Domains of Love

Here at Kiln of the Soul community, we aren’t merely non-partisan; our identity and agenda is rooted in another dimension of existence. We are Children of Eternity.

I have a niece who is left-wing, pro LGBTQ+ and other wokisms. Doesn’t matter to me. I keep praying she’ll see the light. Not that she’ll become a righty, but I pray she’ll realize that none of those things matter.

For example, I believe we have way too many immigrants here. I have no problem with them living in enclaves of their own making, but that they are here in the first place. They don’t understand that living here in the midst of imperial decline puts them at great risk. Everything they imagined they came here for is going to devour them.

If they imagine that they will find material progress, it will be short lived. They don’t realize that what made America so wealthy is flatly contrary to their way of life. You cannot bring your poverty-stricken culture into a wealthy environment without destroying that environment and your own souls. What made you poor back home will make everyone poor here.

Wealth is possibly only in high trust cultures. They don’t have that back home. They have low trust cultures that compel poverty. They bring all of that with them.

But the habits of poverty and social disorder in those foreign cultures only accelerate the imperial decline already in progress. Their children and grandchildren will walk through a hell far worse than what they left to come here. Worse, the debased materialist culture here will infest the souls of those progeny, making them, in effect, no one’s children. They won’t be whatever their parents were, but won’t actually be American, either.

My niece doesn’t see the decline, except in terms of intentional destruction, seeking someone to blame. That’s a part of her generation’s outlook on the world. They imagine they want what their elders had without the social habits, but their elders had empty materialism. They are imbued with a sense of entitlement, wanting the spoils of oppression without having to do the work. They regard moral degeneration as just a choice on the menu, same as all the other choices, with no consequences attached. They have departed the core of a high trust culture, keeping only the external trappings.

Here’s the thing: The wisdom of Scripture will explain it to you. American wealth is not sustainable. The European colonists seized the undeveloped resources from another people. Development itself was not the problem; solving problems is what humans do. But some human cultures are quite obsessed withe material outcomes, seeing problems to be solved that aren’t actually problems. Greed for mortal comfort fires their imaginations to go far beyond actual human need. It’s not sustainable.

And Americans kept seizing the resources of others in distant lands. Our economy is a global economy because we have our hands on the whole world’s resources. And we don’t share very much back to the people who reside near those resources. Instead, Americans enslave them. The economics of Scripture is that everyone who is involved in the process is de facto part of your family household. In the domain with which you operate — material wealth — you must seek the welfare of everyone as if they were your own kin.

Following Christ means operating on two levels. My niece is part of my earthly family. I am responsible for her welfare on that level. I would love to see her operate on a higher level and become spiritual kin, as well. We as followers of Christ ache with longing to see spiritual outsiders come into the household. It is revelation that teaches us more is merrier. We value souls above physical property.

Do you understand that the greatest treasure of Heaven on this earth is other believers? It’s not a question of what you can accomplish together on a human level. All that really matters is simply spending time together as humans with a spiritual focus. Just get to know each other better and learn to love that because you love them. Don’t worry about people recognizing your role in the family household. You don’t need a role in that sense. Just be there and be with them and love them as Christ commanded.