Celibacy versus MGTOW

Posted on June 25, 2019 by ehurst

Don’t get confused here.

Let’s keep this clear: Western Civilization is doomed. It’s doomed because it institutionalizes the Fall. That is, Western Civ is hostile to the heart-led way, to the return to genuine faith. The vast bulk of Western Christians do not even understand the heart-led way, and those few who do understand it tend to reject it. That’s because the West has locked in trusting your intellect over divine revelation, which revelation works only in the heart, not in the head. This is the very nature of the Fall — rejecting heart-led reliance on conviction (AKA faith) and insisting on trusting one’s intellect.

But God is handling Western Civilization; it is not our enemy. Western people are not our enemies. Satan is our Enemy. His deception is our only threat; everything else is just background noise. More to the point, we can steal away his slaves by doing the one thing he cannot stop: living by faith in the heart-led way. If there is anything going to liberate people from Satan’s deception, it is us walking in our convictions.

And we are most certainly not allies of a bunch of folks who are consciously trying to destroy the West. Computers and the Internet was products of Western Civilization. Not everything about the West is hopelessly evil, so we use it as a tool that just happens to be available right now. We infiltrate Western institutions as a normal part of our Kingdom service and use what fits our divine mission and calling. So we do not participate in the destruction, but we stand ready to face it. And the folks who are destroying the West (collectivists: globalists, socialists, etc.) are most definitely servants of Satan. They actively seek to take away any room for our faith, whereas the fans of Western Civilization at least give us room to be what God called us to be.

Some of us are called to do things that may appear to help keep the West alive. That’s okay; we still know that God is crushing it. We are simply obeying Him in smaller issues along our path of service, while the wider collapse is inevitable.

We do not condemn people who simply give up and stop supporting the West. There are a significant number of people who have done that. They don’t support Western Civ, but they aren’t exactly trying to kill it any more than we are. They have simply opted out and go about their business as outsiders. They aren’t us, but they are out there. I’m referring specifically to MGTOW: Men Going Their Own Way. The definitions vary and you should look up the term. It even has its own website that tries to sell the idea.

We can empathize with their anti-feminist stance, and the avoidance of activism, but they do suffer from a false lack of hope. Most men who are serving the Lord will need to build a family at some point. Doing so requires trusting God to lead you to the right woman. She may not be the greatest, but with His guidance you can likely avoid the fate of Hosea with Gomer. His calling was quite exceptional. But in the end, we belong to Christ, and the MGTOW idea of self-ownership goes too far. We are servants of God, and we are not our own.

We don’t hate MGTOW, but it can be quite hard to help them. If we don’t reach out to them, we have defied God. It’s the same as reaching out to anyone else in this world.

Celibacy is a different thing entirely; it’s mentioned in the Bible as a valid option, a possible calling from God. In some contexts, I have told people I was not just celibate, but asexual. This was in contexts where touching people was universally misconstrued, sometimes by policy. It could also be places where everyone is on the hunt, as it were, and there could be very few safe friendships. Some social contexts are just too crazy for me to be myself. Those were situations to be endured and then fled as soon as possible. But there are periods in the lives of good people of God when it’s best to simply stay out of the game altogether.

I can understand the reluctance to deal with Western females, too. That’s quite a chore most of the time. Still, the Lord provides for those who seek peace with Him, and there will always be a few women out there who aren’t suckers for the mainstream feminist lies. Depending on where you are geographically, you might find lots of decent women. But it means standing firm in your faith and trusting Him to lead you; He never fails. Be patient and do the necessary work.

I don’t agree that MGTOW is cowardice, as some Red Pill activists allege. However, it is most certainly a lack of faith in God and His promises.

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Economics of Neofeudalism

Posted on June 24, 2019 by ehurst

It’s not that centralization is inherently evil. It’s that centralizers never obey the fundamental moral character of Creation. Nobody centralizes out of concern for the welfare of the people; there is always — always — a hidden agenda to pad one’s own pockets. There has never once been an altruistic socialist leader, for example. There are examples of faithful followers who were altruists, but never once has any ruler been that way. Good, altruistic people do not want to rule over others.

So what happens is that centralizing systems always crumble and fall apart because they are all invariably run by evil people. Decentralization is reality’s push-back; it’s woven into the fabric of the universe. It has often taken multiple generations, so the fallen human frame of reference on this typically misses what’s really going on. Still, the forces are irresistible as God’s hand works consistently throughout the ages. Centralized systems always fail in due time, simply because the people involved cannot keep their hands clean.

