ACNA Receives a Godly Example from … Baptists!?

Yes, I am having a bit of fun with the headline.  But in all seriousness, as the Anglican Church in North America and its Working Group on Race, Racism, and Racial Reconciliation struggles with Critical Race Theory and its cousins and progeny, we have just been given good guidance from the seminary presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention, another denomination wrestling with CRT.

The six SBC seminary presidents have issued a statement that concludes as follows:

In light of current conversations in the Southern Baptist Convention, we stand together on historic Southern Baptist condemnations of racism in any form and we also declare that affirmation of Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and any version of Critical Theory is incompatible with the Baptist Faith & Message.

Now I could quibble with this.  At least two of the presidents have enabled CRT at their seminaries.  The cynical could think that this is a ploy to deflect rising opposition to CRT while continuing business as usual.  Also, it is important to oppose not only the affirmation of Critical Theory and related ideologies but also to oppose their toxic influence.  Few in relatively orthodox churches say, “I affirm Critical Theory.”  Many in relatively orthodox churches are influenced by Critical Theory and spread the influence.

But, having quibbled, this statement is a pleasant surprise.  It calls out Critical Theory by name and “any version” of CT and declares that affirming these is out.

That is important because, as we already see, when a Leftist ideology gets too much opposition, its proponents play dumb and then change the labeling and declare concern about it to be witch hunting or something.  In other words, they in effect say, “CRT?  What’s CRT?  There’s no CRT to see here!”  Then they push the same ideology under different wrapping.  Pro-abortion becomes “pro-choice”; global warming becomes “climate change”, etc.  Already we see Critical Theory in many guises.  Attacking just one arm of this slithery octopus will not do.  Whenever we oppose Critical Theory, we must oppose related and derivative ideologies as well.  The seminary presidents’ statement does just that.

ACNA’s Working Group on Race, Racism, and Racial Reconciliation as well as the College of Bishops would do well to issue a statement this clear and strong.  Further, it is necessary that the Working Group and College of Bishops issue a statement at least this clear and strong.

Election Fraud is All the More Reason to VOTE

An objective of those with a totalitarian mindset is to discourage opposition to the point where they give up.  Totalitarians are certainly willing to cancel their opposition in various ways, but they would rather opposition just give up.

We are seeing this in play in the Georgia Senate run-off elections.  It is becoming more and more obvious that a major factor, if not the factor, behind President Trump’s loss of Georgia and of Senator Perdue being forced into a run-off (In the other Senate race, the Republican vote was split.) was election fraud in the Atlanta area.  And the Republican Governor and Secretary of State are doing little about it.  Instead they enabled the fraud by their agreements with that fat fraud Stacey Abrams and with Dominion Voting Systems.

So the thinking of some goes, if Georgia elections are now fraudulent and Republicans are even assisting the fraud, what is the point of voting?  If enough think like that, the Democrats’ task in the January run-offs is made easier.  (And, yes, some who are pushing this thinking are actually Democrats engaging in political chicanery and pretending to be Republicans.)

My response applies not just to the Georgia run-offs, but to future elections as a whole.  Election fraud makes it all the more important to vote, not less.

Let’s take the worse possible scenario, which we probably just experienced.  Let’s say election fraud nullifies and overturns the legitimate vote.  If more right-thinking Americans vote, that makes the task of the fraudsters more difficult.  We just saw that in November.  Donald Trump received more votes than any other incumbent President in history, millions more than Obama in 2012.  His election night leads in swing states were formidable.  So the fraud necessary to overcome that was more than the usual vote buying, dead people and illegals voting and so on.  The fraud had to be massive and therefore rather more obvious to “win”, and it was.  Frankly, I suspect the election night pauses in the counting in swing states was in order to prepare the needed fraud.  (And as I prepare this, video out of Georgia confirms my thinking.  Observers were told counting was suspended so go home.  Then when the observers were gone, poll workers pulled out cases of ballots and resumed counting without observers – blatantly illegal and strong evidence of fraud.)

