I totally snagged that title from Pastor Wilson’s post to be found here.
Quite some time ago I wanted to talk about radicalization and hate speech, specifically the origins and roots of cultian behavior, and the radicalization of who I call the “Lost Boys.” Those are broken and confused men, often suffering from addiction and looking for ways to feel powerful in the world. Tragically for some, that just tends to end in violence.
Long story short, the entire left wing of the world went bananas, suddenly everything became hate speech and allegedly there is some kind of “white supremist command center” that sends out dog whistles. This delusion or distortion of reality has now worked it’s way into the highest parts of our government. A good chunk of this country is now looking for racists hiding under the bed.
By the way, if you have to look under the bed for microaggressions, you don’t understand the issues at all.
So I had to abandon my mission. What was my mission? To have a civil discussion with Christian grown ups about radicalization in America and how we are failing young men. One reason why I got interested in this subject was because I was working in a coffee shop decades ago, eavesdropping on Christiane Amanpour who had come to interview and investigate the, “origins of Christian radicalization/nationalism.” Keep in mind I live in cow tipping country in the second most secular county in the nation. I had no idea we even had other Christians lurking in the woodwork, let alone any radical ones. I jest, I knew we had about five or six other Jesus followers hiding somewhere, but as far as I knew they were as passive as I was.
Some things that I partially heard, some attitudes, the vibe, chilled me to the bone. Like, Amanpour was on a mission to dehumanize Christians and have them all designated as the nation’s enemy and she was just a tiny two bit player in a much larger game. Fast forward several years, mission accomplished, and we finally arrive at useful idiots like Jory Micah sending out tweets like this one:
“If the FBI comes knocking at my door looking for Christian leaders radicalizing young men to hate, I’m pointing them to James White, John MacArthur and Doug Wilson. Who are you pointing the FBI to? “-Jory Micah M.A. Christian Doctrine/Church History
We are not the same, Jory and I. We are not the same because I would absolutely hide those men in a wall somewhere and the FBI can just go get bent. What was my original mission? To have a civil discussion with grown ups about radicalization in America and how we are failing young men. I can’t even have that discussion with someone like Jory Micah because all she cares about is slaying boogeymen in her game of virtue signaling her vast moral superiority and alleged cultural relevancy. She is having an emotional and psychological larp in her own imagination, not engaging in a two way civil conversation with grown ups.
My boss at that coffee shop, sold out and fled to Thailand, not because they were Christians, but because they were smarter than Christians and saw the writing on the wall, the direction our country was taking.
I still want to have that conversation and I have been. Also, after lots of research and lots of prayer, the Lord has handed me just want I need. He is good that way, He lights the path before us and points us in the right direction. He gives us the secret desires of our heart.
I believe hate speech and radicalization are genuine issues. Heck, I can change the energy in a room just by having a negative attitude. Soon everyone else does, too! So yes, if hatred is what you are feasting on, hatred is what you become. We are what we eat. However, after the first time, there are no victims, just volunteers. If I could talk to Jory, I’d ask her why she is self identifying with a mass murderer, why her empathy is weaving excuses for him, why she is blaming some pastors and book authors for an atrocity, and what does she get out of that game? I mean, there is always a pay off, emotionally, psychologically. I’ve never understood why we blame comic books, bits of music, Pokemon cards, and pastors, rather than the actual perpetrator? Because we fear the darkness within our own selves, I suspect. Far more comfortable to embrace the idea that the root of evil exists in some external factor like brainwashing or radicalization, and not as something innate to human nature.
As to MacArthur, Wilson, and White, we do need to talk about how the power of life and death is in our tongues and about how important it is that we speak life over the world right now. I don’t believe for an instant that any of those men intend harm or that they intentionally radicalize anyone. You can read their words, you can see their heart for the Father. They may be hot headed sometimes, they may speak out of turn or be blind to some issues, but they are not evil, they are not running the, White Supremacy Central Command.
THAT is just exceedingly dumb.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
You need to understand that the people pushing the idea of white supremacy are not sincere. They are conjuring up the idea for political purposes, with the intent of establishing Communist and Satanic Supremacy.
They think that because Christianity has historically been associated with Europe and Western Civilization and so-called “white” people that if they can discredit and annihilate “white” people that Christianity will go away. Too bad for them the truth is that the center of gravity of Christianity has moved from the moribund west and towards what has been considered “not-the-west.”