This rather long article is an excellent primer on how we got where we are starting with Rome and summarizing the primary economic trends up through today. It also notes that a new feudal decentralization is arising, though it assumes this is a bad thing. It’s going to be bad only because nobody is doing it with a will to follow God’s Law. Rather, this is the ragged push-back of reality forcing feudalism back on us. It’s up to us to be wise about how we handle it. Those who have their hands on the tillers are not wise, for the most part.

Still, the article does a great job of pointing out fundamental principles of how economic activity tends to work among fallen humans.

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Radix Fidem Commandos

Posted on June 24, 2019 by ehurst

The threat is very real.

[I]n almost every regard, Silicon Valley is on board (or even to the left) of the Democratic party.

Most entrepreneurs, the survey found, favor high taxes on the rich, generous social services for the poor, and a global internationalist outlook behind free trade and immigration. Environmental protection and income inequality were ranked as ”extremely important” to them personally.

Yet they are anti-union and anti-regulation. This will likely rewrite Democratic Party platforms into the future, once the inevitable infighting subsides. (source)

These people are determined to enslave us to their Tower of Babel, and they really do viscerally hate you for not agreeing with them. They may be cowards, but they are perfectly willing to see your dead bodies in the streets and celebrate. They mean to destroy this nation and make it part of their dream for one-world government. God is going to destroy them; that’s His stated agenda. He typically invites us to participate in various ways.

Let me draw an image for you in words. Think about commandos, people with special training and skills who often infiltrate among more common folks to disrupt the threats against their home nation. While sometimes it means masquerading, it mostly means getting inside undetected, not being recognized as counter-threats. It means avoiding the normal pleasantries and staying focused on neutralizing the threat. It’s not total warfare, but a very targeted attack on the one thing that most empowers the threat.

Now think of how there might be an online commando force. Not the cyber warriors who engage in hacktivism, but idea warriors. I assert that the real combat is over ideas, an information war, the battle for hearts and minds. In biblical terms, the best we can hope for is not to change directly the hearts and minds; only God can do that. Rather, our part in His Kingdom mission is to expose sin for what it is. That’s the real strategy. The tactics are aimed at making sure the people involved know beyond all doubt what God calls sin, particularly the sins they are pursuing.

Stopping them is in God’s hands. Never forget that Satan serves God’s agenda, because Satan is God’s left-hand man, as it were. Satan is not raising up an army so he can take over; Satan is leading fools into a trap where he can plunder them. This is the nature of all human temptation. Satan deceives us into thinking he offers freedom, like he did Adam and Eve in the Garden, but his real goal is to enslave. There are multiple layers and paths of deception, but in the end, it’s all a lie and the fools who follow him will be destroyed. Satan knows this; it’s his job. God uses Satan to destroy people who reject His divine revelation.

So it’s not as if we might infiltrate the dens of iniquity to destroy their operations, though it might look like that. We infiltrate to break up the integrity of their operations and set people free. Again, we cannot make them do the right thing, but the one thing God has given us power to do is use His Word to make it clear beyond all doubt that those folks are on an evil path. That’s our real mission: We live for moral clarity. That is the glory of our Lord.

There is a lot of training and planning that goes into this, however it requires the individual commando to really want this mission. It’s not like Basic Training or Boot Camp where trainers manipulate and drive you hard. Commando school is where they tell you what you need to learn next and it’s up to you to have the drive to run alongside them and take the training. Commando trainers always do it with you, but they never do it for you. The whole point is that you learn to tap into the inner drive and conviction. This has been in the back of my mind for most of what I’ve written on this blog.

The commando training in this case is that you turn the Flaming Sword on yourself and deal with your fallen human nature. Become fully aware of who you are in Christ by climbing up on His Cross beside Him. Know yourself through His eyes, but also accept His offer of redemption and His power to overcome. Build that fire of mercy and holiness in your own soul; learn to trust Him for everything He calls you to do.

The tactics aren’t that hard, but it is an awful lot of stuff. You have to learn how Satan teaches his army to lie, steal, cheat and kill. Satan is massively greater than your human capabilities, but he’s feeble when compared to the strength God gives us. That means constantly shedding your human desires and dreams so that His power and vision can surge through us.

