Karl Barth writes the following as he is tailing off on a development on God’s power: “’The Almighty’ in abstracto [in the abstract] has probably more to do with that revolutionary and tyrannical spirit than with God. The constitution of the Swiss Confederacy is right when it begins with the words: ‘In the name of God, the Almighty.’”[1] Barth is identifying the problem of conflating divine power and right with state power and right; and he is right. We don’t want to engage in any sort of natural theology that would divinize the state, and evacuate God of His rightful place as God Almighty. I see people sloppily worrying over nothing in this regard. They seem to think that Americans who are pro-Trump and nationalist/populist in orientation have engaged in the sort of natural theology that Barth rightfully is decrying. Barth is decrying the sort of nationalism that we see in Hitlerism, ultimately. But that is not what is happening in America currently; even if leftists, ironically, would like to construct this sort of psychedelic vision. Trump is not Hitler, the globalists are.

The fact that educated people, and it is typically educated people, cannot make this all-critical distinction illustrates the sort of education they are receiving. They aren’t learning how to think critically; instead they are learning to think by way of indoctrination. Many of us can see this, but they mostly cannot. I am educated, and I can see this; and there are others who are so-called, educated who can see this. But the sub-culture of the educated is the culture that has been targeted for cooptation by the very sinister coup currently underway in the world; largely driven by the CCP and their globalist collaborators. This tells me that many in this sub-culture are more concerned with being part of their group rather than with the truth. This is particularly troubling when it comes to the Christian educated. Theologians, pastors et al. are supposed to be the vanguards for truth in the world, pointing people to the kerygmatic truth of Jesus Christ, and all the entailments of His life as that implicates all truth in this world. But by and large, even among these folk, there is an abject silence; or there is a knuckling under to the mainstream narrative that has no correspondence whatsoever to the preponderance of evidences.

I simply wanted to register this distinction for folks. Fighting for the fidelity of our nation as Americans is not, of necessity, a matter of natural theological idolatry. Instead, it is an attempt to bear witness to the truth insofar as that can be discerned in the complex that nations represent in toto. I am not violating Barth’s critique of national socialism; instead I am affirming it by making the proper identification of who in fact is embodying the national socialist mode—viz. the globalists, the leftists, the oligarchists, the crony-corporatocratists, antifa&BLM, and the go-along-with-the-group-people. This, in fact, is why I am so passionate about all of this. I am anti-natural theology to my core, and I see the globalists attempting to make the “state,” their globalist utopia, as Lord. They want to prop up the system of the Beast in a Babel sort of way wherein they identify themselves as the gods and masters of the universe. Does it make sense to you now? Can you see why I am pro-Trump? It isn’t about Trump so much, as it is about defeating a grotesque form of natural theology that absolutely is Antichrist. Is Trump antichrist? I don’t ultimately know. But maybe despite himself he has ironically become the figurehead of a movement that is wrought on defeating a darkness in the world that has gained an insidious reach, even as an angel of light, into the lives of billions of people worldwide; sadly, even into the lives of many non-discerning Christians. Just know that if you read here you will always get a theology that is funded by an anti-natural theological position.

[1] Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics II/1 §31: Study Edition Vol 9 (London/New York: T&T Clark, 2010), 88-9.