Imagine you are tasked with writing a letter of encouragement and exhortation to Christians in distress. Your readers occupy the margins of society; they are maligned and falsely accused. Some of them face imprisonment, and a few have been martyred. The government is cracking down on any religious expression seen as subversive, and the Christians are prime targets. Meanwhile, the rest of society approves of the reigning authorities’ coercive methods of persecution. How would you strengthen believers in that situation? Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you… (1 Peter 2:11)The author goes on to advise "holiness", whatever the fuck that is. Shit. It's true that you can't physically fight in this situation, unless and until you have superior firepower. A coalition of at least 40 states that took control of the missiles within them could fight the Feds. Nothing less will work. Since most governors have been thoroughly neutered, this will not happen. But "holiness", whatever the fuck that means, isn't enough to preserve your integrity. Kim Davis is proving that daily. She believes that "holiness" will help her to convert the millions of satans with millions of weapons and trillions of dollars and thousands of TV stations and thousands of schools and thousands of churches who run her government office and sign her paycheck. Nope. She is serving Satan actively by continuing to play idiot "holiness" games. She is providing a firm handle for the enemy to grab. If she had quietly disappeared, the enemy would have to work MUCH harder, would have to develop new targets instead of shooting easily at a fully ranged and located target. Classic Alinsky. Freeze, personalize, destroy. When people have INFINITE POWER they have ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to be converted. "Working in the system" = system will mash you. Bombs, bucks, blackmail. We don't have enough bombs, but we can control our bucks and our labor. We can keep our talents and time away from the satans. When I first wrote those three B's I didn't think the third one was likely, but the Planned Parenthood tapes blessedly proved me wrong. In fact some very smart Christians were already working hard on the third B, and it's having an effect on corporate donors, leveraging some big Bucks.
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