But the vision of combat is mostly in the field of human awareness. We demonstrate the moral truth of God through how we communicate, both in conduct and words. We are hardened against their pitiful weapons of false accusation and don’t take the bait to fight a losing tactical engagement on their terms. Instead, we shrug off their nonsense and persist in the truth of God’s revelation in us. Our convictions are stronger than the whole world’s lies together. Let them control the things that don’t really matter; that’s just more of the Forbidden Fruit. Let them eat it up for their own damnation. We keep our eyes on the real issue: God has revealed to us what is sin, and we shine that glorious light against all their efforts.

This is part of what’s behind my teaching about the nature of reality and truth. This why I teach a brand of phenomenology, so you don’t get entangled with debates about what’s real and factual. We say that what appears factual to everyone in the world, even if the whole world agrees on it, is just a deception at the fundamental root of human perception itself. There is no objective reality, so their “scientific” assertions don’t mean anything to us. God can and does whatever suits Him with their precious “reality.”

My intention was to teach you to absorb their attacks without damage, and forge ahead at revealing the ultimate truth of God. That alone is our victory. We don’t stop their attacks; the truth does. Every device they cook up is powerless against the blinding glory of God’s Word. How they respond is not the issue; it’s getting the truth out there that is our mission. Go and infiltrate, commandos of Radix Fidem.

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Addenda to the Bible Lesson

Posted on June 23, 2019 by ehurst

Ref: Teachings of Jesus: John 11:1-46

Let me drill down a little deeper into Jesus’ comment in verses 9-10. He said this as a parable about the Jews who threatened His life. Take a look at this translation (MKJV):

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of the world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because there is no light in him.

What could those Jews do to Him? The “light of the world” is Jesus. As long as He was alive, His very Presence was a light brighter than the sun. Those Jews were forced to recognize the truth of things because Jesus demonstrated that truth in blinding glory. Once they had taken His life, they would be back in darkness and would no longer be able to hinder Him.

This whole chapter is about the very real Spirit Realm all around them. It might be invisible to eyes of the flesh, but it was obvious to anyone whose heart was awakened to see the moral truth of things. Those who put their faith in Jesus had the light of truth shining inside their souls. Once He was risen, it would be His own Spirit alive in them. The Jewish leaders would eventually kill Him, but that would only make His Presence greater, and would throw them back into darkness because they weren’t going to have that light shining inside of them. Their power ended with this life; God’s power had no limits.

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Law of the Heart

Posted on June 23, 2019 by ehurst

It is the nature of any written revelation from God that words alone cannot portray the fullness of truth. In other words, there is no such thing as propositional truth as far as God is concerned. The only truth is the mystical divine Presence in your soul.

Furthermore, every law covenant in Scripture holds forth the demand that humans live by their hearts, hearts committed to obeying revelation, not by their intellects and reason. We can hold forth that demand, and require that people who review any Law Covenant approach it with a flexible intellect that bows the knee to the moral discernment of the heart. So every written statement of covenant law is always just a verbal approximation, limited to the context. God demands that you obey Him personally, not pick at His revelation in legalism.

So what follows is that same kind of approximation. It’s a contextual statement meant to portray in some limited fashion what’s in my heart. That’s because in God’s eyes, the ultimate lawful authority in this fallen world is your heart. There is no higher authority to which He holds you accountable. The closest any human can possibly come to God’s own voice of authority is within their own hearts.

In Esther 3 we see that Mordecai would not bow to any ruler on earth the same way he would bow to God. The text refers to a Persian practice of having men lie face down with their palms upraised in supplication. It’s the problem with the palms, not the prostration. That was an act of worship in every civilization across the Ancient Near East. Yet we have this often misquoted passage in Romans 13 about being subject to earthly authorities. The problem is that you and I are individually accountable to God to discern within the context what constitutes proper subjection, without going too far and infringing on God’s prerogatives.

Everyone knows that Jesus said our whole obligation to God can be summed in two commandments. First is that we love the Lord unreservedly as the true Master of all Creation, the one true authority to whom we owe love and devotion. Second is that we love our covenant family as we would ourselves. Most people miss that part about what constitutes a “neighbor” and they mess up His explanation of it. People who obey the covenant are covenant brothers and sisters, not the people who claim the covenant and don’t obey it.

So Paul later in that same Romans 13 says that this kind of love Jesus described is the ultimate duty to all human authority. Whatever we do in love to God and to our covenant family, that fulfills everything anyone can demand of us on this earth. No one can justly demand more. Mordecai was faithful to that understanding of Law.

