This is taken from the daily fishwrap. The elite in New Zealand are as shocked as the leader of the synagogue. The people may want to be healed. They may want to be free. The young voted for what they know. The older voted for what they had lost: the ability to ignore the slavemasters in Brussels. And the elite grumble, for the people are voting.

At the ballots. With their feet.

About 75 per cent of those aged under 24 voted Remain, and 56 per cent of those 25-49. It was the rebellious baby boom generation that led the charge out of the EU.

They’ve unleashed one final, foolish act of revolution but their children and grandchildren aren’t thanking them. Anger is boiling up in the UK where young people feel they have had their future undermined.

Older people are more settled and less concerned by the restrictions on travel and job mobility. Many young people feel they have had their passports to international opportunity revoked. The demographic bulge of the baby boom gives a lot of power to one increasingly aged group.

It was not the Baby boom, as an aside: it was Gen X. The leaders of the sceptics were born in the 1960s. They were in primary school during the hippie era. They are punks. This is a punk rebellion, and it is good.

For we are not born or saved by Christ for slavery, and the regulations of the modern Pharisees are made in quiet rooms in the capital and in transnational organizations based in Brussels, Geneva, and New York. Who know what whom they worship, and mock the idea of grace. They believe in a utopia of regulation: and a regulated live leading to perdition.

	Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

(Luke 13:10-17 ESV)

	So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for

	“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;
	
	
		as even some of your own poets have said,

	“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
	
	
		Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

	Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.” So Paul went out from their midst. But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

(Acts 17:22-34 ESV)

We were not saved from this world so that we would sit around and do nothing. Our spirits are oppressed by the spirit of this age: there is injustice on all sides, and our societies have rejected Christendom. So we blog and talk and encourage those who would bring us back to sanity.

For we love our families, and our neighbours, our cities and our nation.

And, since we do this, we are told we are mad, or we are rude, or we are not progressive. Or we are racist. Or unloving.

However, the gospel is for all people: it is not part of the West; we were converted from paganism, and it is our duty to convert. It is not loving to leave your neighbour enslaved to sin. It is hateful to so regulate speech that one cannot speak true, or praise the upright.

Let us ignore those who claim to be our Masters. We have but one Master and Lord, and he is Christ. To him our Queen bows. Let us follow her, and not those who usurp both Queen and People.