The Ritual of Fascist Sacralism Is Here
A Plea for Christian Nationalism.
Post-Reformation American Christians dethroned the superstition of the sacralist divine right of kings with the Declaration of Independence.
While this article is posted as a 17-minute read, it contains many hours of links that, in these times when knowledge is increasing, serve as footnotes and recommended readings, appearing in the addenda of our fathers' books.
If you are new here, so am I.
I had no idea what Sacralism was until I researched it, but it's here, and we're in the midst of it. Anyone pointing to anyone else has three fingers pointing back. In this world, it is a feature, not a bug.
I have long understood that the “divine right of kings” extended to coinage, seigniorage, money, legal tender, and banking. The idea that money should be the sovereign's alone is superstition. But I never delved into where this idea came from or how it mattered until I glanced at church history.
What I missed was that in the same way this generation is emeshed in monetary reformation, revisiting free speech through Bitcoin, the Church of Rome, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Servetus, Anabaptists, Enthusiasts, Jews, and Islam are actors entangled in the Satanic ritual of sacralism throughout the Reformation.
The leap from 1517 to 1776 took 259 years and seven generations, and the jump from 1776 to 2009 took another 233 years. And there were an infinite number of points along the way.
History is not science. It is a selection among infinite points. And science is not history. Asserting the consequence is a logical fallacy.
Each has its limits. Both can be useful, but neither is true.
That said, the data available is forever growing. How do I know? The Bible tells me so through the Gospel and the promise of eternal life. Science has constantly wavered on this point, and any two points…to infinity and beyond!
Yet, with the application of more data to the source of truth, the Bible, ritual sacralism was tamed. It took time. And it was not without collateral damage of wars, torture, and executions among Christians and heathens alike.
This superstition was exposed in written form through the American Declaration of Independence, overthrown by the Revolutionary War, and codified by the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But it took nearly six generations to get there.
In the same way, Roman Catholics created the word "Lutheran" as a derogatory term, which Martin Luther’s followers appropriated as a badge of honor. “Capitalism” was a derogatory term created by socialists and Marxists of the day, and appropriated by laissez-faire free market advocates as a badge of honor.
The Reformation began with a bang, but was caught in the sacralism of its day. Time was required to chip away at the deeply ingrained superstition of the “divine right of kings,” which had been legitimized by the Papacy and bequeathed to the Regency centuries before.
This superstition twisted Romans 13 by denying the whole counsel of God, sola Scriptura, the priesthood of the believer, and has its roots in the rebellious ancient nation of Israel, which wanted an earthly king like the other nations.
These American founding documents are far from perfect, but they sufficed until the Civil War, when sacralism again raised its ugly head.
Following America’s most bloody war, a period of unprecedented prosperity began, marking the start of the Gilded Age. This epoch was based on sound money and banking, emerging organically on the gold standard in the relatively free marketplace.
It worked so well that the federal government nationalized the gold standard by creating the Federal Reserve in 1913.
The idea of Denationalisation of Money emerged 63 years later and has yet to be codified. Again, superstitions die slowly.
My father is a third-generation American born in a German Lutheran, Missouri Synod household in Nebraska in 1913. He heard nothing but German spoken in his home until he attended a German Lutheran school at the age of 5. Why was German not spoken in LCMS schools?
By order of American Calvinist sacralists of the day, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, with the full support of former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, the local Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) church and school were ordered to change their liturgy and curriculum from German to English overnight.
Later, my grandfather was drafted and forced to leave his family, my grandmother, my father, and my aunt, and transported from peaceful Nebraska to Europe to fight the Germans in France for America so that the Jews could reclaim Palestine as their homeland.
Being good Germans, these Lutheran families complied but challenged this American sacralism and eventually won in the United States Supreme Court.
But by then, the damage was done. While the state did not interfere with the content of the liturgical ritual, it changed the language.
Fortunately, my grandfather came home safely. But even after the court decision, the Ku Klux Klan in Texas demanded, among other things, that funerals for soldiers not be conducted in German and enforced it by the example of black lynchings. (Speak English or else!)
So much for the free speech in the United States just before and during World War I.
These sacralist WWI leaders also nationalized money and banking, began the taxation of labor, and through the process of inflating the U.S. dollar, supported and profited from the European War. Their fascist Jewish Zionist counterparts promised to bring America into the war in exchange for the land of Palestine through the Balfour Declaration.
It is this Satanic ritual of sacralism that forever changed the character of the United States government, from a modest central government dependent on consumption taxes and tariffs to the much more powerful, modern government that fought two World Wars and the Cold War and a plethora of minor wars with the vast revenue that came from the federal income tax and inflation that has created the nation of Israel which Americans fund through these ungoldy mechanisms to this day.
