Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
First, the oldest but best Christian joke in the world (The second best is the one about how what was going on in Gomorrah was so bad nobody will talk about it): There’s this Christian guy who gets on his roof to escape a flood. He prays to God to save him. A rowboat comes by. He says, “No thanks, God will save me.” The rowboat leaves, the water rises, and he drowns. He appears before the Lord and says, “But I prayed for you to save me!” and God says, “I sent you a rowboat.”
Donald Trump is religious Americans’ improbable rowboat, and I have $20 that says some obtuse idiot is going to write a column, or at least fire off a tweet, saying “Schlichter thinks Trump was sent by God.” Mark my words. If there’s anything I know, it’s what to expect from dummies on the web.
There are a lot of people frustrated that Christians back Trump and refuse to let his personal life be used as a wedge to pry off their support. They are mad that Christians are not playing their role as defined by their enemies. Christians are supposed to be scandalized and give up and lose. But they won’t.
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Now, let’s understand this basic concept – Jesus was not some sort of whiny wimp who refused to confront the establishment and took comfort in his own righteousness while leaving others to do the heavy lifting. Jesus made people angry, because that’s what happens when you defy bad people. Being a Christian does not mean that you have to shrug and let the likes of Hillary Clinton be elected so she and her minions can fire up her anti-faith pogrom against those of us who dare worship God and not the elite she represents. Maybe you didn’t notice, but they do not accept the concept that we have any legitimate interests or rights. They hate us. And, if we are weak and stupid enough to allow them to take power, they will act on their bigotry and prejudices. Baking cakes is only the start.
Resistance is not merely an option. It is a duty. And resistance to evil – because the desire to suppress our faith is evil – is not somehow unchristian because it can be aesthetically displeasing. Fighting back is not always pretty. Jesus cleared the temple of moneychangers. He made a mess and got people angry. He didn’t sit on the sidelines and write ponderous articles lambasting the people tossing over the tables because “We’re better than that.”
Everyone seems to want to tell Christians that they are obligated to give in. There’s always some IPA-loving hipster who writes video game reviews when he’s not sobbing alone in the dark because no one loves him tweeting “Oh, that’s real Christian!” whenever a conservative fights back. I know that when I need theological clarification, I seek out the militant atheist who thinks Christ was a socialist and believes that the Golden Rule is that Christians are never allowed to never offend anyone.
Yeah, no, not a thing.
And then there are the members of the Fredocon contingent, the prissy whiners with their principles and their posturing who think that every time it is revealed that Donald Trump is exactly who we all know Donald Trump is we have to go Full Footloose John Lithgow.
Sorry, but we never go Full Lithgow.
Let me tear the scales from your eyes, Team Holier-Than-Thou. We know exactlywho Donald Trump is. He’s imperfect, like everyone but you guys. Interestingly, there is some evidence he is experiencing something of a religious awakening, but you in the Churchlady Right reject that possibility – a unique take on Christianity, but you do you.
Regardless, we totally, completely, and fully understand Trump’s personal failings. And, as Salena Zito notes in her new book The Great Revolt, we don’t care.
We don’t care because the culture has established new rules and we refuse to unilaterally disarm in the face of them. Also, we understand that if those who imposed the new rules never pay a price for them they will never have an incentive to change them back again.
We don’t care because of the hypocrisy. Spare us the lectures from the party that gave us Floatin’ Teddy, “Put Some Ice On That” Bill, Fernophile Harvey and Slappy Schneiderman.
We don’t care because we are done seeing our morality weaponized against us. The Piouscons keep confusing passivity with morality. Look at how George W. Bush took the high road and let himself be abused all through his term and Obama’s too. That didn’t work out so well. Oh, and the way he suddenly discovered his stones after Trump got elected and trashed both the President and the those of us who spent years defending him when he would not defend himself made Team Turn-The-Other-Cheek look like a bunch of hypocritical jerks.
But most of all, we don’t care because our priority is not whether Donald Trump acted like, well, Donald Trump. This is about survival, specifically our survival as a free people able to live, speak, and worship as we please. Maybe you missed it, being too busy pointing out the splinters in our eyes while logs resided in yours, but this is an existential struggle between our side and the people who want to crush us.