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Well, I think I would challenge the idea that this foolishness is organized and that they are capable of enough critical thinking to conjure up much of anything. I think they are primarily emotional and reactionary. I mean, people like you have given this matter a great deal of thought. People like Jory are so lacking in self awareness, I don’t believe they can even see the forest for all the trees. Even something like “satanic supremacy” is an opportunistic infection. We have full dominion, all authority and power over such things.
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What I mean is that people like Jory are not driving the process, he’s probably just an unwilling tool, a useful idiot. Make no mistake, though, the Globalist Ruling Class know exactly what they’re doing, with their Hegelian Dialectic and their Divide & Conquer techniques. They aim to impose their idea of Order to protect us from all the Chaos they have caused. Don’t believe in conspiracies? Then, you can’t believe in history, because history is a series of conspiracies. You think the richest and most powerful people in the world got that way by accident? You don’t think such ambitious and megalomaniacal persons don’t get their little duckies lined up in neat little rows? You think instead they just let the cookies crumble, and the mops flop any old which way? Take a closer look and you’ll realize that’s not how such people are.
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Well said IB.
And I hope they STAY emotional reactionary…
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It can’t possibly be the individual, something larger and nefarious has to account for this otherwise innocent victim’s atrocities
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Exactly, Jeff. I think msny of people may have a hard time accepting the truth of human nature and so we try to look for outside causes, excuses basically. The truth is just too painful and too scary.
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I forgot Jory is a she, but, it doesn’t matter because he and she don’t exist any more anyway, or so I’ve been advised.
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“…the root of evil exists in some external factor like brainwashing or radicalization, and not as something innate to human nature.”
Irony strikes again! Blind leading the blind, the very thing the radical left accuses the far right of, is exactly of which they are guilty! Through the extreme bias and complicit ‘fake news’ of mainstream media, they’ve all been brainwashed into the most radical movement and violent intolerance our nation has witnessed since the civil war. I can’t understand how specific, well known powerful white leaders on the left get away with pointing accusations of ‘white supremacy’ in any direction other than themselves! Talk about ‘white privilege’ – they surround themselves with walls (paid for by us), while they dare to confuse the CRISIS at our southern border with ‘asylum’ for the under-privileged’. We can’t gather in large groups without social distancing & masks – but they can overcrowd ‘facilities’ (which photographers have been banned from) and bus thousands of unchecked, undocumented immigrants in attempted secrecy to locations across America.
In the face of reason, they deny they’re wrong. They believe they’re right, and won’t hesitate to remind you. That is prima fascia evidence of brainwashing! As for a ‘White Supremacy Central Command”, they’re hiding behind masks while leading the Washington elites. THEY are ‘just exceedingly dumb’
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Never heard of Miss Jory Micah MA until now. She sounds tiresome and dull, in a hysterical sort of way.
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I don’t know who Jory Micah is and I’m quite glad for that.
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Reblogged this on Talk Wisdom and commented:
I have noticed that President Trump unites Americans of all races and had done so quite well because he is for the People, not the Cabal of leftist Marxism, racial division, and hatred against anyone who doesn’t agree with their cancel culture, Marxist evil that the Dems support and spew constantly to rev up even more division and hatred. It’s really very sad and dangerous – just what the evil one wants to happen in our beloved nation and the world.
I applaud John McArthur and other Christian pastors who speak out against these lies and liars, so that the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ can shine through, over, and above the darkness.
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Thank you for the reblog. 🙂
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Well said, IB. It’s funny how Christian leaders who have actually have a spine are now radicalizing men to hate. 😛
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Right?? The ultimate irony being empowered men with spines are usually pretty gentle. It’s the insecure, fear driven ones, often full of self loathing, that you have to watch out for.
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Exactly.
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Late to the party, but I believe the old Puritan would have recognized the problem:
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Ahhh, great quote.
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I think the left elite has gotten into whacky conspiracy theories, and the worst conspiracy theorists are those in power.
I too like you think there are radical lost boys who are radicalized. I also think you are quite nuanced and balanced even as you are defending MacArthur and Wilson whom you at times disagree with. Jory Micah could learn a lot from you, and Wilson and company.
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Thank you for your kind words, Slim. Much appreciated. There’s a big difference between “we disagree on some issues” and “I’m going to turn you into the FBI,” or at least there should be.
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Yep
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Good post! The reason it is so hard for most to identify the architect of these destructive “conspiracies” is that he resides in the dark side of the spiritual realm. One branch of effort is the ridicule of any who believe what the scripture says of his existence or effectiveness at getting men to hand over their authority to him – like Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup. (Genesis 25)
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That’s a really good point. I’ve never thought of Esau and the soup that way. 🙂
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