Where I Stand... (May Not Apply to You)

We all know about the Woke left in the West. This is for sure an enemy of Christendom. But there is also this overreaction on the right that is just as ugly.

With anti-semitism taking off, hand in hand with Christian Nationalism, there are even talks about Deus Vult and such. This is bad news, and it comes from the far right.

So that leaves me in a precarious position. I am not left enough for the woke mob and not right enough for the fascists.

I believe this is the Christian position.

It is written,

James 1:27
"Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world."

and,

2 Timothy 4:1-4
"I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and because of his appearing and his kingdom: Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching. For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths."

We must correct against the lies of the evil one. We have never been more divided. And Satan comes to divide and conquer. Yes, there is good being done by president Trump, but some ugly stuff is coming out as well. Stuff like laughing at the tears of liberals because Trump won. Public Christian figures are saying stuff like this. They are more concerned with their right-wing propaganda than they are with true orthodox Christianity.

I read this article one time that was very helpful for me to understand the purpose of government.


I think both the far left and the far right are prone to error. Something is certainly changing in our culture. We are becoming more extreme in our views. This is, no doubt, due to social media algorithms, which constantly try to expose you to more extreme views. We must, as Christians, strike a balance between these two evils. The Bible is not right-wing and it is not left-wing. We have to let the Bible speak for itself. The Bible is its own thing.

com7fy8 said:

The Bible says better than what groups on this earth are talking about and trying to do . . . I would say.

And people can have a way of comparing themselves with other people, instead of evaluating ourselves in comparison with Jesus. I can have a way of *congratulating* myself . . . in comparison with others.

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Yeah, that cuts both ways, though. There is always someone "better" and always someone "worse." You are right that we should not compare ourselves to others, but instead to Christ, who is perfect in all His ways.