So now if Biden succeeds in capturing the White House, his leadership will have little credibility from the start.  Already, that many more people now see Democrats as the power-hungry crooks that they are. Democrats will find it difficult to live that down with consequences in future elections. Again, this is the worst possible scenario when real Americans vote.

If Trump supporters had just stayed home, Democrats would be more able to create an illusion of legitimacy.  The task of these quasi-totalitarian criminals would be easier.  

However, especially as the extent of Democrat fraud is more and more exposed in the coming months and years and as the Biden-Harris regime is predictably incompetent and tyrannical, it is very possible that Democrats will be so repudiated in the next two elections, overwhelming their attempts at fraud, that Republicans will finally be able to pass laws protecting our elections, laws such as Voter ID.  Who knows?  If Donald Trump is elected in 2024, we may even see a few of the Democrat criminals go to prison where they belong.  

Maybe that last bit is wishful thinking (although note that I do not expect Trump to succeed in his challenges of this election).  But I am hopeful that the reaction to this debacle will be much stronger election laws and the enforcement of them by 2026, not to mention the political punishment of the Democrats who so disrespected and nullified our votes in the 2016 and 2020 elections.

But that will not happen unless Americans vote.  So VOTE!

Besides that are moral issues of culpability.  If America falls to the totalitarians because you and people like you did not vote and vote wisely, that’s your fault.  If America falls to the totalitarians because they stole elections and tore up the Constitution against how you voted, that’s their fault.

I would rather it be their fault, not your fault, nor mine.  Part of the message of Advent is the Lord will judge, don’tcha know.

Have a Blessed Advent

By Thy first coming deign to justify,

And by Thy second deign to set us free… *

Even so, come Lord Jesus. **

May the past and future coming of the Lord Jesus Christ bring you hope and joy this Advent season . . . even this year . . . especially this year.

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*from the medieval Sarum Rite Sequence for the First Sunday in Advent, translated from the Latin by A. H. Pearson

**Revelation 22:20

Democrat Election Fraud Harms Black Americans Too.

Largely overlooked in the controversy surrounding massive Democrat vote fraud in this election* is the harm it has done to Black Americans.

Most prominent is the apparent defeat of John James, a Black Republican, in the Michigan election for Senate.  The current and apparently re-elected Senator is a little known Democrat hack, Gary Peters.  Peters even had to the gall to mock James' insistence on a clean vote count.  So instead of being represented by a distinguished Black Republican, Michigan Black people and all Americans are stuck with a contemptible hack … again.

The bigger picture is election fraud renders legitimate votes meaningless, including the votes of Blacks.  If more than the usual amount of Black people vote Republican, as happened in this election, or if many Blacks decided to express their displeasure with their choices by not voting, so what?  Just bring in enough boxes of fraudulent “votes” and Democrats win!  Election fraud thus further enables Democrats taking Blacks for granted and discourages Republicans from earning their votes.  What’s the incentive for politicians if elections are so easily stolen in the dead of night? 

The old Jim Crow literacy tests were subtle in disenfranchising Blacks compared to this election. Consent of the governed being dumped on with such blatant election fraud disenfranchises all Americans, including Black people.

But I do not hear much concern about this from the woke church crowd.  Instead Jemar Tisby says you should just shut up about illegal votes:

In this political moment we must avoid this phrase: “count every legal vote.” While the words seem harmless and intuitive...inserting the word “legal” implies the widespread presence of illegal votes, which simply is not true.

And this:

Don’t fall for it. Don’t let the current president and his supporters undermine our elections, especially one with historic turnout and margins of victory. Biden is the president-elect and it’s not even close. If you already know this, then make it plain to somebody who doesn’t.

How dare you question the legitimacy of this election and of the fake President-Elect!

Ironic that the woke church crowd so enables the disenfranchising of Black Americans.

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*Again, don’t give me the “No Evidence” gaslighting.  I will give it the respect it deserves – zero.

No Evidence?!?

There are many things infuriating about this massive fraud being perpetrated on the American people.  (And I intend to address how to respond.  But, please, nobody do anything stupid.  And remember Christ still rules.)  One of those things is the ignorant or hackish saying there is no evidence of massive fraud in this election.