The only missing element for control and the second greatest swindle of all time is entitlements, which began in earnest with establishing Social Security during the New Deal, marking the birth of the concept.
Entitlements replaced the church's voluntary charitable obligation with state policy for compulsory charity, ritualizing the New Deal Sacralism.
The likelihood of dismantling Social Security today is on par with German Lutherans reverting to the German language in their liturgy. Once sacralism is practiced, it becomes a new state policy, using force, and eventually, a ritual, and an institutionalized voluntary habit.
Put another way, this generation has no clue. History helps us dissect the sins of our fathers. Discernment helps us recognize our sins.
The establishment of entitlements that are contrary to limited government, and especially warned against by Samuel, are key in pagan socialist programs (fascist and communist).
Due to ritual sacralism, the German Lutheran win for free speech 102 years ago now applies to all entitlement programs, extending the fascist bureaucracy to include the languages Spanish, Togala, and Vietnamese to explain these entitlements (forced social programs), including how to vote. Had the progressives left the German Lutherans alone, ballots could be English Only, providing an incentive for men who wanted to participate in civil matters to learn English. This is the Satanic trap of ritual sacralism, we are all caught in today.
The Hebrew Republic
“The Old Testament, in particular the book of 1 Samuel, is the oldest textbook in political freedom. Absent from its pages are the communism of Plato, the fascism of Aristotle, and the democratic totalitarianism of Rousseau. Written about 1000 bc, the book of 1 Samuel may be the first handbook in republican political theory.” John W. Robbins
Samuel warned Israel what would happen when they substituted an earthly king for the Heavenly King. Moses organized the first Hebrew Republic, but the people demanded an earthly king like other nations.
“God established a model government in ancient Israel, and it is the only government for which he gave explicit rules. While many of those rules applied solely to ancient Israel — cities of refuge, for example — others apply to all governments. The judicial laws of Israel expired with that nation, but it is possible to discern general principles in the Old Testament laws that may be applied to modern governments.” — Robbins
The idea that there is a Christian Prince proscribed by Scripture is a pagan canard. Like divorce, an earthly king is permitted due to a nation's hard heart, but Scripture does not prescribe it. It is the same denial of Christ alone by those demanding an earthly king in Samuel's day. The idea of “Christ is King” is offensive to the left and many Jews to this day.
Socialism predates Marxism and Nazism. Socialism means social ownership of the means of production.
The difference between National Socialism and Marxist Socialism is that the former is based on racial class divisions, while the latter is based on economic class divisions.
Adolf Hitler started as an Austrian Bavarian communist in league with Jewish Bavarian communists to advance his ideology of socialist tyranny.
This has significance because Mahler’s Hitlerian fascism has been attracting young Christian men who should know better, but are abandoned with the emergence of Woke Theology and Critical Race Theory from the left and the entrenched Compassionate Fascism by the conservative right.
While the fascist White Christian Nationalism of Stone Choir is easily recognized, confronted, and condemned, what is ignored is the real and present danger of Compassionate Fascism, recognized by John W. Robbins over twenty years ago, that is rampant and systemic in faith-based American Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Islamic institutions.
The Christian axiom, the foundation on which all Christian doctrine is built, is not feeling, sensation, intuition, or reason, but propositional revelation alone. The Christian biblical method of argumentation is deductive, not inductive.
The naturalist view, held by Mahler, who claims to be Lutheran, is that humans discover truth independently of Scripture. Mahler looks at nature and Scripture, and with his puny IQ eisegesis such a foolish statement as, “The Apostles had to be Jews, because it was necessary that they betray Christ during His Passion so that they could later spread His Word; any true son of Japheth would have gone to his death with the Lord.”
First, only one disciple betrayed Jesus, and he never became an Apostle. Second, Peter was stupidly willing to go to his death in the Garden of Gethsemane, but Jesus stopped it. Only then did these Apostles flee in fear, not understanding that Scripture had to be fulfilled.
Such foolish statements result from a two-source theory of truth, Scripture and nature. Mahler teaches that Scripture alone is the source of salvation, but denies that Scripture is the sole source of truth.
This is also the view of virtually all economists, at least all of those who admit that there is such a thing as truth.
The Christian view is that truth is a gift of God, who graciously reveals it to men. The true Christian theory of knowledge parallels the Christian doctrine of salvation: Soteriology mirrors epistemology.
Mahler separates the two. What applies to salvation does not apply to knowledge.