Yeah, crush us. How do we know? They tell us.
Maybe you are willing to bake a cake before you soil your dainty digits, but I’m not. I’m doing what adults do, making a choice. My choice – and yours – is between A) the imperfect human being who has a nearly perfect record of defending our religious and other liberties, or B) the imperfect human beings who have a nearly perfect record of attacking our religious and other liberties.
Choose one. And not choosing is choosing Option B.
Trump may provoke a whole bunch of “Oh, well, I nevers,” but he’s been there for us. I only supported him after Ted Cruz dropped out, and only because the alternative was worse. But he surprised me. He’s performed beyond my wildest dreams.
If you had had your way, Hillary Clinton would be president because Trump is icky.
Let’s leave aside Hillary’s own manifest personal ickiness and examine the outcome you would prefer, the defeat of Trump and the success of the Democrats. But Stormy? No, but Gorsuch. You can deny it all you want, but when you make a choice you choose the outcomes that follow.
Your choice means even more dead babies.
Your choice means even more oppression of the religious.
Your choice means our voices being silenced by government, corporations, academia, and the culture.
Well, maybe not yourvoices, at least not right away. The tyrants usually wait until the collaborators have done their dirty work before finishing them off last. And what’s funny is that when we fighters are gone and the left turns on you, you’ll be surprised.
Supporting Trump does not mean validating everything he allegedly did or does – though it is fun to do it once in a while to watch the liberals and the Cruise Ship Crew freak out. Supporting Trump means making a choice not to submit.
Is that immoral?
No.
You see, there is no combination of facts, rules, obligations, or commandments that requires us to take actions that will lead us to submitting to tyranny. I will not submit. I choose Trump, because Trump, while being an imperfect vessel, indisputably constitutes the clearest path to maintaining the freedom with which our Creator endowed us.
Stop being a bunch of sissies and jump in the rowboat.
Yeah! The “Chosen” OR . . . the C-H-O-O-S-I-N-G – the demonstration of “free will”? The number of “seats” may very well have been established from the Beginning, but the names on the “Manifest” may not yet be logged. Even though this may very well be the era of “Gutenberg v2.GAZILLION” and such absolutely blatant “official” corruption/exploitation/INjustice-gone-wild; DISTRACTIONS abound equally to those who do NOT remain focused on the ABSOLUTE Truth(s) revealed and the Redemption established by JC. He RE-established the path for each and every very special/unique “Ones’s” – NOT “zeros” – INDIVIDUAL journeys to Salvation, but . . . “spiritual Aikido” is necessary to parry away all the discursive distractions/delusions/temptations abounding and maintain the “divine momentum” provided by the Lord from the Beginning.
Good article. Good stuff.
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Bravo Kurt! Chip
A Christian’s duty is to seek and do God’s will with his life.
So what is God’s will for me?
I struggled with that for years and years looking for some magnificent deeds I was supposed to be doing until one day I realized, probably an answer to my prayers about it, that it was simple: Do what is in front of you and do it as if you are doing it for God.
But how do we know how we are doing what we do in the manner God wishes us to do it? Simple answer again: Every circumstance we will ever face and how to deal with it is described somewhere in the Bible, and everything described in the Bible is represented in the life of Jesus on Earth, you can just look it up.
The real difficulty is separating our own self centered will from the process, it is so very easy to subtly substitute our own will for God’s will by subtly changing the idea of “let Thy will be done” into “let my will be done and may you do it for me”.
Being, or at least trying to be, Christian is not an easy thing, and it is a lifetime long ongoing process that never lets up.
Anon….VERY well said!
Christianity has been under attack for decades. For those of you who are boomers or close to it, I’m sure you can remember the “good ole days” when everyone went to church on Sunday…it’s just what you did. While over 3300 religions (yes, that’s two three’s and two zeros) in the world, the basic idea of religion gave you a moral compass, a lift for the week, a purpose we are here. Over the last 40-50 yrs, many churches have become nothing more than a social hangout, even advertising their fun and activities like a Saturday night party or hangout to meet “the right guy”. That in itself is a turning by the liberal, non-believers away from Christ to focus on fun and games. How easily we let satan turn our minds away from the purpose of worship to singles parties and cookouts in the guise of religion? While edification is part of the responsibility of Christians, why have so many allowed it to BECOME the worship? One has to know their God and His Son to be able to stand for truth. And that is the only means by which to stop evil.