Technically speaking, this makes us superficially anarchists. We aren’t activists who reject all human law and authority, but we simply remain cynical so long as the authority in question doesn’t adhere to the Covenant of Noah. Keep in mind that we are standing together on the teaching that there is a continuum between law and faith, that every covenant points to faith as the end product. People who come to faith still need to study the Law Covenants to understand what faith demands. People who aren’t walking in faith still need to bow the knee to the applicable Law Covenant, and right now for this earth, that’s the Covenant of Noah. As long as no government professes Noah, they are invalid governments in God’s eyes.

However, God has warned us to avoid needless conflict with human governments. Some governments, as with the case of Mordecai, will demand too much and we must refuse to obey. Some are such a major issue that we need to consider the extreme measures of folks like Ehud the Left-handed (Judges 3:12-30). You are also obliged to pray as you study those examples and ensure your heart-led convictions demands such action, but the option is there. Still, we mostly look for ways to avoid any such conflict and stay below the radar.

I find the US Government is not valid by this standard, nor is any lower echelon of state and local governments. But all of them serve a divine purpose in my life, and I must consider what His glory demands of me in choosing mostly to cooperate with those governments. They already demand things I could not do, but the conflict has never come to a head. Eventually it will, and I’ll have to be ready to hear from my own heart what the Lord requires of me.

Unlike folks who profess “Zero Aggression” principles, I tend to detect threats a lot farther out on my radar. But because I’m a Christian Mystic, I’m unlikely to care much about the worldly aspect of whatever harm they might do. I don’t believe in God-given rights, because God’s revelation denies such a thing exists. Rather, we all have a calling and mission that is highly variable from person to person. I also believe in miracles that can change the context, and that dying is hardly a tragedy. I believe prayer changes things. I believe my adherence to the Covenant of Christ grants me special privileges other folks don’t get.

Most of all, I am utterly certain our Creator speaks through my heart, and that His voice trumps all human authority.

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Teachings of Jesus — John 11:1-46

Posted on June 22, 2019 by ehurst

This could easily be one of the most difficult lessons to understand. The ancient Hebrew people did not have a theology, per se. They had the Covenant of Moses which said very little about theology. Moses clearly believed in a realm above, referencing “Heaven” numerous times, and not always as a reference to the sky. We know it was common for the better educated people in the Ancient Near East to believe more or less the same. However, they were careful not to say much about it, simply because they had a strong belief that it could not be understood in the mind, only in the heart. You had to refer to it in symbols and parables.

Not every Hebrew believed in the afterlife; that much seems obvious. It appears such belief depended on their degree of faith — the faithful seemed to grasp that this life was not the end of things. What they thought about the afterlife may have varied widely. Yet certain events, such as the appearance of the deceased Samuel before Saul and the conjurer of Endor (1 Samuel 28), show that at least some souls in the Old Testament persisted after this life. But a great many characters acted and spoke as if there was no such thing.

During Jesus’ day, there was plenty of conflicting Jewish theology and mythology, some of it sheer nonsense. For example, a common myth was that souls hung around their bodies for up to three days after death. That was part of why Jesus waited until the fourth day to raise Lazarus, to ensure no one could claim that Lazarus didn’t fully die, or something bizarre like that. Martha’s comment about the smell of decaying flesh was significant for that reason.

Indeed, Jesus seemed intent on settling some of the questions about what follows death, and clobbering the nonsense that was common among Jews. He did that on a lot of other subjects, as well. This was what He meant when He talked about walking in the daylight. A critical part of His ministry was shining the light of truth. We should read the chapter with that in mind, and try to dislodge our own modern day mythology, as well. His main point here is that this life isn’t so very important, except as the time and place to manifest God’s revelation in our lives. Once that glory is complete, we don’t just cease to be. We still live on in a state of rest until the Resurrection.

Still, Jesus used symbolism to remind folks that they shouldn’t try to nail truth down in concrete terms. Death from this life is sleep; it’s not real death. We need to walk in the light of truth, so that the light shines from within. Those who embrace Jesus as their Messiah never die. Those are parables, figures of speech because the truth is beyond literal; only the heart can receive it.

Among the folks comforting Lazarus’s family were some Pharisees and scribes. They were at best skeptical of the things Jesus said, but had no explanation for some of the things He did. A few came to believe that day, but more simply went to report the event to their superiors.

