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Peace to you! Realizing that posts would be extremely long, I’ve decided to publish on the easier-to-manage platform Substack. Don’t worry, though; I’ll just link them here and will check my inbox in case there are any questions.

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Memorial Day 2021

Today we can thank all men throughout history, Christian or not, who died for innocent people to live. And we can also thank all Christian brothers and sisters who died to give us this wonderful opportunity for civilization to flourish. Regardless of whether or not they would have agreed with all the tenants of Theonomy or any other political philosophy, one thing is for sure: recognition of God’s Law and the flourishing of human civilization that can or will flow out from that would be impossible without the living sacrifice that they gave. We may disagree with certain principles like the First Amendment, but it is impossible to deny that we are standing on their deaths to proclaim His Truth and relying on their blood to carry forward the blessings we inherited from our forefathers.

But of course, the greatest sacrifice to be memorialized needs not be specified. Christ drank our Heavenly Father’s Cup of Wrath so that we could have the blessing of eternal communion with God, and He did so having earned no punishment, but out of love for us. He provided the archetypal standard that other heroes will follow now and forever, until the end of this age. And He taught our civilization, Christendom, and all other Christians around the world to memorialize the fallen and recognize what that ultimate expression of love looks like:

John 15

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants,[a] for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

May all soldiers find rest in Him, and may we conform our laws of warfare to His standards, and may we never forget a single drop of blood shed for us regardless of whatever flag we fly in the future, whether it has stripes or a cross or anything else. Love has no state boundaries. Love is eternal.

May we all bear fruit that is worthy of Your sacrifice, and the sacrifice of others that You have gifted us with, in Jesus’s name, amen.

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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Proverbs 9:10

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Notes about Posts on this Blog

Evergreen Content

Content on this blog is designed to be evergreen. I won’t be reblogging cool or cute posts, just making original posts that serve as reference resources. And everything I post might end up being a stub compared to what it eventually becomes. Right now, I have about 140 article drafts to maximize topic efficiency and avoid repetition, and hopefully give me a chance to really work on the prose and arguments and evidence in every article a lot before I post it.

Every article will be updated over time with new information and corrections as I deem appropriate. And I’ll keep backups of every article in case this blog gets taken down at any point in the future; just message me off the site if you want access to them if that happens.

Unborn Links

Because posts will be planned ahead of time, and I don’t want to cover too many topics redundantly, certain posts will have link stubs that look like:

[LINK FORTHCOMING: Patriarchy]

Unfortunately, this means the article hasn’t been published yet, or I haven’t gone back and edited in a link to the article. But in the meanwhile, feel free to research the topic yourself or even ask about it.

Fallibility

Don’t expect every single statement on this blog to be correct. I try really hard to fact check everything, especially when it comes to weighty moral topics that govern how we conduct violence and order society, but I’m just human at the end of the day. I wouldn’t share any of this if I weren’t very confident about the basic premises, but I’m always growing with regard to the details of certain topics. My old blog had plenty of ideas I now deem false or misleading, and I’m sure this blog will contain plenty of mistakes too no matter how hard I want to prevent them.

No matter how much you trust someone, never believe anything they say automatically. Check everything out in the Word of God for yourself, whether you want to prove it or disprove it. Use logic--God’s gift--to prove every claim. Require evidence for everything. Believe nothing because I say it.

The moment nobody questions me is the moment I reinforce every major problem of the Christian church from the past 2000 years. (Of course, I probably won’t have that problem for quite a while, as everyone does a whole lot of questioning me, LOL.)

But I might say something about a historical figure or Bible figure or Bible verse or law in the Bible or event in the Bible that is absolutely false. And when that happens, feel free to call me out on it and I will correct it if I understand and believe in the correction. And I pray that God will strengthen me to never be arrogant and cling to error, but will also stick and hold firm to His Word, in Jesus’s name.

In the meanwhile, keep in mind that not everything I say is actually fully endorsed by me. It’s mostly endorsed, but there is always room for growth and correction. And we will grow together until our movement is strong enough to legally peacefully abolish the USG, at which point our doctrines and ideology will (God willing) be strong and correct enough to order society and render justice between all people, and between people and God. It takes thousands of people to truly make a Theonomic movement happen, and I am just one person--but I want to do the best I can to help.

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About

Peace to you, and thanks for stopping by!

This blog is (at present) designed to accomplish three things:

To be a resource for my Atheist and Agnostic brothers and sisters who do not yet know Christ, but require logical evidence and difficult truths to see the error of their ways, repent, know God, love God, and have eternal life. (This also goes for false Christians, pagans and people of all other faiths.)

To invite my fellow Christians to understand God’s Law better, to abandon modern political movements like Progressivism, Conservatism, Centrism or Trumpism, and to re-orient how they think about state violence to conform their opinions to God’s Truth on the subject.

To share any wisdom I feel God has given me through His Word that is suitable for the public--and to invite correction from others in case I happen to be wrong.

We’ll be covering topics such as evolution, fulfilled prophecy, the Biblical canon, gender roles, SJWs, Trumpism, Old Testament death penalties, the dangers of enforcing man-made laws, and more! Many topics covered here will be taboo or socially unacceptable--and their unacceptability in Western society will be presented as evidence for God’s very existence. But do keep in mind that topics like sex, violence, ethnic strife and other issues will be discussed with candor and sometimes flippantly, so you probably shouldn’t share any posts here with children unsupervised or randomly scroll through at work.

When it comes to reaching a wide audience, a compromise has to be made so that the message is easier to understand and grasp for my fellow Internet nerds, at the cost of other audiences. I do not believe that using profanity is a sin in itself, but profanity may be the least of your worries when trying to piece together what the hell I’m talking about sometimes if you speak English as a second language or were born before the year 1980. On the other hand, there’s a select group of Internet-age people I think God has equipped me to communicate well with, and the wording and structure of this blog is designed to reach those people, who can hopefully reach others themselves.

This is not a blog about religious mysticism, witchcraft or rapturous emotional thinking; I do my best to think logically and offer logical arguments that reference real-world events tied to a real-world God. The objective is determining the objective truth, or real face, of reality, without any extra “religious” baggage. Of course, any error in that regard is my own.

Please understand that not everything I say will be correct. I am just as fallible as anyone else, and the best I can do is point you to the Word of God and other real-life evidence so that you can see for yourself what the truth value of my claims is.

I look forward to speaking to truth-seekers, sharing the Word, answering questions, re-examining my own beliefs where they are in error, and edifying the Body of Christ. Feel free to drop an ask if you have a question! I DEFINITELY don’t know everything, but I can give it a shot if I think I have something to contribute. But always remember this promise, which is far more important than anything I can provide!

James 1

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.