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Just last week, Tucker Carlson brilliantly made this very point on his show.

He asked, where are our [Republican] protectors? Carlson illustrated his point by citing an article written by Kay Cole James, current President of the Heritage Foundation, America’s largest conservative think tank. And what did Kay Cole James say as the nation’s cities were burning and the people she claims to represent were being attached verbally and physically?  Did Kay Cole James stand up for them?  Of course not.  She piled on, denouncing them for America’s, wait for it…racism.   You can read her breast beating, sackcloth and ashes routine of an article here.     

Other Republicans, in agreement with the Marxists, denounced the cops as the bad guys and the violent criminals – George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks, for example – these men were held up as the victims and paragons of virtue.

It would be bad enough if the Republican political class alone were the ones piling on.  But Evangelical Protestant leaders are no better.  For them, it’s not enough that their congregations are being beaten up by Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs, lied to every day by politicians of both parties and excoriated in the secular mainstream press.  While statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Scott Key, and Ulysses Grant – representatives of the nation their forebears created – are being defaced and destroyed on a seemingly daily basis, prominent Protestants are joining in the fun. 

One particularly egregious example is Christianity Today (CT).  It really should come as no surprise that CT would do this.  The publication has spent years, decades even, holding its readers in contempt.  But in recent times, CT has taken its tired act up an octave.  It was just last December, when the House voted to impeach Trump, that CT ran an editorial titled “Trump Should Be Removed from Office.” It seems that whatever ordinary Christians are for, CT editors take great delight in denouncing.  Like the Pharisees and Sadducees of old, they delight in showing their moral superiority by whacking the deplorables a good one whenever the opportunity presents itself.  It didn’t matter that the articles of impeachment brought by the House were absurd, the sort of thing almost no one understood or cared about.  Trump must go! That was the motto of our friends at CT, who always had hated Trump and held those who supported him in contempt. 

Today, it’s the same thing with George Floyd.  A quick search on the CT website shows multiple stories sympathetic to Floyd.  This man, who did time for armed robbery and died high on fentanyl – according to one article, the amount of fentanyl in his system was about three times the fatal dose – after passing counterfeit bills and resisting arrest is lauded as a man who left a gospel legacy in Houston.  There are rumors, and they appear to be substantial rumors, that Floyd had dabbled as a porn actor.  This man, we’re told by CT, was a brother in Christ who was killed by racist cops. 

But given that his behavior at the end of his life hardly showed the fruit of the Spirit, but rather the works of the flesh – e.g. fornication, drunkenness, contentions, revelries – this Protestant can be forgiven if he’s more than a little skeptical of CT’s claims regarding Floyd’s Christian faith. 

What is more, CT, like the rest of the mainstream press, simply assumes without evidence that Floyd died in the hands of the Minneapolis police due to racism on the part of the arresting officers. Where is their proof for this?  The only proof brought forward that this author has seen is that the arresting officers were white – actually, one of the four was of Asian descent – and the suspect was black.  That’s it.  Is it not possible that there are other explanations for why Floyd died other than racism on the part of the officers?  Yes, it is.  One possible explanation is that Floyd had taken so much fentanyl that he was going to die regardless of whether he was arrested. 

But the yawning gap between CT’s fawning article and Floyd’s life, the unfounded assumption that race was the determining factor in the death of George Floyd – and now Rayshard Brooks – doesn’t stop the fine folks at CT or Protestant ministers across the country from lecturing Evangelicals about what horrible people they really are, and that America’s problems are all their fault.  It’s white Protestants who are the problem, not the convicted felon, drug addicted, counterfeit bill passing George Floyd. 

Here’s another thing, even if Derek Chauvin – he’s the officer who pinned Floyd to the ground with a neck restraint and is now charged with second degree murder – were motived by racism, a charge for which, apart from his being white and George Floyd being black, there is no evidence, what does that have to do with supposed racist guilt by white Protestants? Nothing. The Bible makes it very clear that each man is responsible for his own sins, not the sins of others.  It is fallacious reasoning to attempt to lay charges of racism on entire congregations and an entire political constituency (Republicans) for the actions of one officer, who may very well not have been motivated by racism at all. 

It just may be that leveling charges of racism at white Evangelicals, Trump supporters and Republicans due to the death of George Floyd is itself an example of anti-white racism.

Perhaps the white writers and CT, white ministers and white Republican politicians who are so ready to denounce their own congregations and constituents would find it odd that there could be such a thing as anti-white racism, but that’s because they’ve swallowed whole, perhaps without even realizing it, the anti-Christian lies of Critical Race Theory, the intellectual framework behind the destructive activity we seen going on around us.   

The apostle Paul warned his readers no to be cheated by philosophy, and many Protestants have taken this to mean that they should never study secular philosophy.  This is a fallacious inference, as one way to ensure that you will be cheated by secular philosophy is by not studying it.  If you don’t know what it is, you won’t be able to recognize it when you see it, meaning there’s a good chance you may absorb it into your thinking without even realizing it. 

For a good primer on Critical Race Theory by a Christian, see Hiram Diaz’ article “Is Critical Race Theory Anti-Christian? Yes.” 

Just Stop it Already

I appeal to, I plead with, my brothers in Christ, be they politicians, preachers or writers, if you find yourself tempted to level your guns at your congregation or your readers or your supporters and to tell them what a bunch of racists they are, don’t do it.  Just stop it already.  Do you not know that your congregations, your readers and your supporters are being ritually excoriated nonstop in the press, over the airwaves, on cable and the on social media? Do you not understand that American civilization – the very civilization that was built by your congregation’s, your readers’ and your supporters’ Christian ancestors – is being systematically destroyed right in front of your faces?  It is not racism that is the principle problem your congregations, your readers or your supporters must reckon with, it’s the very real possibility of national and civilization collapse.  The hour is late.  How is it that you do not understand this?  Do you not realize that by lecturing your congregation, your readers and your supporters about their supposed racism that by your words you are discouraging and defeating the very people who desperately need to hear a word of encouragement, the very people who may be able to preserve something of Western Civilization and that, in the process, you are aiding the wicked who want to burn this country to the ground? 

It’s as if you’ve stood the story of the Good Samaritan on its head, and instead of the Samaritan binding up the injured Jewish man’s wounds, he gives him another whack on the head and proceeds to take whatever remaining goods there are for himself.

Stop it already.  Just stop it.     

Don’t make the same mistake as the builders of the Maginot line and find yourself exquisitely prepared the fight the last war, when a new war requiring new tactics and new ideas is upon us. 

The Righteous Are Bold as a Lion

In Proverbs 28:1 we read, “The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.”  Where are our bold Protestant lions?  God told Elijah that there were yet 7,000 men who had not bowed the knee to Baal.  Surely, there must be men among us who have not bowed the knee to racist, Marxist Black Lives Matter.  But where are they?

Where are the Christian men of understanding who are unafraid of Antifa or of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?  Where are the Christian men who are prepared to refute their lies from the Scriptures? 

If it seems strange to you that the Bible can be used to defeat Marxism, feminism and any other idea that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, then you need to go back and learn what this means, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, , for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

Note well, it is the Scriptures that thoroughly equip the man of God for every, not some, but every good work, including the good work of defending the politics and economics of the Bible – yes, the Bible has a particular economic and political stance; John Robbins called it constitutional-capitalism, that is, the Biblical order of economics and politics is one of private property and limited, constitutional government – from the attacks of those whose political and economic ideas originate with the world, the flesh and the devil. 

I leave you with the words of the Apostle Paul, who, when closing his First Epistle to the Corinthians said to them, “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit ye like men, be strong.”

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