Oh really?  Project Veritas alone has presented a lot of evidence of late mail-in “votes” being given Election Day postmarks after Election Day.  At least three whistleblowers from the USPS have testified to that.  The latest is from Pennsylvania, of course.  (And Biden has just fraudulently gone ahead in Pennsylvania.)  Yesterday, two days after Election Day, the Pennsylvania whistleblower revealed:

“All these ballots that were coming in--today, tomorrow, yesterday—are all supposed to be postmarked the third,” said the postal service employee, who works out of the USPS General Mail Facility here.

The Project Veritas Insider said the supervisors are collecting the ballots and making sure they are postmarked.

“They're getting these ballots in and they're getting, they're taking them from us,” he said. 

“We have to separate out the ballots and give them directly to the supervisors,” he said. “They're postmarking and they're at the office and taking them directly to the ballot box.”

This is just one whistleblower.  There are at least two other USPS whistleblowers in other states.  That begs the question of how much postal fraud do we not know about.

Especially in Pennsylvania, where Democrat hack judges are allowing mail-in ballots to count even if they come in late and even if signatures do not match, this Pennsylvania whistleblower alone just revealed the commission of fraud.  Backdated postmarks alone are fraudulent.  The only question is how massive the fraud is.

So don’t give me the crap that there is no evidence of serious fraud in this election.  Just don’t.

To the Victor Belongs the . . . Poison

I am not going to go over the details of the Democrat attempt to steal this election.  It would make for a long and laborious post, and I have been posting a lot of details on my twitter account.  I will say that I told you so about Pennsylvania.  

And I am not going to argue about it here.  Maybe another day and place I will.  But if you disagree that Democrats are trying to steal this election, I will be charitable and recommend you acknowledge at least the perception of an attempt to steal the election and read on.

I will say, as I have warned, that the move to mail-in voting invited this mess even if I am wrong (and I’m not) that there is a Democrat attempt to steal this election.  From personal experience I know mail-in ballots can be impossible to verify.  The shift to mass use of mail-in ballots alone practically guaranteed fraud even if Democrats did not choose to pile more fraud on top of that.

But leaving that aside, this situation has so poisoned the chalice of the presidency that this Trump supporter does not know what would be worse, Trump or Biden “winning.”  Whoever wins will be perceived as illegitimate by at least a third of the country. And that third will be angry.  Hatred of Trump runs deep no matter what he does, and many would (wrongly) think he stole the election. And Democrats have already well earned the hatred of Americans towards them with their refusal to respect the 2016 election, their serial election fraud, their extremism, their disdain for the Constitution, and you don’t want to get me started on all that.

Combine these divisions now becoming worse for the next president with the difficulties he will face with COVID, the economy, and who knows what else, and “winning” the presidency has the seeds of destruction for whichever party wins it.  I predict right now that if Biden “wins,” the 2022 mid-term election will be a bloodbath with Republicans taking the House and more.  Then Republicans will take back the White House in 2024.  And if Trump wins, the next two elections could be just as bad for Republicans, particularly since Trump fatigue is likely.  Hey, I love the guy, but I can see people getting really tired of him.

When I step back from the present, I wonder if God is allowing this mess in order to give the country enough of a taste of Democrat rule so that we come to our senses and cast out the Democrats and force them to reform or else.  Maybe that is wishful thinking, and we certainly neither deserve God’s providence and mercy. But God does act “in strange ways” as the old saying goes.

In any case, the chalice of presidential victory has now been so thoroughly poisoned that I am not that sure I want Trump to succeed in pulling this out (even though I very much support his efforts to thwart the fraud).  That even though I think a Biden/Harris presidency will be awful for the country. 

Pray.

Election Day

Good morning?

Just to let you know my plans for Election Day, I doubt I will post much here, but I do expect to tweet a lot so . . . be sure to follow my twitter account.

I will say I’ve noticed an interesting tell already.  Frank Luntz was on CNBC this morning talking about polling.  And he seemed to be going to a funeral for the polling industry.  I think in his gut he thinks Trump will make the polls look foolish again and win.

Anyway, follow my twitter and have a good day . . . even if you are voting for Biden.