Since we’re in Twitter mode, one last tweet will suffice for our purposes today. On January 25, 2021, Steve Sailer tweeted, “Has Biden nominated a single white Protestant to his Cabinet? Apparently not. Out of 26 Cabinet and Cabinet-level picks, Biden doesn’t appear to have chosen a single white Protestant. That’s … striking.” For more detail on this, you can read Sailer’s piece “Has Biden Nominated Any White Protestants to the Cabinet?”
In the summer of 2020, the National Museum of African American History & Culture posted a page on its website – since removed due to all the heat the organization took – that dismissed ideas such as individualism, the nuclear family, rational thought and the Protestant work ethic as examples of “whiteness” and “white culture” which – and one definitely gets this impression from many other articles on the website – are a very bad things and in need of replacing by more more diverse and inclusive ways of thinking and acting.
What unites all the examples above is a thinly veiled – if veiled at all – disdain for Western civilization, the civilization of the Protestant Reformation, and the descendants of the people who founded it and who founded the United States of America.
For some time now in elite circles, it has been, not only acceptable, but downright fashionable, to denounce such persons, white Americans, as uniquely evil people among all the peoples of the earth. No mercy is to be shown them. No quarter given. Contempt and punishment only are to be their lot.
It was this contempt that came through loud and clear when Barak Obama denounced working class voters in industrial towns, saying, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Obama didn’t say so explicitly, but his comments were directed at the white working class, whom he dismissed as a bunch of superstitious, potentially violent bigots and luddites.
It was this contempt that came through in Hillary Clinton’s famous “basket of deplorables” remark in 2016, where she dismissed a very large percentage of the country as a bunch of racist, sexist homophobic losers, probably in desperate need of a reeducation camp.
With the Black Lives Matter riots last summer in response to the death of George Floyd – Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose, not from the actions of the Minneapolis police – the denunciations of American, and of white Americans in particular, went into high gear. And it wasn’t just the liberals who were doing the denouncing either. As Tucker Carlson noted in a monologue on June 1, 2020, conservative politicians and think tanks couldn’t resist piling on. “When the mobs came, they abandoned us,” said Carlson. In my hearing, a sermon was preached from a conservative pulpit that differed from a corporate Critical Race Theory struggle session only in the respect that the speaker threw in a few Bible verses to cloak his agenda in the language of Christianity.
The punishment is to come in the form on reparations for slavery, mass immigration designed to demographically replace white Americans, and endless lectures by teachers, professors and professional Critical Race Theory hustlers all designed to inculcate guilt and silent acquiescence among whites to accept the infinite burden debt to the diverse and their need for corresponding infinite punishment, which never can atone for their alleged sins but is, at least, in the minds of the diversitycrats, a good start.
Now it’s would be very easy, as Protestants, and in particular white Protestants, to dismiss the remarkably intense hostility that exists in this country toward us as coming from a bunch of nutty liberals whose end will come soon enough.
But this would be a mistake.
Every institution in this country – business, politics, the news media, schools, universities, entertainment – has adopted a point of view that we, the descendants of the founders of this nation, are vile oppressors who must be silenced and punished for the multitude of their sins. They are not going to just go away.
And these people, when they denounce Americans as white supremacists, they’re not talking about some Klansman or Neo-nazi Skinhead. They’re talking about regular Americans. They’re talking about you an me.
But here’s another thought. What if our critics are right? What if Americans, specifically white American Protestants, deserve to be punished and removed from positions of power and have their wealth taken from them?
For what it’s worth, I suspect they are right.
But not in the way that the critics suppose.
What if we as white, American Protestants are being punished, not because of our alleged racism – indeed, Americans are far less racist than people almost anywhere else – but for some other reason?
What if we are being punished by God because of our unbelief?
This isn’t such a far-fetched suggestion as it may sound to some. In Deuteronomy 28, we read about the blessings that would come upon Israel for obedience, and the curses for disobedience. We read, “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD you God will set you high above all nations of the earth…But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you…The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.”
The Israelites failure to obey the Lord revealed, in the words of the Author of Hebrew, “an evil heart of unbelief.”
The American Revolution has sometimes been called “The Presbyterian Rebellion,” and with good reason. Then, Presbyterians were known for their hard-hitting logic, Reformed faith, and love of liberty. Now, Presbyterians are known for female ministers, socialist politics, and same-sex wedding ceremonies. Then, Presbyterians then hearkened unto the voice of the Lord. Today, they hearken unto the voice of the cultural Marxists. Then, Presbyterians preached the gospel of Justification by Belief Alone. Today, Presbyterians, even supposedly conservative ones, are unsure what the gospel is.
And what I say about Presbyterians goes for other Protestant denominations as well.
We have witnessed the collapse of Protestantism in the Untied States. And if the Protestant churches have collapsed, is it such a stretch to suppose that the civilization they built is also collapse for that very reason?
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way.
The hour is late.
Yet God still bids his people, “Come, let us reason together.”
Maybe it’s high time we listened.
Israel didn’t listen and went into exile.
May the Lord grant us ears to hear that we may avoid their fate.
Lux Lucet 
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