For Pride Month

Fascism is a philosophy what advocates for the State to assume full control of almost every aspect of life, especially economic interests and businesses. While private ownership of production is encouraged, the output of production is for the service of the State, and is controlled by it. It is the end goal of the LGBTQ+ movement(s) to establish a sexually Fascist state in which any opposition to the movement will be outlawed. Evidence for this can be seen in almost every major Western corporation, media, entertainment, education and local government acquiescence to the outcomes of the sexual revolution. It can also be seen in the distain and outright persecution of dissenting businesses, especially small businesses.

The following is a reflection on everyday Germans and their response to the persecution of the Jews.

It is my belief that these thoughts will someday be expressed regarding Christians who opposed the ideology of Pride Month.

“And it was their government, now, which was carrying on this program under law. Merely to inquire meant to attack the government’s justice. It meant risk, large or small, political or social, and it meant risk in behalf of people one didn’t like anyway. Who but an ardent Christian, of the sort that takes Matthew 5 seriously, would undertake the risk of inquiring; who, if injustice were to be discovered by inquiry, would undertake the penalty of protesting? I am sorry to say that none of my friends was that ardent a Christian.”

“But Cabinetmaker Klingelhöfer, he who remained a vestryman of the church throughout Nazism, was as ardent a Christian as most vestrymen I have met, and his idea of relaxation, during our conversations, was to turn to religious questions. “I know it’s not what you’re interested in, Herr Professor, but I’d like your views.” One day, by way of relaxation, we went through Matthew 24 together. (I didn’t say that I was interested or that I wasn’t, but I did say that reading aloud with a German friend improved my German. ) I read, from the ninth through the thirteenth verses, to improve my German: “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my sake. “And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another. “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” I stopped, looked up, and then looked at Herr Klingelhöfer. His head—this was my ebullient friend, “My life for the Volunteer Fire Department!”—was lowered. I waited. He said, without looking up: “Das ist schwer, Herr Professor. Das ist kolossal schwer. That’s hard. That’s terribly hard.” And it is hard. It is said to be hard to be a Christian—or even to want to be—under the most propitious of conditions.”

Mayer, Milton. They Thought They Were Free (pp. 126-128). University of Chicago Press. Kindle Edition.

13 May, 201914 May, 2019

When Homosexuals Fire-Bombed a Pastor’s Home–from The American Vision

Article by Gary DeMar.

Besides the violence of “lawfare” against those who refuse to participate in Same-sex weddings, there is physical violence. This echoes the experience of Lot:

Genesis 19:4–11

⁴But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. ⁵And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ⁶Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, ⁷and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. ⁸Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” ⁹But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down. ¹⁰But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door. ¹¹And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.

Full Biblical account here: Genesis 19.

Full article here.

27 August, 201827 August, 2018

Standards not Permitted

A few days ago I posted this on Facebook:

Given the movements to outlaw conversion therapy, and coupled with that the revelations of child molestation within the Roman Catholic church, I predict the next popular outcry will be to outlaw any marriage or celibacy demands within churches, seminaries, or denominations.

As the demand for celibacy (wrongly, I think) blamed for child molestation within the RC church, the restriction itself, as all restrictions, will be forbidden.

Just as the Supreme Court of Canada ruled out a Christian law school’s accreditation based upon its code of ethics, codes of ethics themselves will be outlawed.

Just a prediction.

But if religion is to be driven completely into the private sphere, any outward sign of compliance (marriage or celibacy) would have to be forbidden.

Since writing, I’ve become aware of the extent of the cover-up within the Roman Catholic church, a cover-up that seems to extend as high as the Pope himself. A nuncio, or papal ambassador wrote an eleven-page letter exposing the cover-up. It can be found here.

I will now double-down on my prediction that religious organisations, including churches, will face intense pressure to refrain from making any moral demands of its members and officers. This has been the case in Canada through restrictions on educational institutions, charities that are not churches, but Christian, and has been demonstrated by the forced support of abortion and LGBTQ rights in order to receive Canada Summer Jobs funding.

As statism expands its reach into private life, it should come as no surprise that control over all ethics will be understood as the state’s, not the individual’s or his church’s, responsibility.

There is not, perhaps, a course of action that can be taken politically given the kind of power working against Christians at this time, but it is essential to remember that the battle is, and was at the outset, spiritual (Ephesians 6:12). There are options for the Christian. Taking up the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:13-18) is the start. Being prepared to “obey God rather than men” is its strategy (Acts 5:29).