, he held is Christmas party. His partner, who he met at the skeptics society, had some of her friends, and we had a good conversation about pop culture, gaming, and restoring 150 year old houses.

We did not talk about political correctness, nor religion. It was an academic party, and there are certain areas that are, by mutual agreement, left unspoken. My friend knows where I stand: and like most Dunedin residents, there is enough reality here that one cannot fall completely into the social justice rabbit hole. A mortgage, I found, concentrates the mind wonderfully.

New Zealand has never been as rich as the USA. We can not afford to be as stupid as the academics and left are there.

Even Bill Clinton, a weasel without an honest bone in his body, announced the era of big government to be over, and took the first step to dismantling the American version of Marxism, Johnson’s Great Society. If he saw socialism as a failure, anyone can see it.

And so the criticism changed strategy. In the shadow of the Holocaust of Jews by the Nazis, where Nazism became the synonym for evil in a world which has ceased to speak of the Devil, racism was identified as the main scourge and flaw of the West, and attempts to eradicate racism by means of embracing multiculturalism became the norm.

This is ironic. Tribalism, racism, and the presumed superiority of one’s own bloodline over any foreigners is the norm of human existence, and only the Christian religion gives anyone any reason to condemn it. Here in the West and here alone is anyone even concerned at calling it evil or trying to eliminate it. It would be like the West trying to wipe out polygamy, when we are the only ones whose culture rejects polygamy. No one else sees it as wrong.

Be that as it may. Multiculturalism is not a doctrine, it is an attitude: the attitude is to praise inferior and savage societies in any ways in which they differ from Christendom, and to blame, scold, vilify and upbraid Christendom for any ways in which we differ from Utopia. It is the attitude of a nagging wife unwilling to divorce a hard-working husband and provider she hates and loathes. Multiculturalism is nagging.

The nagging is based on the idea that all cultures are equal, and all equally provide for human liberty and human happiness. Skyscraper and yurt: the same. Cathedral and igloo: the same. Wright Brothers and the Cargo Cult of Melanesia: the same. American cosmetics industry and pre-Western Chinese practice of breaking the bones in baby girls’ feet for footbinding: the same. Western abolition of slavery and Hindu caste system: the same. Medical Doctors and Witch-Doctors: the same. Scientific agriculture and Maori cannibalism: the same. Progress and stagnation: the same. Christian martyr and Muslim suicide bomber: the same. Jesus and Mohammed: the same.

You see, the liberal people and their ideas of correctness and nagging: The liberals existed in the time of Christ, and they were relativist, and like the modern petunias, they denied the resurrection and ignored God, seeking only power.

And like them, they nagged. They were akin to gravel in a shoe.

The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third, down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.” And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

(Matthew 22:23-33 ESV)

The foundation of our faith is Christ. The words of Christ are reliable. Belief in Christ saves us: unbelief in Christ damns us. And he talks of heaven. He talks of the resurrection of the dead. He talks of a kingdom that is not fallen, but is to come, where there will be justice and it will not be corrupt. The foundation of our faith is the words of Christ, and not our feelings.

And not the narrative of the elite, who nag us, telling us what to say and think.

John Wright is correct in the attitude of the petunias, and their agenda for destruction. It would be easy if we could remove them completely from our life: but we cannot do so in the smaller towns that I live in. We can choose not to hire — and avoid HR (these people know that some of their most productive colleagues would never, ever get through a politically correct human resources screen).

But by living correctly we are bearing witness. And why we are in their lives, we may be able to remind them that there is another way. God may make them see that their ways are a lie: for at present these people are hardened into rebellion.

This is why you have to turn your back on them. This is why you have to reject them and refuse to have anything to do with them. They literally live in a different reality than you do; it is no less influential on their attitude and behavior than the real world despite being entirely imaginary.

There is one thing, and only one thing, capable of reliably cutting through the Unreality Principle and that is Jesus Christ. Logic can’t. Science can’t. Rhetoric can’t. Bonhomie and good will to Men can’t.

Jesus himself told his disciples to turn their backs and brush the dirt from their feet in response to those who would not listen. Do the same.

I do not live or work in the elite universities in the richest towns in the world. New Zealand is not that rich: Otago University is not in the top 50 universities in the world: we struggle to remain in the top 200. But the lack of resources mean we have to be creative, think sideways, and work together. A brother in faith, suggested that I attend his research meeting to get a place to discuss ideas and get solutions: another brother in faith is working on a clinical trial. We need to witness where we are.

For even in the senior common room there are those of Christ remain in NZ. Because we are poor: we cannot afford the purge. In those places where the purge is occurring, one will either need to speak, or run. And they will fail, regardless of their money or prestige.

For it is far better to be less endowed and have salvation than be praised, have power and riches, and be damned.