Some musings about the
continued fallout....
I heard a commentator today
mention that this decision coupled with an Obama re-election will further
radicalize the extreme Right. I agree. But what does that mean for Christians who reject Sacralism?
This has already entered the
Church and though I'm no fan of Barack Obama, I am not content to sit in a
congregation where people are cursing the nation's rulers, engaging in
seditious and violent rhetoric and promoting law-breaking and armed resistance.
Anyone who has read my writings knows I am no fan of the great lie known as the
United States. Nevertheless I am to pray for the peace of this Babylon, not try
and overthrow Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Sennacherib, or Caesar.
In addition I truly believe the
polarization of the country will soon reach a point of crisis. A failure to
bring about some change to the health care system...whether a socialist,
regulated Capitalist, or libertarian free market model...without some kind of
change, there will be social unrest. Disenfranchised broken people have no
stake in the social contract. Without a basic level of security, words like
'freedom' are meaningless. Drugs and petty crime will in time expand and
serious criminal elements will begin to organize, and the instability will only
fuel the social unrest.
What will happen
first....martial law and draconian suppression?...or will the political leaders
finally take on and break the power of the Military Industrial Complex and
end....the American Empire? Either way, there's trouble on the horizon and
America like all Empires will collapse onto the ash heap of history.
While this is yet future, both
then and now, the Sacralists will insist that you must stand with them, or be
charged with apostasy. They will accuse people like me of being 'Sunday-only'
Christians, when it is they who abandon their Christianity throughout the week
and embrace not only worldly ethics and tactics to build and defend their
Babel, but worldliness in general as their every thought and energy is directed
toward the idol they worship.
Why am I even commenting on
this health care ruling? Because I am convinced the Christian Right will
misinterpret it, manipulate it, and I think most Christians will fall easy prey
to propaganda because they don't understand the law nor the issues at stake.
I am a complete amateur when it
comes to these matters but I have found myself often engaged with good
Christian political buffs and Constitutionalists and it takes very little to
work them into a frenzy. So often they've only operated within their circles
and when they encounter people who argue against them...they can dismiss them
as lost or even worse...liberals.
So then I'm standing in front
of them and I'm arguing against their general principles...from the Bible. And
on top of that...I'm arguing against their interpretations of current events,
history, politics, law, etc... They often become quite frustrated if not angry,
but I find many (not all) of them have a very poor understanding of the issues.
This is the state of things. The myriad of ministries and resources have
propagandized the American Evangelical but they've not taught them how to think
nor interact with facts and questions that don't fit their preconceived models.
I find it all to be quite
discouraging and both socially and ecclesiastically dangerous. I wish people
would just step back, look at other countries besides the United States, look
at Christians functioning in other countries besides the United States, and
look at history.
A better understanding of law
and its relation to society would also help. Viewed and interacted with in
light of a proper Biblically based doctrine of the Kingdom will lead to a very
different posture on many of these issues. It doesn't mean we exchange the
Right for the Left... but it definitely means an absolute abandonment of the
Right and Conservatism. I don't like the days ahead, but I also don't wish to
go back to some kind of whitewashed romanticized 'good old days' either. Today
like yesterday there's a mix of a good and bad going on.
While I lament the downfall of
manners and social graces...to the point that it's becoming very unpleasant to
go to a store or restaurant.... I do not read this in a Sacral manner and
associate this with the downfall of Christendom. Rome had manners and social
standards. Confucian China always did as well. And both societies lost these
standards and collapsed. They did not get them from Sacral Christianity.
Manners and social norms are part of what makes a society function and a
civilization flourish.
The present collapse in the
West is complex but with it comes this present collapse we're seeing in manners
and norms. It's much worse in Individualist America. It should be obvious and
axiomatic that Individualism is anti-Social, and hence by necessity a degenerate
social force...and yet so many in this country believe that Individualism will
somehow work in a high population density settings. It has failed and will
continue to do so, and the American public will continue to be subjugated to
megalomaniacal tyrants and morally reprobate elitists like New York mayor
Michael Bloomberg.
America's cultural genetics have
long contained this mutation (hyper-individualism) that would ultimately lead
to its downfall. The tumor is getting pretty aggressive.
We should be thankful (from a
purely pragmatic stance) that some are trying (whatever the manner) to arrest
the social collapse. That law is still a factor rather than raw power means the
collapse isn't quite imminent though it looms on the horizon.