Two observations: one via the internet and one out my front window.The first is that we are heretics, we are hated, by the elite. For they worship the state, and it is a jealous God. They consider that all will be well, there will be ongoing prosperity, and there will never be a correction. It is a religious war, and the secularists think they hold the cards in what is a spiritual battle.
They hate you, because by defying them you have prevented them from living up to the dictates of their false religion. Our rebelliousness has denied them the state of grace they seek, exercising their divine right to dictate every aspect of our puny lives. Their sick faith gives meaning to these secular weirdos, giving them something that fills their empty lives with a messianic fervor to go out and conquer and convert the heathens.
And the heathens are us.
Oh, there are different leftist sects. There are the social justice warriors who have manufactured a bizarre mythology and scripture of oppression, privilege, and intersectionality. Instead of robes, they dress up as genitals and kill babies as a blasphemous sacrament. Then there are the pagan weather religion oddballs convinced that the end is near and that we must repent by turning in our SUVs. Of course, the “we” is really “us” – high priests of the global warming cult like Leonardo DiCaprio will still jet around the world with supermodels while we do the ritual sacrificing of our modern comforts. Then there are the ones who simply worship themselves, the elitists who believe that all wisdom and morality has been invested in them merely because they went to the right college, think the right thoughts, and sneer at anyone living between I-5 and I-95.
But all the leftist sects agree – they have found the revealed truth, and imposing it upon the benighted normals like us is so transcendently important that they are relieved of any moral limitations. They are ISIS, except with hashtags instead of AKs, committed to the establishment of a leftist caliphate.
The second bit of data is my observations walking around Brisbane. There are shops closing in high rent places. There are homeless under the bridges. There are new apartment buildings being made while across the road there are apartments to lease.
Everyone is positive, but when a shack goes for 2.5 million on the river I smell a property bubble. Queensland has these.
And a temporal war is expensive. Virtue signalling requires funds. You cannot get patreon funding if there is no disposable cash. The spiritual realm, however, needs no such funding, and in both realms we need to be firm.
Remembering we have Christ on our side, and he is faithful.
1:15You are aware that all who are in Asia have turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain; 17when he arrived in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me 18— may the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well how much service he rendered in Ephesus.
2:1You then, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus; 2and what you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well. 3Share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday affairs; the soldier’s aim is to please the enlisting officer. 5And in the case of an athlete, no one is crowned without competing according to the rules. 6It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops. 7Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in all things.
8Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David — that is my gospel, 9for which I suffer hardship, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained. 10Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. 11The saying is sure:
If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he will also deny us;
13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful —
for he cannot deny himself.
Via Gab
What the left forget is that this war is spiritual. A person without faith is handicapped, and whom you believe in matters. The progressive soviet or liberal state is fickle. It always has been. It has always required the use of threats, random death and laws of terror to survive. The believers in Allah have made a virtue out of that demon’s fickleness, believing that God can be right if he lies and is unjust.
Forgetting that Abram once confronted an angel, asking if the judge of the world should not be good. The righteousness of God is something that is far above us, but it is there, and like his justice, it is terrible.
And the narrative, as John Wright notes, is a death cult.
“You are normal, and therefore a heretic. You refuse to bow to their idols, to subscribe to their twisted catechisms, to praise their false gods. This is unforgivable. You must burn.”
For a moment, I thought you were quoting a column I had written, that I just could not remember writing.Good to know that there are others out there who agree with me.
Leftism is a religion, a cult, a death-cult. It is anti-human, anti-reason, anti-West, anti-White because it is anti-Christ.
(White men and Western men who are against Christ, they are for.)
It is the culture of death.
I expect that the current moderately good financial times (US excepted: you have socialism for eight years and it takes time to recover) will end soon because there are too many asset bubbles. Time to cut down debt: downsize now if you have to.
And remain a heretic to the narrative. It will rage as it turns from the light.