Category Archives: Ethics

Forgiveness, Repentance, and Reconciliation: Considerations in Light of the Charlie Kirk Assassination

By Davis Carlton

I’ve been involved with several online discussions regarding how Christians ought to forgive those who sin against them, and the catalyst for these discussions has been the Charlie Kirk assassination and his widow, Erika Kirk’s, stating that she forgives her late husband’s assassin at his memorial service. These discussions have often been passionate and interesting, and I’d like to offer my thoughts. I’m of the opinion that Christians are not called to forgive those who have wronged them in the absence of repentance. I’d like to explain and defend my reasoning for my conclusions. read more

Some Thoughts on Recent Controversies About Online Anons

By Davis Carlton

Recently James White has expressed disgust with those who anonymously criticize him online. White was particularly irked by a user going by Defiant Baptist on X joking about White’s banter regarding Doug Wilson, suggesting that it sounded gay. Others have commented about some of White’s fashion choices regarding the sweaters he wears while recording the Dividing Line. White has suggested that men who maintain online social media accounts ought to be “doxxed.” Rich Pierce of Alpha & Omega Ministries has echoed this sentiment as well as suggesting that the church’s clergy and elders be aware of all of their members’ social media activity. White’s justification for doxxing online anons is that the Apostles warned Christians of wolves in sheep’s clothing. This is true enough, but what justifies White’s contention that online anonymous activity is innately serving the purposes of wickedness? Here are a few things that I would like Christians like James White, Rich Pierce and others who are condemning those using pseudonyms to consider. read more

Tim Pool, Hazbin Hotel, and the Actual State of the Cultural Revolution We’re Supposedly ‘Winning’

By Colby Malsbury

Hello, Quadrennial Election Year, my old friend. It’s good to hear from you again. You show up like clockwork every year we are also blessed with an occult spectacle of global woke athleticism in the summer and an extra day in February, and we are always so much the richer for the combined experience.

But, golly – I suppose that means there won’t be any room for any other topical discourse whatsoever, will there? Especially once we’re past New Hampshire? So I guess we had better discuss tangential but still crucial items while we still can. read more

The Cost of True Faithfulness: Comments on the Persecution of Thomas Achord

By Davis Carlton

“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake” – Matthew 10:22

“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” – Matthew 16:24-25

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” – John 15:18

I don’t know Thomas Achord personally but I wish that I did. I know of Thomas through social media, through his commentary with Stephen Wolfe on the Ars Politica podcast, and through his co-authorship with Darrell Dow of the masterpiece Who is My Neighbor? An Anthology of Natural Relations. I always find his posts and comments on Facebook to be wise, insightful, and articulate. Thomas is able to speak to controversial topics without rendering needless offense in a concerted effort to maintain peace. I have found Thomas to be a true “man’s man” who combines his considerable learning with practical knowledge that he is able to use as a provider and protector of his family. It’s without exaggeration that I can say that Thomas Achord provides an excellent example for other men to follow. I often feel challenged in a good way by Thomas’s posts to better myself. read more

Guess Which Religion Holds Abortion as a Sacrament?

By Davis Carlton

Seriously, you had to ask?

This is the argument being advanced by a Jewish synagogue in Florida in claiming religious based exemptions from a state law restricting abortion access. The legal journal Verdict reports, “The Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor, a Jewish synagogue in Florida, has sued the state saying that Florida’s new restrictive abortion laws violate their religious faith. As a matter of faith, they reject the notion that life begins at conception and further believe that the pregnant person’s health and life matter.” The article continues, “To be sure, the Satanic Temple has filed similar cases in particularly restrictive states over the last decade, but mainstream religions have been sitting on the sidelines as restrictions in a number of states have become increasingly inconsistent with their faiths.” read more

Twelve Mistakes Conspiracy Newbies Make Online

First Day On The Internet Kid Meme Generator - Imgflip

By Colby Malsbury

So your fifth cousin twelve times removed finally jumped off the Good Ship Complacency Narrative and started to clue in that there was more to 9/11 than met the eye, and that the medical Maoists heralding Covid orthodoxy nonstop might not have his best interests at heart? In all sincerity, wonderful news! From such small seeds do Godly worldviews blossom, if the Gardener prunes the spreading foliage to produce maximum fruit.