There was no dramatic music and the whole event was quite low key. John describes the scene in his simple school boy Greek grammar. Since the body was prepared in typical Jewish fashion, it was bound with a heavily scented acacia gum between layers of wide strips of binding cloth. After just a couple of days the gum hardened into a fairly stiff casing. The bodies were wrapped in this winding cloth from the toes up to the armpits, then the arms pulled down and the wrapping started again at the hands and up to the neck. The head was wrapped in a single sheet about the size of a pillow case, which was then tied down around the neck.

So it’s virtually impossible for a raised Lazarus to simply walk out of the tomb. Most likely he was forced to hop, or at best shuffle with tiny steps if the cloth came unwrapped at the bottom. But at least he didn’t have far to go. He was still wearing the head cover, tied down at the corners around his neck, because he couldn’t use his hands. Jesus told those standing nearby to go help him get loose from all this stuff.

This was the last straw in Jesus’ conflict with the Jewish leadership. This was what finally moved the Sanhedrin to issue a death warrant. But the main point Jesus was making is His authority over death. Soon enough He was Himself going to rise out a grave on that same authority. And it was part of our design that we are eternal creatures, meant to live eternally in the Presence of God.

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Self-Reliance Requires Faith

Posted on June 22, 2019 by ehurst

Self-reliance on the human level does not conflict with faith in Christ. It takes a lot of faith to be self-reliant. The issue is that we know we cannot all be self-reliant in the same ways. Thus, we form a community of faith so we can shepherd each other in the ways we each know best. We do this with full cynicism knowing that we cannot really trust anyone but Christ; we don’t even trust ourselves.

Unlike most Western libertarian thinkers, we take full responsibility for the Lord’s sheep. We do not abandon folks to their fate, as it were, unless there is nothing we can do for them. Deciding that we cannot help someone is a matter of heart-led conviction.

But we do not openly trust just anyone simply because they look like us or some other factor. It’s not a question of being high-trust versus low-trust. We invest a certain amount of trust in people who embrace our faith covenant because that’s how it works. We have to be ready to bear the cost of their failures. But we do not grant that level of trust to just anyone.

This is the critical element missing in American society: There is no consistent filter on whom we should trust. There are competing claims and the whole thing is a political football. Our firm statement is that we trust covenant family only. We’ll give lots of people some limited room to hurt us because we are otherworldly; we are mystics and we don’t put much value in what most people seek. Still, that’s not trust; that’s just a necessary vulnerability. It’s commanded by God.

We are particular shepherds of those within our covenant family, but the Lord calls us to offer limited shepherding to just about everyone. Within in any given context, our hearts can tell us quite clearly who should be treated as a predator. Sometimes it’s a passing problem of their temptations; at other times it’s a more permanent designation we make in our Kingdom service. Still, we stand ready to shepherd anyone who will endure it.

In my mission and calling, the issue of computer technology looms large. I am exceedingly self-reliant in this area. Not all of you are called to that. Some of you probably are quite self-reliant in that area, and you will surely have your own way of doing things. You don’t need my shepherding, though you may be entertained by my answers to problems. Most of you have no mission and calling, and no interest, in being computer self-reliant. I get that. I won’t press on you any more than you believe you need.

But I will advocate for more self-reliance in the sense of telling you from time to time how I handle computers. For example, I stoutly recommend Ubuntu (actually Xubuntu, but also Kubuntu, etc.) for desktop and laptop computer use. Linux Mint is really good, too. And I highly recommend CentOS for servers. However, I’ll be glad to help you keep your Windows or Mac or BSD system in good health as much as I am able. That’s the nature of my calling as a computer technology shepherd. But you should expect me to continue posting articles about self-reliant use of Xubuntu, because that’s where most of my exploration takes place.

I can help some with automotive maintenance, and a host of other mechanical stuff. I’m just mediocre at gardening, but I’m really good with bicycles and hiking, and physical fitness in general. I’ve taught history, government, economics, geography, psychology and sociology, and other so-called Social Studies subjects professionally. I do okay with science and math topics, as well. Of course, you already know that I’m an elder in the Body of Christ, and will help you understand faith, Biblical Law in particular. But the last thing I would ever want to do is make you rely on me and my supposed expertise in anything at all.

I want you to stand on your own in Christ. And I’ll warn you that God requires us all to stand ready to feed His sheep.

