The elite of this world want to enslave and regulate us. To do this, they will use commissions: they will investigate the trivial, and they will not care about the cost. I’ve got a fair amount of data on vexatious complaints to health care workers in NZ — where ambulance chasing lawyers are considered to be lower than pimps — and it remains all too common. (Use Pubmed. The surveys go back to 1999, and were last replicated a couple of years ago).

They would kill joy, and call slavery freedom. 1984, by Orwell, is to such not a manual: it goes not far enough. They subvert our natural wishes to support and help, and use our social needs to subvert. As such, they are evil.

However, their lies now stretch credulity. Calling a cult that burns children to death because they will not be sexual slaves, encourages mutilation, feminist? The only agreement that feminists have with Islam is that they would cheerfully stone or crucify those of Christ.

They live by regulations and by human effort. That project has always failed.

	So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

(Romans 8:12-17 ESV)

	Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.

(Matthew 22:15-22 ESV)

The problem we face is similar to that of the Jews in the time of Christ. The Imperium is again pagan. It is not a friend of any who call upon the name of God. Our rulers see Caesar as a wimp, for he did not take complete control, and forget that he ended bleeding out in the Curial chair.

But they are not friends of the faith. What do we render to them? They demand taxes: that they can get. They demand obedience to their laws: that is a different matter. For most rules we can keep, but those that break the laws of God we need to ignore.

Perhaps we should render to these feminists and social justice weasels, sitting in seats they subverted, the very hermeneutic of suspicion that they used to destroy mainline churches. We should mistrust them.

But we should have confidence. For the church will survive: even with our battle cries. This elite will… not.

Be not of this elite. Be not like them. They need our prayers: they need our correction. They cannot demand our agreement: do not give them that.