Natural Consequences: Kinist Thoughts on The Chabad Synagogue Shooting, Part 3

By Davis Carlton

Part 1 can be read here.

Part 2 can be read here.

The Utter Betrayal of Institutional Christianity

What motivates someone like John Earnest to do what he did? The standard pat answers are that Earnest was motivated by fear, hatred, bigotry, or some other worn out buzzword. The solution is naturally more generous helpings of diversity, sensitivity training, and tolerance. What follows are sweeping denunciations of “white supremacy” and the all too predictable pleas for gun control. But what really motivates someone like John Earnest? I would argue that John Earnest was motivated by a sense of desperation that was fueled by the betrayal of his future by his nation, by mass culture, and especially by institutional Christianity. I sympathize with many of Earnest’s concerns even if I don’t agree with the actions that he took. The response of Joe Carter of The Gospel Coalition provides insight to why John Earnest has abandoned all hope of a peaceful resolution to our current conflict. read more

Natural Consequences: Kinist Thoughts on the Chabad Synagogue Shooting, Part 2

By Davis Carlton

Part 1 can be read here.

Are Jews Trying To Destroy The West?

The responsibility of the Jews for many of the maladies of the West is a major theme of John Earnest’s manifesto and apparently a major motivation behind his actions. Earnest wrote, “Every Jew is responsible for the meticulously planned genocide of the European race. They act as a unit, and every Jew plays his part to enslave the other races around him—whether consciously or subconsciously.” Many will simply be inclined to dismiss this as the ravings of a crazed “anti-Semite.” It would be easy and even understandable for people to completely write off Earnest’s contentions given how he acted upon them, but this would be a mistake. It’s difficult to objectively analyze what Earnest wrote about the influence of Jews in the world, but that is what I intend to do. read more

God’s Meticulous Providence: the Mysterious Case of Rachel Held Evans

By Colby Malsbury

Who is Rachel Held Evans?

Woke ‘Christian’ females of a strongly antinomian bent: please don’t jump down my throat at the question. I wasn’t being facetious. I honestly had never heard of her before reading the news of her death, aged 37, this week. It might shock some of you fair maidens to know that I can’t name a single song from Ariana Grande, either. Some of us don’t live our lives saturated in the modern.

Well, whoever she was, I can’t say the tribute thread set up in her honor on Facebook appears too promising. All kinds of female emotional vomit about how profound and meaningful HER words were, how courageous SHE was, how SHE brought so much meaning into THEIR lives and how SHE made THEM better people, blah blah blah. If God is mentioned at all, it’s with the veiled threat that He had better receive her joyously, fantastic person that she was. I dunno – remind me again why women ought not to preach? read more

Natural Consequences: Kinist Thoughts on the Chabad Synagogue Shooting

By Davis Carlton

The April 27th shooting at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, California is noteworthy given the identity and motivations of the shooter, John Earnest. Earnest is a 19 year old white man and a member of the Escondido Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Earnest managed to kill a 60 year old woman named Lori Gilbert-Kaye and wounded three others. What makes Earnest particularly interesting is that he seems to be a committed Christian who adheres to orthodox Christian and Reformed teachings. PCA pastor Duke Kwon acknowledged, “you actually hear a frighteningly clear articulation of Christian theology in certain sentences and paragraphs. He has, in some ways, been well taught in the church” read more

Haggling with Aitken over North’s Hayfork: Ecclesiocentric Feminism

By Ehud Would

So someone has dredged Gary North’s broken hayfork out of the stablemire in hopes of selling it to random passersby. And clutching the fractured instrument in soiled hands, brother J.B. Aitken leans into his ballyhoo, assuring us “Baptised Patriarchalism” is a service ready refutation of Rushdoony’s Familism.

Well, now.

 

For the sake of economy, I’ll only address Mr. Aitken’s points rather than the whole scope of North’s book.

 

Firstly, there’s the matter of the title. Baptised Patriarchalism suggests that Patriarchy — father rule — is innately malevolent somehow and that any validity or solemnity imputed to it in Christian thought is merely pretext to arbitrary tyranny. Impugning Patriarchy in this way can only make sense inside the assumption that male headship is categorically illicit. But such an assumption is at loggerheads with Federal Theology, the Fatherhood of God (which is to say, Trinitarianism), and the whole of special revelation. Because God’s Word was spoken chiefly to, and entirely through, male figureheads — fathers over family, church, and state. Christ’s election of only men to the office of apostle is not inscrutable. For it accords with the pastoral epistles which specify eldership as appropriate to fathers alone, and only those who rule their houses well. read more

Many Protestants Are Enthused About the Burning of Notre Dame. I Am Not One of Them.

