whitefields1983
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Theology of Modern Liberty
As a follower of Jesus Christ and the instruction of the Apostles, I've come to see a big problem the ideology of modern Liberty and the anti-monarchical revolutions (American, French, etc.) that instituted it over the last few centuries. To boil it down, it feels very wrong to celebrate or venerate a violent rebellion against the ruling monarch in favor of instituting a new order based fundamentally on individual liberty and the Will of the People.
Repeatedly, the apostles admonish us to honor the king, and yet we celebrate the king's overthrow every year.
I'm tired of being a revolutionary. I don't want the revolution's Lockean individual liberty, because it is a diabolical liberty that constantly refers back to the desires and passions of the individual... fully separated from anything resembling a transcendental order. The only goodness to be found is individual liberty, the right of man to govern himself by his own reasoning of what is good or evil.
That is what the Declaration of Independence is all about. The revolutionaries are declaring their independence from a kingdom ruled by Jesus Christ. Of course, Christians are welcome to practice their faith privately, as all other believers are, but officially, in word and deed, the goddess Liberty rules the kingdom on earth.
Our Liberty cannot see the actual God revealed by the incarnation of the Son. To do so would be to accept Jesus as Lord over these United States and that was simply unacceptable to our deistic founders and the American tradition. Only "Nature's god" can reign supreme here, which is essentially the Unknown God of deism, whose divinity can only be uncovered through studying nature.
I don't want a "right to vote"... all democracy is is a program of factional strife, where populations are mobilized to attack each other, a kind of Darwinian selection process that generates a new synthesis of what is good and evil from one year to the next. Modern Liberty cannot see any real transcendent Good, because such a system would deprive the individual of his "rights" to pursue his own version of happiness and freedom. This is why our society has come to celebrate things like homosexuality. As Americans we are continuing the revolutionary tradition. Society has been liberated from tyrannical sexual norms. Children today feel they are liberating themselves from the tyranny of a social order that forces boys to be boys and girls to be girls.
The leaders of the transgender movement are right there locked hand in hand with the likes of John Locke and George Washington, asserting their individual human rights and declaring their independence. And on the revolution goes.
So over these past few centuries since the revolution kicked off, Christian churches and theologians seem to have really spiritually syncretized with this revolutionary faith of modern Liberty. The basic justification seems to be that the 'spirit of democracy' is the work of the Holy Spirit itself, flowing into the common people. That we are people who have been liberated from "tyrannical" rule of kings due to the grace of God.
And how's the liberty revolution going so far? Do we like the taste of its spiritual fruit?
Are we proud of the society that has grown up under the flame of the great goddess Liberty?
I think what really bothers me is watching so many church leaders and pastors and theologians telling their congregations to not get caught up in politics, when many of them are essentially presiding as moral justifiers of the modern liberal democratic order... looking on approvingly as congregants send their children into the revolutionary school systems where they will be indoctrinated into the liberal democratic tradition which includes all numbers of stumbling block individualistic doctrines and belief systems that are hostile to the views presented to us by Jesus and the apostles, and a liberal tradition which declares eternal hostility towards a social order and a nation based around submission to the revealed God in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
As a follower of Jesus Christ and the instruction of the Apostles, I've come to see a big problem the ideology of modern Liberty and the anti-monarchical revolutions (American, French, etc.) that instituted it over the last few centuries. To boil it down, it feels very wrong to celebrate or venerate a violent rebellion against the ruling monarch in favor of instituting a new order based fundamentally on individual liberty and the Will of the People.
Repeatedly, the apostles admonish us to honor the king, and yet we celebrate the king's overthrow every year.
I'm tired of being a revolutionary. I don't want the revolution's Lockean individual liberty, because it is a diabolical liberty that constantly refers back to the desires and passions of the individual... fully separated from anything resembling a transcendental order. The only goodness to be found is individual liberty, the right of man to govern himself by his own reasoning of what is good or evil.
That is what the Declaration of Independence is all about. The revolutionaries are declaring their independence from a kingdom ruled by Jesus Christ. Of course, Christians are welcome to practice their faith privately, as all other believers are, but officially, in word and deed, the goddess Liberty rules the kingdom on earth.
Our Liberty cannot see the actual God revealed by the incarnation of the Son. To do so would be to accept Jesus as Lord over these United States and that was simply unacceptable to our deistic founders and the American tradition. Only "Nature's god" can reign supreme here, which is essentially the Unknown God of deism, whose divinity can only be uncovered through studying nature.
I don't want a "right to vote"... all democracy is is a program of factional strife, where populations are mobilized to attack each other, a kind of Darwinian selection process that generates a new synthesis of what is good and evil from one year to the next. Modern Liberty cannot see any real transcendent Good, because such a system would deprive the individual of his "rights" to pursue his own version of happiness and freedom. This is why our society has come to celebrate things like homosexuality. As Americans we are continuing the revolutionary tradition. Society has been liberated from tyrannical sexual norms. Children today feel they are liberating themselves from the tyranny of a social order that forces boys to be boys and girls to be girls.
The leaders of the transgender movement are right there locked hand in hand with the likes of John Locke and George Washington, asserting their individual human rights and declaring their independence. And on the revolution goes.
So over these past few centuries since the revolution kicked off, Christian churches and theologians seem to have really spiritually syncretized with this revolutionary faith of modern Liberty. The basic justification seems to be that the 'spirit of democracy' is the work of the Holy Spirit itself, flowing into the common people. That we are people who have been liberated from "tyrannical" rule of kings due to the grace of God.
And how's the liberty revolution going so far? Do we like the taste of its spiritual fruit?
Are we proud of the society that has grown up under the flame of the great goddess Liberty?
I think what really bothers me is watching so many church leaders and pastors and theologians telling their congregations to not get caught up in politics, when many of them are essentially presiding as moral justifiers of the modern liberal democratic order... looking on approvingly as congregants send their children into the revolutionary school systems where they will be indoctrinated into the liberal democratic tradition which includes all numbers of stumbling block individualistic doctrines and belief systems that are hostile to the views presented to us by Jesus and the apostles, and a liberal tradition which declares eternal hostility towards a social order and a nation based around submission to the revealed God in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.