Just as men do not gain salvation by themselves, but are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, by Christ alone; so men do not discover knowledge on their own through science or nature or by transcendental revelation of either, but receive knowledge as a gift from God through propositional revelation alone. Or put it in a way so a child can understand, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”
God enlightens and saves men. Scripture refers to salvation as enlightenment, “coming to the knowledge of the truth.”
Man can do nothing apart from the will of God, and man can know nothing apart from the revelation of God. Man is entirely dependent on God for both knowledge and salvation.
Sacralism is so deeply entrenched that innocent “Christian America” is in the fake news headlines because its corrupt faith-based institutions are on the take. The truth is that Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons, and Baha'i institutions are all on the take due to faith-based fascism.
The corruption runs deep and Neo-Nazi Corey Mahler makes a convenient target and strawman. (At least we are not racists!)
“Since the end of World War II, virtually every domestic policy program that Washington has funded in whole or in part has been administered not by federal civil servants alone (there are about 2 million of those today, roughly the same number as in 1960), but by federal workers in conjunction with state and local government employees, for-profit firms, and non-profit organizations. There are, for example, six people who work indirectly for Washington for every one federal bureaucrat who administers social programs. Certain nonprofit organizations, both religious and secular, have long been funded in whole or in part through this federal government-by-proxy system.” John W. Robbins, Compassionate Fascism, 2001
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a better understanding of truth than the faith-based fascist institutions of today, who are running for cover while pointing fingers at a strawman of neo-Nazi Mahler.
We are in a brief window in time when we are governed by an unwitting Kuperian influence, not under a Christian Princely King, but a worldly king like Nebuchadnezer, who, after his reign, understood the sovereignty of God far better than the Jewish Nation called to do so.
We are witnessing Kuperian influence in American nationalism, as seen in the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, particularly in its hold on civil power. We are blessed that President Donald Trump came to the same conviction as Nebuchadnezer before his second term in office, rather than after.
Trump and his secular cronies are draining the swamp, exposing these faith-based fascist institutions as the clear and present danger, not the strawman low-hanging fruit of the likes of Corey Mahler and Stone Choir, accused by the Pharisees of this age.
And if the tumult is anything like what we have going on today, the church (with all her problems) has more wisdom to offer the state than the other direction. — Doug Wilson
Contrary to Doug Wilson's above claim, the church has no wisdom to offer the state. We are living in a sad time when quite the opposite is true. The wisdom of God is cleaning up the church through the state, yet the church has no eyes to see and no ears to hear.
There is more hope for fascist racist layman Corey Mahler than his fascist faith-based clergy accusers.
Doug Wilson and his publishing house, Cannon Press, make no secret of their anti-Christian agenda, yet today’s clergy are silent on this heresy.
Be careful, James White and Chris Rosbrough. Corey Mahler and his followers are no more a cult than John Calvin and his followers are a cult.
Mahler is a reaction to unanswered questions in Woke Theology on the left and New Calvinism and conservative Lutheranism on the right.
The error of sacralism is evil, but it is not equivalent to heresy. The error leads to coercive church-state policy and the Satanic trap of ritual sacralism we are all caught in today, but it is not per se outside the boundaries of Christian orthodoxy.
Clean your own house before kicking the rocks crying out.
Heresy is not race-based fascism on the fringes, but by definition, it is the faith-based fascism surrounding us with these faith-based Christian institutions.
There is such a thing as Christian Nationalism.
It is not limited to the United States, geography, or race. It is not limited to Mahler’s division of family, tribe, and nation, or Doug Wilson’s levels of family, state, and church.
These are both forms of Fascist Christian Nationalism and can be heretical. They are both evil, but not necessarily heretical.
But faith-based fascism is always heretical when it comes from within un-Christian or INO Christian faith-based institutions.
Mahler (a layman) asserts three government divisions, while Wilson (clergy) asserts three levels.
Wilson holds to the Jewish-pagan notion that salvation is received by genetic or ritual endowment and vacillates between two erroneous and conflicting opinions: that children of believers are born Christians, and that they are made Christians by baptism.
Wilson’s levels of family, state, and church usurp the family, especially the father.