Excellent piece by KS. It’s good to see people waking-up and understanding that while normal people were busy living their lives, the leftist filth known as the elites or TPTB, were, and still are, at war with us. They’ve made a scary amount of gains toward establishing their hell on earth that they will convince many fools is a utopia.
When they say utopia, they mean for just them – not for everyone else.
If you’ve never seen the movie ‘Soylent Green,’ it’s probably a pretty good glimpse into what their ‘utopia’ would look like.
Its funny how some choose to be called Christians, then try to become what they think a Christian should be; kind of a combination of Mr. Flanders on the Simson’s, Gandhi on a good day and Mother Theresa on steroids. These folks are the target audience of this article, who do not following an inward calling of God, but seek to be conformed to the latest edition of what the Washington Post writes about who they think a Christian should be. Can you imagine the surprise many will feel when they stand at the judgement seat are shocked to not see an Obama-like savior, looking down to render blessings based on the virtue signaling they had done in their life.
So what does a Christian look like? I believe they are as unique as the stars in the universe, yet with a God given sense of righteousness that they hold themselves to, with a God given love that they express to the world.
Romans 13:1-2 get thrown at Christians all the time in regards to the problem of evil rulers and what to do about it. This has never made sense to me, that we should just sit back and allow all kinds of evil to take place because “turn the other cheek”.
Here is a sample from a really long article that makes much more sense as to what Paul was referring to in those verses.
“The traditional interpretation of these verses is that we must submit to all political authorities, because their authority is from God. This is a false syllogism. To see the twisted logic, look at the following sets of statements.
All authority is ordained by God
Hitler has authority
Therefore Hitler is ordained by God,
so we must submit to him.
This following example exaggerates the point.
All authority is ordained by God
Satan has authority
Therefore Satan is ordained by God,
so we must submit to him.
That is not true. The correct logic is as follows.
All legitimate authority is from God.
Hitler and Satan are hostile to God
Therefore, the authority of Hitler and Satan is illegitimate.
The statement that all authority is ordained by God cannot be used as to legitimise any and every political authority. It should inspire us to seek out legitimate authority.”
It goes on to talk about “good judges”, something we don’t have in this country. Most judges are corrupt in some way or another.
I heard a comment recently that only engineers should be judges. Never allow lawyers to be judges (in fact originally lawyers were never supposed to be judges). Make of that what you wish.
Authority can be given to us by God to punish us as a people or nation as well as to bless us, depending on what we deserve at the time.
There’s the “Word” and there’s “word-play”. ‘Nuf said . . .
Great article. This piece resonated with me the most.
“Trump may provoke a whole bunch of “Oh, well, I nevers,” but he’s been there for us. I only supported him after Ted Cruz dropped out, and only because the alternative was worse. But he surprised me. He’s performed beyond my wildest dreams.”
I feel the same way. Initially I wanted Trump to win because I was done with the Clinton Crime Syndicate and would have picked anyone but Hillary. I thought Trump would be a lot of talk and absolutely no action, and I was OK with that versus the alternative. I wasn’t happy with it, but OK with it. But behold, every week Trump is attempting to do something that might actually help America. I have been stunned that he is not just a reality TV star and that he has a real agenda. Do I care that a billionaire had sex with porn stars? Way less than I cared that Clinton exploited his intern, who actually worked for him. Feminists, your double standard really has me mystified these days.
I especially like this line, Bill. “He’s performed beyond my wildest dreams.” Schlichter gets it
“Regardless, we totally, completely, and fully understand Trump’s personal failings. And, ….. we don’t care.” ———— article
Wow. Is there a greater indictment AGAINST Christianity that that?? No sir, there is not. Yet, every comment here (so far) praises this author?
What the hell is going on in America when even The Elect (people of TBP) surrender to moral relativism? And that’s what it is — because the rest of the article after that quote is mere justification for accepting Trump’s immoral character because look at the other side, they are even worse!”