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With Fury and Wild Abandon

Posted on June 22, 2019 by ehurst

So to sum this up, the biggest threat to America is not any foreign agency, but the enemies within. It is my duty to God to seek some shepherd’s protection of the American people, and that means getting rid of collectivists (globalists, socialists, SJWs, etc.) any way possible, and by any means necessary. It means I support halting immigration because, in the current climate, immigration means importing hostile elements. No, not every individual is a threat, but the net effect is. I’m protecting the American libertarian traditions. Once we end this acid erosion of American identity, we can talk about letting folks come here to embrace it.

I will support nationalism quite openly. Any other political orientation that is even possible is a threat to our faith, in the sense that it’s a threat to our free pursuit of it. Everything else threatens to darken and hide the glory of God.

But because my primary skills are in computer operations, and because most people are connected via the Net, that means helping those people stay connected through the virtual realm. A prime example of that is promoting and supporting services that don’t censor them. But it also means helping those people with their own devices — I still make house calls and I still work for donations, including doing it for nothing. I’m going to put the word out that I’ll give these people priority in my tech support ministry.

But something related to this is the much broader advocacy of fighting for open access of all information. I’ve always been rather radical on this issue, and it hasn’t changed. My position is consistent: If something is digitized, it belongs to everyone. You can hope people honor things like copyright, but don’t count on it. There simply is no technological means to controlling access in the long run, and there’s no just means to enforcing it. This has always been a part of my ministry.

But I practice what I preach, making my own books free and most of my pictures are public domain. Only family faces are copyrighted, but I let God handle the enforcement.

Along with this is a renewed effort to explore ways to make our covenant community fellowship stronger and more meaningful via the Net. I sense there is more we can do with the Radix Fidem virtual community that will glorify the Lord, and we would certainly love to build up the forum activity as a way to reach you folks individually. We have to learn how to live in the Networked Civilization, because that’s descending quickly upon us.

Big Tech has already been at work seeking to use the virtual realm to control humanity, and a big part of that is destroying any sense of national identity. A certain amount of that is necessary simply for networking to work at all, but we have to learn how to keep alive those things that protect us from tyranny and abuse. In particular, we need to meet this challenge head-on regarding efforts to destroy faith in Christ. We need to find ways to make genuine biblical living thrive in the virtual world. And not just keep it, but to spread it in the virtual realm as a natural and organic element of being human, even while connected. We’ve only just begun this task.

But to avoid unnecessary questions, let’s review the kinds of things I might say about politics. Some people will think I’m engaging in politics itself, but that would be missing the point. My goal in making any comment at all is to promote Biblical Law, for which the Covenant of Noah is just an introduction. The idea of promoting less government in the current context means making more room for us to practice the tribal covenant community ideal of Scripture. That it also allows other folks to go off in all different crazy directions is simply part of the game. So we generally oppose the typical conservative social restrictions outside of the local community. We want to get away from federal policies about much of anything. At the very least, social policy should remain at the state level, if not lower.

I don’t support any kind of government regulation on the Net. The Net governs itself quite nicely by its very nature. On the other hand, I really do not like concentrations of power and wealth, so Big Tech is actually the single biggest threat to everyone else on the Net. The problem here is that government policy actually encourages this concentration of power. And the reason that stuff happens is because both government and Big Tech can lie to the masses. And the reason they can lie to the masses is because government actively hinders the education process.

None of this is likely to go away overnight, so the real effort at the ground level is to seize our own opportunities and fight for our own freedom to pursue a superior way of handling things. We cannot go along with efforts to enforce dumbing down the entire Net. So our biggest problem is getting people to seize their own freedom and use the better technology and better social interactions. That’s the only way we can do them any good at all. In terms of both strategy and tactics, the only viable response to Big Tech and Big Government is to refuse to play along, even while we maintain our presence on the Net. We have to keep alive the independent-minded approach to using the Net for God’s glory.

Teach everyone to be a shepherd, not a sheep. We will always have more sheep than we can handle, so we need folks to be self-reliant, particularly in how they address the virtual realm. At the same time, we have a divine commission to take care of the sheep. We search the flock for sheep that have that divine touch and calling to become shepherds.

We cannot force people leave their self-imposed prison. We can help them awaken to that awareness, but it remains a rather esoteric pursuit. So we endeavor to do what we can to bridge that gap, and most often that means protecting them from their own ignorance. Yes, it does come off at times as patronizing and elitist, but that’s how you handle hard-headed children, regardless of their actual age. When anyone grows up and decides for themselves what kind of Hell they will choose, we back off and leave them to it. The task after that is to put up barriers to keep them out of our pasture and away from the flock.

