I really just want to focus on theology here at the blog; not that there isn’t serious overlap between politics and theology, but if so, I’d like to focus on that from a purely analytical (or “dialectical” as the case may be) vantage point, forthcoming. That said let me try to tidy up some of my more recent posts on current geo-politics, ethics, and what is currently unfolding with Iran and Trump.

Here is what I just wrote on my FB and Twitter feeds in this (political) regard:

I was told I was a troll for challenging the talking points of a THEOLOGIAN (on Twitter) who is in mimicry repeating the talking points of CNN towards Trump and the Iranian situation; he claims to not watch CNN. Fine, he gets his commentary from somewhere. He threatened to block me. This is the world we live in. A world where elitism unites, and in the absence of any good political alternatives would rather throw themselves on the petard of rank progressivism rather than put up with an arrogant and narcissistic personality that is challenging the globalist agenda. This is an agenda that seeks to unite the world on an “openness” that is not derived from above, but below. It is an openness that would sacrifice to Molech and Mammon in the name of tolerance and peace.

There are no real good political alternatives in my view. But in this in-between time the world is what it is, and there are better choices and worse choices laid before us. It’s a complex. But certain things seem clear. When blatant lies are being levied out of pure spite, it is hard to simply sit back and say nothing. And those lies have life and death consequences.

Elitism is nothing I want to be part of, and yet it pervades the halls of academia; even among the theological guild. This is not to say that someone has to be an elitist in order to be progressive or what have you, but it often is an attendant reality. I am anti-progressive agenda because I see it as pro-globalist agenda; which in my mind is really just neo-Marxism (this could just as easily be construed as crony-Capitalism) whose agenda it is to rule the world through oligarchic classism all in the name of the ‘people.’ We see this among the Hollywood elites (which Ricky Gervais slammed recently at The Golden Globe Award Show); we this among academic elites; among political elites; among the rich and the intellectual; so on and so forth.

Do I really like Donald J. Trump? I didn’t vote for him the first time. What I like about Trump is that he has the outright gall to expose the rank hypocrisy of the left in all its flamboyant colors. They can’t stand him for that; they want to destroy and impeach him for that. But no matter my personal feelings for Trump I cannot stomach the plain and bodacious lies being fomented and fabricated about him and his administration. Christians, particularly “neverTrumpers,” are willing to sell their souls to the propaganda machines constructed by the left in order to smear Trump into oblivion; all the while, they will completely ignore the real life and unbelievable sins of their comrades on the political left (Clintons come to mind, and so many more). But this isn’t even fully about that. It has more to do with my disdain for the clear unadulterated evil that the progressive agenda represents; all in the name of peace and love. There will be none of that until Christ comes (except insofar that the Church can actually unite and bear witness to this reality in their lives to the world).

Any people who believes that ‘we’ can make the world a better place by legislating political policies that are intrinsically man-centered has not learned the lessons of history; and this sword cuts both and all ways. This is why this all represents such a complex for me. The globalist agenda, as I see it, is attempting to construct a utopia, for the elites, on the backs of the proletariat of the world; that’s what Marxism does (or at least describes). But there can be no utopia outwith Christ and His coming and come Kingdom. Should we push towards political policies that help to make the world a better place (insofar that this is possible)? Yes. But those policies ought to be built on a clairvoyance wherein the sanctity of human life is of the premium. I don’t actually see that on either side of the aisle, but I do see, in Trump, someone, despite himself, who has caused damage to an agenda that praises the murders of babies; that elevates sexuality confusion among the youth and others; and that would seek to place us into a globalist governance that sacrifices the many (the people) for the few (the elites; i.e. the “messiahs” of the world)—which is the inverse of the Kingdom of Christ (where it is the one for the many). So, again, this is a complex.

I am still critical of Trump when it comes to his immigration efforts (although the “left” is just as complicit as he is in the non-humanitarian way people are being treated). I am still not a fan of his character, per se. But there are macro-issues on a continuum that based upon my judgment, I think he is a much better alternative than what our other options represents; and that should say something as far as what I think about how bad the other alternatives are. But this is where I currently stand, and why I have taken the positions I have on what is currently going on with the Trump administration. I have grown up politically conservative my whole life, but as of late came to the reality that for the longest time there really has been little to no difference between the conservatives and liberals for many years. Trump spoils that, and actually makes a radical difference from the status quo (which has become globalist). We live in a stark time in world history, and the love of many has grown cold. Trump, in a way, typifies what cold love looks like, but compared to his opponents he looks like a very compassionate person (and that is used as rhetorical hyperbole to foil just how evil I think Trump’s opponents are). I am not an “alwaysTrumper,” but I am definitely a “neverGlobalist”; that is, until Christ comes. And in the midst of this in-between time I seek to bear witness to Christ’s coming Kingdom the best I can by the Spirit. I think this means, of the upmost, doing all that we can to preserve the most innocent lives among us; particularly those still in the womb. And hopefully as that shapes our witness, this will spill over into the world as a prophetic voice that will indeed help to shape policies that elevate all human life. But if we can’t agree that that starts in the womb, then we will never make it outside the womb. So, call me a “one-issue-voter” if you want; but that is erroneous if you really understand what I just communicated.