By Ehud Would

You can also read Ehud’s original post at his blog, here.

The horror of Austin Metcalf’s murder at the hands of Karmelo Anthony follows a long sad pattern in this country – a pattern of White people slaughtered by demoniac negroes whose actions are excused and/or instantly forgiven by the victims’ families. And all absent any hint of contrition on the part of the killers.

Essential to this pattern is the fact that moderns will feel more outrage at the words “demoniac negroes” than at Blacks’ ongoing predation on the children of our people. 

Unlike in cases of Black-on-Brown/Yellow/etc., Black-on-White murders are routinely followed by these ritual press junkets in which parents of the victim are trotted out before cameras to make solemn pronouncements of forgiveness and impassioned pleas for unconditional love on the impenitent beasts who snuff out the lives of their kids. This ritual is presented as a patent gesture of Christian grace. 

But is this promiscuous sort of grace the true Christian position? 

A few preliminary points before we turn to the Scripture …

The fact that this standard is never expected of anyone but Whites should tell you something in itself. Not only do non-Whites never take up this forgive-and-forget posture, neither does anyone expect them to do so. Even if they claim Christian faith. 

But since Whites don’t go around murdering innocent Black kids, the closest parallel we might examine is when a Black thug is killed by one of his intended victims, or a Good Samaritan who came to the rescue of others (Daniel Penny, et al.). But this lopsided comparison actually underscores the point because the normative response of Black family at even the wholly warranted death of one of their own is calls for vengeance on not only the Whites involved, but White people in general. 

As a result cities burn over and again, and more innocent Whites are hunted down in the streets and in our homes. And neither the Press nor any high-profile pulpit dares rebuke Blacks for it. They rather rebuke anyone who calls them to repentance.

Another clue is that this ostensible White-only obligation of grace is insisted upon by every Atheist, Communist, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu, and Satanist – the whole kingdom of the cults. Clearly then, there is nothing supernatural about this brand of grace because it seems to be the carnal conviction held in common by every antichrist religion – that White people are uniquely obliged to identify with and bless their children’s killers. Especially when the killer is a negro. 

And as seen in Austin’s case, this brand of promiscuous grace bestowed from White-to-Black never fosters any sort of peace. In fact, that very forgiveness offends and provokes Blacks. They answer in unison that there’s nothing to be forgiven because he “din du nuffin wrong.” 

But you won’t hear the Pastorate taking the Black community to task for their affirmation of genocide. No, the churchmen will rather inveigh against any White Christians who dare notice such things. 

Despite the irenic overtures and assurances from Austin’s father that it wasn’t about race, no one can come to that conclusion after perusing Black Twitter where they are presently lauding Karmelo as a hero. Not a few, either. Virtually all Blacks insist that it is all about race. 

Despite all Mr. Metcalf’s conciliatory colorblind talk, Blacks are resolved that Austin was a White Supremacist from a White Supremacist family, and he deserved what he got. Worse though is the fact that our churchmen are largely saying “amen”.

So, what sayeth the Scripture? 

“Your eye shall not pity. Life shall go for life…” (Deuteronomy 19:21)

Apart from clear mitigating circumstances (and there are none in this case) the lex talionis shall not be denied. In a conclusive case of murder like this, there is no right to plead for leniency. Whether from the family of the killer, or that of the victim, sympathy for the devil is patently forbidden.

God further declares to those who withhold His rulings from capital criminals “… his blood I will require by your hand.” (Ezek. 3:18). Even those with no stomach for it are commanded to aid the case against the murderer in whatever way they can, and even carry out the sentence, if necessary. Those who dissemble or demure in such a case only position themselves as co-conspirators in the crime, and should be held liable.

Of course, liberals selectively marshal passages like Jesus’s petition from the Cross, “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.” (Lk. 23:34, etc.) As if the Scripture could contradict itself. 

But this was clearly a prayer for the Gentiles who did not understand what was going on, but were compelled by the threats of Jewish riots, not for the Jews who with full cognizance of its meaning, demanded His crucifixion. This is evident both in the immediate context and the fulfillment of His prayer. The Gentile nations present converted and went on to build Christendom while the Judaeans’ hearts were hardened and underwent utmost judgement for it. 

