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Theory of Violence and it’s practical necessity for Christianity.

Christian Violence IV: A Manifesto for Christian Nation-States

Christian Violence IV: A Manifesto for Christian Nation-States

There is a time for peace.
And there is a time for war.
There is a time to live.
There is a time to die.
There is a time to sit down.
There is a time to stand up.

It is time to stand up.

We are a Christian people.  We have our own King, Jesus Christ.  We, like the Puritans and Pilgrims, recognize the impossibility of Christianity without Christian nation-states.  

We want many Christian nation-states. We support all  bloodlines in their quest for their own Christian Nation-State.

We are one in Jesus Christ;  but we are not one in our father’s bloodlines, nor are we one in geography or languages or customs. These divisions are good in God’s eyes.

We recognize the bablylonian impulse to mix bloodlines. This weakens us and forces us to fight for racial and Christian survival under unfavorable conditions. We reject this.  We reject the mixing of bloodlines and understand that this mixing is untenable in the long run ( the feet of Nebuchnezzar’s Statue at Babel).  We reject the accusation that none of us have pure blood — that is is a red herring.  We recognize that the world is better when peoples do not mix — it is like iron mixing with clay.  We recognize that from the beginning it was God’s purpose to distinguish the bloodlines and give them their own land and time and boundaries (Acts 17:26).  We respect God’s purpose and we honor or parents by continuing their bloodlines. 

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Christian Violence, III

Christian Violence, III

I’ve been meditating on violence for couple of weeks now, and I observe that violence is like a dance. It has beginning, a middle, and an end.  There is a ceremony to it. It requires two parties, at least. More for line dancing.  It can be beautiful to behold and also ugly.

Now I’m not talking about the personal application of kinetic force; I don’t know anything about that.  That’s not what this series is about. Sure, I can shoot a gun —  everyone should have some basics on that just for safety’s sake, just like they should know how to tie a knot, swim, drive a car, and slice a turkey at Thanksgiving. 


I’m thinking about violence as a part of the world we live in.  Violence is a regular and steady component of every civilization that I am familiar with.  I mean, the United States is “that” nation that is constantly at war — we have been at war for more of our history than we have been at peace.  Inside the US, there is constant violence ( I’m not just talking street crimes — those hold no interest to me).  Armed government workers (policemen) and prisons are fundamental parts of our society; America would not be America without our own domestic standing army of “policemen” and the largest prison system, per capita, on the planet.  Those are institutions of violence.  We now have more armed federal civilian government workers than the entire U.S. Marine Corps.  And this does not include state, county and local law enforcement.

But that’s not what this article is about, either. Others can wax quite elegantly about that.  

I want to talk about how the dance starts.

There is a ritual to beginning violence.

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Christian Violence, II

Christian Violence, II

It perturbs the secular mind to have a ideology (besides their own) that can justify violence.   Their view of “religion” is that is ought remain passive and open to the advances of secular influence.   As in, “religion is a private matter,” a “matter of faith and conscience.”  Unless a Christian conscience opposes something like homosexuality or abortion and then the Christian is told “not to impose” their “religious” beliefs on others.   So much for toleration — it has always been a one way street.

But the subject is violence.  When might a Christian kill?

Of course a man ought resort to violence in order to defend his wife and children (and himself) from death or severe bodily harm.  Those men who have abnegated this role to the police are very trusting — sometimes it works out.  But mostly the murders take the initiative and by the time the police are called the crime is done, a child or wife destroyed, and an “investigation” may be started.  Once in while they actually catch a criminal, assuming he is fairly low on the social pecking order.

Who is not low on the social order?  Armies, police, cartels, gangs, and hired guns.  These folks almost never see judicial repercussions for killing — it is a “protected” sort of killing for police and the military.  And an unacknowledged practice for other professional practitioners of violence. It  could “businessmen” who compete by killing those who get in their way.  And woe to a policeman who dares challenge their power.

In Mexico most killings are not even investigated.  Do you think communities there have an interest in protecting themselves?  In one town the police were disbanded because they all worked for the Cartel.  So calling 911 is never and option for them.  Imagine that poor trusting Mormon family that was slaughtered.   No one was going to come to their aid.  They trusted and died.

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Christian Violence

Christian Violence

Ragnar Redbeard wrote a book called “Might Is Right” and I could not agree more with that idea.   He who is strongest makes the rules.  And of course that Strong Man is the Lord I serve.  One of Jesus’ names is the Captains of the Lord’s Hosts (Armies).

I have written elsewhere that God is not God because God is good, but rather God is good because God is God.  Might Makes Right is simply a corollary of that.   And this ties directly into the legitimacy of violence.  God does not meet some external standard of “goodness,” God sheds goodness and rightness like we shed hair and dry skin.  What is good is a byproduct of Him — Goodness and Rightness  are derivatives of Him, not some universal external (to God) standard.

I wonder at those who interest themselves in asking Christians whether or not they eschew violence.  Because (they imply), a Christian would never impose his will by force.  (As if God would not impose His will by force — of course He will!)

Governments and politicians with police, soldiers, and an industrial scale prison system  rule by, with, and through violence.  For them to ask a somone — “do you eschew violence?” is the cougar asking the bunny if it promises to never defend itself.  

Politicians covet armed guards as symbols of rank  and the might to remain in power.    No President or Congressman that I know of has ever asked their  body-guards  to disarm and stand down.  When they ask citizens to disarm, they seek subjects to rule, not citizens to represent.

Those politicians are not against violence —  they seek their own monopoly of violence — their goal is absolute power through  which they alone define what is “right.” 

Might makes right.

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