Protestant Problems

Dividing Christians

The daughter of the awesome former Nebraska State Senator Lou Ann Linehan, Alice, has been running a Substack column and is a great advocate for school choice, yet her latest posting smacks of Protestant paranoia, a stereotype Protestants must have at least some contemplative concern about (https://alicelinahan.substack.com/p/the-gospel-according-to-power). You can find my comments to her on her Substack post.

Western Civilization can be reduced to one singular quote attributed to Jesus: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s “. Oh, and we all have been fiercely arguing about this ever since, but is the founding Christian principle of the US Government and the Constitution.

For many Christians, this meant abandoning politics altogether, an ultimate anarchist defense of freedom which is honorable to the same extent it is a defeatist position.

Politics matters. People are very confused by politics, political parties, and government because these do not function like their family, their business, their favored civil organization, their sports team, or their house of worship. This is because politics is merely a nonviolent version of very violent warfare, and you need to understand who the combatants are and who your true allies are, even if they sodomized your cow.

Christian dairy farmer: I can’t vote for him. He sodomized Betsy, my cow.

Inquisitive me: Yes, but the other candidate thinks you should not own a cow and is actively trying to confiscate your dairy farm.

Christian dairy farmer: But I can’t condone bestiality and sodomy.

Inquisitive me: Hence, your life will be filled with woe and others will suffer the lack of the product you produce.

The Christian will willingly take the lost, but this still ends up harming the general public which is precisely why I draw my concerns on this mater. This is where many conservatives like myself are having conflict with conservative Christians. Scott Presler, who has experience in getting conservatives to not only register to vote but to vote and created Early Vote Action (https://earlyvoteaction.com/), was denied an opportunity to speak in Omaha because he was gay and in a gay relationship. This was purely idiotic in terms of politics, and many in the Nebraska conservative community are angry and disappointed about this.

This is why my faith is ultra simplistic. Believing in God is superficial. I firmly trust God and eagerly anticipate the revelation of reality. Why go further?

Readers: What? Do you believe Jesus is Christ?

Me: Will such belief change our shared reality? If so, I leave it to others to prove so. Yet note, Jesus was fantastic in his contributions to humanity.

Readers: Oh, so your either a Jew or an atheist or Buddhist.

Me: No. Most people believe in God, but they do not trust God as I do. Until I see more people trusting God, I am just not willing to engage in further theological debate, because until you accept the realities created by God, anything you suggest may be fiction of no use to my living.

Why would I say such things when so many Christians are good people? The problem the world faces is mass psychosis and disengagement with reality, and Christians are finding themselves entrapped by it. I am sorry but telling an 8 year old boy “you are not a girl, but your mom is a psychopath” will never be a kind and compassionate thing to say to a child but under God, it is the most important truth to deliver. Let us never divorce ourselves from reality, a reality created by God. Yet, how many Christians, when confronted with such realities cannot get to the truth God already knows?

Remember this. Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, who proclaims to be Catholic, did this.