"That's not very Christian!"

“That’s not Christian” is a phrase that one hears quite often, usually when some Christian preacher has made a point of their beliefs that does not conform to the politically correct liberal worldview. The listener will cry out “that’s not very Christian!”. The implication is that Jesus was a cheery left wing figure, whose teaching are wholly pacifistic and all inclusive, accepting all behaviours and peoples. 

It is not as if these people actually believe in Jesus. Often they will be atheists, simply looking to dismiss someone’s beliefs by claiming those beliefs are in opposition to Christian scripture. They only accept Christianity when it matches their own ideology, so if a professing Christian claims to believe something against this, they will be dismissed as a hypocrite, or someone in opposition to Jesus. 

This fallacy will usually be borne out of some half remembered lessons that Jesus taught forgiveness, or out of the heavy promotion of modern churches that focus on bringing in followers by any means necessary, and so in order to be less discriminating, giving them as wide a potential base of followers as possible, they preach a doctrine of universal acceptance. 

It is also common to see the more obviously exclusionist Old Testament rejected as supposedly out of date, or dismissed as “Jewish” scripture. Nonetheless, it is possible to identify the real thread of Christian doctrine with only the New Testament, especially in showing what Jesus’ real teachings were. 

In Romans 1:27, Paul gives Christianity’s position on homosexuality:

“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”

And at verse 32 explains the penalty: 

“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death”

Now this doesn’t seem much in line with the vision of Christian tolerance that many people have in their heads, does it? 

In Luke 22:36, Jesus instructs his followers:

“he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.”

Now this could be taken literally to require his followers to defend their religion with military force, or it could be taken to be a demonstration of the inevitability of antichrist attack on Christians. Either way, it doesn’t paint much of a picture of tolerance or pacifism in the face of alien creeds. 

In John 8:44, Jesus tells his Jewish detractors what he thinks of them:

“Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

It doesn’t show much religious or racial tolerance from a person who calls them the spawn of Satan. 

In 1 Timothy 2:12, we are told “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

Nor is it very modern of these early Christians to reject gender equality and enforce traditional gender roles.

All these things, said by the most important figures in early Christianity, are purportedly not very Christian. Perhaps it is merely that many of the modern churches are in opposition to Christ. When they spout fashionable dogma that goes against what the bible teaches, perhaps it is time for us to point out that what they say is, when compared with what the bible actually says, not very Christian.

Narcotic Destruction of Christian Unity

The laws of god direct us not to partake in narcotics and chemical alteration of our minds, lest we become wrapped up solely in the feeding of our habits, with not a thought for God’s kingdom. 

Those who control the economic system would rather see us absorbed in such selfishness, where we could better be made to serve them. It is a new law of supply and demand: If they control the supply, we must give in to their demands. 

Conversely, if we do not desire what they supply, they will not be able to demand anything of us. This applies to much of what modern society produces for our consumption. Drugs can be more than mere chemical compositions. We are told in Revelation 18:23, that “for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”

This includes cultural conditioning via the media, lying and tricking mainstream religious figures that lead their congregations astray. These merchants comprise the pharmaceutical companies, who push ever more complex and expensive medicines onto people who often do not need them. They comprise the academics and psychologists who are absorbed with leftist philosophies, and are obsessed with creating a world without moral rules, where the population can be controlled with narcotics, made slaves to drug dealers. When we are deceived by these “sorceries”, we cannot be following the laws of God. 

It is often argued by people calling themselves “libertarians” that it is down to the individual’s choice, and that, if they wish to ruin their minds and bodies with ungodly chemicals that is their choice.

But this ignores the far greater need of society to have the healthy and righteous people that keep it functioning. If such a person were to take drugs that resulted in a car crash, killing several children, and this was repeated in multiple instances, it very quickly goes beyond individual choice, and becomes a national epidemic, with inefficient services and systems staffed by semi-lucid people, society would collapse into a nightmare in a short space of time. 

Hence it is necessary, not only for the state to prohibit drug use, but for the individual to be strong willed enough to refuse to give in to vice in the same manner. This individualism that is pushed by the media is really just selfishness at the expense of the wider society as a whole. For if you only act for yourself, you are easier for the antichrist governments to control. Those who act with unity in the name of God are a much more unstoppable force of nature. 

If we are to live godly according to the word of God, we must act in a way that does not harm our fellow people. This means abstaining from doing ourselves that which could have a harmful effect on other people, whetehr this be through what we consume physically or spiritually.