That’s the proper strategy in both the virtual realm and in the real world. We don’t seek our convenience; we recognize that sinners are going to sin. We seek to balance things so that we maintain and protect what we really must have for Christ’s glory, and the rest we endure because this world isn’t worth that much trouble. But our focus is not on changing the whole world; we don’t seek broad sweeping solutions across large populations. We seek to protect our obedience to God’s demand that we keep our own covenant household righteous, and that means emphasizing a broad and sweeping freedom to choose.

So our efforts are to block and frustrate everyone’s grabby reach, because it is by definition unjust. We aren’t going to trust any agency to seek our welfare; we vow to fight for it on our terms. We trust in the Lord to guide us in choosing the battles He wants us to fight, but then we fight with furious abandon.

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Virtual Plowman

Posted on June 21, 2019 by ehurst

We are called to shine the glory of the Lord. In an ideal situation, the whole world would be consciously under the Covenant of Noah. But we don’t live in that world; we live in something very ugly, something God is allowing to go to Hell for reasons we cannot comprehend in our fleshly existence. Our best chance to shine His glory is to offer provisional support for whatever provides us the best opportunity to shine.

If you pay attention to news sources, you’d never know there was anything but left and right in the US. And you would get the impression that most lefties are organized under the Democrats, while the right is under Republicans. That whole frame of reference is a thin veneer that could collapse any moment. It’s held in place by little more than the sheer noise of mainstream media, desperately trying to control the mass consciousness.

Among the various real political movements is a genuine thread of nationalist insurgency. It’s small, but far more influential than anyone outside it wants to believe. For the most part, it is not yet a self-conscious movement, but is the net thrust of a lot of angry oppressed people quite willing to work against the oppression. It is essentially a libertarian drive, highly individualist in nature. Yet what is painfully obvious is that this broad group is fairly consistent in their resistance.

We should understand that, despite any adherence to such higher values as liberty and freedom, the one thing that will consistently drive these people to action is the threat to their property. And that sense of ownership extends well beyond mere material goods, into the virtual realm and the sense of owning their personal data. Granted, most people don’t have a good mental grasp on what could and should constitute their personal data property, but they do sense a threat in that area of their lives. It’s not that we should set out to manipulate those fears in our favor, but be aware that this is how their minds work.

Despite our radical differences in outlook, people of a libertarian bent are our best allies in the political landscape today. We don’t have to promote everything they believe in, but we should make every effort to extend protection over them. None of this keeps us from simply trusting God for things we can’t control. Rather, we are actively supporting the one thing out there that is closest to where we stand. This puts us in a position to draw closer to us anyone who might be so inclined by the Lord’s guiding hand.

One thing is for sure: so-called “conservatism” in America has been a consistent failure. This is no accident; it’s always been the false flag of elitists who intended to subvert liberty. It’s the same people who promoted the US Constitution as mere propaganda. There’s nothing wrong with waving the US battle flag, but supporting the institutions of US government is another matter. There could be better flags to wave, but this one will do, if it is used to represent the practical libertarian ideals of the US Constitution.

Some of those ideals include an anti-war stripe, a broadly anti-interventionist approach to international relations. People should be free to use their own property as they see fit, and they shouldn’t be slaves to someone else’s profits. Freedom to choose a lot of repulsive and evil things is better than being forced to adhere to someone else’s ideas about being nice. We’d rather openly denigrate “being nice” than to play that game. What we should hate most is the common instinct of people to control others, regardless of how much good is alleged to be the reason.

Our faith community most certainly does need more and different kinds of leadership. I am by no means the heart and soul of what we do under Radix Fidem. But I do know what my heart requires of me, and I’m praying you can learn that from me. So while I’m not asking you to join me in working to support online libertarians, I don’t see how you can serve God and without resisting the various collectivist idolaters trying to rebuild the Tower of Babel.

On this blog, I’m going to promote genuine nationalism, particularly for Americans. I’m also going to promote the virtual tools in pursuit of nationalism. It’s more than computers and software; it’s a much broader category of online protocols and services that keep like-minded people connected. I’ll keep offering tech support in some of my posts, but I see a lot of work that needs doing in fighting the collectivist controls already asserted over peoples’ online presence, and I’ll fight for their freedom to promote their own interests. To be honest, I don’t have a lot concrete ideas right now, but I feel moved to start moving in that direction.