By Colby Malsbury

Just as we were getting ready to pop the champagne on April 15th to ring in the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, our ardor was dampened by the tragic news coming from Paris that the ancient landmark Notre Dame was ablaze, with its wooden medieval latticework and trademark spire completely gone at a minimum, along with who knows what else in the way of decor within. Perhaps a sadly apt metaphor as, of course, April 15th was also Tax Day in the US.

The initial story being put forth is, unsurprisingly, that the fire was entirely accidental. Sure, why not? I was born yesterday. The incongruities regarding this line of reasoning began piling up almost immediately. The gamut ranged from an immediate moanfest from the Jewish Daily Forward lamenting all the treasure the Tribe lost in this holocaust to the amazingly ‘coincidental’ flurry of other iconic buildings that also mysteriously caught fire the last few days – from Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque to Brazil’s premier natural history museum to an attempted arson on St. Patrick’s Cathedral . It seems clear that this event was a major acceleration of the current meta-narrative regarding church desecration (and equally simulated ‘Christian’ reactions to same) in order to foment the chaos required for a phoenix of pagan internationalism to arise from the ashes. Indeed, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there is indeed a concerted push on now to transform Notre Dame into a modern-day French Revolution-era Temple of Reason… of which the Torch of Liberty was its most defining characteristic. Aren’t Cryptocratic riddles wonderful? read more

The Government Outlawed Christianity and Nobody’s Talking About It Because They Are Afraid

By Ehud Would

Columnist Peter Heck has thrown caution to the wind with a recent forecast: “Criminalization of Christianity is on America’s horizon”.  And others in the American Redoubt movement have launched a fictional serial based on the same proposition of a dystopian future. At which every Evangelical GOPer reassures himself, clutching tight his Scofield bible and reciting to himself Lee Greenwood’s refrain, “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free!” read more

Two Penitential Psalms For Good Friday

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By Davis Carlton

For a long time I have deeply appreciated the significance of what is traditionally known as Holy Week, which spans from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. It always amazed me how quickly the crowds gathered in Jerusalem turned from proclaiming Jesus as the anointed Messiah come to save them to calling for his Crucifixion within less than one week. Lately I’ve been struggling to overcome a melancholy sense that I’m witnessing the final stages of the collapse of Western Civilization. The fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this Monday only reinforced these feelings of helplessness in the face of overwhelming opposition. I’ve known for a long time that true Christian values have long since departed from America and other countries of the West. The magnificent churches and other works of art produced by white Christians have only served to testify of what was once held dear by our ancestors. Now even these reminders seem to be vanishing amidst the dual onslaught of secularism and false religions. It’s all quite depressing to ruminate upon. read more

Casting Out Demons By Beelzebub: Apologia Church’s Egalitarian Stand Against Abortion

By Davis Carlton

Recently several members of Apologia Church, based outside of Phoenix, Arizona, have lobbied the Phoenix city council to outlaw abortion. The church posted several clips of the speeches given by the church’s clergy and members before the council. This brief “highlight” video illustrates the underlying problem of the way that abortion is opposed by most modern Christians. The members of Apologia consistently argue against abortion on egalitarian grounds and perpetuate myths that have become fashionable in pro-life circles. Apologia argues on the basis that women and minorities are the victims of abortion…which has been foisted upon them by the ubiquitous specter of white supremacism. read more

Fare Thee Well, Joel McDurmon – But Not Too Well

By Colby Malsbury

As in a physical war, the Christian cultural wars have an approximate 5 to 1 ratio of dreary marching down uncertain roads to bursts of action. And those bursts of action more often than not can seem like pointless scrimmages. It can get to be disheartening to keep putting one foot in front of the other in a situation that can seem like a stalemate, if not an outright retreat at times.

But then….every once in a while along the salient, you garner a victory and are reminded that being a soldier in the army of the true, unreconstructed Christ is a most worthy calling indeed. They are to be savored all the more for their exceeding rarity. The last such one of significant magnitude occurred six years ago with the rather spectacular downfall of Vision Forum poobah Doug Phillips, whose poisonous brand of radically egalitarian patriarchy was rendered irrelevant by infidelity with his Mexican maid. read more