“The family is supposed to be the Ministry of Health, Education, and Welfare. The civil government is the Ministry of Justice. The church is the Ministry of Word and sacrament.”- Wilson
“This means that one of our essential tasks in figuring out our social responsibilities is the task of figuring out how to keep the church and the state in their respective lanes when it comes to the family. And the problem goes the other way also. A father who administers the sacraments to his family is out of line. And a family man who declared war on Canada would be taking far too much upon himself, and would probably lose anyhow.” -Wilson
“I am a Christian, and I am not a tribalist. I am a Christian and I have to live somewhere. What shall we call that?” . . . A Christian nation should never be mistaken as the same thing as being a chosen nation. There is no exceptionalism in it.” -Wilson
Mahler adopts the Lutheran view, holding baptism and communion are means of grace, mocking pietists who consume artificial grape juice in favor of wine, which naturally has a 14% alcohol content.
As a Lutheran, Mahler upholds the doctrine of original sin, but denies the other four points of Calvinism.
So, unlike the Presbyterian Wilson, Mahler does not hold that children are born Christians, but are regenerated at baptism and able to lose salvation.
Maher’s division into family, tribe, and nation excludes the church in favor of a tribe. The family and tribe are subordinate to the nation that is headed by a Christian Prince (king), preferably someone like Adolf Hitler. Mahler's white national fascism teaches that exceptionalism is in race.
Wilson denies exceptionalism entirely. “A Christian nation should never be mistaken as the same thing as being a chosen nation. There is no exceptionalism in it.”
Both Maher and Wilson subordinate the individual to the church and state, just as was the case in pre-Reformation days.
Acts 2:39 promises salvation to the children of believers, but here is what the verse says: “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off — for all whom the Lord our God will call.”
There are three recipients of the promise: “you,” “your children,” and “all who are far off.” There is no mention of nation, church, or tribe. All three groups receive the same promise; children are not singled out for any special promises. So “all who are afar off” have the same promise of the Spirit as “your children.”
Furthermore, the last clause of the verse, “for all whom the Lord our God will call,” modifies and limits all three referents: “you, your children, and all who are afar off.”
Therefore, the promise of the Holy Spirit is made only to those called, not to all of Peter’s audience, nor all their children, nor to all who are afar off, but only to as many as the Lord our God will call from all three groups. The promise is not to the family, the church, or the state, but only to individuals through the calling.
Wilson’s Jewish-pagan notion that salvation is received by genetic or ritual endowment is repeatedly denied by Scripture.
Acts 2:39 does not promise salvation to children of believers simply because they are children of believers. Several verses explicitly deny it (Luke 3:8; John 1:12, 13).
Corey Mahler is an excommunicated (absent due process) Lutheran Layman, while Doug Wilson is a conservative Presbyterian Pastor (clergy) in good standing.
Lutheran Mahler does not make the fatal mistake of New Calvinist Wilson, whose focus on election is at the foundation of the world rather than the Cross, where the salvation of all within the Christian Nation was accomplished.
Corey Mahler is articulate and intelligent, and won this debate in speaker points. But the deciding factor in debate is not presentation, but truth. A debater can have zero speaker points and still win the debate. (It happened to me in college debate class.)
Clergyman Chris Rosbrough acknowledges that he lost his debate with Corey Maher on both speaker points and in his presentation of Scripture, which is a good thing, for it is true and can be corrected.
“To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.” -Gordon H. Clark
Samuel Sey was not rebutted. He went to the Bible and defeated Mahler. It was a glorious moment to watch.
There is such a thing as Christian Nationalism, which is revealed to us in Scripture.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9
Contrary to the teaching of Doug Wilson and Corey Maher, we are a chosen people, God’s special possession, not bound to the land of our fathers or our race.
We are sojourners looking forward to the promised land of Heaven, from our Lord, Whose thy Kingdom come, Whose thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven, For Thine is the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Mahler’s White American Christian Nationalism is race-based fascism seeking Heaven on Earth. Mahler makes the same error that the Jews made in ancient Israel. When the Sadducees confronted Jesus, he renounced them by the tense of a verb.
But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, since you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God: ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.- Matt 22:29–33
Jesus teaches that salvation is for individuals, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not for nations, the church, tribes, or households. Jesus teaches truth through Scripture, not by observing creation.
Both Mahler and Wilson teach fascism. Both are evil. And Wilson is heretical. The Lord saw fit to provide both godly and evil kings and used them to correct the ancient error of Israel.
Faith-based fascism is the heresy of this age, hiding in plain sight. Jesus held the Pharisees to a much higher standard than sinners. Faith-based fascism is an error for Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims and heresy for their institutions.
It is time for the clergy to lead the laity from this evil and the lost from heresy, rather than the other way around. When both keep quiet, the stones will cry out.
Our King is proclaimed by the Gospel, through grace alone, through faith alone, and known from Scripture alone. Our salvation is from Christ alone and what He finished 2,000 years ago.
Hope this helps.
UGLY OLD GOAT
