The Price of Liberty

From a brother in Christ, who has a knack for seeing to the bottom of the pond, polluted or not. TPOL’s comments are in [brackets and italics]. His comments are addressed to christians – but they apply to any and all lovers of liberty.

We learned without a shadow of a doubt this week that a significant chunk of our country wants to see conservative Christians killed, and another significant chunk—including many Christians—will refuse to call them on it or will even give semi-justifications for it.

These centrists call people like me divisive, but we’re not the ones shooting at people we don’t like. THAT is where the divide comes from. Pointing it out isn’t divisive. It’s honest. Get it through your head: if you believe in Biblical morality, THEY THINK YOU SHOULD DIE.

That’s why calls for unity are so useless right now. You can’t unite with people who want you silenced at best and dead at worst. [How many times do we have to learn that lesson?]

Too many preachers spent this week saying nice words like “unity” without having a clue what they mean or how they work. The church was called to unity with one another. We were never called to unite with a world that hates us. “What fellowship has light with darkness?” “Do not be surprised when the world hates you.”

Whether it’s naïveté or cowardice, I don’t know, but neither one inspires confidence.

This is what you absolutely must understand:

The only way this ends is with one side winning. Christ, or chaos. [Liberty or tyranny – closely tied with God and the abyss.]

I can hear the pearl clutching and handwringing now. “Gasp! He said the ‘W’ word!” Yeah, we’re here to tear down strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:3-6). And yeah, our fight is not against flesh and blood—but the demons and ideas we’re fighting come out of human mouths and pens, and so that’s where we engage.

And one or the other is going to win, because warring ideologies can’t coexist. Our experiment with pluralism and “tolerance” is over. Read up on the Russian Revolution or the Spanish Civil War… I guarantee you, you want our side to win. Charlie Kirk is a mere drop in the bucket of what will happen if we don’t. [Need more convincing? Look up the Khmer Rouge. Or Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Or even what Chavez and Maduro are doing in Venezuela – living people, and not all just old people – can tell you.]

In those conflicts, the Marxists burned churches, killed children, and raped nuns. That was not 500 years ago. Some of it was in living memory. If you didn’t know before, this week made it clear that the people we’re dealing with are their ideological successors.

So, to all the pacifists, Lipscombites [a reference to David Lipscomb, a 19th century pacifist in Tennessee – look him up], third-wayists, above-it-allists, I want you to stop reading right now, look your wife in the eye, and tell her that you truly believe God wants you to let that happen to her and your kids rather than you getting your hands dirty, taking a side, and jumping into the culture war. Go ahead, I’ll wait. [Too many people think that Jesus and His apostles taught total pacifism, and they didn’t. What they did teach was those who do not take care of their own families are worse than infidels. And to pick and choose your battles, but remember that ultimate victory is possible – but not if you give up.]

You have no idea how bad it can get, and how bad it will get, if a line is not drawn in the sand. I pray we never find out. I pray we can live in a September 12 kind of world someday. But the only way that happens is through Christianization of the culture from both the bottom up (individual conversions) and the top down (Romans 13 governance and cultural saturation).[he is not talking theocracy or dominionism or garbage like that, but what John Adams said about a moral people: people who understand and live in liberty, which includes responsibility and holding government accountable to simple “christian” (godly) morality; the Golden Rule (Zero Aggression Principle, if you prefer). We may have to go to war to defend outselves, but conversion by the sword ultimately fails.]

It’s time to realize what world we live in, how we got here, and how we’re going to get out.