One of the qualities of the Woke neo-Marxist worldview is constant ideological creep. In Marxist terms, we need to be in constant revolution, always questioning and tearing down what has become “normal” in search of what is, well, revolutionary. At each turn, what was advocated for yesterday may become “normal” and accepted today, thus making it the target of our ideological revolution. Marxism is a snake always eating its own tail, a worldview that constantly tears down and never builds. This is why, every time we see the latest absurdity, we are struck by how there does not seem to be any end to the moral and intellectual depravity.
And the parts of the church that have bought into the deconstruction, have found themselves deep in the vortex of moral revolution. The stability of truth and Scripture have long been left behind. The revolution is always right. The old is always wrong.
So, we find this headline: “Church of England’s first 'gender-queer' priest shares hope of 'normalizing it for children'”.
From the article:
Rev. Bingo Allison, a biological male who identifies as non-binary, said God was guiding the 36-year-old into a “new truth” about gender identity, according to an interview with a British newspaper.
Allison, who has a wife and three children, told the Liverpool Echo that a late-night study of Genesis 1:27 and its language of “maleness to femaleness” led to what Allison called a “deepening spiritual experience.”
It is always a “new” revelation. It is heresy. Also from the article:
The Church of England did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday from The Christian Post.
In response to the interview, Anglican priest and Church of England critic, the Rev. Calvin Robinson, called Allison’s comments “heresy and blasphemy.”
Robinson tweeted: “His appearance is shocking, but let’s focus on his words. Call out his heresy and blasphemy. Challenge the Church’s apparent apostasy. Don’t resort to ad hominem attacks. We know how this story goes. The conversation gets shifted from truth/lies to ‘bullying.’”
It is not enough that a priest is allowed to lead in the Church of England living in open and celebrated moral depravity. We now need to groom children to live lives that will destroy them and separate them from God. The revolution marches on.
The faithful church refuses to sexualize children. The faithful church is part of God’s restoration, not deconstruction, project. We bring the goodness of God’s creation and redemption into a world that, left to its own devices, would revolt all the way to hell.
Hannah Arendt
I have noted the wisdom of Arendt several times. She was a Jewish philosopher who escaped the Nazi regime but kept a close and incisive eye on the growing totalitarianism of Europe. Her insights are still as relevant as they ever were. Concerning the absurdities of totalitarian, Marxist revolution, she writes:
For the totalitarian ruler is confronted with a dual task which at first appears contradictory to the point of absurdity: he must establish the fictitious world of the movement as a tangible working reality of everyday life, and he must, on the other hand, prevent this new world from developing a new stability; for a stabilization of its laws and institutions would surely liquidate the movement itself and with it the hope for eventual world conquest. The totalitarian ruler must, at any price, prevent normalization from reaching the point where a new way of life could develop—one which might, after a time, lose its bastard qualities and take its place among the widely differing and profoundly contrasting ways of life of the nations of the earth.
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism (Harvest Book Book 244) (p. 391). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.
Exodus
I have just begun a sermon series on the book of Exodus. When it first appeared that this was the book God wanted me to preach through, it overwhelmed me. It is a pivotal, long, and daunting book. But the more I spent time with it and some resources, it struck me as incredibly
relevant. There are themes in Exodus that not only take the reader through the rest of the Bible, but they speak to a lot of what faithful Christians in the West are confronting right now. I’m excited. I’m still a little overwhelmed, but that is a good thing. This is the Word of the Lord, and it should always be a little much for the preacher.
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