Lux Lucet

But Robbins was right and the foolish ecumenists who seek to subordinate Christians to the schemes of political Romanism and Judaism are wrong. 

Just this past week, we saw examples of how destructive all three of these medieval, false, and violent religions are.

Political Romanism continues its irredentist[3] immigration war on America. As I mentioned on my podcast yesterday (7/27/2024), Rome has successfully used the courts in Texas to block any investigation into the treasonous activities of Annunciation House and Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV).  The mass illegal immigration America has experienced in the past 3 ½ years is principally the work of the Vatican Antichrist working through President Joe Biden, America’s second Roman Catholic president.  Yet, at the same time, millions of American Evangelicals listen to Roman Catholic commentators such as Matt Walsh, who supposedly are fighting the good fight against creeping secularism and the destruction of the West.   

Political Judaism was on display this past week in Congress as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a fawning Congress that reportedly gave him 53 standing ovations during his speech. Netanyahu came to shore up support, both moral and financial, for Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.  This is clearly one of the religious wars of the 21^st century that Robbins wrote about in his essay.  Speaking of such conflicts, Robbins wrote,

It is important to realize that the Christian has no dog in this fight. Neither Romanism nor Judaism nor Islam is Christianity, yet many who profess to be Christians support either Judaism or Romanism. The so-called Christian Right in the United States, influenced by Romanism, Dispensationalism, and Reconstructionism, has been a supporter of Israel, Judaism, and Rome for decades.

But while Christians have no dog in the fight between Hamas and Israel, many have been convinced by their dispensationalist pastors that they do.  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is apparently one such Evangelical Christian.  Johnson, who remarkably described support for Israel as one of America’s founding principles,[4] sent a letter to U.S. House of Representatives members threatening arrests if there were disruptions during Netanyahu’s address to Congress.[5]

In his speech, he warned about the dangers of Iran and militant Islam.  But, oddly, he failed to warn Congress about the dangers of political Judaism, one of which is its ongoing war on Americans’ constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment right of free speech.  Back in May, the U.S. House passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act by a 320-91 vote.[6] If this bill ever becomes law, it will make it illegal on college campuses to state that Jews killed Christ, a doctrine that the New Testament asserts in multiple places.[7]  My assumption is that the Jewish backers of the Antisemitism Awareness Act will not be satisfied with killing free speech on college campuses, but eventually will seek to roll out such legislation covering all walks of life.[8]

Political Islam is at least as hostile to individual liberty as political Romanism and political Judaism.  We saw some of that last week. Leading up to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in Congress, Palestinian supports demonstrating in Washington D.C. defaced monuments and took down American flags, burning one of them.

Further, there is the issue of Sharia Law, which, based as it is on the Koran, is incompatible with the Bible and the U.S. Constitution. 

The Constitution of the United States is an expression of political Protestantism.  As such it is incompatible with anti-liberty systems of thought such as the ones discussed in this post, political Romanism, political Judaism, and political Islam. 

What we face today in the West are multiple threats to our individual liberties, three of the main ones being political Romanism, political Judaism, and political Islam. It is high time that American Protestants repent of their ignorance and cowardice, learn about the close relationship between Biblical Christianity and the constitutionally guaranteed liberties they have enjoyed, and stand up for the liberties their forefathers worked so hard to establish.

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[1] “The Religious Wars of the 21^st Century” by John W. Robbins, The Trinity Foundation, https://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=226, accessed 7/28/2024.

[2] The Bible repeatedly asserts that God’s chosen people are those who are saved by faith in Jesus Christ alone, not ethnic Jews.   For example, John tells us “But as many as received him to them he gave the power to become the sons of God…Which were born, not of the blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”  That is to say that one is not numbered amount God’s chosen people because of who his parents are but through faith in Jesus Christ alone. Or consider Peter’s words, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” Whom was Peter calling “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people”? Was he talking about ethnic Jews or those who believe in Jesus Christ as savior?  He was altogether talking about Christians.  Those who claim that ethnic Jews are God’s chosen people make the same mistake as the Pharisees, whom John the Baptist condemned.  John said to them, “And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stone to raise up children unto Abraham.” Put differently, John told the Pharisees and Sadducees not to consider themselves as God’s chosen people simply because they were physical descendants of Abraham. 

[3] Irredentism is Jesuit immigration warfare.  It describes a tactic in which a group uses individuals to infiltrate a territory of another country and eventually take over that territory once its population has reached a critical mass.  The Jesuits have been using irredentist tactics on the United States since at least the 1850s as recorded by Charles Chiniquy in his book Fifty Years in the Church of Rome.

[4] “Speaker Johnson: Supporting Israel Is One of America’s ‘Founding Principles,’” by Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com, July 21, 2024, https://news.antiwar.com/2024/07/21/speaker-johnson-supporting-israel-is-one-of-americas-founding-principles/, accessed 7/28/2024.

[5] “Johnson wars of arrests over Netanyahu speech disruptions,” by Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 7/24/2024, https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4789841-mike-johnson-benjamin-netanyahu-speech-disruptions-arrest-threats/, accessed.

[6] “New US Antisemitism Law Turns Critics Against Israeli Genocide Into Criminals,” by Joachim Hagopian, Global Research, May 3, 2024, https://www.globalresearch.ca/antisemitism-law-critics-israeli-genocide/5856331, accessed 7/28/2024.

[7] In a May 1, 2024 post on X, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, writing about the Antisemitism Awareness Act, asked, “Did the House of Representatives just make parts of the bible illegal?” To this, Tucker Carlson responded, “Yes. The New Testament.”  https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1786019741108203828. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted the following on X relative to the Antisemitism Awareness Act, “There’s a bipartisan effort in Congress to equate criticism of the secular state of Israel to violence toward Jewish people in America.  That latter is illegal and the former is protected speech, but if a false equivalency is established, it will be forbidden to criticize Israel.”

[8] Many states, including my home state of Ohio, have laws requiring, as a condition of employment or doing contract work, that citizens sign a document promising that they will not boycott, disinvest, or sanction Israel, a foreign nation.  In one notably extreme case, a city in Texas required residents to sign a loyalty oath to Israel to receive aid for relief from Hurricane Harvey, https://www.newsweek.com/hurricane-victims-must-support-israel-get-relief-texas-city-demands-689407.

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