So feel free to bombard me with thumbs down. But, while doing so can you provide even ONE example where Jesus is OK with moral relativism? Just one. I’ll wait all day if necessary.
Some of you will never be dislodged from the belief that Trump is draining the swamp. I say balderdash, you are dining with the Devil!!
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“Wow. Is there a greater indictment AGAINST Christianity that that??”
Mat 6:14-15 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. -KJV
“Go and sin no more.”
You kinda forget about that little tidbit. How convenient.
I haven’t forgotten that, and I try not to take things out of context for that particular scripture without understanding exactly what they are meant to convey.
It concerns ourselves and our own sins, not the ongoing forgiveness of others Jesus us instructed us in doing. We are to try not to repeat our sins after they are forgiven, but that does not have to do with our forgiveness of others.
Consider Mat 18:21-22 ” Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.” -KJV (This scripture introduces the parable of the unforgiving servant.)
I don’t usually reply to Anons, as I view them as cowardly. But, I know you are not an Anon, but a regular who, for some strange reason, needs to hide as Anon.
You seem to be exceedingly eager to forgive Trump for his sins, even 490 times (70 x 7).
Were you that eager to forgive Hillary? I’m guessing not so much.
Nevertheless, is THAT your response to the question of Jesus and moral relevancy? Forgiveness? That’s weak, very weak. Try harder.
I hold nothing Hillary has done as a sin against me, and if anything is then she has my forgiveness for it.
That doesn’t mean I approve of here politics and agenda, just that they are not sins against me and I forgive any that might be considered that without me knowing it.
When you fart does it smell like roses too?
It is rare to hear a professing Christian claim they forgive all who trespass against them. I understand Matthew 6 as directing Christians to forgive others. Matthew 18 directs Christians to be forgiving of other Christians.
Those who read the bible learn the elders of a church may ban Christian members from worshipping in the church if the member does not repent from sin (some may say serious types of sin).
You stated Hillary has not committed a sin against you. I find this an odd statement. If you are a member of the Church, you must know Hillary has not repented for her sins against the Church. Using her Foundation to profit from selling weapons to nations who use the weapons against Christians and others is a sin against the Church– against you. Hillary’s weapons deals constitutes being a part of the worldly system Jesus denounced. This is one example of Hillary’s sins against the Church.
Some say Hillary has a Christian faith. The bible indicates to me why elders of a church would ban Hillary from worshipping in their church. Hillary does not repent.
I wonder if Hillary has signed up for life extension services? Will she enjoy an extended life on earth sometime in the future? Will those who say they are a part of the Church while spreading the social gospel help her achieve her goals?
The Church, I am told, is apolitical. Has the Church forgiven Hillary? I do not know. How can the Church or anyone forgive her if she has not repented?
I prefer Hillary Clinton receive a capital offense sentence. I prefer Hillary Clinton confess of all her corrupt actions and if she refuses, may she watch as a prosecutor addresses them.
I also prefer women see their own value as women and stop worshipping Hillary and feminism. I will not excuse Hillary’s war on women.
(I also consider Trump to be a part of the swamp.)
Maybe he has gone and sinned no more. Maybe not.
Perhaps there is somewhere an adage about not being an asshole all the time?
I didn’t praise the author. I just used the article to make a broader point.
I think Stucky makes a super point here. Leo Tolstoy has an interesting run down on the matter too:
http://www.nonresistance.org/docs_pdf/Tolstoy/What_I_Believe.pdf
BTW: it takes way more balls and faith to engage in nonviolent resistance than it does to whip out your gun and start shooting people – even people who have shot first.
Maybe you should acquaint yourself with Soltzhenitsyn’s quote about not fighting back. I don’t feel like typing the whole thing at this time. It is posted on the wall behind my desk. A man who does not fight back to protect himself, his family and friends from physical harm is a pussy and has no balls.
Whatever dude. I am familiar with the quote and think I would follow his advice but that is because I am weak and my faith needs major work- not because I am tough or right.
What did Jesus do? He must have been the greatest of all fairies by your logic.
