Humility or Humiliation?

  I gave this post that title because to my eyes what these Christian Nationalists are doing is much the same thing the European colonists in the to-be-US did back in the 1600s. One of them, Isker, says at 0:59 "We're building a town". That is not true. The town was already there when they decided to move there. On the town's Wikipedia page, it says the town was established in 1817, as of this date in 2026 over 200 years ago. Much like how the colonists acted a few centuries ago, the current CNs are trying to move into a place already occupied intending to take it over, and we may assume most of the current residents will lose some or all of what they own in this takeover. I find this distasteful. If these CNs want to start their own, then there is plenty of still-undeveloped land out in the west, or there are towns that have been abandoned. If they want to build their own community, then let them start at the bottom and build it themselves. Let these men who want to ...

 

 

  If ever there was a quarter of the globe distinguished by its quarrels, its jealousies, its everlasting wars and bloodshed, it is Europe. Since these soi-disant Christian nations have risen into any degree of strength, what single evidence of Christianity have they, as nations, exhibited? Eternal warfare!—is that Christianity? Yet that is the history of Christian Europe. The most subtle or absurd pretences to seize upon each other’s possessions,—the contempt of all faith in treaties,—the basest policy,—the most scandalous profligacy of public morals,—the most abominable international laws!—are they Christianity? And yet they are the history of Europe. Nations of men selling themselves to do murder, that ruthless kings might ravish each other’s crowns—nations of men, standing with jealous eyes on the perpetual watch against each other, with arms in their hands, oaths in their mouths, and curses in their hearts;—are those Christian? Yet there is not a man acquainted with the histor...

 

  If the church is as much of a mess as it seems like it is, or more likely even worse than it seems, then it may well be good to question what we are going to church for, why we gather, or rather why we should gather. I really don't see the use of going to a church that is little more than a theater, where the music and the preaching are nothing more than a performance. And while, yes, that includes the more modern seeker types of churches and the holy roller charismatics, that also includes the more refined high-church types of services, because those are little more than performances, too. This video says many things, and one thing that is encouraged is that believers should gather to encourage each other to love and to good works.