Radix Fidem still needs evangelists, but I’m not the best man for that job. I’m convinced some of you are a whole lot better at that than I am. I’m not much of a harvester, but I do a handy job with the plow. My calling is to break up the fallow ground of awareness. I do this in hopes that the Lord will move others to jump into this task, but I know I’m not in charge of deciding what gets planted, nor anything following that. All I know is where I’m called to plow.

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Leverage for Resistance

Posted on June 20, 2019 by ehurst

Someone has asked the question: Just what do I mean by saying I’ll defend the US Constitution? As you might expect, there’s a story behind that, and not everyone tells the same story.

Short answer: It boils down to protecting those residents of the US and whatever version of shalom they have.

Long answer: Let me unwind that for you. I’m very cynical about the US Constitution and how it was used in founding our government. In other words, I am utterly convinced it was a propaganda play by some elitists who had evil plans. They wrote it and advertised it according to what they wanted the voting population to believe, not what they actually intended to do. It was a cover story. Further, I believe the Federalist Papers were also mostly bullshit; the people promoting that stuff didn’t actually believe all of it, but they wanted the people to believe it.

Thus, what they proposed in the US Constitution is essentially a libertarian thesis. This would teach the people to mind their own business and cause a ruckus only when their interests are infringed a little too much. The elites intended to hide their infringements and profit from the hiding, and were laying out in their private counsels ways they could explain this infringement and make it sound absolutely necessary for the interests of the people.

No sooner was this constitution approved than the government officials proceeded to exploit the loopholes they carefully wove into it. But part of the problem is that some of the folks at the Constitutional Convention actually did believe all that crap, and there were frequent disputes. Within a few decades, those people were shuffled out of government offices or marginalized in other ways.

Please recall that Thomas Jefferson said that this kind of conflict would mean a bloody revolt just about every twenty years or so. Obviously he didn’t meant that literally, but when people in power use semantic wrangling to overcome resistance, it can be used against them just the same.

While I find the US Constitution repugnant in many ways, I find it is an excellent weapon against our real enemies. It can be wielded against government officials. That is, it becomes the justification for an awful lot of house-cleaning were the people to tire of the yoke of slavery. Taken as it stands, the US Constitution is a very libertarian statement of limiting government, and when government refuses to be limited, it’s all the justification anyone needs for a constitutional revolt.

Granted, I’m not a “constitutionalist.” I’m still operating from a wholly alien set of assumptions, to include rejecting the entire range of Western mythology. What I’m doing is taking advantage of a thread within the Enlightenment philosophy behind the Constitution that says folks should be free to follow their own convictions, regardless how misguided they may be in the eyes of most other people. People were free to become prissy middle-class materialists, but it’s not required by any means. In other words, it is quite within the Constitution for you and I to form our own private community around the biblical social model of covenant tribal feudalism, as long as we don’t force it on any adults who don’t want it. That’s fine with us. Indeed, given the fall of humanity and the prophesied trend of moral decline, that’s about as good as we can hope for.

I’m not a commander; I’m not going to organize an armed force to go after all the bad guys. I’m more of an operations and support guy (in military parlance, S-3 and S-4). And apart from the standard tactical training that all military folks receive, my real expertise is in computer technology. So that amounts to cyber operations and equipment. I wouldn’t hesitate to use violence when it suits the context, but that’s not what I do best. As I’ve said in the past, the real war will be an information war over the Internet. I still believe that. And I’m not going to lead this revolt, but I will participate in what is already happening.

So there will also be periods of physical violence arising from that wider strategic conflict. I see no problem with that; there’s no way to avoid it in the long run. But the biggest problem is that humanity has moved to the virtual world and there’s no pulling them back out short of destroying all the technology. That could happen, but folks would just build it again because everyone has been conditioned to prefer the virtual realm. It serves no purpose to rail against the facts; this is the world we live in today. So while you and I as heart-led servants of Christ know that we will always seek face-to-face fellowship in the Spirit, the His lost sheep are out there on the Net.

So along with some limited violent conflict now and then, the focus of a genuine nationalist insurgency is in the virtual realm. Right now the real problem is how the globalist-socialist-SJW threat has already hijacked most of the network services that people use just living day to day. We have to work out how to combat that problem, and it’s not a simple answer.

More on that in the next post. For now, just understand that for me to defend the US Constitution means defending the prerogatives of people to choose how they shall live, and to resist those who have flatly admitted the intend to take that away.

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