John 2:15
Does that single passage obviate pretty much the rest of gospel message– up to and including the lesson of the crucifixion? I know this line of inquiry means little to someone who does not believe Christ was God. But given the overall and pretty clear message found in the gospels, it would appear Christians should be very uncomfortable with the idea of combating evil with evil.
The crucifixion was an act knowingly taken on because of the problem it was there to solve.
Don’t compare letting yourself and your family being murdered or cattle prodded into being a beast of burden for a culture of sin… to the crucifixion.
Thank you, Diogenes
Moral relativism implies that Trump would be excused for his behavior, that rationalizations would be made to exonerate him. I don’t think that’s what’s going on. His behavior was repugnant and so was Miss Stormy’s. They were two human beings classically engaged in using each other for some personal gain, a chief dynamic in the power centers of all time and all
places. Now DJT finds his extracurriculars have come around to bite him in the butt and add to his already formidable problems. Things must be chilly at home, I imagine. Before Stormy is done, she will have her regrets, too, just as soon as her 15 minutes of fame expire.
Christians are the Lord’s Workmen on Earth that show the Right Path and oppose Evil. We are eager to share God’s Gospel but if you don’t want it, we keep the Pearls, return your dust from our shoes and go where God is wanted. Jesus is my Lord and I have a personal affinity to St Michael. PS: I trust Mark Taylor but I don’t know if I can trust his prophetic source; Trump is the best we have to my knowledge but he is an Enigma spiritually and politically; we all need to pray that he and our country get on the Right Path, which is definitely not whoring and warring.
True, the Bible does tell us to pray for our leaders without qualification.
Pray to who? Satan?
Is Satan your leader?
No, but I would say that tRump is doing Satan’s will.
So, are you praying for him that he does God’s will and leads our nation in a way that brings us God’s blessings?
Your the Christian, not me. I’m Gnostic.
Let us not forget that all things were created by God, including evil, as an antagonistic force that brings out the best in the protagonist who fights it. We cannot be “good” or “do good” without evil, just as light without darkness has no shape, form or context. Evil will always exist in this world because of the fallen, stained nature of man, where selfishness prevails as the dominant force leading back to survival in an animal like existence.
So we fight evil not in prose, the bible already does that, but in making the right decisions in our day-to-day lives (most don’t and never will). Politicians are mirrors who reflect who we are as a people. We reflect ourselves.
That would be a New Age view, but it is not the view of the Bible or of Christianity.
Perhaps that’s one of the reasons Christianity is so much under attack today, it tells us what God has commanded for us and how we should live instead of what we want to hear about ourselves in our worldly minds.
Evil is disobedience to God’s law, and most people don’t want to hear about that and prefer to be righteous in their own minds no matter what the truth of their thoughts and actions are.
I don’t agree that God made Evil; He made everything good and then Lucifer turned himself Evil. There are many children that were raised good but turned Evil and I’m sure the relatives all became horribly distressed but they are not guilty. There are many of us who had a bad parent or two and saw the error of their way(s) and we turned out good. If God was the Father of Evil, He would have to send Himself to Hell. We are giving Him a chuckle. Or be forgiven by His Son.
” … the very fact of [Gina Haspel’s] nomination defines Trump as a fatally callous leader totally contemptuous of basic human rights and the rule of law. ”
Selecting and even highly praising a scumfuk torturer. Nothing immoral about that, right Trumpeteers? She was just doing her job. Just more swamp draining by Donald The Righteous.
Trust the plan. Pray.
https://russia-insider.com/en/cias-next-director-torture-master-tell-me-more-about-americas-human-rights-primacy/ri23411
Oh, but , but, don’t you see, he is going to us this scumfuk torturer to torture all the scum and pedos in the Deep State. And after she is done torturing them, they are going to be thrown in jail. Then there is going to be a big parade! I think D4C said sometime in November. Don’t worry the Anons are decoding the gematria of appointment even as we comment. 36DD chess in action.
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Do we have to over intellectualize EVERY article that is posted to this forum? The message of the article was pretty basic and seemingly relevant; Christians, stop hiding and being ashamed of your religion and sound off like you got a pair. No one trusts or respects a mumbler.
There are a few in competition to be the smartest guy or gal in the room.
Kurt, you knocked this one out of the park. First rate writing.