When we all get to Congress what a day of rejoicing that will be! Or not. I am stunned by the amount of religious fervor the Christian community here in Bozeman, put into it’s new ‘Christian’ delegation to Washington. Despite some body slamming and a lot of vague and incorrect economic promises, they stood by their men. Yet despite having majorities in both houses and the presidency, things are not all that more Christian than they were before the villagers began singing their praises. In stark contrast to this, the news of the day is AOC.
The Iron-Rolling Mill, Adolph Menzel. c.1975
A few years back Americans were supposedly fed up with out-of-control spending and a few other things I don’t really remember. And no one else seems to remember either. They called it the Tea Party, and it seems like the party is mostly over. But this AOC, is just one person. One very ignorant, very incapable person, who seems to be setting the tone. Of course it may be just that everyone is laughing at her. It may be that this flame will burn out faster than the Tea Party. But these types of insanity, don’t seem to die, like Occupy Wall street, they seem to morph into the next insanity. The liberal undead always come as back bigger zombies than before. This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.
At any rate, my point is that this is the type of grand change we were promised by GSG. That is Greg and Susan Gianforte. If you don’t think the ’S’ is as integral as the ‘G’, just trust my first hand blows. Or perhaps the ’S’ is Steve. Where is the Conservative Christian hubbub led by these men? Clamor? Commotion? Revolution? LOL! But this was the promise, the hype, the hope. And the result is nothing. In fact there have been many concessions the other direction, as if small mines downstream from Yellowstone are an existential threat which must be addressed immediately. As if keeping our public land in Federal hands is an issue that would have sent a tingle up the spines of the founding fathers. As if wealthy retirement is now Christian. The sad reality is, that already on shoddy ground from that WWF match, GSG is playing it safe for the long term political career. The goal is probably a run for governor and a run for President, it probably was the goal back in 1996 when he moved to our community. This is the goal above any AOC type movement of the nation in the Christian direction.
Now I firmly believe that water runs downhill, destroying is easier than building, evil is easier than good. It is easier to be AOC than to be a Christian. But that only explains part of it. AOC’s puppet masters did their homework. They laid the groundwork. They are all dead white males, Humanist males. They are men like John Dewey, Henry Ford, and Jack London, who build the public school system, the government school system. They didn’t care about building free citizens, they cared about building machines, social machines made up of workers. This was supposed to solve all human problems. They didn’t care about spreading the Gospel, to solve the world’s problem of sin. They looked within, to the human political inventor to solve the problems of Charles Dickens, social problems. But of course everywhere that social engineering has become a god is has become a vengeful, murderous, butcher. Even including in our own nation, where Lincoln’s crusade to “preserve the Union” killed almost a million souls. In China, Russia and greater Europe the tolls are higher but the alter was built to the same god, Humanism.
That was depressing, but the point is that this battle is a lot bigger than AOC and her 29 years. The house-not-divided has been operating for a long time, waiting for this day. As Vaclav Klaus has rightly pointed out the veneer of ‘Green’ is just another paint job on the Red machine of Communism. But what has Christendom been building? We glory in the fact that our children fall away every generation as a badge of honor. “Look at us we let our children decide.” “Look at us we don’t raise Christian hypocrites.” But we don’t raise Christians either. While the opposition, the Evil One, whatever, has been raising children and training them that the world is going to end if we don’t end air travel. While every public school in this nation teaches that cow farts are destroying the planet. What have we been doing? We have been sending our children to these fools to be similarly misled. Christian children don’t know how to be Christians. They can’t even understand the Christians from one generation ago, much less emulate them in any real way. Since the 80’s Christian education has been making a come back. Even so, it only accounts for a few percent of children that come from confessing Christian homes. This systems trains our children to fight against us. We lost the battle before it even began.
The sad reality is that GSG is barely a Christian. They took the one solid Christian school in this valley and transformed it into something more recognizable to those social engineers. After their illegal takeover they transformed it from a humble ministry to a business training school. Instead of asking if the students had the fruits of the Spirit, they asked whether the students could get good jobs. Instead of trusting the power of the Gospel, they trusted the power of cutthroat business acumen. Instead of presenting the beauty of children raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they presented big buildings and sports teams. This is why there is no change in Washington, because there was no change here. Right here in your family, in your church, in your community. There is no Christianity in Washington because we didn’t send any there. We didn’t have any to send. Reagan lamented that he couldn’t find enough Christians to fill all the positions in government that needed filling. Those qualified Christian citizens don’t just happen in one election. They must be grown over generations of faithfulness. The problems in the nation at large are our problems. We made them. AOC is part of a vast military prepared for this fight. Like the Germans preparations before both world wars. Christians were not prepared for the coming storm, in fact their cowardice allowed it to form.
It’s time to get your children out and build up for the next fight. God will reward faithfulness as he did that of the Puritans who escaped to this nation 400 years ago. The Puritans made a few reforms in Parliament, but they accomplished little in the long run besides making their name a term of derision to this day. But when they fought the next battle, the American Revolution. They won. They won morally, economically and militarily. They were prepared to make the arguments, fight the battles and sacrifice their comfort. And they changed the whole world. They didn’t revive Parliament, they made Parliament irrelevant. They fought off the world’s super powers, more than once. And it is estimated that our economy surpassed any other nation by 1820.
Judas threw in is lot with Jesus because he thought Jesus was the fast track to overthrowing Rome and putting the Jews in their rightful place. All the disciples fought over who would be the greatest in this new Jewish regime. They didn’t know what they were asking. The kingdom of Jesus is founded on suffering and sacrifice and selflessness. It doesn’t happen with one vote in one election or even 100 elections. Jesus overthrew Rome and made it Christian, but it took a couple hundred years. Years of lost battles, lost brothers, lost rights, lost children. Christian ‘Mericans think we have a rightful place at the head of the line, in the halls of power. It irks us that no one cares anymore about Christians. But if you think you can get it back by maneuvering, wrangling, business models, making jobs, a good economy, or sending the right businessman to Washington, you are as crazy as AOC.