Response to "Dear White Evangelicals" Written by John Pavlovitz, January 24, 2018

Is this really like Jesus chastizing the Pharisees? Really
The progressive elites, who wonder after the progressive Beast,
say the Bible and the story of Jesus are "fake news".

An article by John Pavlovitz* from a few years ago was written to read like Christ's scathing denunciation of Priests and Pharisees in Matthew 23. It is intended to make liberal high church Protestants feel good about themselves and to denounce fundamentalist Christians who are conservatives and not progressives. Here is my response to my friend who posted it.

 

Did you get this from a DNC propagandist? TV evangelists have their bad eggs. The piece attempted to conflate naughty televangelists with all of fundamental Christianity. Well some do stray. We call it sin and roundly condemn it. And it's not as Pavlovitz claims, the sole province of white preachers. Some are white, some black, some Asian, some Hispanic. Some have stolen from their congregations. I know of a couple of guys that have even committed adultery and murder. Even the most righteous of groups, has its outliers and sinners. Just because some preachers have fallen to the lust for money, lust and power doesn't mean all of them deserve your hate speech, John. Your rigid stereotypes, blanket judgement and mind reading without evidence sounds exactly like the racist rhetoric of the Democrat party when I was a kid. If you check the clergy of the more liberal high church denominations, you'll find adultery, embezzlement, sodomy, and pedophilia taken as a matter of course. Someone once said you'd be hard pressed to find an Anglican bishop who still believes in God.

 

I'm reminded of what Jesus said about the devil your adversary walking about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. And as his time draws to a close, we are told he will become all the more desperate to seize power and control. Satan's original argument was that it was too dangerous to give people free will. And that people would best be controlled by centralized rulers, with the power to order the lives of people bound by that power to a Lord of this world. 

 

There are two basic philosophies these days and there's one that advocates that sort of powerful centralized government. The other advocates smaller, less powerful government, individual rights, liberty, equal opportunity (not forced outcomes), free speech, free press, free assembly and free exercise of religion. John is saying a lot of things that sound good but in practice for more than a century have cost hundreds of millions their lives, liberty, property and has severely curtailed their pursuit of happiness. My opinion is based on long experience with government solutions to problems that are essentially local. Programs that are designed by ostensibly well-meaning legislators and bureaucrats in Washington DC, have a nasty habit of leaving a lot of holes in the system for people to fall into and wasting much and in some cases, most of the money on paying bureaucrats to make paperwork for each other.

 

Passionate do-gooders if spread out over a large area do a lot of good. But pile them up in DC and the pile soon begins to stink. As Frank Herbert said, "Power attracts the corruptible."

 I got this response from my friend who leans solidly leftward.  "And in your view only those on the "left" are corruptible?

My answer? "Not at all."

 

There is nothing quite like a leftist for reading and confidently telling you what you think in the starkest black and white terms. I never said anything like that. Some rogue generals and commanders among the allies did some pretty brutal things in WWII, but who would you rather have won? The left wants to move to a centralized collectivist scheme of government. They have an antipathy toward religion that runs very deep. They'll allow "spiritualism" so long as, you can't exactly explain what you believe in terms of objective truth. Kinda like our new Supreme Court Justice who can't tell you what a woman is because she's not a biologist.

 

I watched a guy named Yuval Noah Harari, author of a book called "Sapiens" speak on the subject of what progressive globalist folk like Bill Gates, George Soros, Klaus Schwab and Barak Obama see as a brilliant vision for the future. It's some seriously scary stuff I'm telling you. This self-proclaimed "progressive" philosophy which heavily influences the political left, claims there is no subjective truth, only "your" truth. They say religions are obsolete; there is no free will - that's all an illusion; gender is what you say it is and teaches that to impressionable and easily confused two year-olds. They are excited about having drag queens in kindergartens. They openly say we should serve the collective (the State), rather than, as the Constitution says, the state serves the individual citizens and protects their rights.

Simply because you say you care about the working man, doesn't mean that you actually do other than about how you can deceive him into voting for the elitists that run the government. You seduce the unions for their vote and the day you get inaugurated, you throw 26,000 union guys out of work because you promised the left you would close the Keystone Pipeline. You drive up gas prices and grocery prices and try to tell us it's good for us and we're not really hurting and if we don't like gas prices, then we should buy a $50,000 plus electric car. Completely out of touch with the 80% of Americans who do care about that sort of thing.

 

And Republicans don't have clean hands either. There are plenty who appease the left in order to retain some power and to earn the praise of the media. They are as dangerous to the Republic as the most rabid BLM or Antifa rioter. CNN and MSNBC have become propaganda organs for the left, shedding any semblance of unbiased news coverage.

 

I'm just saying. We've been warned that we would see signs like these at the end.

1. Children turning on parents
2. People turning from natural affections to perversity
3. Knowledge expanding rapidly. Computer technology is expanding so rapidly that guys like Harari are proclaim the soon-coming evolution of man from organic to inorganic beings.
4. Persecution of God's people. Christians are being slaughtered around the world with nary a squeak from the press about it.
5. The papacy seeking to reunite the churches under its banner and calling for a world government with teeth to force trouble-makers like the US to conform to the global government will.
6. The pope has been invited to be the head of a new organization called the United Religions, a spiritual parallel to the United Nations.
7. Men's hearts failing them for fear - heart disease on the rise.
8. Plagues and natural disasters on the increase.
9. The nations being deceived on the right and the left and all up the middle.
10. Attacks on the church from inside and out. We've even suffered internal divisions over whether the church should be governed by a strong central administrations with investigative and enforcement powers. We know the council we received about centralizing power back in the early days of the denomination.

The devil isn't going to make it easy to spot where his most dangerous attacks are coming from. Things may seem to be right that aren't and things that some decry as wrong is being done with the inspiration and guidance of God. It's going to be confusing and whatever your current understanding, we should come together in love and brotherhood to work things out. Christ's way is loving and nuanced and tailored to the individual. Jesus doesn't bludgeon people or cram them into boxes for the convenience of church leaders. He may not have approved of what some were doing, but Jesus called them anyway and set them on a path that would lead them home.

 

It's not about left and right, although the left seems intent on checking all the end of time boxes. But I do not think the final charge by the forces of evil will come entirely from the left. Frankly I expect diversionary attacks from straight inside the congregations of the faithful.

 

Still, the very tendency to paint large groups of people with a broad brush is downright Satanic. Minorities are not culturally incapable of sharing values and beliefs with the majority. Accusations of racism aimed at all white people, for instance is as vicious as when Democrats passed Jim Crow laws, segregated schools, organized the KKK and denied voting rights to the poor. I remember all of that. It was wrong then. It's wrong now.

And lately, the meme from the left is that "There is only one race - the human race" is considered racist. This divisive philosophy has been a feature of the party that claims to be "for the working man" for two centuries (and for most of its history was devoutly racist). As Yuval Noah Harari says, "If you tell people a lie enough times, they come to believe it." In this way these progressive elites believe they can program people to believe whatever they are told since people, according to philosophers like Harari, Bertram Russel, and Gustav Flaubert, have no free will and there is no truth, only perception.

This guy pretty much reveals the devil's playbook and the man is one of their leading lights.

* I did not include Pavlovitz's article. Satan needs no help from me. Harari's screed was distasteful enough.

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