The same distinction is drawn between Peter and Judas. Both betrayed Him, but Jesus prayed only for Peter (Lk. 22:31-32). Peter was granted repentance, but Judas (who represents the Jews both in name and principle) was not. 

They do something similar with the Lord’s Prayer where it says 

“Forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” and the admonishment to “turn the other cheek”, but as covered, these principles cannot be construed as a pretext to pit scripture against itself, subvert justice, or lay down before impenitent cutthroats who cheer the murder of your children and are hellbent on the extermination of your people. The entirety of salvation history with all its wars and heroes of the Old Testament as well as Jesus’s vengeance on His enemies in the New Testament, stand foursquare against it.

But let’s look at the liberals’ favorite “love your enemies” proof text in context: 

“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?”

(Matt. 5:43-47) 

Jesus is not advocating antinomianism, moral relativism, or any egalitarian levelling here. Just the opposite, He’s establishing the only basis for objective morality between men and grounds of parlay between nations. Loving your enemy is to tell him the truth, and enforce justice, as much for him as against him. This is how you ‘do good to them who hate you’. And ‘praying for your enemies’ includes the authoritative examples found in David’s imprecatory prayers – prayers that God might save their souls as He dooms their flesh, or cast them into Hell, body and soul. 

But the liberals are doing even worse than the Publicans which Jesus warned against, because they aren’t saluting their brethren at all. They deny that the White Christian boy’s life is worth defending while doting on his impenitent Black killer. They are saluting only the alien enemy stalking the lives of their own children. Even the Publicans whom Jesus refers to as a symbol of corruption knew better than that. When they biased truth and justice at least it was in favor of their own people, but the modern clerisy subvert justice in favor of alien-villains. This is what the Jews did when they chose Barabas – the worst criminal tried by Pilate – over Jesus. 

How do they justify this antinomian moral inversionary interpretation? They take Christ’s words here as contradicting and correcting David as well as the Apostles. Their hermeneutic is nothing but a denial of the univocal inspiration, authority, and coherence of scripture. Which is to say, a view which ultimately denies the Bible as God’s Word. Theirs is not the God of order and univocal truth, but a god of chaos.

But their antinomian assertions that the lex talionis is somehow nullified in the New Testament is undone directly when we see in the concluding chapters of the bible that the martyrs still cry out “… How long, O Lord, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those dwelling upon the earth?” (Rev.6:10) This is not a plea for forgiveness or leniency on their murderers, but a cry for holy vengeance. Far from sin, their cry for vengeance is affirmed by God as righteous.

Others have said you may forgive the penitent, but not the impenitent. Because God Himself doesn’t forgive them. And this is true. Even those who sought mercy laying hold of the horns of the altar, were nonetheless executed for their crimes (1 Kings 1:50-51 & 2:28-30). Elijah put to death the priests of Baal without an altar call. And Samuel “hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord” (1 Sam. 15:33) without any expression of forgiveness. 

Think of it – if you automatically forgive the murderer of one of your children, you can offer no real defense against their continuing attacks as they turn to murder another, and another. This profligate sort of grace is what was endorsed by John Piper when he infamously preached that it would be sin to physically defend his wife from a man raping her next to him in bed. 

Do you think she feels especially loved? What then of the Metcalf children?

This liberal sort of grace and unconditional love toward reprobates is not Christian. It is the same relativistic pacifism endorsed by self-help psychoanalysis, eastern mysticism, and all the carnal schools of humanism, in general. 

It is hatred of the innocent, the martyrs, our own children, and of Jesus, Himself. Because it favors Judas, Barabas, and the Pharisees over Him.

But God calls on all His people, “stand ye not by the blood of thy neighbor.” And He commissions His Priesthood of All Believers: “Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.” (Psa. 149:6-9)

Back before the liberal corruption of words, when the churches remembered the real meanings of law and grace, justice and mercy, they held picnics beneath the swaying feet of hanged men. And they rejoiced at God’s merciful deliverance from evil.