How should we restore the house of God? How should we build? For we will be mocked. Harshly. The enemy will take over, and control the funds. They will leave us with ruins. Every church that becomes a mosque, or a home, or a nightclub is a victory. But two can play at that game.

Brother Boxer says we should enter, and cause the church to revert.

The Episcopal church is trying to be one with the shakers, both theologically and in their future.

The Episcopal diocese in a town I lived in, years ago, was one of the wealthiest organizations in the state. It was largely because they sold a couple of hospitals to a private corporation.

Note that Episcopal churches are managed largely by laymen and members. Imagine what would happen if a few committed, serious Dalrockian brothers got together and ruthlessly maneuvered themselves onto the board of directors of such a tax-exempt organization, with so many holdings, and so much infrastructure and political connections. Such men could do a lot of good once they dropped their masks, no?

We are at war. We have always been at war. The spirit of this age has never been the soirit of God: since the fall evil has perverted and converged us. What is happening now is that the evil they do is not being suppressed. We can see it, and we are appalled.

Nehemiah 4:1-23

¹Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he mocked the Jews. ²He said in the presence of his associates and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish — and burned ones at that?” ³Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “That stone wall they are building — any fox going up on it would break it down!” ⁴Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their taunt back on their own heads, and give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. ⁵Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from your sight; for they have hurled insults in the face of the builders.

⁶So we rebuilt the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work.

⁷But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the gaps were beginning to be closed, they were very angry, ⁸and all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. ⁹So we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

¹⁰But Judah said, “The strength of the burden bearers is failing, and there is too much rubbish so that we are unable to work on the wall.” ¹¹And our enemies said, “They will not know or see anything before we come upon them and kill them and stop the work.” ¹²When the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, “From all the places where they live they will come up against us.” ¹³So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. ¹⁴After I looked these things over, I stood up and said to the nobles and the officials and the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the LORD, who is great and awesome, and fight for your kin, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”

¹⁵When our enemies heard that their plot was known to us, and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his work. ¹⁶From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and body-armor; and the leaders posted themselves behind the whole house of Judah, ¹⁷who were building the wall. The burden bearers carried their loads in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and with the other held a weapon. ¹⁸And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. ¹⁹And I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread out, and we are separated far from one another on the wall. ²⁰Rally to us wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet. Our God will fight for us.”

²¹So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from break of dawn until the stars came out. ²²I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night inside Jerusalem, so that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.” ²³So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me ever took off our clothes; each kept his weapon in his right hand.

We can learn a lot from Nehemiah. He did not rebuild alone: he worked with others. They ignored the mockery. They prepared for war. They fought in the courts of tbe bureaucrats. He knew that men may not fight for this cause, but they will fight for their wives, their children and their tribe. The workers stayed alert, and yest, they were armed.

For they knew they had enemies, and it was not time to be nice.

This week I have been accused of causing “pain and divisiveness.” I should hope so. A terminal disease in contemporary American culture is niceness. Appropriateness and earnestness are this country’s cardinal sins. For three decades, conservatives have been scolded, reprimanded, backed into toothless, diluted positions, robbed of their effectiveness and browbeaten out of their zeal by language-policers demanding “civilized discourse.” Well. Daddy Trump did not win the presidency through gingerliness – nor did I amass millions of fans by being scrupulously conciliatory. The progressive Left is dedicated to the annihilation of America and every surviving libertarian and conservative person in it. The Left’s gratuitous vandalism of American institutions and its hostility to the principles that have made this country great cannot be fought with essays in magazines. The Left can only win by forcing us onto the uneven playing field of political correctness and constructive dialogue. I choose war.

We are at war. The converged leave but ashes in their wake. They consider our churches only useful as ruins. But the church we will build, and our stones will be the people they burned. That church will storm the gates of hell following their Lord and King, which is Christ.

And this the elite fear.

UPDATE

Boxer was spammed out of my place, and for those who wonder why this is the reason: the false login attempt number crossed 100K yesterday. 750 today. The site is going down daily with DDOS. I now run two spam systems at the same time: even frequent commentators get caught.

However, his comment is apropos.

Most of the difficulty people imagine in such an endeavor is illusory. The chief problem among Christian men is their proclivity to devolve into petty bitch fighting (note the endless squabbles on Dalrock for an example). The task would probably take 1-3 years. Assuming one could gather four or five solid men who could go that temporal distance, the takeover of an Episcopal diocese ought to be relatively straightforward. The church was set up by none other than Benjamin Franklin, and is largely controlled and managed by its members, and is so depopulated at this point, that democratic control could be established with just a few decent families in strategic positions.

What you first need is a Mannerbund. You need a home group or house church run by the guys with the women reinforcing their training in respecting their husbands and loving their children (note this had to be taught); then you can choose a church that you will take over by taking over the home groups, lay ministry, and most importantly the finance and property committee. Make it clear to the ministry that your tithes will continue as long as the gospel is taught, otherwise you will give freely… elsewhere.

And vote all women out of eldership and preisthood. Regardless of the book of order. This will take some years, and in doing so you will grow. Or you will be cast out.

Where I agree is that getting into theological arguments about the perfectability of any church is a fools game, and that this is not acheivable.

We are at war, and it is in our churches.