But….if he’s still a wet-behind-the-ears waif, he might not quite grasp yet just what a minefield this internet of “ours” is. And if he desires to glorify God through sounding the warning bell to those who are as at sea as he once was, it is incumbent upon him to accrue some cyber-street smarts rather quickly, lest he finds himself cast adrift into the seemingly endless void of NPC’s and finds himself a walking, talking, mocking meme. At any rate, here are a dozen rookie mistakes he ought to be cognizant of. read more

Why The Left Wins The Culture War: Considerations on a Possible Reversal of Roe v. Wade

Skelton: Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision sure to hurt GOP - Los Angeles Times

By Davis Carlton

Recently a draft document leaked from the Supreme Court indicates that a preliminary majority of justices would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, which infamously struck down state laws banning abortion in 1973. The Left has reacted with all too predictable anger and outrage, as well as firm resolve that murdering children is a woman’s “right” that will be forever protected throughout the United States. The mainstream conservative response has ranged from jubilation to cautious optimism. Many acknowledged that whatever happens when a final judgment is reached in June that there is still much work to be done. read more

Stuff It, HAL 9000: The Coming Backlash Against Tech in General

2018 May Bring The Rise Of The Anti-Tech Portfolio – Crunchbase News

By Colby Malsbury

Remember the entire GameStop imbroglio way back in that mystic age of January of this year? (In Scarybug World, one day seems to last a wormhole-ful of eternities.) I can think of worse ways to usher in a new year, myself. It gave the Elect a much-needed morale boost to see the short-selling mountebanks of Wall Street get their shirt handed to them over an obsolete video game-exchange franchise that, inexplicably, is still listed on the NYSE. Sure, it turned out to be little more than a temporary middle finger directed the Jewish financial cartel’s way, was quickly suppressed by said cartel’s very own Securities Exchange Commission, and will likely be actively usurped by said cartel in future broker plays of its own, but even a temporary discomfiture among our worst enemies is a rare gem indeed these days. read more

Darrow’s Triumph: All-Pervading Scientism and the Death of the West

By Colby Malsbury

In more than one respect, the centuries-old Christian culture war suffered a major setback in the little town of Dayton, TN, in the summer of 1925.

Oh, sure, John Scopes might have been found guilty of teaching evolution and charged a nominal fine – that was later overturned – but that was hardly the point of what would go on to constitute the most infamous misdemeanor trial in all of history. Nay, as almost all of the trial’s participants would later admit – including those local power-brokers who found it politic to align themselves with the prosecution – the whole spectacle was a bit of theater designed, in best 1920s small-town ‘booster’ fashion, to put their economically dwindling whistle stop on the map and reap a few out-of-county bucks from the proceedings.1 And if the money’s talking loud and clear…why, sure, those nominal Christians would have had no problem allowing magistrate-with-a-mission Clarence Darrow to get on his soapbox and deliver his trademark militant atheistic (‘agnostic’, my ass) rhetoric to a print media already mesmerized by rationalism in all its hideous glory: read more

The Strangely Familiar Love of the WOKE Church

 

 

By Ehud Would

 

Time: the mid-1960s. Place: Southern California.

Middle Class Christian youth found themselves borne upon a revolutionary tide, the portents of which were more revolutionary still. A growing contingent of young women in particular found themselves groping for a more enlightened expression of Christ: a Christ free of all the old bigotries which had sullied Christendom from the beginning — one which announced social equality between genders, nations, and races.

And so it was that providence raised up a young firebrand minister as conduit for this spirit — one Charlie Willis.

Calling for revival of apostolic faith, and emphasizing the imago dei in all people, Willis prophetically rebuked what he described as “the idols of this age”, Patriarchy, Familism, Racism, and Privilege.

His message concerning the domestic family was that allegiance to blood and kinship was in fact a seminal evil to be supplanted by true family, which is spiritual only.

One of his foremost students, Suzy, recalls Willis’s words which proved so compelling on this point:

“All your roots are cut. You are freed from your families and all their old hang-ups. You are cut loose into the now.” read more