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Ha! I found this to be epically charming, right on the money, and so profoundly true. A hat tip to “Saint Gamma” and to the Lord who so often makes heroes out of ordinary men.
For those who don’t know, Vox Day is yet another popular writer, a Christian on the internets selling some genuine bovine poo about our faith. I have no idea who Saint Gamma is, but apparently he went and asked of VD, in part,
“1. Who do you say Jesus Christ is?
2. What did he do at the Cross of Calvary and why?
I think If you don’t get Jesus right, then nothing you say about any other subject matter can be trusted. I guess that is my litmus test of truth and trust…”
So VD’s response is, “I’m not a performing monkey.”
And Saint Gamma says in part, “I think you just answered my question. You are not a Christian, because any true believer in Christ would not hesitate to answer, or not know the answers to my simple questions….”
Yep.
So, as it usually goes with these things, I suppose the vile minions will now gang up attempt to relentlessly shame and attack this guy for daring to state the obvious and…. for having the courage to reach out to VD in brotherly love. Let me tell you, that takes some intestinal fortitude, indeed. It is not for the faint in heart.
Brotherly love, Vox. The guy expresses some affection for your ideas but is deeply concerned about your walk with the Lord. Receive that, it’s the truth. It is also a reflection of the Lord’s grace and His concern for your well being. I’ve watched literally dozens come by and attempt to speak to you gently about such things over the years. They don’t even want to change you. They aren’t trying to attack you. They have simply tested the spirits and sensed something is all awry here. Then in way that will bring them absolutely no earthly reward, in fact, it’s likely to just unleash a whole lot of abuse, they have dropped a kind word on you.
People like Saint Gamma become the hands and feet of Christ, the manifest evidence of His presence in the world. I realize most of us do a rather shabby job of it, but just the same, our actions, the condition of our hearts, our kindness towards others, becomes the tangible evidence of God in the world. Our faith actually becomes “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
That’s in Hebrews 11:1. God doesn’t ask us to be performing monkeys, He simply asks us to tell the world who He is and why He has come, and to spread the good news.
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Amen. And thanks for your consistency in spreading the Good News. God bless you.
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I can’t imagine a blogging Christian – one who is fluent and apparently skilled with words and writing – not hopping on the chance to tell someone who Christ is and what he did on the cross.
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I dunno… Vox Day is 75% fraud but I don’t blame him for telling a passive-aggressive concern troll to screw off.
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Vox doesn’t have much credibility accusing anyone else of being either passive-aggressive or a troll. How he defines ‘Gamma’ fits his own character perfectly.
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I’ve never heard of Vox Day. I can’t comment on what he may or may not believe but he does sound a bit passive-aggressive and over-reactive. Unless he was asked this question 40-50 times recently and/or has a long history with this commenter that would warrant his snippiness, a concise and polite answer would’ve done just fine. He could’ve just left it there. Now, people are wondering about his actual beliefs.
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Well, Vox is a sci/fi writer, and also kind of an alt right troll with a tendency to lean towards white supremacy, who has been kicked off twitter and perhaps some other places, mostly for the way he treats other people. His Christianity presents itself as really more cultural then internal and spiritual. He does write about faith sometimes, rather poorly, but there is a seed there, a spark perhaps.
The dilemma some of us have is, what makes someone a Christian? Like he gets a lot of the words right but his behavior and his presentation of who God is, is just all awry. He’s got some major demons. Unfortunately, all some people ever see of our faith is in the hands of people like VD. Many people over the years, myself included, and people like “Saint Gamma,” have tried to speak to him about faith but it never goes over very well.
Something that I often wrestle with, in the Western world it’s often the “Christian” sitting right next to you that doesn’t really know the Lord. So many people have a culture, a label, that just falls so short of what our faith is really all about. I walk this really fine line between not wanting to be judgmental, but dog gone it all, when so much of your fruit is just really rotten, something is all awry.
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Ahhh…sound exactly like the conversation I was having with some atheist folk we know about Hitler’s “Christianity.” 🙂
Unfortunately, this wouldn’t even be controversial if we hadn’t dumbed down what it means to be Christian in Western culture to nothing more than a social club. Now, people think just because someone quotes a Bible verse or was baptized in a “church” they are Christians. Then we get accused of drawing too fine a line. Well, I think Jesus already did that!
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You are good at expressing yourself IB
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Thanks, Jack. So are you. 🙂
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