Some quotes from today. The issue that Spengler addresses is not limited to our Roman brothers and sisters. The same idea of what the good is has infested the heirarchy of the State Church: be they Lutheran, Anglican or Presbyterian. They have decided they need to virtue signal so they are seen as good, and proper, and acceptable to society.

Germany’s leaders have nothing of significance to say about the worst outbreak of sexual assaults in Germany since the Red Army moved out after World War II. Why won’t they do anything? Answer: for the same reason that the Catholic Church insists that Islam is a religion of peace. The alternative–watching from a distance a civilizational collapse in real time with its attendant horrors–is too terrible for Angela Merkel or Pope Francis I to contemplate. They would rather take casualties than absorb the horror of the situation. The root of the problem is theological. The West is paralyzed by its own notion of the good.

But the church is to stand as a witness in its generation. Of the errors of that generation. If we preach a lie, we will leave the truth, and die, and wither. So we need to discuss what is happening, because it is ugly.

And not try to project the blame elsewhere. The elite sell their approval: including the modern indulgences such as carbon credits or checking for ethical virtue such as free range, organic certification, or fair trade.

I fear that when the reprisals come, they will also target the church. I wish I could say it was unjustified. In their rush to virtue-signal by coddling migrants, many of our fellow Christians have unwittingly conspired to attack their host societies. Let us pray that such a crisis is averted and that the Body of Christ learns to love its neighbors.

Spengler, who is not of the faith, considers the spectrum of protestantism, and suggests that only the Calvinists have the ability to handle this. He is wrong: for what he sees as Calvinism is standard theology, as preached by the Church fathers. Roman and Orthodox theologians have considered and preach that some are damned. But where he is correct is that he notes universalism is an error.

A final thought: At one end of the Christian spectrum, the doctrine of universal salvation requires us to believe that everyone is potentially good, or at least receptive to the good. Merkel is inclined towards this view, as are most German Christians (who believe that for them to be forgiven, everyone has to be forgiven). I suspect that Pope Francis thinks this way, too. George W. Bush, a mainline Methodist, also is a universal salvationist, judging from his Second Inaugural Address. At the other end of the Christian spectrum we have the Calvinist assertion that grace is given only to an Elect. America’s Civil War was the great Calvinist crusade against evil, when Union soldiers sang a paraphrase of Isaiah 63. If we insist on believing that there is an inherent good in everyone, the likes of the Nazis, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and ISIS will provide massive evidence to the contrary, and we will be paralyzed with horror–like Germany’s leaders today.

The reaction of the populace to this virtue signalling by the church is… derisive.

Similar with the reaction to the current Pope and migrants. If he wants them so bad, open up the Vatican.

Yes I can confirm. The Italian view regarding the Bergoglio is frocio con il culo degli altri. This roughly translates to: gay as long as it’s someone else’s ass.

What the church needs to do is rediscover how to confront evil. I suggest all those liberal leaders go read C.S. Lewis. I suggest they consider the encyclicals and actions of Pius, who damned the Nazis and rescued Jews. And I think they need to remember that Farel died, as a citizen of Geneva, in the army, defending his state.

There is enough evil in this world. We cannot ignore it in some post modern cone of silence. We need to stop looking at the microaggressions and start rediscovering that our battle is against the powers and principalities of this age. We need a reformation.

Or we will wither.